Celebrity Caricatures

[CharlieH.]

I was looking at some pictures of yesterday's famous faces, and having a pencil at hand, I couldn't resist doing some quick sketches of a few.
Can you recognise these faces?

Lot's of people with big ears are famous!

I tried to do Myrna too, but she didn't look right.

Self-explanatory

This fella appeared in many a Busby Berkeley picture

The usual sidekicks to Astaire and Rogers.

More to come.... a fair warning!

 

[Jay]

Very nice. Can't wait for more.

 

[Feraud]

Excellent work! The William and Dick (is that right?) Powells are great!

 

[HadleyH]

You did those sketches???? That's really good CharlieH!!!!! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[CharlieH.]

Thanks folks! And I thought I was getting rusty.
(Yes Feraud, it is Dick Powell)

Here are a couple more:

A regular at the Algonquin

Not too sure about this one - can you guess?

"Well, nobody's perfect!"

 

[vonwotan]

CharlieH those sketches are wonderful. Thak you for posting them!

 

[The Wolf]

Nice work!
They remind me of some of my favorite Warner Bros. cartoons that had celebrity cameos.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[CharlieH.]

A few more:

This fella was as good at singing as he was with a gun!

Speaking of singers and dancers...

One of the few ladies I've gotten right.

Dat's it.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Charlie, you should have been working for this place!

Clark Gable
William Powell
Moe, Larry and Curly
Dick Powell

I don't know the next two and I can't remember the name of the 6th one but I've seen him before. He did a lot of short subjects

James Stewart
Joe E. Brown
James Cagney
Fred Astaire
and Bette Davis

 

[CharlieH.]

Ya got them right, HFLG. As for the trio, they appeared in Fred and Ginger's most famous film.

And isn't there a restaurant in Manhattan that's full of Al Hirschfeld caricatures?

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Here it is: http://www.alfredos.com/ny.html. There is a recreation of the Brown Derby in Orlando at Disney MGM Studios with copies of most of the caricatures (though not hung in the right places so I've heard). I got to meet the caricature artist from the 40s on that drew them at the Hollywood Brown Derby, though.

Here's his published book: A Gallery of Stars

 

[CharlieH.]

Here it is: http://www.alfredos.com/ny.html. There is a recreation of the Brown Derby in Orlando at Disney MGM Studios with copies of most of the caricatures (though not hung in the right places so I've heard). I got to meet the caricature artist from the 40s on that drew them at the Hollywood Brown Derby, though.

Here's his published book: A Gallery of Stars

Looks mighty different from the one I saw in The Muppets Take Manhattan. And that looks like a great book!

 

[vonwotan]

I believe you are referring to Sardi's, in the Theater district.

 

[CharlieH.]

Sardi's! That's the one. And they weren't done by Hirschfeld, now that I see it.

Now...
Can you guess who this fella is?

(And if you can't, I don't blame ya!)

 

[Feraud]

It has to be Mr. Grant.

 

[CharlieH.]

It has to be Mr. Grant.

Yes!
Have a cigar.

 

[GeniusInTheLamp]

As for the trio in the first post, the man in the middle is Edward Everett Horton, and the guy on the right would have to be Eric Blore. Don't know who the guy on the left is, however.

 

[CharlieH.]

As for the trio in the first post, the man in the middle is Edward Everett Horton, and the guy on the right would have to be Eric Blore. Don't know who the guy on the left is, however.

And I thought no one would guess! Yes, that's the trio. The other one is Erik Rhodes, another Astaire & Rogers vet.

P.S.
Folks, nobody escapes my sketchpad.... You have been warned!

 

[Rafter]

You got of lot of talent, Charlie.:eusa_clap
Maybe one day your Celebrity Caricatures will be on the walls of Sardi's.:essen:

 

[Barbigirl]

missed

this thread the first time around, your drawings are great!