Monthly Archives: July 2010

sternberg directs

Posted on July 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

Josef von Sternberg with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings on the set of The Blue Angel. 1929.

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a man of a thousand faces

Posted on July 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

James Cagney in front of pictures of himself as some of the 22 different Lon Chaney characters he recreated in Man of a Thousand Faces. Joseph Pevney. 1957.

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advertising

Posted on July 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

Lee Hazlewood outdoor advertising. circa 1969.

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on your sleeve

Posted on July 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

The fantastic cover of Nancy Sinatra’s second LP. It’s oddly similar to the back cover of her first LP (below). Couldn’t the old man spring for another photo shoot?

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record labels

Posted on July 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Swedish original of Lee Hazlewood’s Requiem For An Almost Lady on Viking Records. 1971.

Reissue of Trouble is a Lonesome Town on Smells Like Records. 1999.

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cute couple alert

Posted on July 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Nancy and Lee as they appear on the back of Nancy’s Sugar LP.

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who’s a man that we admire

Posted on July 5, 2010 | 2 comments

Lee Hazlewood. Songwriter, record producer and lifelong smoker who flexed his plainspoken, world-weary cowboy shtick over several brilliant solo LPs.

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3 women

Posted on July 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shelley Duvall) in 3 Women. Altman. 1977.

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the sennett days

Posted on July 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

More bathing beauties.

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