“Then, when we became established, he would costar the rising young players with us.
“Believe me, when the time came for us to move from the featured players’ building into the building of the star’s dressing rooms, it was a thrilling event in your life. It was like entering a new kingdom in which you were the queen.”
—Lana Turner
“You’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?
H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I’ll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one against the other.”
Screenplay by James Agee
Based on the novel: The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Photographer: Arthur Rice
—Greta Garbo
Portrait of a Woman,
Tempera on wood; 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (41.3 x 31.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Photographer: Dennis Stock
Downtown Street Talk
Los Angeles, 1946
On deck, Georgian Bay, 2019 Rick is a cherished friend and one of the most talented photographers we know. We’d like to draw your attention to Rick’s online bookstore where the best of his work is on sale in high quality magazine form. These fine art books are available for only a limited time. We have already placed our order. Click here https://www.blurb.ca/user/rickmcginnis to order Rick’s work, which is spectacular.
—Judy Garland
Charcoal (some oiled ?), heightened with white, pen and brown ink on her left eye, on paper.
Drawn by Andrea del Verrocchio, who was Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher
Florentine
Date 1475 (circa)
Height: 325 millimetres, Width: 272 millimetres
Torah dedication in memory of Ariel Chaim Avrech, August 25, 2019. Photo by Steve Cohn
Robert, I forgot to wish you and your family “Shanah Tovah Umetukah” (I hope I got that right!)
ProphetJoe
Beautiful picture Rick!
The quote from Lana Turner really resonated with me. Explains the studio system in a paragraph. I think my Dad was classmates with her at Hollywood High.
The Packard? Beautiful lines and color. Would turn heads today on the road.
I wonder if the kid with the suspenders in the LA street scene is a zoot suitor? That was about the time.
On John Wayne (Marion Morrison), he was a Sigma Chi and that fraternity house was right on campus next to the Student Union building. By the time I was there, the university had forced them off campus and the old Sigma Chi house was the Bursar’s Office where you paid tuition. Sigma Chi had gotten so powerful because of the location and the sports teams that they were forced down to 28th street which became fraternity row. If I remember the story, he got hurt and started working as a prop helper at the studio.
Another nice week, Robert. I love the West Side Story storyboard — my mind recognized it immediately. I like the Hamilton watch… it’s not as stunning or sophisticated as some of the others you’ve featured, but it is in my price range! In regard to the 1930 Packard, I’m always amazed how this time period transitioned from this type of design to the sleek, fast designs of the Art Deco period in just about 5-10 years.