Ann Sothern Blossomed Around Typewriters
We saw an array of delightful typewriter cakes on
Richard Polt’s The Typewriter Revolution blog the other day, including Ted Munk’s
typewriter wedding cake. But how about this flower typewriter presented to the star
of screens large and small, Ann Sothern? Sothern crowned Genevieve
Lenz of Niagara Falls as “Secretary of the Year” at the National Secretaries’
Association’s ninth national convention luncheon, in the Grand Ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on July 23, 1954.The assembled secretaries
also voted Sothern “Private Secretary of the Year” for her performances as Susan
Camille ‘Susie’ MacNamara in the popular CBS TV sitcom Private Secretary
(aka Susie), which ran from 1953-57. Lillyan Miller of Akron, Ohio, president
of the NSA, presented Sothern with the flower typewriter. The presentation
almost outbids the mink-coated typewriter used by fellow actress Shirley Jones:
Ann Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North
Dakota, on January 22, 1909, had a career on stage, radio, film, and television
spanning almost 60 years. She died from heart failure in Ketchum, Idaho, on March
15, 2001, aged 92.
And while on the subject of the NSA, in 1959 ...
3 comments:
Looks like the bosses were not as good typists as the secretaries, but they still had fun.
After the cakes, the flowers, and the mink, I envision a large flower covered typewriter in the nest Rose Parade in Pasadena, California when the parade resumes.
The unskilled workers in suits at the "Take a letter, Boss" contest are likely the same fellows who sold the massive beast automobiles replete with planned obsolescence described in Robert's previous post.
It was interesting seeing the image of Shirley Jones. I can't help but think of her sitting at a keyboard of another sort, as Mrs. Partridge.
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