—Hedy Lamar b. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (1914 – 2000)
Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper. The earliest surviving photograph of a woman, 1839 or 1840.
oil on canvas
Margit Lisa Roeder, “Smoking Break (Spiral-staircases),” Wendeltreppen, Hamburg. 2013.
“Construction-in-Depths”
1944, Oil-on-board-15-x-18-in.
—Susan Hayward b. Edythe Marrenner (1917 – 1975)
Untitled 1987
casein on panel
48.2 x 48 x 3 in.
The Last Waltz
Paris, 1949
Untitled 1977
Israel 1949
—Paulette Goddard b. Pauline Marion Goddard Levy (1910 – 1990)
Linhas incidentes, Incident Lines, 1954
“Untitled” 1964 Acrylic on paper, mounted on masonite 40.875 x 27.375 in (103.7 x 69.5 cm) Guggenheim, N.Y.
Fireflies
c.1900
Piet Cohen, Dutch, b. 1935
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1995
Silver; synthetic string
3 3/16 × 11 1/2 × 3 3/16 in.
Another eclectic and interesting Friday.
Robert, my daughter and her photo are in the Summer issue of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. She is starting to do a little painting of her own. She is the one connected with LA Louver in Venice.
I’ll look up the article. Thanks.
Of course I’d love to tell you how wonderful your friday editions are, but it would go to your head and I won’t be responsible for the results. Love the pic of the Azerbaijanis and I can’t see a picture of Ms. Kiesler without thinking Hedley. I just can’t!
Thanks so much. Won’t go to my head… too much.
Cool car wash photo. Little Pinchas looks like he’s ready for Shabbos to just start, already! Lots of nachas.
As always wonderful selection. Before I started reading Seraphic Secret I did not know of all the stars who lived miserable lives on the pedestal . That movie starlet you profiled who committed suicide with Rex Harrison seems to stay with me.
Carole Landis.
Amazing how so many people can get to such heights and like a Greek tragedy because of character flaws destroy themselves.
On Paulette Goddard – who almost became Scarlet O’Hara in GWTW – look at her screen test and she was every bit as good as the iconic Vivien Leigh.
No one ever said that Paulette Goddard wasn’t as good as Vivien. She just, for a variety of reasons, did not get the part.
I agree with Joe, your Friday photos/paintings are a delight. In today’s selection, I enjoyed the spiral staircases. It is very reminiscent of some M. C. Escher work.
I didn’t think of M.C. Escher, but of course, you are absolutely right. Good eye.
I love the artistic quality of the spiral stairs, but my acrophobia/vertigo left me with a slightly unpleasant feelings about the photo — I pictured myself having to walk down those steps!
I always look forward to your Friday Photos, Robert.
Before reading Seraphic Secret, I’d never heard of James Nares. Now I seem drawn to every painting of his that you post. I love the color selection and his brush-stroke technique. Now, I must remember to hide the fact that he has a line of Coach Purse products or my wife will go shopping!
Mary Nolan sounds like another Hollywood tragedy. A young woman, beautiful and determined, who makes bad choices and dies young, broken and penniless. You said she was addicted to Heroin, but I thought she was addicted to Morphine as a result of the Eddie Mannix beatings. Perhaps both at different times… ? I’m curious about your reference to the nickname “Bubbles”. My parents went to (a very small) high school with a girl nicknamed Bubbles. One day I asked Dad why she had that nickname and he said it was because she developed (large) breasts at an early age. I have never associated that nickname with wild/promiscuous behavior… did I miss some memo?
By the way, great photos of the car wash and your grandchildren!
Have a wonderful Sabbath.
I think Nares has also done a line of scarves. Good for him. Very little is known about Nolan. She wrote a confessional for the Heart newspapers that is highly unreliable, but contains some interesting hints at various facts. Unfortunately, she’s too minor a star to ever warrant a full length bio. Bubbles is a name I associate with the Roaring 20s and chorus girls taking baths in champagne. Heroin or morphine. In a sense they are so closely related that the distinction is merely one of chemical refinement. In reports about her addiction, both are named. The car wash is fun. I plan to take the grandchildren through on their next visit to LA.
The Eddie Mannix connection may not be all that scandal mongers with in fact. Eddie wasn’t all that bad a guy. And promiscuous goes with Mary Nolan like a twin sister.
Should read ‘wish’ not ‘with’. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Barry, are you saying Mannix did not beat her to a pulp? B/c if he did, how is “not all that bad a guy?”
I am suggesting that Mary Nolan, as Robert has described, is unreliable, and that Eddie Mannix for decades functioned at MGM as a high level executive and absolutely nothing in his life or lifestyle is consistent with this behavior. That does not mean I believe his to be Santa Claus, but along with Howard Strickling, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg and later on Dore Schary, ran the place with consistency and sanity.
No idea of how reliable this fellow is, but from what he has compiled, Mannix sounds pretty awful, notwithstanding his effectiveness at work. Far more here than just Nolan:
http://filmstarfacts.com/2015/11/29/mgms-fixers-mannix-strickling/
He reads to me like another scandal monger making everyone one in our business some kind of degenerate. There are few reliable sources. And the mainstream media in covering these books is about as reliable as their coverage of any political figure.