Stars and Siamese
| The historic section including this page of Stars with
their Siamese represents 30 years of searching and collecting Siamese ephemera.
I intentionally make changes to scanned photos to make them one of a kind. Small changes that do not effect the original subjects. Shame on those who steal my work. Usually its just a single image captured from Google images for a quick forum post but I just came across a site that just went too far. Shame on Susanne Cramer Rößner the Thai Cat breeder and owners of http://siamkatzen.wordpress.com/fotos-von-siamkatzen/beruhmte-persohnlichkeiten-und-siamkatzen/ |
Anna Pavlova
Edwina Seaver
LIFE Magazine with her Siamese cat Ting Ling.
http://www.life.com/image/72399462
Donna Drake
LIFE Magazine 1942
http://www.life.com/image/50457705
Errol Flynn
THE SKIPPER AND HIS MATE 1947 Yeichi Nimura Cat Tails by Billie Bancroft -1952 Ava
Gardner with
Artie Shaw's Siamese Vivian Leigh Vivian
Leigh loved Siamese cats. It is said that she had more then a dozen cats in her
various homes. Poo
Jones, her Siamese, was with her when she passed away. LIFE
Magazine photos of Vivian and Lawrence at home with their Siamese http://www.life.com/image/50311780
and http://www.life.com/image/50311779
and http://www.life.com/image/3380255
We
had a bit of a debate going about if this could actually be Hedy Lamarr. One of
the things that spurred this discussion was the thin eyebrow and look of her
nose. The nose I give to the lighting of this photo. It is too washed out to
really see. As for the eyebrows I found a photo of her with thinly plucked
eyebrows here Floral
Scarlet promo photo With
Vivian's love of cats and Siamese in particular I believe this is Vivian Leigh. Carole Lombard & Clark Gable Olivia de Havilland Olivia with Chauncey Catherine poses with her traveling Companion, Olivia de Havilland, during their recent appearance in Pittsburgh. Glenda
Farrell Patricia
Medina With
Champion Hollywood Champagne bred by Irene Bjerring Jayne
Mansfield The
Siamese Jayne is posing with belonged to her good friend,columnist, May
Mann. She
was filmed holding May's Siamese in the low budget film "The Las Vegas Hillbillies" Deborah
Kerr Gypsy Rose Lee LIFE Magazine http://www.life.com/image/73311529 Hettie Gray Baker The author's blue point boy Mike Cyril Ritchard With the Siamese cat in the broadway play "Visit to a
Small Planet". http://www.life.com/image/50405571
and http://www.life.com/image/50405570 Lilli Palmer with Pyewacket Appearing
on Broadway in "Bell Book and Candle 1951 More about Pyewacket, Lilli and Rex Harrison in these
articles. Mary Astor LIFE Magazine http://www.life.com/image/72244490 Kim Novak
with Pyewacket
LIFE Magazine now has a website of their photos Here are some
of Kim with the nine cats used in the filming of Bell Book and Candle. http://www.life.com/image/50399062
and http://www.life.com/image/50399063
and http://www.life.com/image/50578812 James Stewart from Bell, Book, and Candle 1958 Elizabeth Taylor Liz Taylor is well known for her love of animals. She
had several Siamese over the years. It is said she gave James
Dean a Siamese as a gift. Fred Astaire LIFE Magazine http://www.life.com/image/50578855/in-gallery/22865 TAO From Disney's The Incredible Journey 1963 Ann Margret LIFE Magazine http://www.life.com/image/2659178 Haley Mills with Syn from "That Darn Cat" Dean Jones from Disney movie "That Darn Cat" 1965 James Mason Sadie and Flower Face James
mason talked about his Siamese in his book The Cats In Our Lives
(1949) He
also provided artwork of his cats for the illustrations in the book. Anna May Wong Elizabeth Montgomery Rod McKuen LIFE Magazine http://www.life.com/image/50656343 Sophia
Loren Claudette Sorel Burt Ward Now a canine crusader...In 1994 Burt and his wife Tracy
founded Gentle Giants Rescue and Adoptions, Inc. Frank Zappa Presidential Siamese Susan
Ford
Amy Carter
with Shan Shein
with Misty
Malarky Ying Yang Daughter of President Gerald
Ford
Daughter of President Jimmy Carter President Rutherford B. Hayes also owned
a Siamese that was named Siam. Siam was the first Siamese to enter
America. Read more about this historic cat on
The Rutherford B. Hayes
Presidential Center website. ( back
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Errol Flynn accompanied by his seal point Siamese Bes Mudi. He is the mascot of
Errol's yacht, The Zaca.
