Another Postcard Post! :)

Howdy!

Two more vintage Jack Kelly postcards just joined the Kellection, including one with the quintessential JK image which adorns this blog. So, I now have five of these cool cards:

These postcards were sent by the Warner Bros. fan mail department whenever folks wrote to JK. For only fifty-cents, you could also get an 8"x 10" photo (try getting one for that price now! ;>)

The reverse side of the cards features a reproduced signature and a greeting ("You are a real friend for writing!") from JK. Helpful hint: Some sellers erroneously assume the signatures on these cards are hand-written. I way overpaid for the first JK postcard I bought many years ago because I was led to believe I was purchasing a hand-signed item. Nope: the autographs shown on the front and back of these cards are pre-printed.

WB used the postmark to advertise their upcoming or current films. This one heralds A Summer Place, a 1959 melodrama starring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire and Sandra Dee. Postmarks on other JK cards I have advertise Auntie Mame, Sunrise at Campobello, and The Sundowners.

Yes, that's only four cards. The fifth JK postcard is "postally unused"--it has no postmark or mailing address, which means it was never sent by the fan department.

The other JK-related postcard I just received features a familiar grouping of Warner Bros. TV western stars. I've seen this pose before, but not in color like this:

Here's Clint Walker, Wayde Preston, Ty Hardin, Jack Kelly, John Russell, James Garner,
Peter Brown and Will Hutchins having a rootin' tootin' time
 on the Warner Bros. western street set

(How come JK is the shortest person on this card?!)

I think the image of Clint Walker ("Cheyenne") may have been inserted by WB into the color scene--he's usually not in other shots of this grouping I've seen, such as this one:

(BTW, this B&W photo was one of my first Kellectibles, before I actually had a Kellection! It was in a group of pix I bought at an antiques show before I "discovered" JK. :>)

The back of the color postcard has the pre-printed signatures of all the WB cowboys appearing on the front (with another pitch for A Summer Place):  

Well, I hope this post about JK postcards "sent" you. ;> Please stay tuned for more fun in TDS!

Horsin' Around With Bart Maverick!

Hi!

I found this great pic of Jack Kelly with "Goldie", the horse with the distinctive blaze that he often rode in Maverick. Bart Maverick, in desperate need of transportation, purchased Goldie from a passer-by in the Betrayal episode. Just a few episodes later, however, he gave Goldie to a young admirer in The Lass With the Poisonous Air.

However, Bart is seen riding the mare a few times after that, and she shows up again being currycombed by Edd "Kookie" Byrnes in Hadley's Hunters. I guess this is one pony that got around! (And, from what other viewers have noticed, "she" was actually a "he"...)

I also found this picture of Will Hutchins riding a horse with a similar blaze in Sugarfoot.

Sugarfoot was produced by Warner Brothers during the same era as Maverick, so I wondered if maybe this horse was "Goldie". It turns out that Hutchins rode the horse above (named "Sickle", presumably for its crooked blaze) for a while in Sugarfoot. Alas, according to Hutchins, Sickle wasn't the most cooperative cayuse at the studio. Here's the story. Sickle was replaced as Sugarfoot's mount by a horse named "Penny", so perhaps Sickle went on to play Goldie?
Could be! Anyway, here's a screen capture of Jack Kelly on Goldie/Sickle (center) from the Maverick episode "Duel at Sundown".