Category Archives: context

cover art

a book by its cover

Damned in Paradise: The Life of John Barrymore. John Kobler. 1977.

the sennett days

Charlie Chaplin (as Mr. Wow-Woe) Mabel Normand and Mack Swain in Gentlemen of Nerve. Chaplin. 1914.

record labels

Delightful. Happy Mondays. 1985.

advertising

How I Won the War. Richard Lester. 1967.

who are you, polly maggoo?

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?. William Klein. 1966.

losey directs

Joseph Losey directs Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow in Secret Ceremony. 1968.

cute couple alert

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (as George and Martha) in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Mike Nichols. 1966.

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols. 1966.

cover art

Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun. George Stevens. 1951.