Sex Education #102
Barbara Steele
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Sex Education
May 31, 2008
When Legends Gather #398
Gary Cooper drops by the set of Union Pacific to chat with Cecil B. DeMille while Joel McCrea looks slightly incredulous.
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When Legends Gather
Adventures in European Filmmaking #41
Today's Adventure: British mystery maven Edgar Wallace takes a stab at directing Red Aces in 1929.
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Adventures in European Filmmaking
Artists in Action #367
Allen Jenkins takes Joan Crawford for a spin
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Artists in Action
When Legends Gather #397
Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and Chuck Connors
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When Legends Gather
The Golden Age of Publicity #14
Original Caption:
Hollywood -- Liberace, piano-playing idol of women television audiences, revealed that he hopes to marry Joanne Rio, 24, the "Girl of his Dreams", in a year. In an exclusive United Press interview, Liberace confided he had proposed and hoped to marry Joanne within the year "if she really loves me and wants to wait for me." He said concert, television and film commitments would keep him from marrying for a year. Here, the two are shown during a recent date at a Hollywood supper club. (1954)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
May 30, 2008
Artists in Action #366
Anita O'Day lets a song go out of her heart
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Artists in Action
May 29, 2008
The Art of Cinema #307
Lancelot du Lac
(Robert Bresson; 1974)
(vast and Arthurian thanks to John Macdonald for this image)
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Art of Cinema
Cinema in the Shadow of History #2
Atlanta, Georgia (1968)
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Cinema in the Shadow of History
May 28, 2008
The Art of Pop #20
Subways Are for Sleeping
(Percy Faith and His Orchestra)
(Columbia Records; 1961)
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Art of Pop
Annals of Crime #20
Original Caption:
Police are shown carrying out the body of Serge Rubinstein from his Fifth Avenue home where he was found slain today in an upstairs bedroom. Authorities said that the Russian born millionaire appeared to have been strangled. His body was found with hands and feet tied and the mouth taped. It is believed that he died after a "terrific struggle" with an intruder. According to police, "it could have been robbery" but the theory of planned attack was not ruled out. The 46 year old international financier was the central figure of a World War II 'draft dodger' case, and prior to his death had been fighting a deportation order. (1955)
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Annals of Crime
The Art of Cinema #306
The Power and the Glory
(William K. Howard; 1933)
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Art of Cinema
May 27, 2008
Friends and Family #30
Original Caption:
New York -- Gambler Frank Costello, head bandaged and blood on his coat, is escorted by detectives from Roosevelt Hospital. Costello, returning to his swank apartment after an evening out, was shot and wounded by an unknown assailant who apparently lay in ambush for him. According to the superintendent, who witnessed the shooting, the gunman waited in a car. (1957)
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Friends and Family
May 26, 2008
They Were Collaborators #457
Busby Berkeley and Mickey Rooney
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They Were Collaborators
Collect 'Em All #49
Jack Oakie
No. 34 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Jack Oakie, whose real name is Lewis Offield, was born on November 14th, 1903, in Sedalia, Missouri, and educated at La Salle High School, New York. Leaving school, he became a clerk in the the office of a Wall Street broker, but chiefly occupied himself in entertaining the other clerks and devoting much more attention to his activities in amateur theatricals. Later he was offered a job as partner to a well-known vaudeville star, and then received a small part in a Laura La Plante comedy Finders Keepers. His latest successes include Murder at the Vanities, Looking for Trouble and Shoot the Works.
for the series:
Collect 'em All
Similar Images #7
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Robert Wiene; 1920)
Frankenstein
(James Whale; 1931)
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Similar Images
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes #14
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes make a tranquil return to this blog.
Under discussion in Part Fourteen are Notorious (1946) and The Paradine Case (1947)
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The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes
May 25, 2008
May 24, 2008
Artists In Action #363
Frank Sinatra gets intimate with the camera.
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Artists in Action
The Ink & Paint Set #33
Charles Chaplin, Sid Grauman and Buster Keaton in Mickey's Gala Premiere.
(Burt Gillett; Disney; 1933)
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The Ink and Paint Set
May 22, 2008
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century #17
Stephen Glass
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Great Con Artists of the 20th Century
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! #30
Robert Creeley
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Poets are both clean and warm
The Golden Age of Publicity #13
Six sixguns are pointed at James Stewart in this publicity still for the Columbia Pictures release, The Man from Laramie (1955)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
May 21, 2008
Adventures in the Fight Racket #16
Today's Adventure: His arm in a sling, Charles 'Sonny' Liston faces the press the morning after the first Clay-Liston tankout. (1964)
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Adventures in the Fight Racket
May 19, 2008
When Legends Gather #392
Kenneth Tynan, Roman Polanski and Kathleen Tynan
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When Legends Gather
The Art of Jazz #58
Kulu Sé Mama
(John Coltrane)
(Impulse! Records; 1966)
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Art of Jazz
May 17, 2008
They Were Collaborators #456
David Lean and Katharine Hepburn
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They Were Collaborators
When Legends Gather #391
Robert Bolt, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire and Claude Lelouch
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When Legends Gather
The Children of Lewis Hine #9
A raveler and a looper in a hosiery mill
(Loudon, Tennessee; 1910)
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The Children of Lewis Hine
May 16, 2008
John Phillip Law dies at 70
John Phillip Law takes aim in Mario Bava's delirious Danger: Diabolik.
