Monthly Archives: May 2015

father tarzan

Father Tarzan

Films and Filming. September 1967.

titles

The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh. Murnau. 1924.

huston directs

Roots of Heaven

John Huston directs Juliette Gréco in The Roots of Heaven with Errol Flynn watching. 1958.

record labels

Orson Welles

Begatting of the President. Orson Welles. 1969.

f for orson

Othello

Orson and Micheál Mac Liammóir in Othello. 1952.

Had he by some miracle made it this far, today would have been the Boy Wonder’s 100th birthday. So let’s celebrate Orson a little bit. As Marlene Dietrich put it, “he was a great, great man and a genius. People should cross themselves before they speak his name.”

I hate embedding video on this site so go to the 29-minute mark here to see Orson’s Mentalism Spot on David Copperfield’s first TV special. 1978.

And check out these magazine covers and the rest of the Orson archive.

Summer 1963

Summer 1971

Autumn 1968

Summer 1958

March 1958

Orson 79

Orson. 1979.

dead as far as teen-aged students were concerned

September 1967

Films and Filming. September 1967.

on the set of

Michael Sarne and Raquel Welch on the set of Myra Breckinridge. 1970.

turn me on, dead man

Images from the Paul is Dead conspiracy theory commemorative. 1969.

pen to paper

Winter 1961-62

Sight and Sound. Winter 1961-62.

record labels

Ben E. King

Spanish Harlem. Ben E. King, who for Christ sake must have been all of 22 years old when he recorded this perfect song, died yesterday at age 76. 1960.