#hilda Ferguson

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Ziegfeld girl Hilda Ferguson, c. 1920s

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ziegfeld follies roster

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[bamanathan]

[the1920sinpictures]

1926 Ad for the Silver Slipper Supper Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The featured act is Hilda Ferguson, who was a famous Ziegfeld beauty. From Kenneth McIntyre, FB.

[kayflapper]

Hilda Ferguson was born Hildegarde Gibbons on January 16, 1903 in Baltimore, Maryland. Hilda was one of six children. When she was a child she studied dancing and acted in local theater productions. She married Robert Ugarte, a dentist, on June 2, 1919. The following year she gave birth to a daughter named Emily. Soon after she separated from her husband and moved to New York City. Hilda made her Broadway debut in the 1922 show Music Box Revue. In March of 1923 her roommate, actress Dot King, was found murdered. The story made headlines all over the country and she was interviewed by the police numerous times. Dot's murder has never been solved. Hilda was asked to join the Ziegfeld Follies in the Fall of 1923. She had a stunning figure and was known for her "shimmy" dancing. Her admirers had nicknamed her "The Body". Hilda's many lovers included actor George Raft, composer Arthur Gershwin, and bootlegger Nucky Johnson. She loved expensive jewelry and had a collection worth more than one million dollars. Unfortunately she also had a serious drinking problem. 

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Hilda Ferguson 20's pinup

[hilda-reference-archive]

baby deerfox designs from the show!! these were designed by andrew ferguson, one of the character artists on Hilda and I think the post they're from is gone now lmao so I'm putting them here for posterity. iirc it was said on the original post that the colour variant deerfoxes would've stood out too much from Twig and made him look 'less special' and so they went unused

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.1

Beer Birthdays

John F. Betz Jr. (1856)

William “Billy” Barnes (1864)

Ben Edmunds (1981)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Edgar Rice Burroughs; writer (1875)

Richard Farnsworth; actor (1920)

Joe Jusko; comic book artist, illustrator (1959)

Seiji Ozawa; orchestra conductor (1935)

Art Pepper; jazz saxophonist (1925)

Famous Birthdays

Soshana Afroyim; Austrian painter (1927)

Innokenty Annensky; Russian poet (1855)

Adolphe Appia; Swiss stage design theorist (1862)

Francis William Aston; physicist, chemist (1877)

Archie Bell; soul singer-songwriter and musician (1944)

Blaise Cendrars; Swiss author and poet (1887)

Chicken Boy; Los Angeles icon (1969)

Gene Colan; illustrator (1926)

James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett; boxer (1866)

Yvonne De Carlo; actor (1922)

Alan Dershowitz; attorney (1938)

Gloria Estefan; pop singer (1957)

Christopher Ferguson; astronaut (1961)

Bruce Foxton; English singer-songwriter and bass player (1955)

Nicholas Garland; English cartoonist (1935)

Al Geiberger; golfer, holds record for lowest round, 59 (1937)

Barry Gibb; pop singer (1946)

Holly Golightly; comic book artist (1964)

Hilda Hänchen; German physicist (1919)

Tim Hardaway; basketball player and coach (1966)

Willem Frederik Hermans; Dutch author, poet, and playwright (1921)

Eleanor Hibbert; English author (1906)

Kin Hubbard; writer (1868)

Engelbert Humperdinck; German composer (1854)

Boney James; saxophonist (1961)

Allen Jones; English sculptor and painter (1937)

Joe Jusko; comic book artist (1959)

Per Kirkeby; Danish painter, sculptor, and poet (1938)

Marshall Lytle; bass player and songwriter (1933)

Rocky Marciano; boxer (1923)

Ludwig Merwart; Austrian artist (1913)

Hilda Rix Nicholas; Australian artist (1884)

Ron O'Neal; actor (1937)

Johann Pachelbel; German composer (1653)

Walter Philip Reuther; labor leader (1907)

Ann Richards; educator and politician (1933)

Othmar Schoeck; Swiss composer (1886)

Leonard Slatkin; orchestra conductor (1944)

Lily Tomlin; comedian, actor (1939)

Conway Twitty; country singer (1933)

Boxcar Willie; country singer (1931)

Zendaya; actress and singer (1996)

[melissak2802]

Some my personal favourite Dame Agatha's characters that aren't detectives or antagonists:

The Lee family (as people who follow my Miraculous Agatha AU project probably guessed 🙂). Alfred, David and Harry for being relatable and admirable in different ways and their character development. Stephen and Conchita simply for being adorable (and among few romantic stories I sincerely ship). George and Magdalena for being satisfying satire. Lydia and Hilda for being strong and clever ladies in different ways and excellent match for their husbands.

