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French postcard by Editions du Globe, no. 473. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
American film actress Jane Russell (1921-2011) was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. She had her first film role in 1943 in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw. In 1947, Russell delved into music. Her film career revived when she was cast as Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948). After starring in several films in the 1950s, including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career.
In 1940, Jane Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul, Howard Hughes. She made her film debut in the Western The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, 1943), a story about Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) that went to great lengths to showcase Russell's voluptuous figure. Hughes' battles with the censors resulted in the film spending three years on the shelf before finally gaining wide release in a cut version in 1946.The film and the controversy turned her into an icon. In 1947 Russell delved into music before returning to films. She played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope in The Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod, 1948), and Mike 'the Torch' Delroy opposite Hope in another western comedy, Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin, 1952).
Most famously, Jane Russell played Dorothy Shaw in the hit musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953) opposite Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee. Brendon Hanley at AllMovie: "On the surface, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a brassy, garish, colorful musical comedy featuring two rather lightweight actresses, Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. Ultimately, however, director Howard Hawks uses the nature of the material and the glossy stars to an interesting, paradoxical effect. The film lacks strong masculine characters and any sort of traditional morality; it's dominated by the superficial. The two main characters are sex symbols who, in true Hawksian fashion, have their sex-appeal turned on its head." After starring in multiple films in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career. Russell often played cynical, 'tough broads,' and in 1971, she starred in the Broadway musical Company.
Sources: Brendon Hanley (AllMovie), AllMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Full 1830s outfit based on the 1983 TV version. 100% hand-stitched by me.
More about it in my blog: www.swish-swirl.com/2014/06/11/jane-eyre-2/
French postcard by Editions Cahiers de cinéma, Paris, 1997. Photo: Traverso. Caption: Jane Birkin, Festival de Cannes 1974.
In the Swinging Sixties, shy, awkward-looking British actress Jane Birkin (1946) made a huge international splash as one of the nude models in Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966). In France, she became the muse of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, who wrote several of her albums, plus their explicitly erotic duet Je t'aime... moi non plus. Later she worked with such respected film directors as Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Doillon, and won several acting awards.
Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London in 1946. Her mother, Judy Campbell, was an English stage actress, and her father, David Birkin, was a Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, who had worked on clandestine operations as a navigator with the French Resistance. Her brother is the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin. She was educated at Upper Chine School, Isle of Wight, and then went to Kensington Academy in London. At 17, she first went on stage in Graham Greene's 1964 production Carving a Statue. A year later she was chosen to play in the musical comedy Passion Flower Hotel with music by John Barry (composer of the James Bond theme). They met and married shortly afterward. Their daughter Kate Barry, now a photographer, was born in 1967. Jane emerged in the Swinging London scene of the 1960s. First, she appeared uncredited as a girl on a motorbike in the comedy The Knack …and How to Get It (Richard Lester, 1965) starring Rita Tushingham. Then she attracted attention with a brief scene as a nude, blonde model in Blowup (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni's scandalous masterpiece that received the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1968, Birkin played a fantasy-like model in the psychedelic picture Wonderwall (Joe Massot, 1968). That same year, she auditioned in France for the lead female role in Slogan (Pierre Grimblat, 1969) with pop star Serge Gainsbourg, who was still grieving after his break up with Brigitte Bardot. Jane barely spoke French, and Gainsbourg gave her a rough time. When she burst into tears, mixing private sadness about John Barry and the film part, he disapproved, but he recognised that she cried well in front of the camera. Jane got the part, and a mythical and passionate Paris love story began. Birkin performed with Gainsbourg on the film's theme song, La chanson de slogan — the first of many collaborations between the two. They became inseparable and a living legend when they recorded the duet Je t'aime... moi non plus (I love you... me neither), a song Gainsbourg originally had written for Brigitte Bardot. The song's fame is partly a result of its salacious lyrics, sung by Gainsbourg and Birkin to a background of passionate whispering and moaning from Birkin, concluding in her simulated orgasm. Censorship in several countries went wild, the Vatican condemned the immoral nature of the song, and in Great Britain, the BBC refused to play the original and did their own orchestral version. The record benefited from all the free publicity and rocketed straight to the top of the charts, selling a million copies in a matter of months.
At the Côte d'Azur, Jane Birkin played in the thriller La Piscine/The Swimming Pool (Jacques Deray, 1969) in which she was seduced by Alain Delon. Then she went with Serge Gainsbourg to Yugoslavia to play in the adventure film Romansa konjokradice/Romance of a horse thief (Abraham Polonsky, 1971) starring Yul Brynner. In 1971 her daughter, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg was born. Birkin took a break from acting, but returned as the lover of Brigitte Bardot (in her final film role) in Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme.../Don Juan 73 (Roger Vadim, 1973). Her first solo album, Di Doo Dah, was also released in 1973. The title song became another chart hit. In the cinema, Birkin played 'cute but stupid' roles in box office hits such as La moutarde me monte au nez/Lucky Pierre (Claude Zidi, 1974) and La course à l’échalotte/The Wild Goose Chase (Claude Zidi, 1975), two popular comedies starring Pierre Richard. She proved herself as a film actress in Le Mouton enragé/Love at the Top (Michel Deville, 1974) starring Romy Schneider, and the highly dramatic Sept morts sur ordonnance/Seven Deaths by Prescription (Jacques Rouffio, 1975) opposite Michel Piccoli. In 1975, she also appeared with Joe Dallesandro in Gainsbourg's daring directorial début Je t'aime... moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976). The film created a stir for its frank examination of sexual ambiguity and the controversial sex scenes. For her performance as an androgynous-looking teenager, she was nominated for a Best Actress César Award. In the meantime, her second album Lolita go home (1975) came out, on which she sang Philippe Labro's lyrics set to Gainsbourg's music. Three years later, her Ex-fan des sixties (1978) was released. Birkin appeared in a series of mainstream films such as the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978) and Evil Under the Sun (Guy Hamilton, 1982), with Peter Ustinov as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In the arthouse production Egon Schiele Exzess und Bestrafung/Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (Herbert Vesely, 1980), she appeared as the mistress of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, played by Mathieu Carrière.
