dig the critics

Posted on March 16, 2015 | Leave a comment

Sleeping Beauty

Sight and Sound. Summer – Autumn 1959.

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titles

Posted on March 15, 2015 | Leave a comment

Trouble In Paradise

Lubitsch. 1932.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on March 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

fingerprints

Chas is fingerprinted by George Rossini of the U.S. Marshal’s office as his attorney Jerry Giesler looms behind. A Federal grand jury indictment charged him with violating the Mann Act and of conspiring to defraud Joan Barry of her civil rights. Chas’ life was nothing if not messy. February 14, 1944.

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cute couple alert

Posted on March 13, 2015 | Leave a comment

Shearer and Thalberg

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg.

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advertising

Posted on March 12, 2015 | Leave a comment

1969.

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rock shirt

Posted on March 11, 2015 | Leave a comment

Ringo front

Ringo back

Two Ringo Starr t-shirts. Circa 1974.

Goodnight Vienna front

Goodnight Vienna back

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the merry widow

Posted on March 10, 2015 | Leave a comment

The Merry Widow

Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier in The Merry Widow. Lubitsch. 1934.

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on the set of

Posted on March 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

Senso

Luchino Visconti and Alida Valli on set of Senso. 1954.

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world’s first 3-D casualty

Posted on March 8, 2015 | Leave a comment

world’s first 3-D casualty

Sight and Sound. January – March 1954.

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record labels

Posted on March 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. Paul McCartney. 2005.

One of the better more recent McCartney offerings. Worth your time (particularly the first half).

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