who is the lady with the lamp at the begining of the columbia tristar movies?

Answer 1

Columbia's logo is the female personification of the USA, Columbia, holding a torch.

From 1936 to 1976, the Columbia "Torch Lady" appeared with shimmering light behind her. Taxi Driver was the last film to use the "Torch Lady" in her classic appearance.

From 1976 to 1981, Columbia (like other studios) experimented with a new logo. It began with the familiar lady with a torch, but the torch-light rays then formed an abstract blue semi-circle depicting the top half of the rays of light, with the name of the studio appearing under it. The television counterpart used only the latter part of the logo, and the semi-circle was either orange or red.

This logo was replaced with a modernized version of the "Torch Lady" in 1981. After Columbia's purchase by Coca-Cola, radio talk-show host Michael Jackson of KABC-AM joked that the Torch Lady should be holding a Coke bottle instead.

In 1993, the logo was repainted digitally by New Orleans artist Michael Deas. It has been rumoured that Annette Bening was the model, but in fact Deas used a model named Jenny Joseph.

Answer 2

Columbia's logo is the female personification of the USA, Columbia, holding a torch.

The logo first appeared in 1924, and though multiple models have come forward over the years and claimed to have posed as the original lady, Columbia Pictures themselves (now owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment) says they have no records or documentation to verify any of the claims.

In Bette Davis' 1962 autobiography The Lonely Life, she makes a passing reference to "Little Claudia Dell", an actress from the 1930s and early '40s, "whose image," Bette remarks, "was used as Columbia Pictures' signature for years." But there are others. In 1987, People Magazine reported that a Texas-born model and Columbia bit-player named Amelia Batchler had modeled for the logo in 1933. And a February 2001 article in the Chicago Sun-Times reported claims by a local woman named Jane Bartholomew, who worked as an extra at Columbia in the 1930s, that she was the model for the version of the logo that appeared late in that decade. Given the many incarnations of the woman in the logo over the years, it is even possible that all three of these women posed as Miss Liberty at some point, each for a different version of the image.

Answer 3

I don't know, but she really looks like Ashley Judd!

Answer 4

It was me in my former life--just kidding. I really don't know

Answer 5

gretta garbo?

Answer 6

annette benning...no no no, but she always reminded me of her