{"id":10908,"date":"2013-08-24T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2013-08-24T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:45:14","slug":"julie-harris-proves-my-memory-isnt-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/24\/julie-harris-proves-my-memory-isnt-what-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Harris proves my memory isn’t what it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, when I heard that Julie Harris had died<\/a>, I immediately thought—ah, how well I remember seeing her on Broadway in The Lincoln Mask<\/em>. <\/p>\n

And I immediately knew I was going to tell you all about her performance, and how I stood outside the stage door of the Plymouth Theater waiting for her and her co-star Fred Gwynne (you can guess which of them portrayed Lincoln) so I could meet them and get their autographs. <\/p>\n

I can remember the door opening and them stepping out onto the street. <\/p>\n

I can remember handing over my Playbill<\/em> and getting their signatures. <\/p>\n

I can remember …<\/p>\n

\"LincolnMaskPlaybill\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… well, not Julie Harris, because Julie Harris wasn’t in The Lincoln Mask<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As you can see by this cover to the October 1972 Playbill<\/em> (I would have been 17), the autographs I got were of Gwynne … and Eva Marie Saint<\/a>. Who is still very much with us.<\/p>\n

So … no Julie Harris story.<\/p>\n

But remind me someday, and I’ll tell you the story of how, decades later, I told Eva Marie Saint how difficult it became for me to watch On The Waterfront<\/em> once I learned that Elia Kazan directed it as an apologia for naming names during the Blacklist—and she admonished me to just get over it.<\/p>\n

That story I’m 100% sure I’m remembering correctly.<\/p>\n

Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, when I heard that Julie Harris had died, I immediately thought—ah, how well I remember seeing her on Broadway in The Lincoln Mask. And I immediately knew I was going to tell you all about her performance, and how I stood outside the stage door of the Plymouth Theater waiting for her and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,330,328,329],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-broadway","tag-eva-marie-saint","tag-fred-gwynne","tag-julie-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}