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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
Erwartet werden anfangs etwa 25 Millionen Passagiere im Jahr.
Initially, around 25 million passengers a year are expected.
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1385. Photo: Dear Film.
Demure, dark-haired English beauty Jean Simmons (1929-2010) was in the late 1940s a box office attraction in films like Great Expectations and Hamlet. In 1950 she moved to Hollywood with her husband, Stewart Granger, and soon became a major Hollywood star who would be twice nominated for an Oscar.
Jean Merilyn Simmons was born in London, England in 1929. Her father, a schoolteacher, helped Jean to start her career in a dancing school. Two weeks later the school was visited by producer Val Guest, who was looking for a ‘fresh face’ to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (Val Guest, 1944). He had found her. Jean went on to make a name for herself in such major British productions as the G.B. Shaw adaptation Caesar and Cleopatra (Gabriel Pascal, 1945, as the pretty, seductive, and mischievous Estella in Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946, as a sultry native beauty with a nose ring in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947), the original version of The Blue Lagoon (Frank Launder, 1949), and the thriller So Long at the Fair (Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher, 1950 co-starring Dirk Bogarde. For her role as Ophelia in Olivier’s adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948), she earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Jean Simmons was revered and beloved by both British critics and filmgoers. By the end of 1950, she was the #4 box office attraction, American or British, in British cinema. Only 20 and seemingly on top of the world, Jean soon had her own flat in London and the luxuries that stardom brings.
In 1950, Jean Simmons married actor Stewart Granger, 16 years her senior. They had met when she played his adopted daughter in the romantic comedy Adam and Evelyne (Harold French, 1949). Together they made the transition to Hollywood. Granger was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and would play Allan Quartermain, the Prisoner of Zenda and Scaramouche. The 21-years old Simmons found out that RKO head Howard Hughes had purchased the remaining six months of her Rank Studio contract. When Hughes claimed that an oral agreement with Rank precluded her from being loaned out to any other studio, she sued RKO. The legal battle raged for over a year. When the suit was finally settled, RKO had a three-year contract for Jean's services but was obligated to pay her $250,000 in addition to her legal fees. Furthermore, she won the right to work on loan to other studios at a substantial salary. David Thomson writes in his 2010-obituary in the Guardian: "The strange tycoon was obsessed with her personally, and he laid siege to her romantically and professionally so that she did not work for over a year. Only one thing emerged from the stand-off, Angel Face, in which she is a spoiled child and lethal temptress who seduces nearly everyone she meets (most notably Robert Mitchum). The brilliant picture was directed by Otto Preminger and photographed by the great veteran Harry Stradling. Thus it contains – and she sustains – some of the most luminous close-ups ever given to a femme fatale. How far she understood the picture is unclear. One can only say that it is a rare tribute to unrequited love."
Among Jean Simmons' best-known Hollywood films are the biblical epic The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953) with Richard Burton, The Egyptian (Michael Curtiz, 1954) with Victor Mature, and The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958) with Gregory Peck. She also starred in the Frank Sinatra / Marlon Brando musical Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955). She used her own singing voice and earned her first Golden Globe Award. Simmons divorced Granger in 1960 and almost immediately after married writer-director Richard Brooks, who cast her as Sister Sharon opposite Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960), a memorable adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel. That same year she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) and played a would-be homewrecker opposite Cary Grant in The Grass Is Greener (Stanley Donen, 1960).
Off the screen for a few years, Jean Simmons captivated moviegoers with a brilliant performance as the mother in All the Way Home (Alex Segal, 1963), a literate, tasteful adaptation of James Agee's A Death in the Family. After that, however, she found quality projects somewhat harder to come by and took work in Life at the Top (Ted Kotcheff, 1965), Divorce American Style (Bud Yorkin, 1967), and The Happy Ending (Richard Brooks, 1969) for which she was again Oscar-nominated, this time as Best Actress. By the 1970s, she turned her focus to stage and television acting. In the theatre, she appeared most notably as Desiree in the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music (1974) and she headlined the American national tour as well. She and Richard Brooks divorced in 1977. In the 1980s she mainly appeared in TV mini-series, such as The Thorn Birds (Daryl Duke, 1983 for which she won an Emmy Award, and North and South (Richard T. Heffron, 1985). Becoming depressed at the lack of quality parts being offered her, Jean became addicted to alcohol. In 1986, she sought professional treatment. Jean made a comeback in the cinemas in How to Make an American Quilt (Jocelyn Moorehouse, 1995), co-starring with Winona Ryder and Anne Bancroft. More recently she gave her voice to the elderly Sophie in the English version of the beautiful animation film Hauru no ugoku shiro/Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004). Her last film was Shadows in the Sun (David Rocksavage, 2009) with James Wilby in which she was deeply touching as a dying poet. In 2003 she was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to acting. Jean Simmons lived as a naturalized U.S. citizen in California, where she had been for the last fifty years. Jean Simmons passed away in 2010, at the age of 80. She had two children: a daughter with Stewart Granger, Tracy Granger, and a daughter with Richard Brooks, Kate Brooks.
Sources: David Thomson (The Guardian), kdhaisch (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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The We’re Here! group is visiting a very strange place today: Struts Online Training. I really did not know what to do with it, but it reminded me of a current rage which I consider a little odd.
I also took the opportunity to play in this weeks’ Treat This 167 challenge in creating my contribution.
I’ve borrowed several images in designing this little protest. First I must applaud the incomparable abstractartangel77 for the amazing fractal you see in the background. The original is shown in a thumbnail in the first comment box below.
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I had an idea I really wanted to try of athletes bursting into pieces. Luckily a friend of mine, and personal trainer, was wanting some shots to help promote herself. She was up for doing something a little different. This is the first photo I've done. More to follow. (more to follow)
Everything was shot with a white seamless as the background and floor. I have a softbox on each side pointing toward the background. The key light is one 48" octabox pointed at the model at about 45 degrees and slightly down. I positioned a bare canon speedlight on the opposite side of the key light. Its slightly behind the model and aimed directly at her to add some highlights.
Grave Expectations Mortuary, Bayou Chat Noir
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She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?
Winter morning 0645, rather cool and these four anglers were off to try their luck. July is the month when traditionally trillions of sardines migrate up the KZN coast of Southern Africa, this year they did start the run but very few shoals came in close to the shore. I'll try again next year!
Towards the end of her days in this existence, Sarah became the focus for snide remarks and jokes from the townspeople. She always seemed to be waiting for something - as if she would be rescued. When Charles died, she received significant support from the locals. But that pity and concern developed into a disdain for the recalcitrant waif-like Sarah. And that only drove her deeper into depression and withdrawal.
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WEEK 53 – Cordova Super Target Final Day, Set VI
Our look at the left-side entrance to the store shows even more boarded-up glass (almost apocalyptic, no?), and removed signage. Not even much of a labelscar on this side, at least not when you compare it to the previous two pics. Of course, it’s also possible my phone simply didn’t capture it that well.
The building still has a very nice design, and as I wrote earlier in this album, I always liked its architecture. But seeing it in this state is just sorta surreal. The boards threw me for a loop; I was not expecting that. I don’t know about you, but for me they immediately change the tone of this scene, and not for the better. :(
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