way back

Posted on March 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

“Mabel Normand, with John Bunny, at left, and Jimmy Morrison, in one of her first screen appearances, “Trouble and Secretary” at Vitagraph — after that came Biograph, Keystone, Sennett and fame.”

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what’s wrong with being sexy?

Posted on March 24, 2013 | 1 comment

M Piccoli

Michel Piccoli in Le Trio infernal. Francis Girod. 1974.

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f for fields

Posted on March 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

Claude with Chester Conklin in Tillie’s Punctured Romance. A. Edward Sutherland. 1928.

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on your sleeve

Posted on March 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

Mauvaises

Mauvaises Nouvelles des étoiles. Serge Gainsbourg. 1981.

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advertising

Posted on March 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

1971.

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Image

cover art

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schlesinger directs

Posted on March 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

John Schlesinger directs Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. 1969.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on March 18, 2013 | 1 comment

Chas directs Sophia Loren in A Countess from Hong Kong, as Syd and Jane look on. 1967.

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festival time!

Posted on March 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

Simone Silva and Robert Mitchum at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The world wasn’t yet ready for such immodesty in 1954 and Ms Silva was stripped of her (phony) Miss Festival title. Mitchum—like Justin Timberlake 50 years later—walked away, like he did from most things, unscathed.

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pen to paper

Posted on March 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

no lesbians

Films and Filming. January 1968.

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