Bes Mudi was a gift to Errol from his makeup man, Ward Hamilton.
Bes Mudi has very famous parentage. His dam was Mei Ling and her dam in turn was Ah
Fui.
The world's most talented tenants seem to occupy Carnegie Hall—and no phonies allowed—rent varies from fifty to five hundred dollars per month—there are poets from Paris, musicians from Milan, writers from London—artists in many walks of life—and most distinguished—and strikingly spectacular are a pair of pedigreed Siamese
belonging to Yeichi Nimura. The Spirit of the Lotus and Blue Flame, gamble across the 3,000-square foot studio rented by the Ballet Arts School. I have an appointment to interview Lotus and Blue Flame—I'll tell you more of them later.
1952 -"When Olivia de Havilland was appearing in Pittsburgh on tour as the heroine of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, CATS Magazine learned that one of Miss de Havilland's most devoted travelling companions was Catherine, her Siamese cat.
Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, we were not able to get in touch with Miss de Havilland until the next-to-last day of her Pittsburgh
appearance, and since she was scheduled to depart right after the closing here of the play, an interview was virtually
impossible. However, in lieu of an interview, we received the following letter which is reprinted exactly as received except for beginning and final
paragraphs expressing regret that an interview had not been possible. We publish the letter thinking many of our readers will like the intimate portrait of a Siamese contained therein, as well as the fleeting and very pleasant glimpse of Miss de Havilland herself, caught
between words.
The letter follows:
You expressed an interest in knowing something about my Siamese cat
"Catherine." She was given to me while I was filming "The Heiress," by one of the technicians on the picture, who raises Siamese cats. The role I was
playing in the movie was Catherine Sloper, and so I named my new pet "Catherine." I had never been fond of cats, but this little creature, being Siamese and having all the remarkable traits of that breed,
inspired my affection and admiration almost at once. She was extremely shy at first, almost neurotically timid, but we gave her a great deal of affection, and very quickly she developed into a really autocratic, domineering, and thoroughly engaging, personality.
My husband and I, a few months after she joined our household, made an
automobile trip from California to Canada. We had decided to leave our Airedale and Catherine behind at the veterinarian's. When we took Catherine down to what we thought was to be her temporary home, she clung to us so desperately that we found we could not bear to leave her
behind. We got back into the car, taking Catherine with us. On our way up the Coast we stopped at a hardware store and my husband was able to secure an enamel pan there and two little bowls which fitted into a wire frame, for her food and water. We found she was an ideal companion and since that time has been with us everywhere.
On the one time we did leave her behind, we learned that we could actually make no choice about whether or not she would be with us in the future.
Mr. Goodrich and I made a trip to San Antonio, Texas, soon after our return from Canada. This time we went by train, and since we did not know it is permissible to take an animal with one on board, providing one has a carrier for it, we left Catherine at the veterinarian's. We returned five days later to find that she had developed pneumonia. The
veterinarian explained that this was induced by her emotional state and he recommended
that she remain with us at home all during her illness and convalescence. He made two house calls a day,
administered penicillin, and she pulled through.
She is devoted to my son, who is 29 months old, and allows him numerous privileges she would not permit me. One day he walked into my room carrying her upside down; she dangled perfectly limp and docile in his arms, though I
can assure you her reaction to my handling her in this way would hardly be the
same. She eats beef, horse meat, shrimp, mackerel and salmon. She can not bear milk, and she seems to need very little water. She knows when I leave the
elevator on my return from the theatre at night, and though I may not be saying a word coming down the hall, she is so sure that it is I, that she is already scolding me from the other side of the
door, as I approach my room.
With all good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Olivia de Havilland
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