Rediscover Richard Widmark: For The Knowledgable Widmark Fan

Rediscover Richard Widmark: For The Knowledgable Widmark Fan Rediscover Richard Widmark is a organization honoring the life and achievements of Princeton High School graduate of 1932 Richard Widmark.

Richard Weedt Widmark called Princeton, Illinois home for seven important years of his life between 1925 and 1932. He formed many long term friendships in this rural Americana town where early influences propelled him to success in radio, stage, and screen productions. It is the goal of the Rediscover Richard Widmark organization to educate the community, the country, and perhaps, the world at lar

ge, about this small town boy's rise to fame through activities showcasing Widmark's character, values, and talents. Princeton Public Library has risen to the challenge through offering the Widmark Wednesday program, the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Local artist, Bartlett L. Kassabaum, has created several original works of arts available at his studio and written an extensive series of columns on Widmark's life in local paper, the Bureau County Republican. The Apollo Theater and Homestead Festival have joined forces to have a big screen, premiere showing of "The Trap" on Friday, September 12th 2014, at 9:00 pm at The Apollo Theater, 455 South Main Street, Princeton with doors open at 8:00 pm for pre-movie activities. Prairie Arts Center will have a special exhibit and multiple showings of the Widmark Biography on Saturday, September 13th and Sunday, September 2014 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. A week long Widmark Film Festival is scheduled September 29th-October 3rd 2014 at Princeton Public Library. This year, Widmark would have been 100 years of age on December 26th. We will honor that milestone with an early December birthday party with details to be announced later. It is the dream of this organization to create an exhibit of Widmark's life and career with a special emphasis on Richard Widmark's Princeton of the 1920s and 1930s. A collection of his movies is housed and is growing at Princeton Public Library for the public to enjoy.

Happy Birthday in heaven.
12/26/2022

Happy Birthday in heaven.

12/25/2022

Jo

12/03/2022

Spend December with RW

11/15/2022

Jo DeLapo is a Beatles fan. That’s why I am using these Beatles gifs as part of my thanks to her along with wishes, thoughts, love, prayers, peace, comfort and laughs as we miss her Widmark wisdom here. Please post your own greetings to Jo on this page in your own personal way. The more individual new posts, the better.

11/15/2022

Thank you, Jo DeLapo!!!!

(Lyrics are not original.)

We love you,
yeah, yeah, yeah!
We love you,
yeah, yeah, yeah!
And a love like Ours
will always make you glad!

11/15/2022

Greetings Widmark fans!!!

Our best Widmark fan, researcher and page editor, Jo DeLapo, is currently unable to manage this page. No amount of thanks to her can be enough. She has given more to keep the history of Richard Widmark alive on Facebook and through donating countless personal Widmark items which include such items as a personal button front shirt, his handwritten letters, movie set character memorabilia, vintage signed photographs, vintage interviews, original scripts, his movies, personal items, etc. to the Richard Widmark Collection at the Bureau County Historical Society and Museum in Princeton, Illinois. Her efforts are resulting in the creation of a display in a more recent acquisition area of the three building museum complex.

She has also donated the majority of Widmark films at the Princeton Public Library.

FYI: Richard spent most of his childhood years in Princeton, Illinois where he graduated from high school in 1932.

I will keep the page going, but I am no JO DELAPO.

To be continued.

Spend October with RW
09/30/2022

Spend October with RW

Four years ago STAR and plaque installed outside Apollo Theater, Princeton, Illinois where RW worked as a young man
09/11/2022

Four years ago STAR and plaque installed outside Apollo Theater, Princeton, Illinois where RW worked as a young man

Why is that man sleeping?!
09/08/2022

Why is that man sleeping?!

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