Some from the supporting cast from Death on the Nile: Mrs Otterbourne and Miss Van Schuller are also satisfying satire and fun, Ferguson is fun too, while Rosalie and Cornelia are sympathetic (Cornelia may seem like a stereotypical Cinderella at first, but proves to be a wise and independent-thinking young woman by the final choice).

The Cloades - well-written, interesting source of drama in being too mentally dependent on the overprotective patriarch of the family who died unexpectedly and having not learnt in time to make responsible decisions. Each also is allowed to make a meaningful contribution in the plot. (Side note: no I don't approve of Lynn/Rowley ship with the canon motivation voiced in the final. These two are interesting characters on their own, through. The other Cloades - Jeremy and Frances, Lionel and Aunt Kathie, and Adela - are no less interesting)

The Crackenthorpes. Emma, Cedric and Brian are pretty similar to Alfred, Harry and David Lee respectively (and I came to love them earlier than I discovered an interest for the Lees). And Luther is basically a Simeon that is less of an asshole, to the point where he also keeps valuable minerals as collectibles) While Harold is the same type of satire as George)

Lucy Eyelesbarrow. Smart, active and compassionate young woman, a good professional, and one who turned a "lowly" job like domestic assistance into something to be seen seriously and not be ashamed of.

Roger and to an extent Philip Leonidis. Can relate to both, interesting psychological drama - one squeezed under too much attention of his father due to not being able to say no and as a result developing anger issues, the other suffering from lack of such attention due to not being able to express his emotions and adoration and as a result isolating himself. (Doesn't excuse him passing the lack of parental attention further) And Clemency and Magda are vivid as characters. (Side note, re-reading Taken at the Flood made me realise similarities between the Cloades and the Leonidis. Also, Magda is kind of Mrs. Otterbourne 2.0 and Clemency kind of Lydia Lee 2.0)

Gerry Wade and Ronny Devereux. I understand that's probably weird due to lack of screentime, but their story is so... something that can sadly happen to young people. And despite small amount if screentime I see them having distinct personalities based on what we know. I like Bundle and Bill quite much too, but they should be better listed under "detectives".

Some honourable mentions:

Everyone in And Then There Were None is well written and quite interesting to think about, but wouldn't call them specially personal favourite.

The young Boyntons - I like how they are written. Sarah King as well - a professional young woman, serious, honourable, protective and caring. I don't mind Nadine but she feels a bit like a Sarah copy in the same novel, so she's less interesting to me.

Amy Leatheran - another medical young woman but softer and gentler one, good narrator, open and curious person, good assistant to the investigation.

Angela Warren - despite her disability and the terrible tragedy of what happened to her sister, she grew up a successful and good person, a scholar to add. Also her special relationship with books.

Carrie-Louise Serrocold, I love the idea of her "naive wisdom".

Currently I am re-reading or planning to re-read Death Comes as the End, Sparkling Cyanide, The Hollow, Dead Man's Folly and probably Sleeping Murder, which may cause this list to grow.

