
Lee was among the most prominent female members of the John Ford stock company. Ford’s pet name for her was Boniface, her middle name (Joanna Boniface Winnifrith). Ford’s feelings for Lee were cemented when she had a miscarriage while shooting How Green Was My Valley, brought on by collapsing during the scene where she learns her husband has died. She hadn’t told Ford that she was pregnant, but he nevertheless, blamed himself. The result was that on every picture Lee worked on with him, Ford would assemble the cast and crew, then ask her if she was pregnant.
”No sir,” she would reply.
“I just wanted to make sure.”
—Source: Print the Legend, by Scott Eyman

Kamisuki Hair, 1920
Taisho era

1898
Platinum print
Image: 17.3 x 12.4 cm
Mount: 36 x 20.5 cm
Inscription(s): recto (printed label): 97
verso (handwritten in pencil): Ligine Study \ Eva Watson \ …Mathilde…
Source: Eastmanmuseum

Imagine That

Pelvis Series
1947
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 121.9 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS 2016, courtesy Eykyn Maclean

Photo by Nicolas Tikhomiroff

The Millinery Shop, 1879-1886

—Carroll Baker

Storm Clouds Maine 1906-1907
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches

Sycamore leaves edging the roots of a sycamore tree, Hampshire, November 1, 2013





Lisa with Turban, New York, 1940

Winter Road I
1963
oil on canvas
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS 2016


—Lillian Gish

Table with Cloth, Salt Cellar, Gilt Standing Cup, Pie, Porcelain Plate with Olives and Cooked Fowl (1611).
Image courtesy of Museo del Prado

Kitchen Table
1921

Left: Lover Watching His Love Sleep, c. 1960
Right: I Must Concentrate, c. 1960. Images courtesy of Julien’s Auctions. You can bid on these and more MM memorabilia here.

Screenplay by Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
Based on Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Source: Watchtime

Silent Picture

Earth art
Oak leaves and hole


Hanukkah Dreidel.
silver, patinated copper, cast, punched.
Gift of Robert & Karen Avrech to the Mina K. Avrech Judaica Collection, Yeshiva University Museum

Have you seen the Photoshop of Michelle Obama holding a card that says, “An immigrant is taking my job.”? I loved it.
Saw it. Great.
I love mechanical watches. I have two and bought my wife a nice Concord wrist watch for Christmas on eBay. Last year I got her a gold charm bracelet which she loves. Both are “Estate” items. That Washington watch is exquisite.
“Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn’t it?”
I think there is a lot of wisdom in that…
Merci, Robert. I needed this…
Kim Novak, Carroll Baker, BB, and Washington’s exquisite watch. Kudos!