Category Archives: cinema

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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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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cute couple alert

Posted on June 30, 2010 | 1 comment

Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr in Magic Christian. 1969.

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domicile conjugal

Posted on June 29, 2010 | 2 comments

Christine Darbon Doinel as a geisha in Bed and Board. Truffaut. 1970.

Personal note: Things might get a little dicey here for the next two weeks as I go on vacation. See you for sure in two weeks.

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cute couple alert

Posted on June 27, 2010 | 2 comments

Chaplin and Peggy Hopkins Joyce chilling on a yacht off Santa Catalina Island in the summer of 1922.

I’ve heard that this is the woman whose string of marriages to millionaires inspired the term gold digger. I’m not sure if that’s true, but whether it is or not, look out Chas!

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gold diggers of 1933

Posted on June 26, 2010 | 1 comment

We’re in the Money. Mervyn LeRoy. 1933.

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the jerusalem file

Posted on June 24, 2010 | 2 comments

Fantastic news. I found a few more images of that other flick that Daria Halprin was in.

Daria Halprin and Bruce Davison in The Jerusalem File. John Flynn. 1972.

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lloyd and the circus

Posted on June 23, 2010 | 2 comments

8 foot 7-inch-tall George Auger, 29-inch-tall Princess Wee Wee and three-legged Frank Lentini, all of the Ringling Brothers Circus, pose with 5 foot 9-inch-tall Harold Lloyd on the set of Safety Last. Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer. 1923.

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