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    Lillian Bronson

    American actress

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  1. Aug 4, 1995 · Lillian Bronson, a character actress in television shows and more than 80 films who earned her most recent fame as the model for the controversial mural near the four-level interchange in Downtown...

  2. In 1974, muralist Kent Twitchell chose a photo of Bronson to use as the model for a huge mural, titled "The Old Woman of the Freeway", to paint on a wall of a Downtown Los Angeles building which looked down from the Angeles Prince Hotel in Echo Park onto the Hollywood Freeway. [3]

  3. An elderly woman standing with a granny-squared afghan wrapped around her. The model was Lillian Bronson, a character actress who resembled two of the artist's great-grandmothers.

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · The mural showed a white-haired, clear-eyed woman cloaked in a resplendent afghan that flowed behind her to frame a moon in a black night sky. She was among the first of what came to be dozens of...

  5. In 1974, when the mural was first painted, character actress and future Fonzie grandmother Lillian Bronson sat for Twitchell. Bronson died in 1995, but the artist was able to find a...

  6. The model was Lillian Bronson, a character actress who resembled two of the artist's great-grandmothers. In 1981 a new structure built next door to the hotel obscured the mural's bottom half. In 1986 the mural was painted over, without informing the artist, in order to sell the place for advertising.

  7. Jun 24, 2024 · Actress Lillian Bronson (1902-1995) served as Twitchell's model, but the afghan captured in the mural was one made by his grandmother. In 1986, the mural was lost when Blue Wallscapes, a billboard company, painted over it.

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