Old New York #18
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1893)
for the series:
Old New York
January 31, 2008
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #48
Tricky thanks Checkers for bailing him out (1952)
for the series:
Tricky: Scenes from a Life
January 30, 2008
January 29, 2008
When Legends Gather #353
Bert Lahr, Herbert Marshall, Robert Benchley, David Niven and Dave Chasen
for the series:
When Legends Gather
January 28, 2008
They Were Collaborators #427
The cast of That Was the Week That Was
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
January 27, 2008
The Art of Jazz #51
Street of Dreams
(Grant Green)
(Blue Note Records; 1964)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
Artists in Action #324
Lenny Bruce hightails it after knocking down a Television cameraman
for the series:
Artists in Action
The Art of the Piano #15
Operatic Rag
(by Julius Lenzberg)
(Jerome H. Remick & Co.; 1914)
for the series:
Art of the Piano
January 26, 2008
American Dry Spell #12
A plane carrying spiritous liquors crashes on a farm near Crotonville, New York (1922)
for the series:
American Dry Spell
An Illustrated History of American Labor #4
Marie Dressler and New York chorus girls protest the inequities of Actors Equity (1919)
for the series:
An Illustrated History of American Labor
January 25, 2008
Annals of Crime #6
Original Caption:
Ends Shooting Spree.
Allison, Iowa -- Ronnie Loughlin, 15-year-old altar boy, sits handcuffed after surrendering to police at Allison on Sept. 4th. The youth had killed one woman in a shooting spree, and kidnaped a second whom he held hostage during a 5-hour ride through South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. "I just went berserk, I guess," he told authorities. (1955)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
The Heretofore Unmentioned #3
Fred Otash (Private-Eye to the Stars)
for the series:
Heretofore Unmentioned
Artists in Action #322
Errol Flynn tries to remember if he really did that
for the series:
Artists in Action
January 22, 2008
The Art of Songwriting #18
Her Beaus Are Only Rainbows
Music: George W. Meyer
Lyrics: Alfred Bryan
(Henry Waterson Inc.; 1926)
for the series:
Art of Songwriting
Artists in Action #321
Lou Costello checks out Lupe Velez's fuzzy bunny.
for the series:
Artists in Action
They Were Collaborators #425
Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Gene Rayburn and Richard Dawson.
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
The Cool Hall of Fame #110
Otis Redding's gotta gotta gotta gotta...
for the series:
The Cool Hall of Fame
The Art of Cinema #278
It's Always Fair Weather
(Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen; 1955)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
When Legends Gather #351
Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and William Faulkner discuss the efficacy of corncobs
for the series:
When Legends Gather
The Art of Crime Fiction #11
The Asphalt Jungle
(by W.R. Burnett)
(Alfred Knopf; 1949)
for the series:
Art of Crime Fiction
January 21, 2008
When Legends Gather #350
Simone Signoret, Harry Belafonte, Yves Montand and Martin Luther King Jr.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
January 20, 2008
Bobby Fischer dead at 64
Bobby Fischer, here seen arriving in Reykjavik in Iceland on 5th July 1972 for the world championship match against Boris Spassky.
Read The Guardian's obituary here.
for the series:
Obits
The Cool Hall of Fame #109
Steve McQueen photographed in London; 1969.
for the series:
The Cool Hall of Fame
January 17, 2008
January 16, 2008
Annals of Crime #5
Original caption:
Detroit -- After refusing to walk, Leonard G. Hamilton is carried to a patrol car by detectives and uniformed officers. Hamilton was identified by five victims as one of the "lure' bandits who had been robbing truck driver salesmen in the area since the previous November. Police said Hamilton was wanted in Los Angeles on 53 charges of robbery, and in St. Louis for 24 like offenses. (1956)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
January 15, 2008
The Golden Age of Prurience #45
Hippies
(Vol, 1 #4; 1967)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Prurience
January 14, 2008
Artists in Action #318
An Illustrated History of American Labor #3
Jerry Lewis walks a picket line at Universal Studios as a member of the
Writer's Guild of America (1973)
for the series:
An Illustrated History of American Labor,
Artists in Action
Artifacts #6
The Underwood typewriter used by William Faulkner; located at Rowan Oak
in Oxford Mississippi.
