[In Memoriam] Mitchell, James. (1920–2010)
Signed Photograph
Signed 8 x 10 inch photograph of the American actor and dancer, flying through the air in a scene from the 1951 "Paint Your Wagon." Although he is now best-known to television audiences as Palmer Cortlandt on the soap opera All My Children (1979–2010), theatre and dance historians remember him as one of Agnes de Mille's leading dancers. Mitchell's skill at combining dance and acting was considered something of a novelty; in 1959, the critic Olga Maynard singled him out as "an important example of the new dancer-actor-singer in American ballet", pointing to his interpretive abilities and "masculine" technique. (5672)Signed Photograph Dance