Category Archives: cinema

brando and james dean

Posted on January 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

Brando and his last year’s talent wearing his last year’s wardrobe on the set of East of Eden. Elia Kazan. 1955.

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brando and his double

Posted on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Brando poses on location in St. George, Utah with his stunt double, Paul Baxley, after Baxley was dragged through mud for a scene in The Appaloosa (aka Southwest to Sonora). Sidney J. Furie. 1966.

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ray and kurosawa

Posted on January 22, 2012 | 2 comments

Satyajit Ray and Akira Kurosawa (with Michelangelo Antonioni off in
the distance there on the right-hand side) visit the Taj Mahal. Circa 1977.

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cover art

Posted on January 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

Henri Langlois with chronophotographic rifle. 1968.

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cute couple alert

Posted on January 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on the set of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Stanley Kramer. 1967.

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party in the u.s.a!

Posted on January 19, 2012 | 2 comments

Legends gather at a Hollywood Party. 1925.

Personal note: Now is probably a good time to mention that I’m now a regular contributor at the great If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Seeing as how this site is little more than a shameless rip off of that one, it should be a good fit. Please enjoy.

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the servant

Posted on January 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

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

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advertising

Posted on January 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

1971.

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titles

Posted on January 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Eastwood. 1992.

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way back

Posted on January 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Thomas R Lombard—at left—the first man to see commercial opportunity in the motion picture machine he had discovered in Edison’s laboratory —Pictured here in the office of the World’s Fair exhibit of the Edison phonograph in 1893, awaiting the Kinetoscopes which never arrived.

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