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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Film homage Chill Wills Stubby Pringle's Christmas 1978 ghost town Silver Plume Colorado 1971" by David Lee Guss. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame movies are consistently excellent. Chill Wills' (1902-1978) final film role was in Hallmark's Stubby Pringle's Christmas aired... more
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Hallmark Hall of Fame movies are consistently excellent. Chill Wills' (1902-1978) final film role was in Hallmark's "Stubby Pringle's Christmas" aired two days after his death.
The made for TV movie was partly shot in the ghost town of Silver Plume, Colorado.
Wills' first film was an uncredited bit as a campfire singer in W.C. Field's masterpiece "It's a Gift" (1934).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y189-69cQPs
Wills started out as a singer in both vaudeville and films. He formed and headed the Avalon Boys singing group. Here he can be heard as the bass singer in Laurel & Hardy's "Way Out West." He is the guitar player seen fleetingly at the end of the delightful musical dance number.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg
This image of a row of shuttered buildings was taken shortly after Christmas in 1971.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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