Original Caption:
Santa Barbara -- Popular actor Rock Hudson is shown with his bride, the former Phyllis Gates, following their surprise wedding on November 9, 1955 in Santa Barbara, California. Rock beams happily as his bride of just a few moments telephones the news of their marriage to friends. Hudson's wedding to the former secretary of his business agent, Henry Willson, took Hollywood by surprise. (1955)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Publicity
The Beverly Sisters and The Walker Brothers
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows)
(François Truffaut; 1959)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Jean Pierre Leaud, Jeanne Moreau, Bernadette Lafont and Jean Eustache at the Cannes Film Festival to promote 'La Maman Et La Putain' on 18th May 1973.
for the series:
They Were Collaborators,
When Legends Gather
John Cassavetes directs A Child Is Waiting
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
David Mamet on the set of The Postman Always Rings Twice
for the series:
Artists in Action
Director Harry Beaumont measures up Virginia Parent for The Broadway Melody.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Composer Harold Arlen, lyricist Lew Brown and Eddie Cantor pose for a gag shot on the set of Strike Me Pink.
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Tricky tames a Lion (1953)
for the series:
Tricky: Scenes from a Life
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
(Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler)
(Fritz Lang; 1922)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
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Original Caption:
Chicago -- Braving bullets from a trapped safe-blowing gang, policeman Arthur Olsen trades shots with desperadoes as he seeks flimsy shelter behind a car. Olson injured his face when one of the gunmen fired through a plate glass of the currency exchange when he was the first to investigate the call. Olsen immediately called for re-enforcements for the battle, which lasted nearly an hour, in which two yeggs were slain, two captured, one believed to have escaped, and three policemen injured. (1947)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
The Female Animal
(Jerry Gross; 1970)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Prurience
Les Carabiniers
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1963)
(stupendous thanks to the inimitable Jeff Duncanson of Filmscreed for this image)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Original Caption:
Cadillac Salesmen Go On Strike.
New York -- A group of smartly dressed Cadillac salesmen are shown picketing a Cadillac salesroom at 57th and Broadway today in one of New York's strangest strikes. Tthe strikers delivered an angry verbal blast against the Cadillac Division General Managers for allegedly circulating reports that some of them make as much as $40,000 a year. The strikers' major complaints concern such grievances as no fixed hours, no holidays, no paid vacations, no welfare benefits and no pension plans. (1955)
for the series:
An Illustrated History of American Labor
Dorothy Sebastian, Joan Crawford and Anita Page
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Lily Queen; a Ragtime Two-Step
(by Arthur Marshall and Scott Joplin)
(W.W. Stuart Co.; 1907)
for the series:
Art of the Piano
John Gotti's adoring public registers their displeasure with his conviction on
racketeering charges (1992)
for the series:
Friends and Family
Will Fyffe
for the series:
Great Scots of the 20th Century,
Jesters of the Empire
Three appreciations of his life and work:
The New York Times
The Telegraph
The Guardian
for the series:
Obits
Ben Webster, Earle Warren, Lester Young and Gerry Mulligan, New York City TV studio, 1957
for the series:
The Friends of Milt Hinton
George Bernard Shaw in I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
(Tom Palmer; Warner Bros.; 1933)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
Original Caption:
Oakland -- Handcuffed and chained to Sheriff Earl Hollen of Gibson County, Indiana, convicted mass killer Leslie (Mad Dog) Irvin begins his trip from Oakland to Princeton, Indiana and the Indiana prison death chamber. Keeping a close watch are Indiana State Police officers Sgt. W. W. Cornett, and Lt. Willard Walls. The party left by Southern Pacific train after an airline refused to seat Irvin, "out of deference to our other passengers." (1956)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
Dudley Field Malone (with his client, John T. Scopes)
for the series:
American Mouthpieces
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1980)
for the series:
Seminal Images
"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable -
the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally
inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period
will not be equally bloody."
-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE (1917-2008)
for the series:
Relevant Quotes
Hands Across Iraq
(Tom Sutpen; 2008)
On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush interrupted the primetime programming lineups of all major television networks and a handful of Cable outlets, to deliver an ultimatum to the ruler of Iraq.
"All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end," he stated, with an ominous diminution of his usually well-rehearsed Texas twang. "Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing." Within 72 hours, major combat operations in a campaign whose objective -- the liberation of an otherwise sovereign nation from the once-useful tyranny of its President -- has met with no resistance from anyone in a position to stop it, commenced.
Today it endures . . . as do us all.
We here at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . . , will now mark the fifth anniversary of Pres. Bush's determined resolve to end decades of deceit and cruelty, through the vehicle of a piece entitled Hands Across Iraq.
It is our hope that you will find it to your liking.
for the series:
World Premieres
Tod Browning and Lionel Barrymore confer on the set of The Devil Doll.
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
Joan Marsh
No. 31 in a series of 50 from Players Navy Cut Cigarettes
Born on July 10th, 1914, in the San Joaquin Valley, California, this famous film star was christened Nancy Ann Rosher. Her father was Charles Rosher, a well-known camera-man who at one time photographed Mary Pickford's films. Nancy began her film career when nine months old, but left the screen when she was seven to be educated. When she was fifteen, she returned to the studios and adopted her present name, Joan Marsh. She specializes in tap and acrobatic dances, but she seldom displays this talent in her films, the latest of which include Rainbow Over Broadway and You're Telling Me.
for the series:
Collect 'em All
David Bowie and William Burroughs
for the series:
Great Junkies of the 20th Century,
When Legends Gather
Ingrid Bergman poses for a portrait in the woods circa 1965.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Today's Adventure: Stanley Kubrick looks away from Tracy Reed and George C. Scott on the set of 'Dr Strangelove' at Shepperton Studios, 7th March, 1963.
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
Confidential
(November, 1956)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Prurience
Robert F. Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor (1968)
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Rita Hayworth for Lux Soap
for the series:
Great Moments in Marketing
Jerry Harvey
"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity."
-- George Grosz
for the series:
People Who Died
Eddie Constantine, Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Before
After
for the series:
Before and After
Blue Obama Rally 2 Times
for the series:
Pop Art and the 2008 Election
Mel Lyman, folk singer and author of The Autobiography of a World Savior (Feb. 1968)
for the series:
A is for Arbus,
The Acid Eaters
Tennessee Williams kicks off his shoes and sits a spell.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Ronald Reagan, Barbara Stanwyck and Charlton Heston
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Original caption:
Star's Home in Murder Spotlight.
Beverly Hills -- Newsmen and the Coroner's wagon converge outside the Beverly Hills home of actress Lana Turner, where Johnny Stompanato, known underworld character, was stabbed to death in the star's bedroom last night. Police are holding Miss Turner's 14 year old daughter, Cheryl Crane, on the basis of her story that she stabbed Stompanato to save her mother's life. (1958)
for the series:
Annals of Crime,
Friends and Family,
Great Moments in Journalism
H.D. (aka Hilda Doolittle)
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
(Robert Siodmak; 1945)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
