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  TIME.com: Bad News -- Aug. 28, 1950 -- Page 1
At 27, Libby Holman became the wife of 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, moody, eccentric heir to $28 million of the Camel cigarette fortune.
Libby and a friend of Reynolds' were indicted for murder, then freed because of lack of evidence against them, and because there were indications that Reynolds had been thinking of suicide.
Libby Holman, who had hurried home from Europe, got the bad news as she stepped from her plane, and a few moments later she collapsed.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,813067,00.html   (731 words)

  
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Libby Holman started school at the Avondale Public School when she was five years old.
When the inquest reconvened, Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert Walker presented evidence that Smith was suicidal at the time of his death and that he had a history of suicide threats.
Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert Walker be dropped and stated that the family would not oppose such action.” Libby Holman Reynolds responded the next day that she did not want the charges dropped and wanted “full exoneration.” Solicitor Higgins finally dropped the charges against Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert Walker on November 15th.
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 Libby Holman b (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Holman was regarded by some as the first great white torch singer, and by others as ‘a dark purple menace’, because of her tempestuous private life.
Holman returned to Broadway in Revenge With Music (1934), in which she introduced Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's insinuating You And The Night And The Music, and subsequently appeared in Cole Porter's YOU NEVER KNOW (1938).
Mainly inactive in her later years, Holman is said to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in June 1971.
www.centrohd.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biogra/h2/libby_holman_b.htm   (214 words)

  
 A Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Holman Reynolds established the Foundation in memory of her son, Christopher, who died in a mountain climbing accident in 1950 when he was 18 years old.
Libby Holman Reynolds, a singer and actress, had acted upon her passionate belief in human rights long before organizing the Foundation in her son's memory.
Holman Reynolds, was instrumental in the legal and financial formation of the Foundation.
www.creynolds.org /history.htm   (577 words)

  
 JANE BOWLES PHOTOGRAPHS, Part One
In Manhattan, Libby Holman was a regular in café society haunts such as El Morocco and "21"; and she became a regular subject for newspaper gossip columnists.
One notable intimate friend of both Libby Holman and Jane Bowles was Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, the great-great-great granddaughter of the founder of the vast Du Pont empire—Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours.
At age sixty-seven, Libby Holman was found slumped over in her Rolls-Royce in the garage at Treetops and was rushed to the Stamford Hospital's emergency room where she died shortly thereafter, on June 18, 1971.
www.paulbowles.org /photosjanebowles.html   (3068 words)

  
 Spotlight for May 23rd: LIBBY HOLMAN ... - Crooners & Songbirds - tribe.net
A musical and sexual revolutionary, Libby Holman succeeded at two different musical careers spanning the prohibition era of the 1920s, the second World War, and the advent of the political and social ferment of the 1960s.
Known as the "Statue of Libby," she carried one of the smokiest torches of American music-hall society in the twenties and thirties and was the inventor of the strapless evening dress.
Scandal, however, was not only the operative mode of Holman's personal life; she also produced scandal on the stage, combining race, sound, and sexuality to create an aural form of "passing" which, I will argue, sought to destabilize culturally fixated notions of fl and white.
crooners.tribe.net /thread/ad10371c-aa05-4d30-9857-73cb8b98aaa5   (3918 words)

  
 Musical Calendar for May 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Holman's life can be summed up as one of early poverty, extraordinary talent, scandal, then fabulous wealth and finally tragedy.
Libby was born into a prosperous Jewish family in Ohio.
Libby starred with Clifton Webb in "The Little Show" (1929; Libby sang 'Moanin' Low,' -her earliest trademark song) and "Three's A Crowd" (1930, Libby introduced the standard, 'Body and Soul' -which made her and Webb top-ranked musical stars).
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 OrthodoxyToday.org Blog » Fitzgerald’s Eight Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Apart from Scooter Libby, the biggest loser by far in the Patrick Fitzgerald probe has been the press.
Libby’s case goes to trial, at least three reporters will be called as witnesses for the prosecution.
Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
www.orthodoxytoday.org /blog/2005/11/04/fitzgeralds-eight-pages   (1052 words)

  
 Holman Family Genealogy Forum
Re: Holman (Holeman) / Upton - Robert HOLMAN 9/27/05
Re: Holman (Holeman) / Upton - Robert HOLMAN 9/28/05
Re: Holman In Oklahoma - Vicki Holman 8/20/05
genforum.genealogy.com /holman   (540 words)

