Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2020 December 02 • Wednesday

In the July 1951 issue of See magazine there's an interesting piece about sculptor Yucca Salamunich. The article seems to imply that he designed the famous Oscar statuette but a whole minute of looking at a handful of web pages suggests that this isn't so.

He did, however, do many busts and statues of famous people, not just movie stars, but all sorts. There's a photo of him with Robert Mitchum.

The caption says that Mitchum was "often" hanging out at Salamunich's house but the sculptor doesn't rate an index entry in any of the biographical Mitchum books in the Gutbrain library.