Civic Portraiture #30
Roscoe Arbuckle
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Civic Portraiture
August 31, 2008
The Art of the WPA #13
The Art of the Stage #3
R-U-R
(Federal Theatre; 1939)
for the series:
Art of the Stage,
Art of the WPA
When Legends Gather #446
Mai Zetterling, Danny Kaye, Yma Sumac and Julie Wilson confer at the 1954 premiere of Knock on Wood.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
They Were Collaborators #498
Sydney Chaplin and Judy Holliday in the stage production of Bells Are Ringing.
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
They Were an Item #49
David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt, here seen arriving at London Airport (now Heathrow) in August 1967.
for the series:
They Were an Item
Aftermath: U.S.A. #1
Original Caption:
New York -- After sleeping for three weeks in the subway, the family of arthritis-ridden army veteran Robert Lipsky has taken up quarters in the lobby of the New York Housing Authority on Park Row. Lipsky himself is shown at left sleeping in a chair, while two children sleep on a desk. Mrs. Lipsky and another son, Joel, sleep in telephone booth. Lipsky says he doesn't want charity, "I only want a place so my children can live normally." (1950)
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Aftermath: U.S.A.
They Were Collaborators #497
The Velvet Underground (circa 1965)
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They Were Collaborators
Artists and Animals #10
When Legends Gather #445
Hugh Hefner and Doris Day show off a homeless pup
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Artists and Animals,
When Legends Gather
August 30, 2008
Aftermath: Japan #1
Original Caption:
Hiroshima -- The wrecked framework of the Museum of Science and Industry as it appeared after the blast. City officials recently decided to preserve this building as a memorial, though they had at first planned to rebuild it. (1947)
for the series:
Aftermath: Japan
The Art of Cinema #330
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
(Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper; 1927)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Artists in Action #413
Fred Allen learns of his latest career development
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Artists in Action
August 29, 2008
Intervista #6
Last week I was interviewed for Film in Focus's ongoing series of film blogger profiles, Behind the Blog (a series that recently featured our own Kimberly Lindbergs). After much internal debate I decided to risk posting a link to it here. Granted, I'm the only member of Team Gunslinger represented, and you could perhaps make a case that posting it at all is horrifically self-indulgent on my part (I certainly won't defend myself against the charge). But the principal subject of the interview is this blog, and it might possibly give our regular visitors some marginal insight into how the thing works (as well as my chronic inability to write a simple, uncongested sentence of english) . . . assuming that's of any conceivable value at all.
So until I rethink the matter and delete this post, dive in.
for the series:
Intervista
Artists In Action #412
When Legends Gather #443
Francis Ford Coppola shows Akira Kurosawa how to use his new Polaroid camera (1980)
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Artists in Action,
When Legends Gather
Friends and Family #38
Original Caption:
Gross Goes Free
New York -- His face wreathed in a broad smile, Harry Gross walks forth a free man today after serving four years as the mastermind of Brooklyn's $20,000,000 gambling empire. In tears, the one time bookie kingpin promised Kings County Judge Samuel Liebowitz to "live a clean and decent life." He is shown with attorney Michael Kern at federal court to plead for time to pay off a $2,500 income tax fine. He said he was broke. (1955)
for the series:
Friends and Family
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #6
Signs and Meaning: Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese; 1976)
for the series:
Signs and Meaning in Cinema
American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s #16
The Eddy Duchin Orchestra
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American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s
August 28, 2008
When Legends Gather #442
Chico Marx, Ray Bolger, John Garfield, Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel
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When Legends Gather
Adventures in the Fight Racket #22
Today's Adventure: Welterweight champion Kid Gavilan trains for a title defense against Johnny Saxton by sucking eggs (1954)
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Adventures in the Fight Racket
August 27, 2008
Annals of Crime #31
Original Caption:
Maryland -- Col. Oran Henderson and his attorney, Henry Rothblatt, give a "thumbs up" sign outside Henderson's residence at Ft. Meade shortly after Henderson was acquitted December 17th of charges he tried to cover up the murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. (1971)
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Annals of Crime
The Art of Jazz #68
A Garland of Red
(The Red Garland Trio)
(Prestige records; 1956)
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Art of Jazz
The Civil War: Dramatis Personae #4
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
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The Civil War: Dramatis Personae
August 26, 2008
Something of Possible Interest
In order to insure that it doesn't remain buried, I thought I would give the cinephile sector of our visitors a heads-up on this post, located at another, woefully undernourished blog.
