Geraldine Hoff Doyle (July 31, 1924 – December 26, 2010) was an American woman who had been widely and mistakenly promoted in the media as the possible real-life model for the World War II era " We Can Do It! " poster, later thought to be an embodiment of the iconic World War II character Rosie the Riveter ; however, it was later shown that the 1942 news wire service photograph likely depicts another young war worker, Naomi Parker .
29-531: The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known as the Mo Awards ) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia. They were last awarded in 2016. Lucky Grills , actor and comedian came up with the idea to create an awards show to celebrate Australian Variety, during a meeting in 1975. The Mo Awards, initially
58-399: A heavy". It was a guest role in one of those shows - Matlock Police - that brought him to the attention of producers for the role of Bluey . He was sent a script page, read it and duly went to the audition. Within ten days he knew he had the part. He was reintroduced to a younger generation in a recurring segment of the early-1990s comedy series The Late Show called Bargearse ,
87-479: A humorous re-dub of Bluey . Grills also made three in-person appearances on the show, including singing as a member of a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young parody band and in character as Bluey protesting the last episode of Bargearse . He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2000 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the entertainment industry and the arts. He
116-611: A metal presser, Geraldine Doyle met and married dentist Leo Doyle in 1943. The couple had six children (a son, Gary, died in 1980) and remained married until his death in February 2010. Because the " We Can Do It! " poster was created for an internal Westinghouse project, it did not become widely known until the 1980s, when it was rediscovered and used by advocates of women's equality in the workplace. In 1984, Doyle came across an article in Modern Maturity magazine which showed
145-471: A photo of an unidentified young war worker at a turret lathe . In 1994, Doyle saw the "We Can Do It!" poster on the cover of the Smithsonian magazine. Doyle felt she recognized herself in both the photo and the poster and in the 1990s communicated with historian and author Penny Colman of her connection to the photo and therefore to the poster. News media outlets, upon Doyle's death, memorialized her as
174-587: The Star Awards , were a state honour in New South Wales only, established by local entertainers to promote the live entertainment industry. Johnny O'Keefe became chairman in 1976, and decided the awards should become an Australia-wide national awards program. Entertainer Don Lane then proposed the awards be renamed the Mo Awards in honour of Australian comedian and vaudevillian Roy Rene , who
203-552: The Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Neil Hanson, Liz Taylor and Chris De Havilland. The twenty-fifth MO Awards took place on 20 June 2000 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Don Lane . The twenty-sixth MO Awards took place on 9 July 2001 at the Sydney Town Hall . It was compered by Vince Sorrenti . The twenty-seventh MO Awards took place on 24 June 2002 at
232-480: The Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was presented by Ken Laing, Tommy Tycho and Geoff Harvey . There were no awards for 2005. The thirtieth-first MO Awards took place on 28 August 2007 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It was presented by Rodney Marks, Darren Carr , Liz Layton, Kenny Graham and Johnny Pace. The thirtieth-second MO Awards took place on 17 June 2008 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It
261-596: The Sydney Opera House . The eleventh MO Awards took place on 30 April 1986 at the South Sydney Junior Leagues Club . The show was directed by Ian Tasker. The twelfth MO Awards took place on 25 March 1987 at Bankstown Sports Club. The show was directed by Bruce Henries. The thirteenth MO Awards took place on 13 April 1988 at Rooty Hill RSL Club . The fourteenth MO Awards took place on 22 February 1989 at AJC Royal Randwick. It
290-476: The Tumbalong Park Ballroom. It was compered by Liz Taylor and Peter Cousens . The twenty-eighth MO Awards took place on 16 June 2003 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Frankie J Holden . The twenty-ninth MO Awards took place on 28 June 2004 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Jean Kittson . The thirtieth MO Awards took place on 28 April 2006 at
319-578: The Bankstown Sports Club. It was compered by Donnie Sutherland , Susie Elelman , John Mangos and Vince Sorrenti . The thirty-seventh MO Awards took place on 28 May 2013 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It was compered by Bobby Bradford, Adam Scicluna and Neil Hanson. The thirty-eighth MO Awards took place on 27 May 2014 at the Bankstown Sports Club . It was compered by Andrew O'Keefe , John Mangos , Judy Stone and Marcia Hines . The thirty-ninth MO Awards took place on 28 July 2015 at
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#1732780550528348-704: The Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club. It was compered by Darren Carr , Maria Venuti , Craig Bennet, Helen Zerefos and Vince Sorrenti . The fortieth MO Awards took place on 17 August 2016 at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club. It was compered by Darren Sanders and Darren Carr . The forty-first MO Awards took place on 20 March 2018 at the Liverpool Catholic Club . It was compered by John Kerr . Lucky Grills Leo Dennis Grills OAM (26 May 1928 – 27 July 2007 ), known professionally as Lucky Grills ,
377-465: The business... but others know me as a man who never drops even a mild four-letter word." One time in Adelaide , Grills had done a show and needed to get a taxi . He had put on a big houndstooth -checked sports jacket and was carrying a suitcase. The taxi driver looked at him and asked where he had been wrestling . Lucky had to set him straight and let him know he was not a wrestler but a comic. For
406-529: The model for the famous poster, without citing evidence beyond Doyle's assertions. Doyle assumed that the photograph had inspired the poster. Later investigation, however, suggests that the press photo most likely shows California war worker Naomi Parker , the photo taken at Naval Air Station Alameda in March 1942, at a time when Doyle was attending high school. Doyle did not claim to have met or sat for poster artist J. Howard Miller, but only to have been
