An Evening with Bob Baker May 21, 2008

Bob Baker has lived a Hollywood life: Growing up here, graduating from Hollywood High in 1939, creating hundreds of marionette shows for Hollywood's celebrities for decades of birthday parties and events, becoming an animator for George Pal's Oscar-winning "Puppetoons" in the 1940s, working on A Star is Born with Judy Garland, GI Blues with Elvis Presley, plus aliens on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more. He was brought in by Walt Disney to create the animated window displays on Disneyland's Main Street, which he did for decades, and he continues to make official Disney marionettes. His Bob Baker Marionette Theater opened in 1962 and is the only full time operating puppet theater in the U.S. Bob will use film clips and the actual puppets to tell his stories of the rich, famous, and colorful, from Walt Disney to Spielberg, to Getty, to Elvis, to Garland, Ronald Reagan and many more. TICKETS: sold at the door. $5 for Hollywood Heritage members, $8 for non-members.

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