Sounds like another great event indeed :-)!! Is there any chance you might put up the pics on your site, by any chance--would love to see them?

Joanne, thanks for reminding me, as I meant to mention that the photos are on my site, www.mariaciaccia.com, just hit the Tyrone Power Tribute banner.

Hi Maria, sorry be so dense, but is there another link that I might be missing after going into the Tyrone Power Tribute link? The only pics I'm able to see are the ones from 2008 (there is a heading that states Page 1 but it doesn't appear to be a link)?

Again, sorry to be a pain, Maria.

No, you're not dense. I didn't realize I had "page 1" there - I thought someone asked about the 2008 tribute to him in LA for the 50th year of his death - that's what the photos are:

http://www.mariaciaccia.com/tyronepowertribute.htm

Keep scrolling down, there are photos of the service, the memorabilia display at the theater, the family, and some of the people who attended. There are other photos of past memorial services at www.tyrone-power.com as well, I think, as well as some from the 50th anniversary tribute. Hope that helps.

Ok Maria great, many thanks. The photos are a real treat--it was great to see the tribute pics as well.

I'll be on the lookout for the '09 pics as well :-)!

Thanks, Maria, for having this available. I enjoyed looking at the pictures of the 2008 memorial.

One of these days . . . !!

Thumbs up for Maria and Joanne!

Too true, can't agree more, Melody. Maria added a definite pizzazz to the commentary :-)!!!!

That book was one of the most moronic film publications I've seen. Talk about Ted Turner re-writing film history!! They left out Betty Grable, as well for heaven's sake! Weird. Good good to know that the e-mails to TCM are having some effect.

Still, I think it will be a hot day in January when they feature him as the star of the month (goes for Grable too, for that matter....not to mention Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, even Loretta Young, etc., etc.

It makes me froth at the mouth to think what attention would be paid to these stars if Turner had purchased the Fox vault as well.

Ah well, hopefully I'm wrong about featuring him on TCM at some point.

Those are all films that TCM has to license. Again, the only ones actually in their library are Marie Antoinette and Witness for the Prosecution. (And Flirtation Walk?) Some of the other titles may still be licensed for additional broadcasts. So it all depends on how many titles they can show, and how many more they want to pay to license. I'm all for Tyrone Power, star of the month. Actually, what would be really cool is if Fox Movie Channel and TCM cooperated to do a big Tyrone Power Star of the Month cross-coordinated thing on BOTH channels. :)

I dunno, I'm thinking a TP festival of *any* sort isn't even on the TCM radar :-(. It's incredible how the FOX studio is completely overlooked by that channel. Heck, even Columbia gets its due (which was considered "poverty row" is memory serves). Paramount, too, appears to get some coverage though that was one of the 'big 5'.

There's a perverse incompleteness to it as Fox had some of the bigest stars hands down making it impossible, really to ignore. On the other hand, the thinking is that Fox is well covered by the FXM channel and, and IMHO it really isn't.

Anywho, I'll get off my soapbox now :-)!!!

WOW, a stamp, now *that* would be something :-)!! He's largely overlooked so this would quite the feat if it goes through.

Count me in for any assistance Maria!!

Yes, I agree, Joanne, with all of your comments, and as far as the stamp - yes, a feat! I'm going to be asking people who can or who should (like the family) to write letters. Then I'm getting a bunch of prewritten, prepaid postcards and giving out stacks to anyone who wants them, so that they can have their friends and family sign them, and they can even hand them back and you can mail them. There will also be a petition online.

I know there was a fight to get Al Jolson a stamp, but his fans won. I think it takes some perseverance. No reason Tyrone Power should NOT have a stamp. He was in the Marines during WW II, did goodwill tours around the world, and was a great American star.

It's sounds like massive undertaking Maria---I don't know of anyone that works harder for TP!! will definitly sign the online petition when it's up and running.

(BTW, it seems amazing that there was any resistance to Al Jolson--being such a key part of a pioneering film and all.)

Apparently there was resistance because of the blackface, and yet, the stamp actually has him in blackface!

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Still, the film isn't nearly as offensive as, say, the Birth of a Nation was; and it is a major milestone. It's ironic that they ultimately went with the blackface for the stamp.

(I recall seeing Birth of a Nation in college with a packed house. One and all got up in shocked silence and quietly walked out once the film was over. Can't quite bring myself to see it again.)

I VOTE FOR A U.S. STAMP OF TYRONE POWER. WHAT A NEAT ITEM TO ADD TO OUR COLLECTING. US FANS WOULD LOVE THAT!!