— Madeleine Carroll
Old Woman And A Boy With Candles
1616 – 1617
Oil on panel
Height: 79 cm (31.1 in). Width: 64 cm (25.2 in)
High Park, Toronto, 1999
—RIP Dorothy Malone (1925-2018)
Black and White Shoes 1959
Spanish, 1599 – 1660
The Needlewoman
c. 1640/1650
oil on canvas
overall: 74 x 60 cm (29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
framed: 102.2 x 88.3 x 7.6 cm (40 1/4 x 34 3/4 x 3 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art
—Faye Dunaway
Second Requiem
1977/1980
Acrylic on wood
84 x 8 x 10 inches
Vertigo, 1958
Screenplay by Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Based on “D’entre les morts” by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Costume Design by Edith Head
Cinematography by Robert Burks
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
It’s nice to see Ernie’s restaurant in the “Vertigo” scenes. One of my favorite places and long gone. Julius’ Castle is gone. The Shadows is gone.
Showing my age.
I think through the 60s Ernies was one of the places to go in San Francisco. I wonder if Kan’s is still there.
Despite my living very close to San Francisco, I rarely go there anymore.
Robert,. The picture of Olivia Dehaviland is without a doubt my favorite of her. Just the glorious smile that she has on her face is enough to guarantee that any red blooded man is spoiled for the rest of the world ‘s women. Just a picture that humanizes another of those stars from yesteryear. I know that many of today’s female stars are absolutely stunning in their own right, but you have really done well this time. Not only are they gorgeous, but they are also the kind of woman who you would love to show off to your parents. Women are every bit as beautiful and smart and sexy as they were back then. You are fan of great taste and perfect ability to pick the best of the best. Well done, Robert, as expected. You never disappoint your audience, and we are grateful for your talent. Bravo, to the man who is lucking for just such a pre
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About the Horst P Horst photo, now you all know what appears when you stare at moire patterns long enough.
That is a beautiful picture of your grandchildren!
Dorothy sounded like she had her head on right.
Dovima – that is a most interesting picture of her in the plane. Maybe it is a sign of my age but my attention was split between the plane (what kind is it?) and the model
Bill, I agree with you about the Dovima photo. I think that’s the sexiest photo I’ve ever seen of her. And I believe the plane is in the FJ-2/FJ-3 family (based on the curve in the cockpit canopy) called the Fury. It was the Navy version of the F-86 Sabre. You can see the cockpit canopy detail here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FJ-3_VF-62_at_NAS_Cecil_Field_1956.jpg
and here:
http://www.boeing.com/history/products/fj-fury.page
I also agree with you about Dorothy Malone.
Finally, I am stunned by Olivia DeHaviland’s youth (here she looks younger than 19 to me). I believe she is over 100 and still living…
Joe – you beat me to the discovery! I had posted this question to some hard core navy friends, and they eventually came up with the same conclusion.As you say the particular curvature of the canopy reveals it.
Re The tarnished Angels. Not a great picture, but Rock Hudson perfection in it. Never better. He also, during the course of his newspaper office monologue mentions Richard Harding Davis. And the audience, both on screen and in theatre is supposed to understand the place Davis holds in American letters. Same was true in Foreign Correspondent and Somewhere I’ll Fin You. Both Clark Gable and Joel McCrea’s characters were written to assume this knowledge. No more. No assumptions, and not much knowledge.