Monthly Archives: July 2009

hitchcock directs

Hitchcock directs Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren on the set of Marnie. 1964.

what’s wrong with being sexy?

animal scorpions

mouse strike

Mouse Strike

Disney animators throw down their tools and strike in 1941.

helen wheels

Helen Wheels

Wings. Helen Wheels. 1973.

chinatown

Faye Dunaway on the set of Chinatown. 1974. Awesome.

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1966.

f for orson

As Jonathan Lute in I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. Michael Winner. 1967.

For some reason this pic reminds me of what Welles said at his AFI tribute: “As a director, I pay myself out of my acting jobs. I use my own work to subsidize my work—in other words, I’m crazy.”

cover art

primary

Primary. Robert Drew. 1960.

record labels

Side two of The Sound of Jazz on Columbia with the six eye label. The soundtrack to an episode of the CBS program Seven Lively Arts that aired on December 8, 1957, this served, more or less, as an introduction to jazz for TV-watching squares and features some excellent performances. But, as Levar Burton would say, don’t take my word for it, here is the album or check the video below.