Truman regretted this photo later, but nobody else did!
She’s 20 years old. She married Bogie a month or so later. This was in her period of white-hot new celebrity, which was soon to end. (Not for good, she would come back, but never with the intensity of that first flash.)
No wonder Bogie always called her “Baby”.
Those legs!
There is nothing regrettable about that photo.
Nothing at all.
a great photo :)
I am SO obsessed.
I even have a story about that photograph. The piano was at the Nat’l Press Club in DC, and it is there still, as I understand. Harry Truman was actually pretty proficient at playing – the picture was not posed. At the “Little White House” here in Key West there is a BIG original print of that photograph in the upstairs living quarters. I have been after the curator of the Little White House to help find me my own copy for years and I told him he better not leave me alone with the one he has, lest it disappear.
heh heh heh!!
I love it that the picture was not posed. I also love it that, by her own account, she was “terrified” the entire time of her press junket in DC – She was in the middle of a media firestorm which she was not prepared for – To Have and Have Not had just come out. She and Bogie were getting married. She said she spent her days “quaking”.
And yet – there was something in her that didn’t fall apart – that loved the attention even as it freaked her out. And so Truman started playing, and she strolled up there and hopped up onto the piano. “Quaking” inside – but damn, could she hide it!!
I was so wallowing in my obsession that I forgot to say thanks…
Thanks Red for making my afternoon!
If anyone understands wallowing in an obsession, CW, I do.
You’re welcome.
What kind of intense sort of Fabulousness is THAT, I ask you????????
I’ll bet it wasn’t until after Bessie saw that photo that Harry regretted it.
Harry might have regretted the photo, for political or personal reasons, but I’m betting dollars to donuts he didn’t regret the event…