435-585: The rest of the journey, Grills had to listen to the cabbie telling old jokes. He also did three hundred weeks in a migrant education programme called You Say the Word , where he played the owner of a factory. "It was designed to show newcomers to Australia how things were done and to teach them English ", he explained. Prior to Bluey, he played other parts in Crawford shows but "oddly enough, despite my bulk and appearance, never once have I been asked to play
464-417: The war effort by taking on roles, including factory work, that were formerly considered "male-only." Because she was a cellist , Doyle feared a hand injury from the metal pressing machines, and left the factory after having worked there for only two weeks. During the brief time she worked there, according to Doyle, a United Press International photographer took a picture of her. Soon after quitting work as
493-594: The woman depicted in this particular press photo which many believe inspired the poster. The ACME Newspictures wire service image of Naomi Parker was used as the cover image for the Time-Life book The Patriotic Tide: 1940–1950 published in 1986. The "We Can Do It!" image remains an icon and appeared on a 1999 postage stamp as part of a World War II series produced by the U.S. Postal Service. Geraldine Hoff Doyle died on December 26, 2010, in Lansing, Michigan , as
522-731: Was also awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the entertainment industry through charitable organisations. Grills died in his sleep in Queensland . On the day prior to his death he was still working and had made two public appearances back to back. His cremated remains were later interred in the Cheltenham Memorial Park (Wangara Road), Melbourne on 19 December 2007. Geraldine Doyle Geraldine Doyle
551-627: Was an Australian actor and comedian . His best known acting role was in the crime drama TV series Bluey playing the title role. Grills took his professionally working name after the Italian-American gangster Lucky Luciano . Grills is credited for initiating the Mo Awards , an awards show that celebrate Australian Variety in 1975. Born in Johnson St. Moonah, Tasmania , to Francis Leonard Grills and Hilda May (née Dennis) and
580-637: Was born in Inkster, Michigan . Her father Cornelious was an electrical contractor who died of pneumonia when she was 10 years old. Her mother, Augusta, was a composer who had scoliosis . After graduating from high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan , in 1942 Hoff found work as a metal presser in the American Broach & Machine Co. of Ann Arbor. As men started enlisting and being drafted into military service for World War II, women began to support
609-482: Was compered by Alan Jones . The twenty-first MO Awards took place on 18 June 1996 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Kerri-Anne Kennerley . The twenty-second MO Awards took place on 18 June 1997 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Susie Elelman . The twenty-third MO Awards took place on 23 June 1998 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre . It was compered by Don Lane . The twenty-fourth MO Awards took place on 22 June 1999 at
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#1732780550528638-401: Was compered by Barry Crocker . The seventh MO Awards took place on 17 March 1982 at Bankstown Town Hall . It was compered by Toni Stevens & Steve Raymond The eighth MO Awards took place on 16 March 1983 at Regent Theatre (Sydney) . It was compered by Barry Crocker The ninth MO Awards took place on 21 March 1984 at Sydney Town Hall . The tenth MO Awards took place on 1 May 1985 at
667-524: Was compered by Donnie Sutherland ;. The thirty-third MO Awards took place on 15 June 2009 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It was compered by Donnie Sutherland . The thirty-fourth MO Awards took place on 11 May 2010 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It was compered by Donnie Sutherland . The thirty-fifth MO Awards took place on 24 May 2011 at the Bankstown Sports Club. It was compered by Donnie Sutherland , Susie Elelman , John Mangos and Barry Crocker . The thirty-sixth MO Awards took place on 29 May 2012 at
696-493: Was compered by Frank Newall . The first MO Awards took place on 13 October 1976 at Revesby, New South Wales Revesby Workers Club. It was compered by Don Lane . This year the ceremony was telecast by the Nine Network . The second MO Awards took place on 16 November 1977 at Revesby, New South Wales Revesby Workers Club. The third MO Awards took place on 14 February 1979 at Revesby, New South Wales Revesby Workers Club. It
725-423: Was compered by Geraldine Doyle , Terry Willesee and Larry Emdur . The eighteenth MO Awards took place on 9 June 1993 at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. It was compered by David Reyne and Marty Rhone . The nineteenth MO Awards took place on 14 June 1994 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney It was compered by John Mangos . The twentieth MO Awards took place on 28 June 1995 at Regent Hotel, Sydney. It
754-433: Was compered by Jimmy Hannan . The fourth MO Awards took place on 13 February 1980 at Revesby Workers Club . It was compered by Barry Crocker . Technically, there was no 5th awards. Following the 1979 awards in 1980, the organisation updated the numbering to reflect the 1975 Star Awards were the 1st, thus renumbering following ceremonies. The sixth MO Awards took place on 23 February 1981 at Regent Theatre (Sydney) . It
783-428: Was compered by Kerri-Anne Kennerley . The fifteenth MO Awards took place on 21 February 1990 at AJC Royal Randwick. It was compered by Ray Martin . The sixteenth MO Awards took place on 17 February 1991 at State Theatre (Sydney) . It was compered by Ray Martin , Maggie Kirkpatrick , Brian Doyle and Steve Vizard . The seventeenth MO Awards took place on 4 June 1992 at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre . It
812-521: Was famous for the character "Mo McCackie." The award categories were reviewed annually and adapted to new trends in the Australian entertainment sector; categories included awards in: musical theatre , opera , Classical music , dance , comedy , rock music , jazz , country music , plays and variety shows . The Award winners are listed below. The NSW Star Awards took place on 10 November 1975 at South Sydney Seniors Leagues Club – Redfern. It
841-472: Was the youngest of four siblings, who were Thelda Jean Grills, Raymond Ernest, Eunice and Faye Grills. He was best known for portraying the title role of unconventional detective "Bluey" Hills in the television series Bluey in 1976. Prior to Bluey , he worked as a stand-up comic in the Sydney clubs. He would change his material to suit his audience, stating: "Some people know me as the dirtiest comic in
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