May 31, 2007

Artists in Action #189


Andre de Toth gestures.

Collect 'Em All #30


Dolores Del Rio
No. 15 in a series of 50 from Players Navy Cut cigarettes.

A second cousin to Ramon Navarro, Dolores Del Rio was born on August 3rd, 1905 in Durango, Mexico, and christened Lolita Dolores Asunsolo de Martinez. She was sent to a convent when she was seven, and after her education there, left when she was fifteen. A year later she was married to Jaime Del Rio. Edwin Carewe, the director, noticed her, and persuaded her to leave her life in society for the screen. In 1925 she made her first film appearance in Joanna, but What Price Glory brought her fame. Among her latest talkie successes are Flying Down to Rio, Wonder Bar and Madame Du Barry.

Art of Cinema #221


The Phenix City Story
(Phil Karlson; 1955)

seminal image #659

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Western Approaches
(Pat Jackson; 1944)
Cinematography by Jack Cardiff.

May 29, 2007

Artists in Action #188


Miles Davis listens

The Art of the Gig #4

Seminal Image #658


River's Edge
(Tim Hunter; 1986)

(vast thanks to Hannah for this image!)

The Cool Hall of Fame #77


Rudy Ray Moore

May 28, 2007

Charles Nelson Reilly dies at 76


Little known fact: he took acting classes with Steve McQueen.

They Were Collaborators #310


Stan Freberg and Daws Butler

The Golden Age of Prurience #39


Jailbait Street
(by Hal Ellson)
(Monarch Books; 1963)

Ziegfeld Girls #4


Myrna Darby

The Art of Communism #15

When Legends Gather #250


Terry Southern and William S. Burroughs

Adventures in the Fight Racket #6


Today's Adventure: Ingemar Johansson holds up his gloves (1959)

May 27, 2007

Woodcut Confidential! #6


Kada hone o kezurite kan'u yakizu o ryōji suru zu
(Doctor Huatuo attends to the warrior Guanyu's arm wound)
(Kuniyoshi Utagawa; 1853)

Seminal Image #657


La Ragazza che sapeva troppo
(The Girl Who Knew Too Much)
(Mario Bava; 1963)

The Art of Pop #9


Music to Remember Her
(The Jackie Gleason Orchestra)
(Capitol Records; 1955)

The Best of Edward Penfield #3

The Art of Cinema #220


Before I Hang
(Nick Grinde; 1940)

G is for Gedney #8


Woman looking in car window (1964)

The Art of Travel #6

May 26, 2007

Adventures in American Filmmaking #75:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Today's Adventure: John Wayne (aka Singin' Sandy) rides a crane while
directing The Alamo (1960)

Seminal Image #656:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Randy Rides Alone
(Harry L. Fraser; 1934)

Artists in Action #187:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


John Wayne rides a motorcycle

Before and After (redux) #63:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition

Before (Marion Robert Morrison)


After (John Wayne)

They Were Collaborators #309
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


John Ford calls the shots on How the West Was Won.

When Legends Gather #249
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


John Wayne and Lucille Ball

Artists in Action #186:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Bruce Cabot holds a cigar between his teeth in the presence of John Wayne

Tricky: Scenes From a Life #38
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Tricky and the Duke share a laugh.

Seminal Image #655:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


The Long Voyage Home
(John Ford; 1940)

Art of Cinema #219
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Overland Stage Raiders
(George Sherman; 1938)

When Legends Gather #248:
John Wayne 100th Birthday Edition


Dean Martin, Marlo Thomas and John Wayne

May 25, 2007

Collect 'Em All #29


Marion Davies
No. 14 in a set of 50 from Players Navy Cut Cigarettes.

Marion Davies was born on January 3rd, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, and was christened Marion Douras. Her father was a judge, and she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. On leaving the convent, she went on the stage, making her debut at an early age in Chu Chin Chow. Later she appeared in the famous Ziegfeld Follies, then turned to the screen. Among her latest films are Going Hollywood and Spy 13 in which she co-starred with Gary Cooper.

Seminal Image #654


In a Lonely Place
(Nicholas Ray; 1950)

Great Madmen of the 20th Century #25


Screamin' Jay Hawkins

May 24, 2007

Art of Cinema # 218

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Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles; 1941)

My thanks to Glyphjockey for uncovering a treasure trove.

Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff # 7

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The River near Kew Bridge

From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood # 14

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Design for poster to advertise segment motor rims.

