The Ink & Paint Set #11
Cab Calloway from Have You Got Any Castles?
(Frank Tashlin, Warner Bros., 1938)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
December 31, 2005
Stacks o' Wax #14
Dean Martin, A Winter Romance (Capitol, 1959)
Favourite holiday album cover ever.
And for a final seasonal bonus, here's Dean and Jerry just goofin' around.
Note: NOT family friendly.
for the series:
Stacks o' Wax
The Women #5
Clara Bow
from The New Movie Album: An Autographed Who's Who of the Screen (1931)
"To correct any inaccuracies that may have resulted from my being sometimes referred to as the 'Brooklyn Bonfire,' let me say, first off, that I was born in Brooklyn, that I was 'raised' there, and that I lived there until well along in my 'teens. I moved from Brooklyn to Hollywood. And that is my story. Of course there was the time my photograph, submitted by my father, wond for me a magazine contest. There was my little part in the Billie Dove picture, 'Beyond the Rainbow,' which was my first. I was sure at the time that it would be my last. But then, many weeks later, when I had become reconciled to a stenographic career, Elmer Clifton gave me a part in 'Down to the Sea in Ships.' I played parts in several other eastern pictures and then came to Hollywood, where B.P. Schulberg, the man really responsible for what success I have had, placed me under contract. When Mr. Schulberg joined Paramount as managing director of production he took my contract, and me, with him. I played in 'Mantrap,' 'Kid Boots,' 'Wings,' and in several other pictures before 'It' made me a star, and gave me a reputation. My last picture was 'Her Wedding Night.' My next will present me as an usherette."
for the series:
The Women
December 30, 2005
Artists in Action #34
An obviously medicated Norman Mailer engages voters in Harlem during his campaign for Mayor of New York City.
for the series:
Artists in Action
December 29, 2005
Seminal Image #366
Great Madmen of the 20th Century #15
Klaus Kinski in
Woyzeck
(Werner Herzog; 1979)
for the series:
Great Madmen of the 20th Century,
Seminal Images
December 28, 2005
The Art of Cinema #106
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
(Preston Sturges; 1948)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
December 27, 2005
Seminal Image #365
El Angel Exterminador
(The Exterminating Angel)
(Luis Buñuel; 1962)
for the series:
Seminal Images
December 26, 2005
The Art of Cinema #105
Grey Gardens
(David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke: 1976)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Adventures in American Filmmaking #49
Today's Adventure: Russ Meyer throws himself into the arduous, backbreaking work of directing Vixen! (1968)
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
December 24, 2005
Our 2005 Christmas Offering
On December 18, 2002, the band Belle and Sebastian performed at John Peel's Christmas bacchanal, broadcast live over Radio 1 in London.
Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto
Photo Jenny
Silent Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me
If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
The Boy With the Arab Strap
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying
I Took Some Time for Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas
December 23, 2005
The Art of Cinema #104:
Christmas Edition
Christmas Holiday
(Robert Siodmak, 1944)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
A Is For Arbus #4:
Christmas Edition
Student Santas at Santa Claus School in Albion, NY (1964)
for the series:
A is for Arbus
The Ink & Paint Set #10
Christmas Edition
Kate Smith in The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
(Hugh Harman & Rudolph Ising, Warner Bros., 1933)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
Stacks o' Wax #13
Christmas Edition
Former Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Johnny Bower gives it up for the kids.
Sing it, Johnny.
for the series:
Stacks o' Wax
December 22, 2005
Seminal Image #362
Gold Diggers of 1933
(Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley; 1933)
for the series:
Seminal Images
December 21, 2005
December 20, 2005
December 19, 2005
El Cine Del Oro #20
Hay Lugar Para...Dos! (There Is Room For...Two!)
(Alejandro Galindo, 1949)
for the series:
El Cine Del Oro
A Is For Arbus #3
Jayne Mansfield, actress, with daughter Jayne Marie (1965)
for the series:
A is for Arbus
December 18, 2005
The Art of Cinema #103
Vamos a matar, compañeros
(Sergio Corbucci; 1970)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
They Were Collaborators #107
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (the Neocons' stenographer)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Artists in Action #31
Harold Pinter decides how many more lines of dialogue he should remove.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Great Canadians of the 20th Century #2
Mack Sennett
(muchas gracias for the image and best wishes for the holidays to Jeff Duncanson)
for the series:
Great Canadians of the 20th Century
Seminal Image #358
L'Albero degli zoccoli
(The Tree of Wooden Clogs)
(Ermanno Olmi; 1978)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Great Moments in Journalism #1
Wire service photographers and newsreel cameramen photograph Lenny Bruce
just before his trip to the morgue (1966)
for the series:
Great Moments in Journalism
The Ink & Paint Set #9
The Ritz Brothers in The Autograph Hound
(Jack King, Disney, 1939)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
December 17, 2005
The Women #4
Joan Bennett
From The New Movie Album: An Autorgraphed Who's Who of the Screen (1931)
"I am the youngest of Richard Bennett's three daughters and I was born in 1911, at the Palisades, New Jersey. Although my family were against a stage career for any of us, I, like my other two sisters, Constance and Barbara, decided to cast my lot with motion pictures. I was tutored privately until I was eight years old and then sent to St. Margaret's Boarding School at Waterbury, Conn. My education was completed at L'Ermitage, a finishing school at Versailles, France. Up to the time that I made my debut in support of my father on the stage in 'Jarnegan,' I had had no theatrical experience. This was in 1928. Motion picture executives seeing me in the play decided I should go to Hollywood at the conclusion of the run of 'Jarnegan' in New York. My first film part was Ronald Colman's leading lady in 'Bulldog Drummond.' This led to a contract with United Artists, and I was cast in the principal role in 'Three Live Ghosts.' Then came 'Disraeli' in which I supported George Arliss; 'Puttin' on the Ritz' with Harry Richmond. In the latter picture I sang my first song before the microphone, 'With You.' Next I was cast in the featured feminine role in 'Crazy That Way.' then portrayed John Barrymore's leading lady in 'Moby Dick,' and then the principal feminine role in 'Maybe It's Love.'"
for the series:
The Women
Seminal Image #357
La Salaire de la peur
(The Wages of Fear)
(Henri-Georges Clouzot; 1953)
for the series:
Seminal Images
December 16, 2005
American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s #8
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
for the series:
American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s
December 15, 2005
Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here, or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #3
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
December 14, 2005
December 13, 2005
Sex Education #47
Joan Blondell
I think it's safe to say that Joan is our patron saint around these parts.
for the series:
Sex Education
They Were Collaborators #106
John Coltrane, Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley, Miles Davis and Bill Evans
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
December 12, 2005
Sinatra at 90 (Baby)
As Bobby-soxers in heaven wish Frank Sinatra all their best on this, his 90th birthday, we here at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . . urge all of our visitors to locate the best Sinatra recording you can lay your hands on (doesn't matter which one) and listen to it, contemplating all that vanished with him.
for the series:
Birthdays
Seminal Image #354
Winter Soldier
(Fred Aronow, Robert Fiore, David Gillis, David Grubin, Jeff Holstein, Michael Lesser; 1972)
for the series:
Seminal Images
December 11, 2005
Richard Pryor Dead at 65
Richard Pryor passed yesterday. And I doubt if there's a soul who grew up in the 1970s who doesn't know why this should be cause for mourning.
The Times of London
The New York Times
The San Francisco Independent Media Center
for the series:
Obits
Elliott Smith
& The Art of the Cover #1
They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
(First recorded by Hank Williams; 1950)
(Words and Music: Leon Payne)