  
 Treetops Stamford
Libby Holman has been called "A musical and sexual revolutionary." This Jewish woman was a torch singer in the 1920s and 30s.
She also fought against racism by combining race, sound, and sexuality to confuse the distinctions between fl and white singers and thus "destabilize culturally fixated notions of fl and white".
Among the horticultural plants we found in bloom were the shrubs Rhododendron periclymenoides (pink azalea) and R. spp.
nynjctbotany.org /lgtofc/treetops.html   (820 words)

  
 eBay - libby holman, CDs, Photographic Images items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Libby Holman: Body and Soul by Hamilton Darby Perry
Libby Holman: "Something To Remember Her By" Jasmine CD
LIBBY HOLMAN THE TORCH SONGS LP EVERGREEN MR 6501
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 9/8/06 Press Release (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
All concerts are at The Treetops Studio, on the grounds of the historic Treetops estate, where former owner, torch singer Libby Holman, once held glamorous parties that attracted celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Truman Capote.
Holman’s avid support of the civil rights movement often brought Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King to Treetops.
Libby Holman’s final wish was that Treetops be used as parkland and a cultural center.
www.treetopscms.org.cob-web.org:8888 /PressRelease.htm   (760 words)

  
 Bette Midler - Biography - Moviefone
Most bath house performers were painfully bad, but Midler established herself by combining genuine talent with the tackiness expected of her.
As the "Divine Miss M," Midler did an act consisting of campy (and dirty) specialty numbers; dead-on imitations of such earlier performers as the Andrews Sisters and Libby Holman; and the most outrageously revealing costumes this side of Bob Mackie.
Soon she outgrew the bath houses and went on to nightclub and recording-artist fame, earning a Grammy Award in 1973.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/bette-midler/102748/biography   (585 words)

  
 CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF PAUL BOWLES
Jane Bowles sublets the apartment and moves to Treetops, Libby Holman's estate in Connecticut; she also ends her affair with Helvetia.
In mid-June Libby Holman and Christopher Reynolds, her sixteen-year-old son, arrive in Tangier and Paul accompanies them on a trip to the far south of Morocco.
In New York, Libby Holman introduces Yacoubi to people in the café society crowd, and she announces to Paul that she is in love with Yacoubi.
www.paulbowles.org /chronology.html   (8383 words)

  
 Footlights.com - Your Guide to Performing Arts and Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Well, she introduced hit songs by Jerome Kern in The Cat and the Fiddle in 1931 and co-starred the very next year in Cole Porter's Anything Goes.
Rubicam lived at least through 1996, which is the last trace I can find of her; she may yet be walking among us at her homes in Arizona and Maine.
Libby Holman--Her 30-year Broadway career began with Rodgers and Hart's Garrick Gaieties in 1925 and included plays, concerts, and legendary revues, as well as book shows.
www.footlights.com /ArchiveArticle-Details.cfm?ID=260   (930 words)

  
 Torch singer inspires Myers
Cincinnati and Broadway's Pam Myers would love to do a show about "Body and Soul" singer Libby Holman, the Cincinnati-born torch singer who had a life so big it's hard to believe she's a footnote.
Holman (born "Holzman") had a career that stretched from the Prohibition to civil rights eras and was packed with millions, murder, scandal and suicide.
If you knew Holman, who died in 1971, Myers would love to talk to you.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/12/21/tem_tem2nte.html   (451 words)

  
 deseretnews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lavar Clarence and Adeline Mary Ferris Holman Will Be Missed Laver Clarence Holman, 83, and Adeline Mary Ferris Holman, 80, died Friday, August 5, 2005 at their home in West Covina, California.
Lavar was born on April 1, 1922 in Lyman, Idaho to Burton Burdett Holman and Clarissa Josephine Jensen, and Adeline was born on September 9, 1924 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Alexander Ferris and Nabeha Shaar.
Eric (Pam) Holman, Russell (Libby) Holman and Randy (Barbara) Holman; 31 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
deseretnews.com /dn/print_ob/1,1751,485015435,00.html   (509 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Deadly good fun - 10.02.03
But at last Wednesday night's preview, the remounting worked as more than a dusted-off trophy: 10 years later, Gilbert's pomo-retro farce is still innovative, enhanced by Ellen Ray Hennessy's subtle, gutsy new interpretation of his heroine, cabaret star and accused murderess Libby Holman.
Hennessey's task is considerable: joining a largely returning cast and crew (Edward Roy and Ann Holloway reprise their roles; even the set designers are the same), she must inhabit the centre of a zany, skittish plot.
The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.02.03/arts/onstage.html   (1541 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - "Beggar's Holiday" - 9/24/04
Libby Holman originally was cast as Jenny Diver.
Beggar's Holiday had major problems right from the beginning, when John Houseman quit in Boston and George Abbott was bought in to co-direct.
Libby Holman, who was Ray's lover, was fired on Abbott's orders.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s529.html   (922 words)

  
 Movie Info for Sing, Sinner, Sing on MSN Movies
Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Smith Reynolds (the most recent a clef incarnation of this scandalous affair was 1956's Written on the Wind).
The Holman counterpart, torch singer Lela Larson, is played by Leila Hyams, while the Reynolds character, wastrelly millionaire Ted Rendon, is essayed by Donald Dillaway.
Told mostly in flashback, the story concerns the events leading up to the murder of Rendon, for which his wife Lela is standing trial.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=68740   (179 words)

