Early Life
My father, Ernest Schier, was a good amateur photographer, so I am fortunate to have these memories. This was long before we all carried cameras in a pocket with instant results. Even before drugstore developing. Not certain where my father processed his film. Maybe at his paper, first the Washington Times Herald and then the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Taken in the ‘40s by my father and colorized. He had a caption for it: “To be or not to be?”
A school photo, probably 11 years old. Interesting how they posed us with a pencil and paper. I curled my hair and wore my favorite blouse.
My father took this in my Lower East Side apartment. You can see the paisley wallpaper behind me. It was used for my engagement photo in the local paper, the Bucks County Courier Times in 1969.
My father lighting a cigarette for actor Michael Caine at some Hollywood event.
My father brought me along to his interview with Charlton Heston in a Philadelphia hotel suite. The star was so kind, insisted on ordering me a Coke from room service, and had the paper’s photographer take this photo of us together. I was mortified when I saw it because my bra strap was showing. I covered it with blue ink.