Lucy Loves Phillip Morris

Here is the Phillip Morris guy, along with Lucy and Desi!

Smokin' good commercial!!

Frank Sinatra and the Sherry Sisters

Here is a photo of the Sherry Sisters, Carolyn, Janie and Paula Manthey, from 1949.

It is not the best photo........

But WOW!

My mom and aunts, on stage with the one...

the only!!

The Timeless and Astounding, reknowned, idol to million-


"Call for Phillip Morris man!!" Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

The other guy's not bad, either.

Dean Hudson Orchestra

Here is Big Band Phil in the Dean Hudson orchestra, circa the 1940's.

Off to the right hand side are the beauteous Sherry Sisters. Carolyn, Janie, and Paula Manthey, from left to right.

Big Band Phil is shown in a rare photo, since he is playing trombone using his ARM, rather than his more oft used foot...

Laddie Popek, future husband of Paula, is shown playing his saxophone over the small letter "s".
The sax player over the large capital "D" is Philip Marlowe. Look closely, and you can see his revolver in his pocket.

The saxophone player playing over the small "a" was called "Whitey", and could he wail, man! To his right, just to the left of Uncle Laddie, was the "licorice stick" player, Dean Hudson's own Benny Goodman... everyone called him "Blackie".

The tuba? No one played it, but it sure looked cool!

As for the gowns of the Sherry Sisters, they reputedly were knitted by Aunt Genevieve (the Sherry's older sister), with help from her mother, Grandma "Happy", aka "Manthey".

Little known fact: Dean Hudson, pictured grooving in the left foreground, was the model for the KEN doll, which debuted in the 1960's...