  
 Bill Heine
Bill was introduced by Mullins to his mentor, Ezra Pound, then confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in D.C. as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime activities in Italy, and to the poet e.
While in D.C., Bill also met Dylan Thomas and Kenneth Noland (who was a student teacher at the Institute), toured as piano player in a Horton Foote play with Libby Holman, and roomed, for a time, with the beautiful but troubled artist and poet Sheri Martinelli.
Martinelli herself represents an impressive cultural crossroads, having already been friend/muse to Anatole Broyard, Anais Nin, William Gaddis, and (again) Ezra Pound.
www.billheine.com   (339 words)

  
 Paul Bowles - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
In 1941 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to compose the opera The Wind Remains.
He returned to Tangier in 1948 to write his second opera, Yerma, for blues singer Libby Holman.
He conducted ethno-musicological research in Tangier under a Rockefeller grant during the 1960s.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,406966,00.html   (279 words)

  
 NOW: It's Murder out there, Oct 2 - 8, 2003
Each has a streak of dangerous madness, and that might be part of the attraction between them.
Add Libby's jealous lesbian lover, Louisa (Jane Johanson), and Smith's close, maybe "unnaturally" close, boyhood friend Ab (Marc Gushuliak) to the mix and there's trouble brewing.
The hypnotic Hennessy and Cadieux generate some smouldering chemistry, while Ann Holloway as Libby's faded diva of a drama coach and Edward Roy as the investigating policeman entertain with broad, comic portraits as they set the scene and intentionally deconstruct the theatrical framework, stepping in and out of stage reality.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-10-02/stage_theatrereviews2.php   (369 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Yulla: Books: Yulla Lipchitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
While secretly attending sculpture classes, she also pursued her interests in science and mathematics, which intensified when she met Albert Einstein.
In 1938, escaping the Nazis with her family, Yulla came to the United States and settled in Cincinnati with the aid of her husband's cousin, Libby Holman.
In 1942, separated from her husband, she came to New York City where several years later, she met and married the sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz.
www.amazon.ca /Yulla-Lipchitz/dp/0929793064   (382 words)

  
 Montgomery Clift---Adele Mailer recalls glimpses of Monty
Here, in an exclusive interview with American Legends, conducted via telephone from her home in New York, Adele Mailer recalls a glimpse of a friend named Montgomery Clift.
It was a party at Libby Holman's brownstone in New York.
She had been a nightclub singer in the thirties.
www.americanlegends.com /Interviews/clift_adele.html   (465 words)

  
 Amazon.com: holman: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Bill Holman Band Live by Bill Holman (Audio CD - 2005)
The Scandalous Libby Holman - Something to Remember Her By by Libby Holman (Audio CD - 2005)
I Have But Two Horns / Plays Bill Holman's Arrangements by Maynard Ferguson and Bill Holman (Audio CD - 2005)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=holman&tag=photographe04-20&index=music&link_code=qs&page=1   (238 words)

  
 Moanin' Low - Billie Holiday; Harry James; Libby Holman; Teddy Wilson | Digital Sheet Music Downloads | ...
Moanin' Low - Billie Holiday; Harry James; Libby Holman; Teddy Wilson
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Performer: Billie Holiday, Harry James, Libby Holman, Teddy Wilson
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 Amazon.com: The Scandalous Libby Holman - Something to Remember Her By: Music: Libby Holman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amazon.com: The Scandalous Libby Holman - Something to Remember Her By: Music: Libby Holman
Dreams That Money Can Buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman by Jon Bradshaw
The Scandalous Libby Holman - Something to Remember Her By ~ Libby Holman $15.98
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 Virtual Archive - Collection Information for Libby Holman papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Virtual Archive - Collection Information for Libby Holman papers
Collection Description: The collection contains the writing of Libby Holman.
For a footnote: Jewish Women's Archive, "Virtual Archive - Collection Information for Libby Holman papers," .
www.jwa.org /archive/jsp/collInfo.jsp?collID=283   (81 words)

  
 Dr. Scheper
A section from this project, "'Of La Baker, I am a disciple': The Diva Politics of Recption" is forthcoming in Camera Obscura.
She has published on the gendered rhetoric of labor debates and the importance of archives for feminist visual culture in Feminist Studies and analyzed torch singer Libby Holman's singing across the color line in Women and Performance.
Jeanne Scheper has written two scripts for the New York shadow performance group Cave Dogs that have been performed at venues such as PS 122 (New York) and Mobius (Boston).
www.class.uh.edu /classes/WOST6394_Scheper/scheper.html   (404 words)

  
 SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY Lyrics - by LIBBY HOLMAN : Lyrics And Songs
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