for the series:
Artifacts
Newspapermen #23
So Loathsome I Could Cry #8
Rupert Murdoch
for the series:
Newspapermen,
So Loathsome I Could Cry
Seminal Image #775
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
(Budd Boetticher; 1960)
for the series:
Seminal Images
January 13, 2008
When Legends Gather #348
Harry Nilsson, unidentified man and Ringo Starr
for the series:
When Legends Gather
January 12, 2008
Broadcasters #32
Sex Education #95:
Maila Nurmi Dead at 86
Sad news opens this Saturday, for word has come of Maila Nurmi's passing at the age of 86. Time and tide came to know her best as Vampira, but throughout her long life she was many things: an intensely ravishing pin-up beauty, a Television pioneer (for KABC-TV in Los Angeles . . . back when local television in LA was something wondrous to behold), a Blacklistee, a Comedienne, a recidivist presence in documentaries on the life and work of the late Edward D. Wood, Jr, an Antique shop owner, an habituee of Googie's on Sunset and Crescent, a lover of many and, for those who did not know her, too few.
My Bright Lights Film Journal colleague C. Jerry Kutner has posted a brief and lovely tribute in fond remembrance of the woman who associated only with geniuses.
for the series:
Broadcasters,
Obits,
Sex Education
January 11, 2008
Artists in Action #316
James Cagney tries on some different makeup.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Collect 'Em All #43
Pert Kelton
No. 28 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Pert Kelton was born in Great Falls, Montana, the daughter of vaudeville players, and began to appear with her parents when quite a child, travelling with them all over the world. When they retired, Pert made her way to the Broadway stage, and commencing as a singer and dancer, developed into a most popular comedienne. Her screen debut was made in a small part in the talkie version of Sally. Later pictures include The Bowery, Bed of Roses, The Meanest Gal in Town, Sing and Like It and Bachelor Bait.
for the series:
Collect 'em All
The Ink & Paint Set #28
Greta Garbo, Zasu Pitts and Mae West in I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
(Tom Palmer; Warner Bros.; 1933)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
Miniseries #7:
Movie Directors and the Means of Production
#1
Nicholas Ray
#2
Robert Aldrich
#3
Sergio Leone
#4
Howard Hawks
#5
Kenneth Anger
#6
Julien Duvivier
#7
Jacques Tati
#8
Roger Corman
#9
François Truffaut
#10
Werner Herzog
#11
Vincente Minnelli
#12
Theo Angelopoulos
#13
Stanley Kubrick
#14
Satyajit Ray
#15
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#16
Samuel Fuller
#17
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#18
Peter Bogdanovich
#19
Melvin Van Peebles
#20
Roberto Rossellini
#21
Otto Preminger
#22
Luis Buñuel
#23
Maurice Pialat
#24
Leni Riefenstahl
#25
Buster Keaton
#26
Agnes Varda
#27
John Huston
#28
Ida Lupino
#29
D.W. Griffith
#30
Allan Dwan
#31
Busby Berkeley
#32
Francis Ford Coppola
#33
Claude Chabrol
#34
Jerry Lewis
#35
Alfred Hitchcock
#36
Federico Fellini
#37
William Wyler
#38
Clarence Brown
#39
Jean-Luc Godard
#40
Clint Eastwood
#41
John Cassavetes
#42
David Lean
#43
Sam Peckinpah
#44
Roman Polanski
#45
Orson Welles
#46
Luchino Visconti
#47
Blake Edwards
#48
Andy Warhol
#49
Cecil B. DeMille
#50
Peter Watkins
for the series:
Miniseries'
January 10, 2008
January 09, 2008
January 08, 2008
Ken Nelson dead at 96
When Legends Gather # 343
Sherrif Tex Davis, Ken Nelson and Gene Vincent.
