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Barbara Jean Hersey (previously Addams, née Day; July 7, 1919 – August 6, 2007) was an American woman best known for having been married to two different famous people, first Charles Addams – the creator of The Addams Family – and then journalist John Richard Hersey.
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Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Grace M. (née Spear; 1879–1943) and Charles Huey Addams (1873–1932), a piano company executive who had studied to be an architect. Known as "something of a rascal around the neighborhood," as childhood friends recalled, Addams was distantly related to U.S. presidents John Adams and John Qu...
Charles Addams joined the layout department of True Detectivemagazine in 1933, where he retouched photos of corpses to remove the blood for appearance alongside magazine stories. Addams complained: "A lot of those corpses were more interesting the way they were." The New Yorker Obituary of October 17, 1988 says his first drawing for The New Yorker,...
Addams met first wife Barbara Jean Day in late 1943, who purportedly resembled his cartoon character Morticia Addams. The marriage ended eight years later after Addams declined to have children (she later married New Yorker colleague John Hersey, author of the book Hiroshima). Addams married second wife Barbara Barb (Estelle B. Barb) in 1954. A pra...
The Tee & Charles Addams foundation was established in 1999 "to interpret and share the artistic achievement of Charles Addams’s life through exhibitions and programs developed from all works by Charles Addams including the Foundation’s own collections and from its copyrights of the Addams oeuvre." Prior to the COVID-19 pandemicthe foundation offer...
Books of Addams's drawings or illustrated by him:Addams also illustrated two books by other authors. First was But Who Wakes the Bugler? (Houghton & Mifflin, 1940) by Peter DeVries. The other was Afternoon In the Attic (Dodd, Mead, 1950) by John Kobler. He also provided the cover art for such books as The Compleat Practical Joker (Doubleday, 1953) ...
Notes Bibliography 1. Davis, Linda H. (2006). Chas Addams: A Cartoonist's Life. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-46325-2.Hardcover reissue, Turner, 2021 2. Obituary, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 1988, p. A1 3. Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077...
Charles Addams at Library of Congress, with 28 library catalog records22 set 2023 · The prevailing myth was that Addams' first wife, Barbara Jean Day, was the inspiration for Morticia, but the couple met a few years after the debut of The Addams Family comics. In a way, all of Addams' wives represented Morticia and it could be speculated that his drawings of the character represented his own view of the idealized woman.
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Barbara Jean Hersey (previously Addams, née Day; July 7, 1919 – August 6, 2007) was an American woman best known for having been married to two different famous people, first Charles Addams – the creator of The Addams Family – and then journalist John Richard Hersey.
29 ott 2006 · Addams's first wife, Barbara Jean Day, whom he apparently met late in 1942, looked like the cartoon Morticia Addams in the flesh. Their marriage lasted eight years and broke up after Addams,...
17 giu 2022 · Charles Addams con la prima moglie Barbara Jean Day (LIFE, 1948, George Silk). Sembra un’immagine promozionale della serie, invece la precede di 16 anni Una serie di immagini, quelle pubblicate su LIFE , che contribuiranno a creare il mito che Morticia fosse ispirata proprio a Barbara Jean Day.
22 nov 2020 · His first wife, Barbara Jean Day was said to resemble Morticia Addams and their marriage ended after 8 years since he did not want children. 1946. Here is an image from 1946 where Chas is drawing a panel with Morticia modeled after Barbara. 1939.
