Category Archives: cinema

casino royale

Posted on April 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

Geraldine Chaplin and Dick Talmadge dressed as Keystone Cops for their uncredited cameos—probably less than five seconds of screen time and if either actually appear in the film, they’re unrecognizable—in Casino Royale. 1967.

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bogdanovich directs

Posted on April 19, 2010 | 3 comments

Directed by John Ford. Ford and Peter Bogdanovich in Monument Valley. 1971.

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cute couple alert

Posted on April 17, 2010 | 1 comment

Nick and Nora Charles (with Asta) in The Thin Man. 1934.

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five more pictures of bowie

Posted on April 16, 2010 | 1 comment

Part four: David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills. Photo by Terry O’Neill. 1975.

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f for orson

Posted on April 14, 2010 | 4 comments

Welles on the set of Philip Saville’s Oedipus the King. 1968.

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the servant

Posted on April 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in The Servant. Losey. 1963.

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malcolm mclaren is dead

Posted on April 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

Malcolm McLaren (pictured below in December 1971 with Vivienne Westwood), punk impresario, dead yesterday at age 64.

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chaplin at seven

Posted on April 9, 2010 | 5 comments

Chaplin (circled, obviously) at the Central London Poor Law School at Hanwell. 1897.

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brooks at twelve

Posted on April 8, 2010 | 1 comment

Louise Brooks dancing in Kansas. 1918.

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demille at five

Posted on April 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

Cecil DeMille growing up Victorian in North Carolina. 1886.

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