Category Archives: cinema

catching up with the chaplins

Posted on November 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

The Great Dictator. 1940.

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are crooks dishonest?

Posted on October 31, 2011 | 2 comments

Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell and Snub Pollard in Are Crooks Dishonest? Gilbert Pratt. 1918.

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make up chair

Posted on October 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

Vincent Price is made up on the set of Madhouse (aka The Revenge of Dr. Death aka The Madhouse of Dr. Fear) by make up artist George Blackler. 1974.

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scarface

Posted on October 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

Boris Karloff in Scarface. Hawks. 1932.

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cute couple alert

Posted on October 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

Bette Davis and Richard Barthelmess in The Cabin in the Cotton. Michael Curtiz. 1932.

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titles

Posted on October 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jennie Livingston. 1990.

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f for fields

Posted on October 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Fields season. 1967.

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cover art

Posted on October 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

Top row: David Bradley in Kes. Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Center row: Hiram Keller in Satyricon. Richard Harris in A Man Called Horse. Joe Cocker in Woodstock.
Bottom row: Helmut Berger in The Damned. Mark Freschette in Zabriskie Point. Alain Delon in Borsalino.

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les demoiselles de rochefort

Posted on October 22, 2011 | 4 comments

The Young Girls of Rochefort. Jacques Demy. 1967.

Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly.

Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

Grover Dale and George Chakiris.

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st. clair directs

Posted on October 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Mal St. Clair (, seated behind cameraman Walter Lundin,) directs Barbara Kent—who died last week at age 103!—in Welcome Danger. 1929.

Also pictured from left, Gaylord Lloyd (just visible), Wallace Howe, Jimmy Anderson, Harold Lloyd, head electrician “Bard” Bardwell and Harold’s double Jake Jacoby.

St. Clair’s contributions as director went uncredited.

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