Sifting through my Dads Foot Locker.=, Who's Skip Shafer?

I was up early today working from home. My dad came to mind and I started missing him. I decided to open up his footlocker and just look at stuff and resurrect memories of him.

In one envelope of old pictures, I found four pictures of Skip Shafer mixed in with a bunch of his military boxing, buddy, and other military pictures. For the life of me don't know why he has them. He wasn't one to hold on to pictures of people he didn't know personally.

I got curious, but Google had nothing to offer on this person.. I guess its just one of those things you wish you could ask the dead about. She kind of looks like my cousin, but I've not seen her since I was 14.

Does anyone know who she is?

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I don’t have any basis for this but I feel like Skip Shafer may be the photographer for the modeling agency.

That probably doesn’t really help but there it is.

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Originally Posted by rcathey

I don’t have any basis for this but I feel like Skip Shafer may be the photographer for the modeling agency.

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Ahh... Didn't think about that... taking Skip out of my search I found a Claudia Cardinale that seems a match.. but still looking.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ale78903-1.jpg

The Jackie Kennedy look; early 60s.

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Dale Garrick, a theatrical and commercial agent in New York and Hollywood for more than a half-century, died Nov. 5 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles shortly after suffering a stroke. He was 88.

Perhaps Garrick's biggest claim to fame as an agent was his discovery of actress Faye Dunaway.

Among his legion of clients were actors Rory Calhoun, Tina Yothers and Clara Peller (famous for the Wendy's "Where's the beef?" commercials in the 1970s); producer Sherry Lansing; writer Jacqueline Susann; and J. Fred Muggs, the chimpanzee sidekick of "Today" host Dave Garroway in the '50s.

Other actors he repped included Frank Gorshin, Marty Ingels, Patty Duke, Sal Mineo, Guy Williams, Rhonda Fleming, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ed Wynn, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Bonnie Bedelia, Anita Gillette, Tuesday Weld, Dennis Haysbert, Valerie Bertinelli, Troy Donahue, Charlene Tilton, Gary Busey, Leif Garrett, Trini Lopez, Henry Morgan, Keir Dullea and Joseph Campanella.

After serving in the Army during World War II as a radioman and studying acting, the New Jersey native began work in 1956 as a principal theatrical agent in New York, where he had exclusive casting contracts for General Motors, Bristol-Myers, Delco Batteries and Frigidaire. He had his own weekly variety television show where he introduced his actors to the public, and he directed commercials at WPIX-TV in New York.

Garrick came to Hollywood in 1959 and established the Dale Garrick International Talent Agency. His mother, Ingrid, worked in the agency as his accountant and office manager until her death 20 years ago. The agency, in West Hollywood, closed in December.

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It's not Claudia Cardinale, but the reference ought to remind us we lost the great Morricione this year.

Hard to believe, but your dad's pin-up may be one of those who chose not to make it on the Hollywood casting couches and found her way back to "San Jose" ;)

Shafer could be spelt Schaeffer, i.e. the spelling on the photograph may not necessarily be correct, hence nothing found on-line.

Did your Dad like dark haired ladies? It probably a little something from his "spank bank". :thup:

Don't know on not being her but get pic #4 next to the larger one posted by usabaker and the resemblence is pretty darn close, no doubt it kept the boys spirits alive looking at those pics.

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Originally Posted by usabaker

Ahh... Didn't think about that... taking Skip out of my search I found a Claudia Cardinale that seems a match.. but still looking.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ale78903-1.jpg

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Yes, that's movie star Claudia Cardinale. Not so well known in the US (other than the original Pink Panther movie)....but made lots of European films. Certainly worthy of a spank-bank deposit!!! :bow: