Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/27

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Subject: [Leica] RIP: a leprechaun with a Leica
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:24:36 -0500

Bob Willoughby died last week at the age of 82

http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/?showtopic=15719



" He became the go-to photographer for Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, the
raucous group of Las Vegas nightclub entertainers. One of Willoughby's most
famous Rat Pack pictures features most of the group in front of the Sands
Hotel sign when they were making the 1960 film "Ocean's Eleven.""


"...Billie Holiday, Chet Baker and Cole Porter."


" Over the next 20 years, he made now-classic photos on the sets of about
100 films, including the 1960s movies "The Graduate," "My Fair Lady,"
"Rosemary's Baby" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?""

Mark William Rabiner