catching up with the chaplins

Posted on November 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

The Great Dictator. 1940.

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advertising

Posted on November 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

1974.

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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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years after the event: fan clubs

Posted on October 26, 2011 | 2 comments

April 30, 1973

May 30, 1973

Detail of the back of Red Rose Speedway. The Braille says “We love ya baby” and it’s for Stevie Wonder.

Detail of the back of Living in the Material World.

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jagger

Posted on October 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

1966.

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f for fields

Posted on October 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Fields season. 1967.

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