HAL BATES: "LAS VEGAS-IN-REVIEW" - ALAN KING, ANTHONY NEWLEY

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 7 November 1973

HAL BATES: "TOP FILMMAKERS COMBINE TO BOLSTER INDUSTRY"

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 3 October 1973

HAL BATES: LAS VEGAS-IN-REVIEW - JACK BENNY, PEARL BAILEY

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 7 November 1973

HAL BATES: "TRACY AND VADOR AT PLAYBOY CLUB"

Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 1972

HAL BATES: "PAVAROTTI TRIUMPHS AT UCLA"

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 25 September 1973

HAL BATES: "ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS SHOW"

The Hollywood Reporter, 16 December 1973.

HAL BATES: "RICH LITTLE DEBUTS AS STAR AT SANDS"

Valley News, 8 November 1974.

HAL BATES: "SINGER'S STYLE SUITS CABARET"

Today we start a new series that fits the "Hal Bates and Famous People Theme." The cache of magazines and newspapers in the found box have yielded numerous articles and reviews penned by Hal Bates. We will present them here for your enjoyment, education, and historical context.

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 8 September 1973

HAL BATES AND DAVID FROST

Here's another shot of Hal Bates actually talking to David Frost. Don't know about the other guys.... Who?

HAL BATES AND MR. BLACKWELL

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Thanks to Gail for the I.D.!

HAL BATES AND .... ?? NUMBER FOUR

Now here's a happy couple with Hal. But who are they? The guy on the left looks like Noddy Holder of Slade, but that's not possible. Ha. (NOTE: He is wearing an I.D. tag that reads "Beth Coombes." Maybe that's hers??)

HAL BATES AND ... ? NUMBER THREE

Hmmm... Could be a realtor or insurance guy. Maybe not. Need help on this one. 

Nice coats, guys!

HAL BATES AND KITTY CARLISLE

This was going to be "HAL BATES AND ... ? NUMBER THREE" but an earlier photo was identified. Unless this is not Kitty Carlisle??

HAL BATES AND ... ? NUMBER TWO

So, who is she?

HAL BATES AND .... ? NUMBER ONE (PLAYBOY MANSION)

Today we start posting a few of the many photographs found with Hal Bates and persons unknown. These photos have no identification as to who is included. Some of the folks look mighty darn familiar, but their identity remains tantalizingly out of reach.

Perhaps someone (like you?) knows who is in the photo. Let us all know, please!

Today we start with an image taken inside Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Hal is "darting" with a lovely Bunny. But who is she?

HAL BATES AND ALAN HALE AND MICHAEL MUSTO

Apparently,  Musto has only one credit, as per IMDB: Producer and screenwriter for the Jayne Mansfield vehicle, "Single Room Furnished," in 1966.

HAL BATES, LITA BARON, SELMA BATES, AND GEORGE BURNS

Lita Baron (Isabel Beth Castro, 8 August 1929, Spain) was Mrs. Rory Calhoun, singer with Xavier Cugat, acted in many films and television shows. Her "escort around town" since 1972 was George Burns.

HAL BATES AND THOMAS BRADLEY

And ... ?

HAL BATES AND HUNTINGTON HARTFORD

George Huntington Hartford II (April 18, 1911 – May 19, 2008) was an heir to the A&P supermarket fortune. When he died in 2008, obituaries noted that, Hartford "had once ranked among the world's richest people." Hartford was an American businessman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and art collector. He owned Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and had numerous other business and real estate interests over his lifetime including the Oil Shale Corporation (TOSCO), which he founded in 1955.

Huntington was a strong patron of the arts, building an artists colony above Los Angeles and later a gallery in New York City, and his opinions the arts were equally strong. He criticized Abstract Expressionists, believing they had ushered in a great "ice age of art," freezing out the grand traditions of music, painting and sculpture; he described Pablo Picasso as a "mountebank." Beyond expressionism, he derided the "beatnik, the Existentialist, the juvenile delinquent, the zaniest of abstract art, the weirdest aberrations of the mentally unbalanced, the do-nothing philosophy of Zen Buddhism" as a result of wanton "abuse of liberty and freedom." He had strong opinions against the work of Tennessee Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Willem de Kooning, as well as art dealer Sidney Janis.

And ... ?

HAL BATES AND SELMA BATES AND CHARLES GRODIN

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