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Eve Adamson -- Harold's daughter
died at age 68 on Oct. For Eve Adamson's Memorial on January 29, 2007 at the Phoenix Theatre click here. For an extensive biography of Eve Adamson Playbill obituary (Photo Tennessee Williams click here. For Eve Adamson's New York Times obituary click here.
James Adamson has had to keep his being
a Lord under wraps, it happened in 2010 when J. Adamson passed
on. James Harold Adamson, the grandfather, had dual citizenship
within the US and in England. Who was James Adamson? James was
very much like Santa Claus? Lastex literally touched almost everyone
on earth and James formed The Adamson Brother's Bruce, the grandson wrote the following booklet The Adamson Brother's Conspiracy. You've heard the original sin, but have you heard of The Forbidden Fruit of the Loom? Dupont Family purchased patent for Lastex. On my dad's side of the family. While on mother's sie of the family Robert Easton was dialect coach for Bill Kingsley as a New York mobster who won an Oscar for his role as Gandhi. James Harold Adamson (1932-Palm Beach) built over 300 estate homes at Larchmont Shores, in Westchester County, New York. One of the streets Douglas Lane was named for James' son Douglas who was my father and brother of Harold. All home foundations came from the New York subways. Ronald Reagan watches electoral college results from Earle's home Reagan 489 vs. Carter 49 a mandate! In 1953 Douglas, the son following in his
father's footsteps when he sold Earle Jorgensen a home and had
one of the largest commissions in Beverly Hills history. Jorgensen's
home 5 1/2 acres was about a Jorgensen would go on to become Ronald Reagan's chief kitchen cabinet member. When Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter he had the largest electoral college victory in presidential history and watched it on tv in this very home. On our mother's side of the family we were distant cousins to the Carter family on two lines. Jimmy Carter has gone on to make his own presidential history living to make the trip around the sun 100 times. Jorgensen made 101 trips around the sun. Jack Hupp who married Marie Windsor made a copy of contract for me. Click to view back side of contract Adamson & Hupp. Click: here for Carter Family Genealogy. Click: here for Earle M. Jorgensen's biography who made 101 trips around sun. The Adamson Brother's company produced Lastex while George Eastman developed the hobby of collecting photographs. Both were written up in Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People. It was James' son Harold who received his first two Oscar nominations during the 1930s while Eastman/Kodak received nine Oscars for the improvement of motion picture film. 18 year ol
Harold Adamson's songs in films will appear on Turner Classic Movie Channel Click Here for Turner Entertainment schedule for all movies. Harold Adamson would probably have preferred acting in motion pictures to writing songs for them. Although he experimented with verse writing while in prep school, his ambition was to become a thespian. While a student at the University of Kansas, he gained experience on the boards by performing in summer stock. On transferring to Harvard University, he landed roles in the Hasty Pudding Club Shows. Harold may have been inspired a little by his uncle Ernest Martin chief camera engineer at Vitaphone and Vitagraph. Mr. Martin was the electrical engineer for many Rudolph Valentino movies. In 1926 Martin set up the electrical work for the very first sound movie Don Juan staring John Barrymore.Click Here for Rudolph Valentino photo. Ten years later, Harold would write songs for two movies staring Lionel and John Barrymore. Like many artists who trained for other careers, Adamson's plans were changed by the unexpected success of a song.
In Adamson's case, the composition was "Time On My Hands" for which he wrote the lyrics in conjunction with Mack Gordon. Adamson was barely out of college when the song was introduced in Florenz Ziegfeld's Broadway production Smiles in 1930. That same year, his work was heard in Earl Carroll's Vanities. After three more stage musicals, the 27-year-old lyricist was lured to the cinema capital by an offer from Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. Bruce Adamson has written and produced an 58 minute documentary on Hal's career. Narratored by Wes Sims of Channel 46 Monterey Bay. Adamson's nephew is selling 23 three-foot
high MGM Grand Hotel Photographs. Click on link to see Three
Foot High Bruce Adamson Photograph of Jimmy McHugh,
Frank Sinatra and Harold signed by Sinatra "Bruce, All the
Best. Frank Sinatra 1989." Taken at the time Sinatra won
his First Academy Award nomination by McHugh and Hal's song I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night. The Manchurian Candidate and Suddenly
are two gr One of the m
In 1948 Hal wrote the lyrics for the song "Rock, Rock, Rock" a Michael Todd production for Broadway. In the 1930s he wrote the lyrics for the song: Hilo Hattie. To the right we see Elvis Presley in the film Blue Hawaii with Hilo Hattie. This was a decade after Hal wrote Hilo Hattie for Hattie and ten years after Rock, Rock Rock. In Hattie's autobiography she said that this song made her career.
In WWII Hal was given awards from the Department of War, for writing patriotic songs for movies and hits such as "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" and Bing Crosby's "Buy a Bond". Hal wrote the song "There's A New Flag on Ima Jima." Adamson's success continued after the war and he provided lyrics for Susan Hayward in Smash-Up (1947), Jane Powell, Carmen Miranda and Elizabeth Taylor in A Date with Judy (1948), Hal wrote songs for four films that Carmen Miranda appeared in. Would you like to hear Marilyn Monroe sing on line? Well because as Hal would sing "When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right" we can't! However we do have Melanie Miller, who looks, sings and acts like Marilyn Monroe! If you would like to hire Melanie click on link. M & M's are great! For the next best thing click here ! Would you like to purchase 8 x 10 photo or larger of Marilyn and Cary Grant on rollerskates? email Adamson at bca@ciajfk.com For more info on photo click here. Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman
(1951), Jane Russell and Marilyn
Monroe in Gen Doris Day sung the Oscar nominating song "Que Sera Sera"Whatever Will Be Will Be, also a great song. Four years later ironically Doris Day sung the same song to David Niven in the film Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Niven is best remembered for the film Around the World in 80 Days. The Radio and T.V. Association of America nominated Harold's song: Around the World in 80 Days "Hit Record of the Year," a great honor in itself. In 1957 Adamson received his fifth Oscar nomination for writing the lyrics with Leo McCarey to An Affair To Remember. Adamson however, his most prolific piece of work is the lyrics for the theme song to "I Love Lucy". "I Love Lucy and she loves me, We're as happy as two can be, Sometimes we quarrel but then, How we love making up again. Lucy kisses like no one can, She's my missus and I'm her man, and life is heaven you see, Cause I LOVE LUCY, Yes, I LOVE LUCY and LUCY loves me..." Harold Adamson Harold Adamson was born in Greenville, New Jersey, in 1906 and was 73 at the time of his death in 1980.. An Affair to Remember, Bruce playing with
sister in Harold's backyard at 704 North Alpine, Beverly Hills
in 1959, Hal looking on. Not far away a few blocks Frank Sinatra
had a home. Next door was Donna Reed, both Reed and Sinatra won
Oscars in 1953 about seven years earlier. For From Here to Eternity.
Rings a bell with Hal. In the summer of 1981-82 my aunt Gretchen
went on vacation and allowed me to Hal's last words were to me "Bruce go out to the den and see how Douglas is doing." At Santa Monica hospital. Sixteen years earlier Hal's father James died in the same hospital, I was there. Behind Every Great Man There is
a Great Woman, Behind Harold
Adamson was Gretchen. Please visit the memorial to my Aunt Gretchen
Adamson, (Mrs. Harold Adamson), who died at 7:55pm August 2,
2002 here. Bruce Campbell Adamson produced both a 28 and 58 minute documentary "Our Pal Hal; An Affair To Remember" |
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