Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter standing around a radio (or possibly a phonograph) looking down at a record in Dexter's hand at Basie's birthday celebration.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0391.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Gene Norman, Dave Dexter, and John Hammond standing behind a piano and leaning forward. Count Basie is seated at the piano facing outward and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0392.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
In Hollywood, in 1946, Count Basie smokes his pipe and enjoys the company of his supporters Dave Dexter, Jr., the writer and record producer; John Hammond, who discovered him in Kansas City; and Sonny Burke, the bandleader who later became Frank Sinatra's record producer and who died in 1980 (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0393.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Backstage in Hollywood in 1944, Count Basie approves an article written by Dave Dexter, Jr., who has carefully followed the Basie career from 1936 through 1968. Like the friendly, gracious Count, Dexter got his start in Kansas City (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0394.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Publicity photo from the side of bandleader Pete Daily playing the cornet. Daily is wearing a white collared shirt and is looking up while playing,
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0395.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Pete Daily and his Chicagoans seated and standing with their instruments. Standing in back are Dick Fisher holding a banjo, two unidentified men, Sleepy Kaplan, looking forward and holding a cigarette, and Don Owens, holding hands behind his back. Seated are an unidentified man holding a trombone, Pete Daily, holding a cornet on his lap, and another unidentified man holding a baritone saxophone.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0396.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Pete Daily band members Sleepy Kaplan, Don Owens, and Dick Fisher seated and standing behind a piano in a recording studio.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0397.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Cass Daley, one of the co-stars of Paramount's "Ladies' Man" headed by Eddie Bracken, takes a crack at a new recipe in her San Fernando Valley home. Obviously , the concoction is not up to expectations as the singing comedienne cocks a wary eye at her cook-book (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0398.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Cass Daley gets "that feeling in the moonlight" and sits down to accompany herself in the song of that name. She'll soon be seen in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" co-starred with Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, and Spike Jones and His City Slickers (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0399.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Cass Daley gets "that feeling in the moonlight" and sits down to accompany herself in the song of that name. She'll soon be seen in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" co-starred with Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, and Spike Jones and His City Slickers (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0400.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Cass Daley seems amazed that this old-fashioned kerosene lamp in her home actually will burn. You'll see her soon in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" co-starred with Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, and Spike Jones and His City Slickers (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0401.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Elbow grease is applied vigorously to an antique table by Cass Daley, Paramount's singing comedienne, soon to be seen in "Ladies' Man" co-starred with Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, and Spike Jones and His City Slickers (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0402.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Cass Daley reaches for one of her many old-time guns which decorate her San Fernando Valley home. She is co-starred in Paramount's "Ladies' Man" with Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, and Spike Jones and His City Slicker (from photo caption).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0403.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Headshot from a side angle of Cass Daley giving an over exaggerated smile and wearing a large silk tie.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0404.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
Tadd Dameron looking up while sitting at a piano with studio microphones overhead and in the piano. Sheets of music cover the top of the piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_dexter_photo-0405.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0021