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In today’s sapphic-femboy-birthday-declarations, I’d like to showcase this collage made by @gummiskeleton (I love you Wren) last December when I really needed cheering up. Thank you. 🥹🥰❤️‍🔥 (Y’all should check out their shop!! They make so many cool jewelry and things @gummiskeletonshop !!!!!) Also btw the prompt for this was: “Ok - so this is what I need at 9am: I need everyone to like *think* the following thoughts: anything hello kitty related, sapphic love, the rewriting of sapphic tragedies as epic sapphic romances with beautiful conclusions in a world where bigotry doesn't exist, Craig Ferguson, Keanu Reeves, Mads Mikkelsen, Nathan Fielder but as your smart home device, Rhona Mitra, The Librarian (from the show Hilda), Coco Diablo (the queer villain from Scooby-Doo), Mindy Kaling, the godfather to Mindy Kaling's children, cute animals, Charlotte Bronte, pomegranate seeds that don't go bad and have a shelf-life of 30 years on average, and the consideration that even though the-transphobe-that-shall-not-be-named is horrible that maybe the fanfiction pairing of Severus Snape and Hermione Granger isn't so inconceivable?” And they knocked it out of the park. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cri6bD3Ldys/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[therandomfish]

A Babysitters Guide to Monster Hunting- A Randomfish Review

Did you like the remake of Ghostbusters where there were female Ghostbusters? Well then you’ll love the all female remake of Monster Squad... 

Is that accurate? Kind of. It feels like that right from a main character who believes in monsters, a villain who wants to bring together an army of monsters and of course sometimes the most random of moments. Although it isn’t an actual remake and it is it’s own thing want to make that clear. 

What’s the story? Kelly Ferguson (played by Tamara Smart)  is the kid at school who is apparently tortured by the kids of the town because she apparently saw a monster in her room and everyone just calls her “Monster Girl” oh and she skipped a grade because she’s smart, thanks to the exposition teacher (or maybe he’s the math teacher I forget) 

Okay first thing to dissect is this..... WHY?! Why are the kids still torturing her about THAT? First off these are teenagers there would be plenty of gossip around town I’m fairly sure and secondly this doesn’t appear to be a massively small town so this type of thing wouldn’t be as well known as it is! There is the generic bully girl played by Anisa Harris who just picks on her coz she’s nerdy and weird but... again this feels very pointlessly generic... haven’t we evolved our bullies since then? 

Kelly then gets’ guilt tripped to babysit her Mum’s boss’s kid because her Mum just assumed that she would be doing nothing ever and that she wouldn’t be trying to grow up and move on with her life like going to a party that was randomly announced in the hallway by some dude... I mean I can’t exactly say that’s it’s a bad scene either just convenient and to be honest if we sinned movies for being convenient then we’d just hate all movies (right CinemaSins?) and that the dude that is clearly the hot guy at school said he’d go and Kelly now wants to go in order to impress him and steal him away from Anisa Harris (yes the character has a name but she is so bland and forgettable why should I remember that character’s name?) but she goes to the boss’s house to babysit the kid named Jacob Zellman (Wow, I’m starting wonder if his mother is anyway related to Zelda or Hilda Spellman and just changed their names out of embarrassment) with the mother leaving behind a massive set of insane rules. However we learn that Jacob sees monsters just like Kelly did and while Kelly didn’t end up being taken by the monsters Jacob definitely does... okay now with the designs of the “Toadies” as they’re called in the film that’s not bad... what makes me laugh however with the rise of the villain of the film called Grand Guignol played by Tom Felton (yes THAT Tom Felton as if there’s any other) being a leader of some kind of boogiemen type of monster I began to wonder if we were about to get a modern take on the song “Dance Magic Dance” all of a sudden. 