A dependable and charismatic staple of Europop cinema in the '60s and '70s, and a busy actor up until he was recently sidelined by an undisclosed illness, John Phillip Law passed away in Los Angeles this week.
Read the AP obituary here.
And as you might expect, Tim Lucas's Video Watchblog has some fond parting words for Pygar here.
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Obits
They Were Collaborators #455
David Tudor, John Cage, Yoko Ono and Mayuzumi Toshiro
(titanic thanks to David Manning for this image of avant-garde reserve)
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They Were Collaborators
May 15, 2008
May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg Dead at 82
As this blog undergoes a semi-drastic change in design, we pause to remember Robert Rauschenberg, the Texas-born radical colorist, master of form and good friend of Jasper Johns who passed from this mortal sphere on Monday evening at the age of 82.
Here, as usual, are three accounts of both life and work:
The Los Angeles Times
The Guardian
Dallas Morning News
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Obits
An Illustrated History of Vice #7
A woman consumes Cocaine (1920)
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An Illustrated History of Vice
Annals of Crime #19
Original Caption:
Los Angeles -- The body of singer Sam Cooke lies slumped in the doorway of a Motel manager's apartment. According to police, he kicked in the manager's door looking for another woman when he was shot (1964)
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Annals of Crime
May 13, 2008
The Friends of Milt Hinton #13
Dizzy Gillespie dozes (circa 1940).
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The Friends of Milt Hinton
A is for Arbus #47
Please Don't Feed Us (1968)
A camper at Camp Lakecrest for overweight girls in Dutchess County, NY.
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A is for Arbus
May 12, 2008
May 11, 2008
Friends and Family #28
Santo Trafficante greets the Press outside Kew Gardens Criminal Court in Queens (1966)
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Friends and Family
May 10, 2008
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! #29
Robert Frost
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Poets are both clean and warm
Adventures in the Fight Racket #15
Today's Adventure: Before a murderous throng in Reno, Jack Johnson beats the once-mighty Jim Jeffries like a redheaded stepchild; securing, at long last, the undisputed Heavyweight title (1910)
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Adventures in the Fight Racket
May 09, 2008
An Illustrated History of American Labor #7
Massachusetts State Police troopers march into Boston to replace striking city Police (1919)
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An Illustrated History of American Labor
When Legends Gather #389
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Jerry Lewis
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When Legends Gather
May 08, 2008
Seminal Image #811
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
(Waxworks)
(Paul Leni, Leo Birinsky; 1924)
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Seminal Images
The Golden Age of Publicity #12
Original Caption:
Joan Crawford, the lovely Metro Goldwyn Mayer player, has at last found a very handy device for carrying one's lipstick and perfume vial without losing or breaking them. The handle of her purse is a hollow tube into one end of which the lipstick is held and in the other the perfume vial. (1929)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
May 07, 2008
The New Yorkers #6
Great Madmen of the 21st Century #2
Elliot Offen
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Great Madmen of the 21st Century
May 06, 2008
Woodbridge Brown Dead at 96
Woodbridge Brown aka Woody 'Spider' Brown
Obituary here.
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Obits
A Short Series of Rousseau #6
Liberty inviting the artists to exhibit at the 22nd Salon Des Independants; 1906
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a short series of Rousseau
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #17
This tenament, situated near Poplar High Street, was one of the worst slums in East London. It had previously been derelict, but was 'tarted-up' and relet without proper repairs being made, a fact which the new tenants soon became all too aware of.
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Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
C is for Cunningham #13
Boy Selling Newspapers (San Francisco; 1950)
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C is for Cunningham
Friends and Family #27
Original Caption:
Chicago -- Salvatore 'Momo' Giancana, alleged Chicago underworld boss, leaves the Federal Building after appearing before a Federal Grand Jury. The government is seeking to indict Giancana for crossing state lines while engaging in underworld activities, a violation of Federal law. (1965)
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Friends and Family
May 05, 2008
The Golden Age of Publicity #11
John Huston is distracted by a model in this incredibly strange publicity still
for Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
The Art of Pop #19
Jackie Gleason Presents Velvet Brass
(The Jackie Gleason Orchestra)
(Capitol Records; 1957)
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Art of Pop
When Legends Gather #388
Walter Winchell, J. Edgar Hoover and Al Jolson
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When Legends Gather
Annals of Crime #18
Original Caption:
Death Watch
New York -- This was the grim scene outside an amusement arcade in downtown Brooklyn after Tony LaVanchino, 17, had been shot to death in a teen gang feud. His friend John Lombardi, 17, wounded in the hand, turns his face away as police surround the body. Four youths were captured. (1959)
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Annals of Crime
May 04, 2008
When Legends Gather #387
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Dr. Martin Luther King
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When Legends Gather
May 03, 2008
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis #10
Two Bear Woman - Piegan (1908)
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The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis
Annals of Crime #17
Artists in Action #358
Original Caption:
Ready To Testify.
Indianapolis -- Zeppo Marx, one time straight man for the Marx Brothers comedy team, waits to testify before the Federal Grand Jury here, on Aug. 22nd. The Grand Jury is investigating the activities of a gambling ring based in Terre Haute, Indiana. Marx promised to cooperate with the jury and tell what he knows about the case. (1958)
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Annals of Crime,
Artists in Action
May 01, 2008
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