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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Norma Jeane Doughtery at 17
The original caption says that this is her as a "newly wed in Catalina in 1943". Is that true? Was she married for the first time at 17 years old?
Friday, February 26, 2010
Vivien Leigh
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. - Vivien Leigh
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Billie Dove
Born as Bertha Bohny in New York City to Charles and Bertha Bohny who were Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s. and migrated to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and was dubbed The American Beauty (1927), the title of one of her films.
She married the director of her seventh film, Irvin Willat, in 1923. The two divorced in 1929. Dove had a huge legion of male fans, one of her most persistent being Howard Hughes. She shared a three-year romance with Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she ended the relationship without ever giving cause. Hughes cast her as a comedian in his film Cock of the Air (1932). She also appeared in his movie The Age for Love (1931). (via: Wikipedia)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Prepping for To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck and Mary Badham review the script for the film, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Internet Radio Revolution
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| Cort Webber, center, and Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts, right, former KUFO disc jockeys, interview Byron Beck as part of their pdx.fm program. |
In Portland, the city with quirks, pdx.fm fits in perfectly
By Peter Ames Carlin, The Oregonian
Viewed from the sidewalk, Portland can look like a circus sideshow. Check out the tattooed vegans, walking in stride with the dads and kids, the comic book geeks, the iPhone addicts and the fanatic knitters.
Turn the corner and here come spandex-wrapped bicyclists, sci-fi nerds and folks who have made a religion of finding the city's best sausage waffles.
What are they thinking? The casual observer never knows.
Until you fire up your computer and dial up pdx.fm, two channels of streaming, podcast-able radio shows. They're all-Portland, all the time, and all completely, sometimes unbelievably, unfiltered.
Read more ....
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Julian Mandel (Photographer)
"Julian Mandel" (1872-1935) is the identity given to one of the best-known commercial photographers of female nudes of the early twentieth century. Signature photography bearing that name became known in the 1910s and was published in Paris through the mid-1930s by such firms as Alfred Noyer, Les Studios, P-C Paris, and the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft. (via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Mandel)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Rita Hayworth
“After all, a girl is…well, a girl. It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.”
- Rita Hayworth
Saturday, February 06, 2010
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