for the series:
Announcements
Newspapermen #30
The Cool Hall of Fame #140
John Pilger
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Newspapermen,
The Cool Hall of Fame
Welcome to Show Business! #4
Original Caption:
Los Angeles -- George Jessel, 63 year old Toastmaster General of the United States, was named July 3rd in a paternity suit by an actress claiming he was the father of her unborn child. Jessel, shown here with the plaintiff, Joan Tyler, 27, of Los Angeles, was ordered to appear for a hearing before Superior Judge Roger Alton Pfaff on July 27th. He was first handed notice of the suit when he appeared as master of ceremonies in the swearing in of Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty on June 30th (1961)
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Welcome to Show Business
August 25, 2008
Jesters of the Empire #15
The Goons
(This post also gives me the opportunity to link to this never-before seen by this Goon fan video of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Seacombe, with singer Ray Ellington stepping in for late announcer Wallace Greenslade, recreating a Goon Show taping on Seacombe's 1966 TV series. Considering all I'd had previous was The Last Goon Show of All from 1972 and some random silent clips, this recently posted material is a marvel to behold.)
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Jesters of the Empire
Collect 'Em All #54
Will Rogers
No. 39 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut cigarettes
WILL ROGERS, who is noted for his inexhaustible fund of dry, philosophical humour, was born November 4th, 1879, near Claremore, Oklahoma, and christened William Penn Adair Rogers. At seventeen he was a cattle-puncher, and later continued this occupation in the Argentine. When the Boer War broke out he worked his way to Cape Town to join up, but the war had ended by the time he arrived, and he joined a Wild West show. This began his vaudeville career, which lasted for eight years. He has had greater success in talkies than in silent films; his latest include David Harum, Handy Andy and Judge Priest.
for the series:
Collect 'em All
Artists In Action #408
Hal Roach entertains his crew with a little tune on the banjolele while on location in Nevada.
for the series:
Artists in Action
August 24, 2008
Adventures in the National Pastime #7
Today's Adventure: New York Yankee titan Joe DiMaggio signs autographs without charging so much as a penny (1940)
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Adventures in the National Pastime
The Art of Jazz #67
The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie
(Dizzy Gillespie)
(Verve Records; 1959)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis #13
Navajo Medicine Man (1904)
for the series:
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis
August 23, 2008
August 22, 2008
Politicians in Action #24
Sen. Robert Taft (R-OH) is presented with a donkey
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Politicians in Action
Jesters of the Republic #8
They Were Collaborators #494
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
for the series:
Jesters of the Republic,
They Were Collaborators
August 21, 2008
The Friends of Milt Hinton #16
Billie Holiday scans a chart in a New York recording studio, circa 1958.
for the series:
The Friends of Milt Hinton
August 20, 2008
When Legends Gather #438
When Hermiones intersect: Gingold meets Baddeley
for the series:
When Legends Gather
The Ink & Paint Set #37
Wallace Beery in Merry Mutineers
(Charles Mintz; Columbia; 1936)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
Jesters of the Empire #14
Jesters of the Republic #7
Lupino Lane
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Jesters of the Empire,
Jesters of the Republic
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #5
Meaning: Illegal
(Lewis Allen; 1955)
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Signs and Meaning in Cinema
August 19, 2008
August 18, 2008
Adventures in European Filmmaking #42
Today's Adventure: On the set of La Città delle donne (City of Women), Federico Fellini harangues a Cinecittà full of extras as Marcello Mastroianni looks on (1979)
for the series:
Adventures in European Filmmaking
Animated Images #2
Dancing on the Moon
(Dave Fleischer)
(Fleischer Studios; 1935)
for the series:
Animated Images
Friends and Family #37
Original Caption:
Three Murder Syndicate Men at Police Station
Brooklyn -- Three of the 12 men arrested as suspects in an alleged murder syndicate which, according to Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, is responsible for at least 12 recent slayings and may be linked to 21 other murders. Trigger men Harry Straus, Harry Malone, and Frank Abbadando may face the electric chair for their participation in the killings. The arrests began when a small-time gangster, fearful for his own life, "sang" to the District Attorney's office. (1940)
for the series:
Friends and Family
The Golden Age of Publicity #17
Original Caption:
Hollywood -- Joan Crawford helps her adopted son Christopher cut the cake
at his birthday party (1945)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Publicity
August 17, 2008
When Legends Gather #435
Claude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
for the series:
When Legends Gather
August 16, 2008
Jerry Wexler Dead at 91
"Just listen to `I Never Loved a Man.' Aretha was the only black
person in the room. Yet there never was a funkier record made. That
confounds every theory of racial purity in the book." – Jerry Wexler
Thanks to Testify, who found the above image and quote and notified me of his passing. The Independent's obituary is here.
