Famous people who play(ed) mandolin

[Chad Thorne]

This looks like a good opportunity for someone to post a link to the Milla Jovovich picture agin

Chip

Done. There was another one where she was naked, but I think this a family-friendly forum and some might object. (I wouldn't!) Besides, she's just as beautiful with clothes on, IMO...

[John Flynn]

If my memory serves it was the Cafe's fearless leader who first posted the now-taboo photo of Milla, not that I am complaining. I think his first instincts were laudable!

[mrmando]

As it happens, there is a scene with Judy Garland from this movie on Youtube, which has that mandolin as a prominent prop throughout (even though it doesn't seem to be on the soundtrack).

Well, at the beginning of the clip you can see that the mandolin's bridge is missing! Doesn't look like it has any strings either. Strictly a prop.

[journeybear]

Watching this on my dinky little laptop, I didn't notice that. But that would help explain (perhaps) why I didn't hear any clunkers or clams.

[JeffD]

So it is posted elsewhere that Agatha Christie played mandolin:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/even...oto-album.html

[JeffD]

And as was pointed out in another thread, somewhere, Mother Theresa played mandolin.

A local musician and relative taught her to play the mandolin and commented later that she was quick to learn and became a good player.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sebba-teresa.html

[journeybear]

Thanks for reviving this grande olde threade. Here's Dame Agatha as a young lady of eight, with mandolin:

[Josh Levine]

Maybe so, maybe not?

[Caleb]

The short-story writer, O. Henry, was a mandolin player. I was in Austin this spring and the O. Henry museum was across the street from my hotel, so I went in and saw an old bowl-back on a shelf. The attendent told me that in fact he played quite a bit, and the piano too.

Roadtrip idea for me here. I read "The Gift of the Magi" every year at Christmas. Thank you.

[mandolinstew]

Al Capone played mandola.

[crisscross]

There is a picture of former German chancellor Willy Brandt sitting in a beer garden and playing the mandolin.

[journeybear]

Al Capone played mandola.

Yes. This has been mentioned before, a couple of times.

Please, everyone. Read through a thread before posting. Maybe even use the Search Thread function. Thank you.

And look out for things like this. There is no proof Gromit actually plays mandolin, though he might. But this is PhotoShop.

[JeffD]

Just pointed out to me - astronaut Stephen Robinson plays mandolin, as well as lap steel, stand up bass, and banjo.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/robinson.html

[domradave]

Jack Crystal, Billy Crystal's father, played mandolin for an hour every Sunday, on his day off. Billy mentions this in his show, "700 Sundays." Jack Crystal was a jazz concert promoter and ran Commodore Records and the Commodore Records store. Jack Crystal brought to the Crystal home a lot of famous musicians. The show is about Billy Crystal's life growing up in Long Beach, New York. The show is very moving, especially for me, who was born in Long Beach and lived there until I was 8 years old.

[mandolinstew]

thought this was a new thread,just saw it started May 2007

[BJ O'Day]

There is no proof Gromit actually plays mandolin, though he might. But this is PhotoShop.

Gromit IS the smarter one.

[journeybear]

Just pointed out to me - astronaut Stephen Robinson plays mandolin, as well as lap steel, stand up bass, and banjo.

'Twas ever thus - the good tempered by the bad. He just couldn't have said, "Enough's enough;" he had to go and pick up the banjo.

This reminds me of the story from a couple of years ago, about Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who brought a guitar to the ISS, and shot a video of "Space Oddity" up there. He doesn't play it (in the video), just uses it as a prop, but it's cool anyway. He messes with the words too, a bit.

[JeffD]

There is another astronaut plays mandolin - he hasn't been on a mission yet. I can't find the thread but the gist of it was naming new folk tunes after geological features of Mars. Something like that.

[travellerbytrade]

Does Levon Helm count?

Does Levon Helm count? Levon will always count, no matter what. What a great voice, too.

[johnbaxter]

Here's a uke custom built for Warren Buffet.

I just saw a couple of shots of Warren Buffett playing what looks like an old Martin ukulele on the AP Photo wire yesterday. He played with the Quebe Sisters Band at the Berkshire Hathaway stockholders meeting in Omaha on Saturday. The caption said it was his own uke.
Chuck

[barney 59]

Someone in here mentioned Judy Garland and a mandolin in a movie. The movie was "Meet Me in St Louie" Judy did not play the mandolin but one of the other actors did. It was a Washburn bowl back and a few years ago it showed up on ebay and backed by a certificate from Warner Bros. that it was the actual prop from the movie. If I remember correctly it sold for the whopping price of $200!