—Gregory Peck
Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter
c. 1667
Oil on canvas, 89,5 x 78,1 cm
Frick Collection, New York
Detroit,1955
Lithograph
25 x 34 inches
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered
—Bette Davis
—Anna May Wong
Oil on canvas, 87 x 106.5 cm.
Oil on canvas. 97-3/4″ x 76″
Musical Group on a Balcony is a wonder. And I like your Silent Picture. Is it a painting?
Not a painting. A close-up photo of an old chair seat.
Great.
Thanks so much. The chair was in a thrift store on La Cienega Blvd.
“They say that in Hollywood one can’t be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”
—Bette Davis
I would suspect that in Hollywood there is a lot of backstabbing, but the enduring business relationships have to have honesty as the glue.
Love both the painting of Hinthorst – for 1621 that painting to me reaches out to me centuries later – and the Eisenstaedt photo of the nurses…Boy, did we lose something when Life Magazine disappeared from the weekly newsstand. Wouldn’t you say that Alfred Eidenstadt was one of the most prolific photographers?
You might enjoy this little experience I had today.
I am getting blood drawn in the lab – and I tell the cute nurse that she ought to give a Vincent Price imitation while she is awaiting me with syringe in hand.
Ya know, “Good day. Ve’ve been vaiting for you” (actually that sounds more like Bela Lugosi).
Anyway my accent sounded more like Peter Lorre. He’s easy, as Jimmy “you dirty rat” Cagney.
She replies, “that sounds like someone on The Simpsons”.
I tell her “where do you think they got it?”
She was drawing a blank.
Interesting timeline for Grauman’s at http://graumanschinese.org/
Karl Struss was a photographer in a group in New York with Alfred Stieglitz before becoming a cinematographer. His photo came from that period. I had the pleasure of meeting him before he died at a special screening of “Sunrise.” This is my favorite silent movie and, in my opinion, Murnau’s masterpiece. Go out of your way to see it anytime you have the chance.
The van Honthorst painting and Eisenstaedt photo remind me of the chalk drawings of Kurt Wenner: http://kurtwenner.com/
Larry:
Green with envy that you met Struss. Sunrise is a masterpiece. I screen it once a year. The Wenner chalk drawings are brilliant.
The Dees girls years later …
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The pictures of your grandchildren never fail to put a smile on my face.
Thanks so much for the link to the Dee triplets, and for the kind words.
They seem to have turned out nicely.
I want to like Gregory Peck, but the deeply dishonest anti-Bork commercial he starred in makes it difficult.