for the series:
Obits
When Legends Gather #434
Lauren Bacall and Harry Truman.
Thanks to Jeff Duncanson of Filmscreed for this image.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Welcome to Show Business! #3
Original Caption:
Turtleneck's Just a Little Stiff.
New York -- Actor Peter Lawford says "I love the whole change in men's clothes; the concept, I mean." In other words, Peter has gone mod, but he insists he's "Conservative Mod." Lawford is shown here in a recent photo, wearing an ultra-orange sweater with orange and yellow love beads. (1968)
for the series:
Welcome to Show Business
When Legends Gather #433
Rita Hayworth, Yves Montand and Ella Fitzgerald
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When Legends Gather
The City: Miami #3
Original Caption:
Miami -- A group of nuns arrive at Miami International Airport following their deportation from Cuba by Premier Fidel Castro, who deported all foreign-born priests and nuns from the country. (1961)
for the series:
The City: Miami
August 15, 2008
Annals of Crime #30
Original Caption:
Fort Myers -- Gary Steven Krist sits dejectedly in an FBI car after being brought out of Lee Memorial Hospital where he stayed since his capture in a marsh late Dec. 21 near Punta Gorda. Krist is being charged with the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle in Atlanta, GA, on Dec. 17. Krist was put under $500,000 bond, the same amount he allegedly demanded and got from the parents of Barbara Jane. (1968)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
The Civil War: Dramatis Personae #3
Gen Philip Sheridan
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The Civil War: Dramatis Personae
August 14, 2008
They Were Collaborators #492
Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein
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They Were Collaborators
August 13, 2008
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #59
Tricky gets a cosmetic tune-up before going on the air (1988)
for the series:
Tricky: Scenes from a Life
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! #33
Rupert Brooke
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
August 12, 2008
They Were Collaborators #491
John Wayne and William A. Wellman
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They Were Collaborators
American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s #15
Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra
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American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s
August 11, 2008
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes #25
Our presentation of the Hitchcock/Truffaut tapes concludes with Part Twenty-Five
for the series:
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes
Annals of Crime #29
Original Caption:
Toledo -- A two year flood of bogus one and five dollar bills, a flow totalling perhaps millions of "dollars" was believed stopped with the arrest of a 21 year old Toledo, Ohio youth and four others as accomplices. Midwest states had been flooded with the bogus notes of high quality. They were sold wholesale, cost at $15 for each $100 worth. Photo shows Patrolman Charles Whitmer of Toledo, as he stood guard over the plant uncovered by the federal agents. Its 21 year old operator Clarence Brown, took his arrest philosophically. (1935)
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Annals of Crime
August 10, 2008
Seminal Image #852
La Grande strada azzurra (aka The Wide Blue Road)
(Gillo Pontecorvo; 1957)
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Seminal Images
Adventures in American Filmmaking #107
George Stevens on the set of 'Giant'.
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #19
Hanbury Buildings; 1939
Mr Izaat, the caretaker (left) had an impossible job. He is seen here inspecting a hole in the gutter of the roof which was causing the wall of the flat below to become water-logged.
for the series:
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
a short series of Rousseau #7
Spring in the Vallee de la Bievre (Landscape outskirts of Paris with Viaduct); 1908
for the series:
a short series of Rousseau
The Art of Cinema #326
The Woman They Almost Lynched
(Allan Dwan; 1953)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Welcome to Show Business! #2
Original Caption:
Thirty Years of 'Singin' in the Rain'.
