The marriage album sits on my desk, held collectively by tape and aged binding. It’s greater than a household heirloom, although. It’s a time capsule that lets Hollywood’s Golden Age spring to life.
The date was June 14, 1959. My mom, rising film star Barbara Rush, married my father, Warren Cowan, founding father of Rogers & Cowan, nonetheless Hollywood’s premier PR agency. Their hosts? Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who’d performed matchmaker to the couple and opened their Beverly Hills house for the ceremony.
The visitor listing reads like a marquee: Frank Sinatra buying and selling quips with Milton Berle; Dean Martin juggling a cigarette and dinner plate on the buffet; Ronald Reagan discussing the menu with Mother.
Barbara Rush and Warren Cowan received married at Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’ Beverly Hills property. (Claudia Cowen)
There’s Jack Lemmon signing the wedding license as a witness. Shirley MacLaine doubled over in laughter. Doris Day, Edward G. Robinson, Louis Jourdan, Rock Hudson, Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Robert Wagner and Natalie Wooden — all rubbing elbows with the newlyweds.
These weren’t simply celebrities. They had been pals of their prime, most with their greatest roles nonetheless forward. Younger, lovely and unstoppable, they stuffed the pages with an power that also radiates as we speak. These snapshots freeze a second when Hollywood’s brightest stars aligned to have fun love.
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Many Hollywood legends had been in attendance at Barbara Rush and Warren Cowan’s marriage ceremony. (Claudia Cowan)
The album got here to me after mother’s dying this previous Easter at 97. Dad left us in 2008. However leafing via these yellowing pages, I am struck by the colourful lives captured inside. Earlier than I used to be even a risk, my mother and father had been surrounded by inventive, proficient pals desirous to be part of their big day.
I’m sharing these never-before-seen photos as a result of solely by remembering these we’ve misplaced, beloved and admired, do they stick with us in our hearts.
Claudia Cowan taking a look at her mother and father’ marriage ceremony album. (Claudia Cowan)
In these fading images, they’re all perpetually younger, perpetually sensible, perpetually alive.
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Barbara Rush and Warren Cowan had been married from 1959 to 1969. (Claudia Cowan)
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