Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?”
— Margaret O’Brien

The Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4, one of the most complicated wristwatches ever produced. Yours for just 2.7 million dollars.

Suzy Parker, 1950, photo by Nina Leen

Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
1820
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:41 3/4 × 31 7/8 in. (106 × 81 cm)
Frame: 49 5/8 × 39 3/8 in. (126 × 100 cm)

Ruth Orkin
Comic Book Readers
New York City, 1947

“There’ll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart!”
The Quiet Man, 1952
Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent
Based on The Quiet Man
1933 story in The Saturday Evening Post by Maurice Walsh

“During the making of His Girl Friday, Cary and I would occasionally go out to dinner and to dance. He’d call up and ask would I like to go jigging, and I’d spend three days getting ready, piling on everything Elizabeth Arden had to offer and then some.”
– Rosalind Russell, Life is a Banquet

Marc Yankus
Many Windows in Chelsea, 2013

Lia wears a hat by Jacques Fath in a 1952 photo by Georges Dambier for the French fashion magazine Arachnée

Poul Henningsen
Piano lamp, 1931

Uncredited Photographer, Berber Jewish Woman, High Atlas Mountain Region, Morocco, c.1930

Erwin Blumenfeld Catherine Cassidy
For “Vogue”, New York City 1949

“A few years earlier, Marilyn had called and asked me to play a joke on her husband, Joe DiMaggio. Apparently, Joe was a fan of mine and always teased Marilyn about how attracted to me he was. She was sick and tired of hearing her husband talk about me and I don’t blame her. She asked me if I would mind being wrapped in a big box with a ribbon tied in a bow around it, to be her gift to Joe on his birthday. The huge box would be on a large table, and right before he opened it, she was going to say, “Now, Joe, after I give you this, I don’t ever want to hear about Maureen O’Hara again.” Then as he pulled the bow and ribbon off, I was supposed to pop out of the box while the crowd shouted, “Surprise!” I thought it would be great fun, sadly, they separated just before it could be done.”
—‘Tis Herself: An Autobiography by Maureen O’Hara

Untitled
by Clyfford Still (American, 1904–1980)
1971
Oil on canvas
79 5/8 x 64 3/4in. (202.2 x 164.5cm)

Hedy Lamarr at home in Vienna, early 1930s.

1938 Packard V-12 Roadster

Capucine (b. Germaine Lefebvre) by Georges Dambier, 1952. I find this portrait of the model and actress deeply poignant. Capucine jumped to her death from her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1990. She was 62 years old.

Margaret of Austria
by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) (Netherlandish, active fourth quarter 15th century)
ca. 1490
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions:12 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (32.7 x 23 cm)

Prepping Tallulah Bankhead for a scene in “Lifeboat” (1944)

Tobi Kahn
Omer Counter, SAPHYR III, Variation IV, Acrylic on wood, 36 x 28 x 5 in., 2011

Pinchas Tzvi wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.