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Frederick Hodges with A.C. Lyles, Producer for Paramount Studios. September 9 2011. Photo courtesy of Rusty Frank
Frederick Hodges with A.C. Lyles, Producer for Paramount Studios. September 9 2011. Photo courtesy of Rusty Frank
Frederick Hodges with famed actress, comedienne, and singer Rose Marie, formerly known as the child star Baby Rose Marie. September 9 2011. Photo courtesy of Rusty Frank
Rose Marie sang along with Frederick at the piano and thrilled the audience by remembering all the words and every characteristic vocal inflection to all the songs she recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, such as "My Blue Bird's Singing the Blues" and "Say That You Were Teasing Me."
Rose Marie sang along with Frederick at the piano and thrilled the audience by remembering all the words and every characteristic vocal inflection to all the songs she recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, such as "My Blue Bird's Singing the Blues" and "Say That You Were Teasing Me."
Rose Marie, during her time on the Dick Van Dyke Show
in 1928 as singing sensation and movie star Baby Rose Marie
original sheet music cover to "My Blue Bird's Singing the Blues" from the 1933 Paramount film International House, featuring Baby Rose Marie
Frederick Hodges sings for 20th Century-Fox star Jane Withers. September 9 2011. Photo courtesy of Rusty Frank. Jane was thrilled and surprised that Frederick was singing songs that Jane had introduced in her Fox musicals of the 1930s.
Jane Withers circa 1936
Jane Withers circa 1936
Frederick Hodges with Jane Withers. Actress Ann Robinson behind Miss Wither's right shoulder. September 9, 2011. Photo Courtesy of Rusty Frank
Miss Robinson stared in the 1953 Paramount Science Fiction Classic War of the Worlds
Miss Robinson stared in the 1953 Paramount Science Fiction Classic War of the Worlds
Hodges with agent and director Marvin Paige (left); and actor Jimmy Lydon (right). September 9, 2011 Photo courtesty of Rusty Frank.
Jimmy Lydon, circa 1942
Jimmy Lydon and Jane Withers. Studio portrait for their 1942 20th Century-Fox film The Mad Martindales. This delightful film was screened at Cinecon this year, followed by an entertaining and informative on stage interview with Jimmy Lydon and Jane Withers.
Frederick Hodges with author and dance historian Rusty Frank. September 9, 2011 Photo courtesy of Rusty Frank. http://rustyfrank.com/
Frederick Hodges with Rusty Frank (far left) and Diana Serra Cary, author, historian, and former child star "Baby Peggy."
Baby Peggy circa 1925
1930s child star Jane Withers sings with Frederick at Cinecon (photo courtesy of Rusty Frank)
1930s child star Jane Withers sings with Frederick at Cinecon (photo courtesy of Rusty Frank)
1930s child star Sybil Jason sings with Frederick at Cinecon (photo courtesy of Rusty Frank)
1930s child star Sybil Jason
Frederick meets and plays for Oscar Award winning Hollywood composer Richard M. Sherman. In the background, film historian Miles Kreuger Richard Sherman's wife, Elizabeth. (photo courtesy of Rusty Frank)
Gathering around the piano after the banquet at the 2009 Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Among those gathered with Frederick are (left to right) Marvin Paige, Stan Taffel, Jane Withers, Miles Kreuger, Robert Birchard, and Rusty Frank. (photo courtesy of Rusty Frank)
Frederick with Diana Cary, a.k.a. 1920s silent film child star Baby Peggy at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, 2008 (Photo courtesty of Larry Telles)
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