—Clark Gable
Pile of Books
etching
20.5 x 9.4 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Beartooth Pass, Montana, July 2016
Untitled, oil on linen on panel, 22″ x 28″ (55.9 cm x 71.1 cm), 2009, © Thomas Nozkowski, courtesy Pace Gallery / Photo by: G. R. Christmas
—Doris Day
Written by Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind, Gregory LaCava (uncredited)
“Oh Godfrey, now I know you love me!”
“I do not love you and you’re going to get me all wet!”
“You do or you wouldn’t have lost your temper. Oh, Mother — Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!”
Montana, July 2016
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas, 30″x30″
2009
“The swans in Regents Park in London inspired me in my performance. They’re really very nasty creatures, always hissing at you. So I used the memory of that hiss. The soundmen ran some of my hisses and screams backwards to add to the strangeness. I spent so much time screaming that I lost my voice and couldn’t speak for days.” —Elsa Lanchester
Gold and nickel-plated Colt Model 1877 Sheriff’s Model Lightning double action ejectorless revolver.
Boston, June 2016
After the Rain
Doheny Boulevard, Los Angeles, 2017
I believe I asked this question once, but I don’t remember the answer. Did Clara Bow pronounce her last name like “There was a bow in the little girl’s hair” or like “Bow to the captain?” B-O-W can be prenounced either way.
Bow as in hair.
“My Man Godfrey” is a favorite and I have a DVD that I watch every once in a while. It is such a Depression movie. Another I like is “Merrily We Live.” In that one a tramp taken in by a family turns out to be a famous author gathering material. The bum, down on his luck, who turns out to be rich or famous or powerful (Superman) made those audiences feel better about their lives.
“Topper” is pure escapism but similar.
I like Doris days quote. In fact I can say that I actually slept in her room. But she wasn’t there.
This was at the El Rancho hotel in Gallup New Mexico. For some decades when westerns were filmed in the area production crews would stay here
One of ricks Montana shots reminds me exactly of old US 40 leaving soda Springs into Donner Lake. They kept that small section of highway because it is absolutely beautiful
Finally I think I read somewhere that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers save their movie studio from bankruptcy with their movies
None of the major studios went bankrupt. None. Nada. Zero. And Republic got added. So you can safely say that everyone who was successful saved their studios and their jobs. As in Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Mrs. Gable, Loy and Powell, James Cagney and the other Powell, Dick…not quite an endless list, but significant. And Gene Autry riding up on the outside.
“My Man Godfrey” is a marvelous movie and it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing those roles as well. I merely thought that until I saw the 1957 remake which convinced me I was right. June Allyson and David Niven are pretty fair actors in their own right but they didn’t bring the magic of Carole Lombard and William Powell. (For that matter whom ever played the father was no Eugene Pallette.)
I understand remakes are a Hollywood standard and without them we’d never have had “The Maltese Falcon” but you’d think they’d recognize when it was done right and stop. I wonder if Harrison Ford regrets his starring in a bad remake of “Roman Holiday.”
I didn’t even know those remakes had been made. I also did not see the “Thomas Crown Affair” remake. That is another favorite. I showed it to my kids about 20 years ago and they could not get over how good it was.
Sabrina, not Roman Holiday, was remade with Harrison Ford. I thought well produced and charmingly played with the added advantage of not having Humphrey Bogart get the girl, something that had been intended and prepared for Cary Grant.
The Durer painting looks like a photograph and the Koentjoro photo looks like a painting. That must say something about art and human nature but I don’t have time to expand on that thought right now.
Any idea if that is how the “Jewish Village Girl, Persia (Iran) c.1880” dressed every day, or was she dressed up for a special occasion (or to have her picture taken)?
Thanks again and have a wonderful Shabbos.