Sorry, my loves, for the absence of posts these past few weeks. I am traveling and have very limited access to the internets. Will be back on my job next week. x
Mrs Edward Mayer as MedusaLady Bridgett Poulett as ArethusaLady Milbanke as Penthelisa, Queen of the AmazonsLady Michael Balcon as MinervaBaroness Gagern as EuropaMrs Richard Hart-Davis as ArielMrs A...
These stills were taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine in 1933 New York during the making of King Kong (1933), which is one of my favorite movies. King Kong is pure cinema...
Via Booooom!Sorry for the posting delay of late. I got lost in the maze of life, but Ive found my way back to you. Ive found nothing says forget me not like a sharing some good...
Summary:When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. Via ...
Like a whirling dervish, spinning, spinning, spinning in place, harnessing all the magic it can muster. She was glued to this little private theatre, the big silver screen in her minds eye, proj...
Via BooooomJust when I thought John Stezaker had done the only, be-all-end-all manipulation of vintage Hollywood photos, I came across the dreamy cut-and-paste matrix of London-based artist Claire Pe...
Lee MillerPariscirca 1929Joan MiróPariscirca 1928Georges MalkinePariscirca 1929Jacqueline GoddardPariscirca 1930Edward JamesParis1937Salvador DalíPariscirca 1929Helen Tamiris(Helen Becker)Pariscirca1...
They paid the dastardly price, that troupe of cock-and-bull story rebels. They turned themselves over to fate in the end, but not without a 12 pace showdown of the highest honor. They wer...
Ava was frequently touted as the most naturally beautiful woman ever in Hollywood by insiders and fellow actresses alike. While pin-ups like Marilyn had undergone plastic surgery, bleaching, re...
Pure gold. I stumbled across this kooky collection characters showing off their kitties photographed by Ralph Crane on assignment for Life Magazine in 1961, covering black cat auditions in Holly...
Hollywood sign from 1924. An excerpt from Pamela Miller Des-Barres Im with the Band follow-up book, Another Little Piece of my Heart :"I was beginning my thirty-eighth year of life, and...
Audrey Hepburn in crying scenes from The Childrens Hour photographed by Ralph Crane for Life Magazine, 1962.
Never before was teenage angst captured so wildly, so tenderly. Dean passed away less than a month before his most iconic role in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) was released in theaters. &nb...
Pictures of articles about actor James Dean collected after his death in 1955, shown in Life Magazine, 1956 by photographer Herbert Orth.
Likely photographed over the course of several days, photographer Ralph Crane captured these images of gone-too-soon-glamour-girl-nex t-door Natalie Wood during her Rebel Without a Cause (1957) d...
James Dean & Natalie WoodBehind the scenes filming from Rebel without a Cause. Oh, that red jacket....We should all have our own red jacket, sentimental, personal, signature, wear-it-constan...
An amazing fan documentary, The James Dean Story, released in 1957 shortly after Deans death, was made with still images, family interviews, and narration to paint a portrait of the short l...
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Before legendary Easy Rider fame, Peter Fonda was doing less well-received (ahem!) biker pictures like "The Wild Angels" co-starring Nancy Sinatra! I just found a full version of ...
San Diegos Pat McGee, skateboard champ, 1965 by Life Magazine.
"Bonnie" by Oscar BessieDomino Books, 1965.
Phil Spector & Ronnie Bennet in the studio working on Ronettes recordings, circa 1963.In 1963 the beehive crowned trio from Spanish Harlem, The Ronettes, shot to stardom with the hit "Be my b...
Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly in photo booth at Grand Central Station, New York City, January 23, 1959.Man, the youngsters of today are still just trying to be as cool as these guys were.
Diana Ross, circa 1963?
Images via Teenangster Stills from "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!" (1965)
Some poor soul completely missed the power of the above performance, titling it "James Dean Very Gay" while I can only see James Dean Very Brilliant. He and Sal Mineo riff in the most b...
Ive hunted for the few scraps of information I could find on the internet about 2-hit wonder Jody Reynolds, but have barely been able to dig up enough to fill one blog post. Photos and album co...
The Wild One (1953), starring Marlon Brando (my faaaavorite actor), is the seminal teen rebel/motorcycle gang movie that spawned a genre of 50s-60s films and cemented the biker style as enduring fash...
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