Mondo Lizzie Borden

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Of course you know that the one and only Lizzie Borden movie was made for TV in 1975 and was called The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie was played by the lovely Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of actor Robert Montgomery.

I found a few interesting clips of EM’s commercials, some for her hit TV show Bewitched, that I though you might like.

This one is a rare 1966 Canadian Lux Soap commerical.

This one is for Kindness Hair Spray.

Teaser for the first season:

Season One Opening:

Season Two Opening:

Season Three Opening:

With Dick Sargent as Darin:

Intrepid Reporter found this obscure one. It is a very nice looking Lizzie Borden necklace on a MySpace page. Careful—this site plays music when you go there so turn your sound down on your ‘puter if you are not into Angellore.

I’ve been quiet these past few days. Not that I didn’t have anything to say, or that I ran our of ideas—just that my cable access broke and I had no Internet or email. The cable company even cancelled my email accounts for some dumb reason they could not explain, so no one could send me anything. I didn’t even know they killed my email until my sister told me she sent me a message and it came back that I was not on the server! According to Brighthouse, I ceased to exist. Couple this with a crazy week of teaching and a few life changing experiences and, well, there you have it—the perfect storm. Thanks for your patience. I’ll be back in the swing of things shortly. SK

Want your very own Lizzie Borden tatoos? Check out Red Wolf Tattoos! They offer a page with two Lizzie desgins, placed on the calves of someone.

As Intrepid Reporter comments, “So you think you’re a Lizzie nut? For the truly Lizzie Borden fanatic – TATTOOS!”

From 1985, Howard Jones, “Like to Get to Know you Well.”

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Intrepid Reporter came across an interesting web page that shows a few sketches of the 92 Second St. house. The artist is Craig Robertson and his main site RobertsonStudio.com shows samples of his work on web design, illustration, graphic design, fine art, and poetry. You can also listen to sample tracks and order his two music CDs.

Robertson appears to be a Renaissance man, and can even do highly detailed technical drawings such as patents.

The Borden house images on his site are not linked from the main menu, however, so perhaps they are a work in progress.

Emmy Borden’s Ghost, by Alfred Travieso, from February 2005.

It is a “true tale” of a seance held at the Lizzie Borden B&B in 1997. Jane Doherty was the psychic hosting the event.

If you want to contact Jane or visit her very pretty website, here is the link.

You can also order a two-hour video tape of the seance and investigation here for $19.95.

Very funny T-shirt available online. Available in Black or White, all sizes but small, and only $18.

Thanks to Intrepid Reporter for the link!

A very interesting piece appeared on August 20, 2006 in the Palm Beach Post which does a rather lengthy comparison of the Lizzie Borden case and the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, prompted, of course, by the “confession” of John Mark Karr.

Read the article all the way through, as there are some choice quotes by 92 Second Street owner Lee-ann Wilbur and the curator of the Fall River Historical Society, Michael Martins. Looks like reporter Michael Browning has done some legwork for this piece.

The similarities with the Ramsey case are striking.

Both murders occurred at the family home. Lizzie’s older sister, Emma, was out of town. An uncle, John Vinnicum Morse, was staying with the Bordens but left the house early and was in town conducting business. The maid, an Irishwoman named Bridget Sullivan, was there.

So, needless to say, were Lizzie and her stepmother, Abby Borden. Andrew Borden, a prosperous undertaker and land speculator, had come home for lunch and a nap.

Both murders had evidentiary problems. JonBenet Ramsey’s body was moved from the basement, where it was discovered by her father. No murder weapon or bloody clothing was ever discovered by police in the Borden case.

The lack of crucial evidence, together with the fact that both murder houses represented sealed environments — difficult if not impossible for outsiders to gain access to in such a narrow time-frame — have kept the Ramsey and Borden murders alive in a kind of Black Museum of murder.

Thanks to Intrepid Reporter for the link!

A new children’s book is out that includes the Borden murders.

The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong (Knopf, hardcover, 368 pages, $46.95)

This is a book for kids, but most adults could brush up on their history, traditional and otherwise, by reading along. Subtitled “100 True Tales From American History,” it begins in 1565 with the founding of St. Augustine, Fla., the oldest European city in the United States, and ends in our new millennium with a rollicking description of the circuslike presidential election of 2000. Among the stories in between: the 1626 purchase of Manhattan by Dutch settlers for 60 guilders, or $24; Benjamin Franklin’s kite-flying adventure of 1752; an 1835 New York newspaper report that a scientist had looked at the moon through a “newfangled telescope” and seen herds of lunar bison, blue unicorns, upright beavers living in crude huts and human beings (“man-bats”) with fur and wings (the story was a hoax, but the city was in a tizzy); Lizzie Borden’s 1893 acquittal in the murders of her father and stepmother; the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; and Pac-Man’s introduction to America in 1981. Illustrations are by Roger Roth.

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“In my life” by the Beatles.

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In a previous post I commented on A Sense of Place: Fall River, Massachusetts in the Time of Lizzie Borden, produced by The Ahenæum Assoicates. It includes some very interesting maps and images.

The same group has added a new section about Lizzie Borden that I know you will find interesting.

Using maps and diagrams, the author attempts to gain a clearer understanding of the context of Fall River in 1892.

It looks like this is a work in progress, but one that is exploring the case from a very important angle. Thanks to Intrepid Reporter for this link.