We then get introduced to the films’ resident badass on a scooter (not a motorbike because that doesn’t equate badass anymore apparently) who is Liz played by Oona Laurence who turns up with all the information and starts essentially dumping exposition on us! From names of monsters to the book that she has to read to understand everything about the monsters and all of this completely cavalier while carrying a baby on her back. After chasing down one of the toadies they bring it back to their headquarters where we actually get an idea why the film is called this; A Babysitters Guide to Monster Hunting where we learn that apparently this organization has existed for hundreds of years. We see pretty quickly that the writer of the book also wrote the screenplay as he just says things while assuming that the people who’ve read the book are watching and everyone else be damned.... well I am part of everyone else and I say “No! You be damned for once!” We then meet our resident variety of side characters who will do next to nothing; Fat Kid (I mean  Curtis Critter played by Ty Consiglio), Cassie Zhen (played by Lynn Masako Cheng) and Berna Vincent (played by Troy Leigh-Ann Johnson) I say their names and characters now because to be honest they do a little behind the scenes stuff and try to give themselves focus but the crux of the whole thing rests on Kelly and Liz (who if you couldn’t tell from the attitude and the “hog” has a dark backstory) so they go off to get Jacob back who is being forced to bring his dreams to life which is why Draco Felton was trying to get him and why he was trying to get Kelly all those years ago too (yeah, that was a thing apparently Draco Felton has been stalking kids for years, there there’s an image in your fangirl minds about Draco Malfoy stalking kids) and so they go off to try and get a creature that can help them get the pieces together to take on and destroy Draco Felton and so they go to.... any guesses anyone? Yes you are correct madam it was the party that Kelly wanted to go to! They go there, words are exchanged, the boy that Kelly likes is confused but impressed I guess with the way she is as herself, generic bully is put in her place by Liz and, despite her saying that she wouldn’t go to the party while she was supposed to be babysitting Jacob there are videos on Instagram of her jumping off of a higher floor in someone’s home... that’ll look great Kelly well done also you wanna relax after jumping down a floor and landing on your face? No? Okay what do I know? They collect what they need and the nerd crew at the base (told you I’d forget their names they’re so forgettable those.... who?) make a device that Kelly can use to essentially punch Draco Felton to death (PUNCHING PEOPLE: As long as it’s monsters, it’s okay) they travel to a cat monster type person who traps them, LIz gets taken away by Felton and Kelly, who has been shockingly okay with this whole ordeal just gets up and heads for the lair on Liz’s scooter (sure she wont’ mind, at least fill up the tank you greedy whatsit) where we had learnt previously that Liz lost her brother to Draco Felton (see? Dark backstory) and he had hypnotized her with his lullaby even though we were shown that NEVER HAPPENING until we got to Liz so SCREW YOU MOVIE! Kelly snaps her out of it, they punch Draco Felton to death, Jacob is reunited with his mum just in time (Ferris Bueller would be proud) and Kelly begins her initiation into the Babysitters club and the ending is her looking at a book one of Draco Felton’s relatives, not going to the movies with a boy (because girl gotta save the world yo) and she’s feeling happy about this life of danger and madness she must now lead..... obviously this is baiting for a sequel, will it get one? I dunno we got a sequel to the Kissing Booth for crying out loud, something that didn’t need to happen in the least yet it did! 

So what did I think of it? Well it’s trying to be like the monster hunting, wise cracking monster kid movies of old, hence why I referenced monster squad but does that make it good? I mean the acting isn’t awful, Tom Felton does a pretty good job with that role and it did take me a while to realise it was him under the makeup. Tamara Smart and Oona Laurence were fine as leading ladies although Oona felt like she should have been older when playing this role, just to show the difference in age and to show what the life could do to you. As it stands it feels like when Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy meet in Breakfast club if they went hunting for Judd Nelson after he turned into a werewolf or something. 

But with all of it being said, this film was funny in places, tried to offer a sense of scariness that needed to go a bit further with it’s ideas 

I’d say a solid 7/10 (yes I do ratings) 

Please like this and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to review next 

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The Strongest Bridge on the Mississippi River --- Ferguson Falls Bridge

The Strongest Bridge on the Mississippi River — Ferguson Falls Bridge

Photo from The Canadian Mississippi River Paperback – Jan. 1 1988by Hilda Geddes (Author) CLIPPED FROMThe Lanark EraLanark, Ontario, Canada11 May 1898, Wed  •  Page 4 CLIPPED FROMThe Weekly British WhigKingston, Ontario, Canada25 Apr 1901, Thu  •  Page 10 There have been several bridges in Ferguson Falls. No one really knows when the first one was built but a map from the area in 1869 shows…

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A sequence that I animated and storyboarded was posted on Hilda’s instagram!  It’s awesome seeing it come together!  

(Storyboard thumbed by the director Andy Coyle, and tweaked by storyboard director Jeff Barker.  Animation Direction by Megan Ferguson.  FX design by Dan Sprogis.  FX animation by Shawn Pyke.  BG design by Ross Love)