Art of the London Underground # 19

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By Sir Frank Brangwyn, RA; 1913

May 23, 2007

The New Yorkers #2


Mayor Jimmy Walker

Broadcasters #19


Henry Morgan ("Radio's bad boy")

Ziegfeld Girls #3


Fanny Brice

Politicians in Action #13


Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-NY) revs himself up

The Art of Cinema #217


The Black Bird
(Tod Browning; 1926)

C is for Cunningham #4


Wall Street (1956)

The Art of the Gig #3

Men of the West #9


Audie Murphy

The Art of American Fantasy #11

The Life of John Held, Jr. #5


Life
(November 25, 1926)

Seminal Image #653


The Maltese Falcon
(Roy Del Ruth; 1931)

May 22, 2007

When Legends . . . Gather? #247


Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Elizabeth Taylor

Stacks o' Wax #19


Arnold Stang's Waggish Tales
(ABC-Paramount Records; 1960)

The Art of Cinema #216


Seance on a Wet Afternoon
(Bryan Forbes; 1964)

May 19, 2007

Relevant Quote #89


“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
-- Eleanora Duse

May 18, 2007

The New Yorkers #1


Bernard 'Toots' Shor

Relevant Quote #88


“When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas"
-- Truman Capote

Seminal Image #652


Hallelujah the Hills: A Romance
(Adolfas Mekas; 1963)

The Art of the Gig #2

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #37


Tricky meets with a head of state (1959)

May 17, 2007

Seminal Image #651


America is Hard to See
(Emile de Antonio; 1970)

People Who Died #37


Mark Rothko

Women of Paris #4


Adrienne Monnier

The Art of Cinema #215


Bluebeard's 8th Wife
(Ernst Lubitsch; 1938)

May 16, 2007

artists in action # 185

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Jack Nitzsche

when legends gather # 246

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John Peel and Sandy Denny

May 14, 2007

through the lens of cyril arapoff # 6

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A typical working-class street in Poplar

from the sketch book of lawson wood # 13

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Getting his own back.

Coster (after a rebuff): "Well, mister, you might just tell me if I post this letter now, will it get to Birmin'am termorrer mornin'?"
Clerk: "Yes, o' course it will."
Coster: "Then you're a liar, 'cos it's addressed ter Sheffield."

the art of the london underground # 18

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by Tony Sarg; 1914

Seminal Image #650


End of the Road
(Aram Avakian; 1969)

Artists in Action #184


John Lennon is only sleeping

Glamour Jungle! #6

They Were Collaborators #308


Robert Crumb and Terry Zwigoff

May 11, 2007

Seminal Image #649


Riley the Cop
(John Ford; 1928)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #36


Tricky poses among statues (1990)

They Were Collaborators #307


Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn

Newspapermen #14


William Randolph Hearst

The Golden Age of Prurience #38


Casting Call
(Kendall Stewart; 1970)

May 10, 2007

The Art of the Gig #1

May 09, 2007

when legends gather #245


Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Isak Dinesen, Felicia Geffen, Carson McCullers
and Jordan Massee

The Cool Hall of Fame #76


Elaine May and Mike Nichols

Watch the Skies! #2


Scotland (1947)

Artists in Action #183


Rod Serling can't believe he just wrote that

when legends gather #244

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Simone Signoret and Yves Montand

the art of cinema #214

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Vivre sa vie
(Jean Luc Godard; 1962)

adventures in american filmmaking #74

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Today's Adventure: Martin Scorsese looks very much in control on the set of The Departed.

they were collaborators #306

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13th Floor Elevators

Women of Paris #3


Gisèle Freund

May 08, 2007

Relevant Quote #87


“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim”
-- Graham Greene

Ben Shahn's American Life #6


Untitled (1935)

They Were Collaborators #305


The Hollies

May 06, 2007

The Present Day Composer #43


Jerome Solon Felder (aka Doc Pomus) (1925-1991)

El Cine del Oro #31


Maclovia
(Emilio Fernandez; 1948)

The Ink & Paint Set #20


Joan Crawford in The Autograph Hound
(Disney; Jack King; 1939)

Collect 'Em All #28


Jackie Cooper
No. 13 in a series of 50 from Players' Navy Cut Cigarettes

Born in Los Angeles on September 15th, 1923, Jackie Cooper's parents were both
well known on the vaudeville stage, and Jackie himself began acting early, for
he appeared in two-reel film comedies when he was three years old. Later he
joined the famous Our Gang children, and after playing in those comedies
for some time, left for bigger chances. Skippy brought him fame, which
was increased by The Champ. Among his latest pictures are The Bowery,
The Lone Cowboy and Treasure Island. In many of his successful
filmes he has appeared with Wallace Beery.

May 05, 2007

Men of the West #8


Gilbert M. Anderson (aka Broncho Billy)

Broadcasters #18
A Who's Who of Swinging London #7


Cathy McGowan

May 04, 2007

Seminal Image #648


The Musketeers of Pig Alley
(D.W. Griffith; 1912)

(extravagant thanks to the inimitable Jeff Duncanson for this here image)

May 03, 2007

This Week's Lichtenstein #8


In (1962)

Seminal Image #647


A Dandy in Aspic
(Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey; 1968)

(a big 'muchas gracias' to Nate Bundy for this image)

They Were Collaborators #304


The cast and crew of He Who Gets Slapped

The Art of Jazz #38


Take Twelve
(Lee Morgan Quintet)
(Jazzland Records; 1962)

The Art of War #27

Ziegfeld Girls #2


Drucilla Strain

The Art of Cinema #213


Sandra
(Luchino Visconti; 1965)

May 02, 2007

People Who Died #36


Virginia Woolf

Artists in Action #182


Bobby Darin works the room

They Were Collaborators #303


Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Ben Webster and Gerry Mulligan

May 01, 2007

C is for Cunningham #3


Under the Queensboro Bridge (1934)