Hollywood -- Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike") soared to stardom at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929 when he sang 'Singin' in the Rain' in The Hollywood Revue. Cliff has returned to MGM for a role in Platinum High School and does his old song for co-stars Terry Moore and Mickey Rooney (1959)
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Welcome to Show Business
August 09, 2008
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #4
Signs: Little Murders
(Alan Arkin; 1971)
for the series:
Signs and Meaning in Cinema
August 08, 2008
Seminal Image #851
Dracula
(George Melford, Enrique Tovar Ávalos; 1931)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Friends and Family #36
Original Caption:
Body of Gangster Walter Sage
Brooklyn -- Detectives in Brooklyn and state troopers in Sullivan County went on the hunt for the associates of Walter Sage, ex-hitman of the Abe Reles mob known as Murder, Inc., after Sage's body was found in Swan Lake in the Catskills. Later it was discovered that Sage was killed for skimming money from the mob's slot machine profits in Sullivan County (1937)
for the series:
Friends and Family
August 07, 2008
When Legends Gather #430
Sheila Hancock, Albert Finney, Robert Morley, Kenneth Haigh and Kenneth Williams (who seems stuck in perpetual performance mode)
for the series:
When Legends Gather
August 06, 2008
The Art of the Stage #2
Street Scene
(The Playwright's Company; 1947)
for the series:
Art of the Stage
Collect 'Em All #53
Ginger Rogers
No. 38 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Born in Independence, Missouri, on July 16th, 1911, Ginger Rogers (whose real Christian name is Virginia), began her stage career in local shows when only twelve years of age. She was a natural dancer, and two years later was winning cups and medals, one contest giving her the reward of a month's tour in vaudeville. She remained on the stage, and gained great popularity in musical comedy, eventually winning stardom. Young Man of Manhattan made in New York, was her first film; later came a Hollywood contract. Recent films are Flying Down to Rio, Change of Heart, Upperworld and The Gay Divorce (sic).
for the series:
Collect 'em All
Artists in Action #401
Joan Crawford lights Caesar Romero's smoke.
for the series:
Artists in Action
Adventures in American Filmmaking #106
Today's Adventure: Sound technician Douglas Shearer helps John Gilbert get acquainted with the scapegoat for his career's demise on the set of His Glorious Night (Lionel Barrymore; 1929).
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
Miniseries #9: Claudia
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for the series:
Miniseries'
August 05, 2008
The Art of Pop #23
This Time I'm Swingin'!
(Dean Martin)
(Capitol Records; 1960)
for the series:
Art of Pop
August 04, 2008
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes #24
In Part Twenty-Four . . . the penultimate edition of The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes . . . we
fly into the everlasting mystery of The Birds (1963)
for the series:
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes
The Art of Jazz #65
Cocktail Time with Frankie Carle
(RCA-Victor Records; 1956)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
August 03, 2008
Artists in Action #399
Busby Berkeley lets his vision overtake him
for the series:
Artists in Action
August 02, 2008
Faces from the Past #16
Pinkhus Karlinsky; Supervisor of the Chernigov flood gates (1909)
for the series:
Faces from the Past
August 01, 2008
Animated Images #1
Circus Capers
(Harry Bailey, John Foster)
(Van Beuren Studios; 1930)
for the series:
Animated Images
Annals of Crime #28
Original Caption:
Wyoming -- Caril Fugate, 14, girlfriend of alleged "mad dog" killer Charles Starkweather, leaves her cell to be fingerprinted. Wyoming officials have waived jurisdiction of the pair and agreed to return them to Nebraska where they will face charges in the killings of ten people. (1958)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
Adventures in the National Pastime #6
Today's Adventure: New York Giants Centerfield maestro Willie Mays moves
to San Francisco (1958)
for the series:
Adventures in the National Pastime
The Art of Cinema #323
Harper
(Jack Smight; 1966)
(immense thanks to a brilliant writer, Shawn Levy, for this image)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
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