“Had I known of the actual horrors of Nazi concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator. I wanted to ridicule their mystic bilge about a pure-blooded race. The English office at United Artists were against my making an anti-Hitler film — until the war had started.”
—Chaplin, quoted in My Life in Pictures (1974)
Young Woman on a Pink Couch c. 1918
oil on canvas 65-x-54-cm., Private Collection
Photo by Paul Tanqueray
Branch of White Peonies and Secateurs, c. 1864
oil on canvas
Bee on Lips
Vogue,NY, 1995
Only Angels Have Wings, 1939
Story by Howard Hawks
Screenplay by Jules Furthman
To prepare the set for the underwater world, a family of artisans spent three months hand-blowing the required glass pieces.
Source: Designs on Film: A Century of Art Direction by Cathy Whitlock
Katharine Hepburn, 1933
Ethel Warwick, Camera Club, 2 August 1900
Photograph, cyanotype on paper
Dimensions: 165 x 120 mm
Proserpine
1874
Oil on canvas
1251 x 610 mm
Designed by Christopher Dresser (1834 – 1904)
Sheffield, England
ca. 1879 (made)
1879 (designed)
James Dixon and Sons (maker)
Materials and Techniques:
Electroplated nickel silver with ebony handle
David and Goliath
Date, circa 1605-1607
oil on canvas
73 × 53.5 in
National Gallery of Ireland
—Humphrey Bogart, photo by Richard Avedon
Approach, 1962
Acrylic on canvas
83 1/4 x 28 inches
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Judith H. Miller, 1990
Shapes of Spring, 1952
‘The Wing of a Blue Roller’ 1512 (watercolor and gouache), Albertina Museum, Vienna.
Silent Picture #3
acrylic on wood panel
10″ x 10″, 2016
Re: “The Little Dictator” — The 3 Stooges beat Charlie Chaplin when it came to spoofing the Nazis. Good article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Nazty_Spy!”>You Nazty Spy!
Another nice Friday Photos edition, Robert. I am puzzled, however, because your Facebook post featured a movie poster from The 39 Steps, but it wasn’t in your actual post!
Loved that movie…
Mistake. Corrected. Thanks so much.
Interesting about Charlie Chaplin. Of course there is nothing funny about the Nazis. I am rewatching an interesting mini series on Netflix called Generation War. It is about 5 young friends in Berlin who go off to war – among (the friends) is a Jewish son of a tailor whose father was a WW1 her0. The Eastern Front, and 2 brothers facing the evilness of the Nazis, is changing their perception.
Generation War.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883092/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
So many of those classic movie posters are art in their own right.
Bogie’s observation about his face (which I think was accurate – he liked to frequent Romanovs in Hollywood) – reminds me of something my late uncle said (on looking at his, ugh, slightly portly stomach)
“a lot of time and money went into this”
Generation war is a pretty good film.
The Irving Penn photo is obviously referencing the idea of “bee-stung” lips. Probably would have been a better title.
Ethel Warwick looks startingly modern!
That Ethel Warwick picture is very interesting. How was the color achieved on that photograph? Colored in afterwards? Or an actual very early color photograph? They aren’t common, but color photographs using various technologies did exist that far back (and then some).
Very good point. Even more interesting: it’s described as “cyanotype on paper.” But cyanotype (which I just looked up) apparently does not allow for all the colors found in the photo. So I’m guessing the additional colors were added by hand later.
Ah, “Only Angels Have Wings.” I remember the first time I watched that movie – my eye had been caught by Richard Barthelmess’ name in the credits, and, being a silent movie buff, I thought, “I wonder what his voice sounds like?” Well, I found out. And thoroughly enjoyed the movie, too. I should watch it again this weekend.
And, Robert, if I have it right, may I wish you and yours “L’shana Tovah” and a happy and blessed 5777.