{"id":7883,"date":"2015-11-26T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2015-11-26T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T19:48:24","slug":"turkey-and-cheesecake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/26\/turkey-and-cheesecake\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Cheesecake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, it used to be A Thing to photograph Hollywood starlets in silly holiday-themed scenarios involving oversized, seasonally appropriate props &#8212; giant jack-o-lanterns for Halloween, giant fireworks rockets for the Fourth of July, etc. And this practice was evidently A Thing for a very long time, as I&#8217;ve seen examples of it from the Silent Era up through the 1960s or thereabouts. (Barbara Eden of <em>I Dream of Jeannie<\/em> fame did a <em>lot<\/em> of these.) For today, allow me to share with you one of my favorites from this genre, featuring the lovely Mary Philbin.<\/p>\n<p>Philbin was a busy actress during the 1920s and is best-known today for playing Christine in the original Lon Chaney version of <em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em> (1925). Although her career mostly ended with the coming of talking pictures, she dubbed her own voice for a special 1930 reissue of <em>Phantom<\/em>, when it was given a synchronized score, sound effects, and some limited dialog scenes. She died in 1993, at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea when this photo was taken, but at a guess I&#8217;d say it was around the same time she appeared in <em>Phantom<\/em>, the mid-1920s. It always makes me smile. Hope it does the same for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving_mary-philbin-turkey-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving_mary-philbin-turkey-1.jpg\" alt=\"thanksgiving_mary-philbin+turkey\" width=\"806\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving_mary-philbin-turkey-1.jpg 806w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving_mary-philbin-turkey-1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving_mary-philbin-turkey-1-768x591.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a>Happy Thanksgiving to my Loyal Readers everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, it used to be A Thing to photograph Hollywood starlets in silly holiday-themed scenarios involving oversized, seasonally appropriate props &#8212; giant jack-o-lanterns for Halloween, giant fireworks rockets for the Fourth of July, etc. And this practice was evidently A Thing for a very long time, as I&#8217;ve seen examples of it from the Silent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}