My thanks to Testify for sending me this image, drawing my attention to who he was and that he passed away on Sunday.
Read the obituary from The Tennessean here.
for the series:
Obits,
When Legends Gather
Artists in Action #314
David Bowie bids farewell to his Ziggy Stardust persona at Hammersmith Odeon; 3rd July 1973.
for the series:
Artists in Action
When Legends Gather # 342
Derek Nimmo, Harry Seacombe, Diana Rigg and Eric Morecambe in 1974
for the series:
When Legends Gather
January 07, 2008
They Were Collaborators #419
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Annals of Crime #4
Original Caption:
New York -- A group of revelers, all garbed as women, are loaded into a 'pie wagon' as police raid a masqued ball at Manhattan Center early this morning. Six patrol wagons were needed to cart the 99 men to West 30th Street police station. (1939)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
When Legends Gather #340
Olivia DeHavilland, Burgess Meredith and Joe Louis
for the series:
When Legends Gather
January 06, 2008
The Art of the Centerfold #38
Toni Ann Thomas (Miss February, 1963)
for the series:
Art of the Centerfold
The Golden Age of Publicity #7
Original Caption:
"Come up an' See Me Sometime - But Ring First".
Los Angeles -- If you ever accept one of Mae West's subtle invitations to drop around and pay a brief visit, be sure to use the front door and ring the bell first. Ever since Mae was held up by gangsters, she has been brushing up on her target work with pistol, rifle, sub machine gun and then shatters the bull's eye for a perfect score too often to call her bluff. She is shown with her coach, Detective J.C. Southard, expert marksman, just after a bit of machine-gunning on the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office Rifle Range. (1934)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Publicity
Seminal Image #773
The Education of Sonny Carson
(Michael Campus; 1974)
for the series:
Seminal Images
January 05, 2008
Miniseries #6:
The Post-War Paradise of William Gottlieb
(Episode One: Love, Order and Consumption)
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
for the series:
Miniseries'
January 04, 2008
The Art of Pop #14
Crazy in Love!
(Trudy Richards with Billy May and His Orchestra)
(Capitol Records; 1957)
for the series:
Art of Pop
January 03, 2008
American Dry Spell #11
Long Island Police and Prohibition agents seize $20,000 worth of illegal spirits (1930)
for the series:
American Dry Spell
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #47
Tricky flares his nostrils (1960)
for the series:
Tricky: Scenes from a Life
Artists in Action #311
Frances Farmer is hauled in on a Parole violation charge
for the series:
Artists in Action
Friends and Family #19
Adventures in the Fight Racket #12
Today's Adventure: National fight racket Czar Frankie Carbo is booked for refusing
to answer questions before the State Crime Commission (1952)
for the series:
Adventures in the Fight Racket,
Friends and Family
American Mouthpieces #15
They Were Collaborators #417
Joseph N. Welch, Lee Remick and Otto Preminger
for the series:
American Mouthpieces,
They Were Collaborators
January 01, 2008
The Art of Cinema #274
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
(Howard Hawks; 1932)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Annals of Crime #3
Original Caption:
Los Angeles -- Twenty-six-year-old Roger Wing Whittier of North Bend, Oregon, lies dead on the stage of the Follies Theater, shot to death in the empty burlesque house in a gunfight December 1st with police who tried to arrest him as he caressed a picture of a dancer he called "my redheaded angel." Police said he apparently was crazed with love for the dancer, identified as Loretta Miller. An anonymous telephone call sent police to the theater at 6 A.M. One detective's ear was nicked by a shot from Whittier when officers told him to drop his gun. (1954)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
Artificts #5
The .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver used by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963
for the series:
Artifacts
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