Charles Mingus (1922-1979)
Great Moments in American Architecture #1:
Holiday Weekend Edition
Monticello (Main House)
(Architect: Thomas Jefferson)
(1769-1809)
They Were Collaborators #53:
Holiday Weekend Edition
Bette Davis and Joan Blondell in 1932, around the time they appeared in Three on a Match.
I'll take this Bette and Joan over Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? anyday...
Selling the Silents #18
Rough House Rosie (Frank R. Strayer, 1927) from the Paramount release book
"The most sensational female bet in pictures today is dimpled dynamite in this story of a girl who got her men by treating 'em rough. Clara Bow is THE box office discovery of 1927!"
This one's reportedly a lost film. Clara in boxing trunks, slugging it out? Who in their right mind would lose this one?
Paul Winchell: T.T.F.N.
Paul Winchell (with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff)
December 21, 1922 - June 24, 2005
Groundbreaking TV ventriloquist, voice of Tigger and Dick Dastardly (and Muttley), inventor of an early artificial heart, Paul Winchell certainly led an interesting life, although according to his daughter April, not an entirely happy one. I have an old black and white tape of a '50s Winchell/Mahoney show, and it's easy to detect his joy of performing, although there's a weird adult sensibility buried in the material that occasionally seems creepy (although you could say the same thing about a lot of early Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy routines). But I guess the creepiness is probably why I find that old kinescope so compelling.
John Fiedler 1925-2005
By a weird coincidence, character actor John Fiedler, one of the original 12 Angry Men, also died on the weekend. Known by millions as the voice of Piglet in the Disney Winnie the Pooh cartoons, I knew him best as milquetoast patient Mr. Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show, although he had a long career that also included roles in The Odd Couple, Kiss Me Stupid, True Grit and, of course, Honky.
Adventures in American Filmmaking #32
Today's Adventure: Douglas Sirk Explains 'mise en scene' to
Lana Turner in a Publicity Still from the Set of Imitation of Life (1959)
Adventures in European Filmmaking #2
Today's Adventure: Luchino Visconti issues instructions
on the set of Ossessione (1942)
Great Moments in Marketing #2
Eddie Cantor's Tell It to the Judge board game, early '30s
Tell It to the Judge: the board
Adventures in American Filmmaking #31
Today's Adventure: Dennis Hopper is Gripped By a Strange and Horrible
Madness Just Before Making The Last Movie (1971)
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