Serge Gainsbourg had plunged into several major bouts of alcoholism and depression, resulting in all-night partying and scandals, and in 1980 Jane Birkin left him. The couple remained on good terms though. Birkin starred as Anne in La fille prodigue/The Prodigal Daughter (Jacques Doillon, 1981). Jacques Doillon proved to be her dream of a director, who imposed his own personal style of drama and brought out the very best of her. She went to live with him, and in 1982 she had her third daughter Lou Doillon. She also appeared as Alma opposite Maruschka Detmers in his La pirate/The Pirate (Jacques Doillon, 1984), for which she was nominated for a César Award. This work led to an invitation from theatre director Patrice Chéreau to star on stage in La Fausse suivante (The False Servant) by Pierre de Marivaux. Gainsbourg, suffering from the separation, wrote Baby alone in Babylone for her. The record won the Charles Cross award and became a gold record. She began to appear frequently on stage in plays and concerts in France, Japan, the U.K., and then the U.S. Film director Jacques Rivette collaborated with her in L'amour par terre/Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette, 1983) starring Geraldine Chaplin, and La Belle Noiseuse/The Beautiful Troublemaker (Jacques Rivette, 1991) with Michel Piccoli and Emmanuelle Béart. Again Birkin was nominated for the César for the best supporting actress, for the latter. She created a sensation as star and screenwriter of director Agnès Varda's Kung Fu Master (1987), in which she played a 40-year-old woman carrying on a torrid affair with a 15-year-old boy, played by Mathieu Demy, Varda's son. The following year, Varda expressed her admiration for Birkin with the feature-length documentary Jane B. par Agnes V (Agnès Varda, 1988).
Jane Birkin’s work in Dust (Marion Hänsel, 1985) with Trevor Howard and Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990) opposite Dirk Bogarde also earned her the praise and respect of international critics. Additionally, she appeared in Merchant Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory, 1998) and Merci Docteur Rey (Andrew Litvack, 2002) with Dianne Wiest, while the end title song of Le Divorce (James Ivory, 2003) featured her singing L'Anamour, composed by Serge Gainsbourg. In 1990 Serge Gainsbourg dedicated a new album to her: Amours des feintes. It was to be his last. He died in 1991. A year later Birkin won the Female Artist of the Year award at the 1992 Victoires de la Musique. In 1993 she separated from Jacques Doillon. In the following years, she devoted herself to her family and to her humanitarian work with Amnesty International on immigrant welfare and AIDS issues. Birkin visited Bosnia, Rwanda, and Palestine, often working with children. In 2001, she was awarded the OBE in Great Britain. She has also been awarded the French Ordre national du Mérite in 2004. Jane Birkin continues to make films, theatre, and music. She collaborated with such artists as Bryan Ferry, Manu Chao, Françoise Hardy, Rufus Wainwright, and Les Negresses Vertes on albums as Rendez-Vous (2004) and Fictions (2006). The self-penned Enfants d'Hiver arrived in 2008. In 2006, Birkin played the title role in Elektra, directed by Philippe Calvario in France. At the Cannes Film Festival 2007, she presented a film, both as a director and actor: Boxes (2007) with Michel Piccoli, Geraldine Chaplin, and her daughter Lou Doillon. She also appeared in Si tu meurs, je te tue/If you die, I’ll kill you (Hiner Saleem, 2011) with Jonathan Zaccaï, and La femme et le TGV/The Railroad Lady (2016), a short film directed by Swiss filmmaker Timo von Gunten. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In a 2017 interview, Birkin stated that La femme et le TGV would be her final acting performance and that she had no plans to return to acting. In March 2017, Jane Birkin released Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le Symphonique, a collection of songs Serge Gainsbourg had written for her during and after their relationship, reworked with full orchestral arrangements.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), John Bush (AllMusic), RFI Musique, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Taken for 'Saturday Self Challenge': "Statues and Monuments"
This is local lass Jane Austen in front of the Town Hall in Market Square, Basingstoke, she used to attend dances in the Basingstoke Assembly Rooms which were where the building to the left of the image now stands.
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Spanish postcard.
American film actress Jane Russell (1921-2011) was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Full 1830s outfit based on the 1983 TV version. 100% hand-stitched by me.
More about it in my blog: www.swish-swirl.com/2014/06/11/jane-eyre-2/
In attendance, at Miss Jane's small, oh so cosy gathering, is Tallulah. Tallulah is in all truth, a little blue. She misses her dear friend Toulouse. Miss Jane understands, well sort of, Miss Jane is far more pragmatic, and a little less romantic than Tallulah....however, Miss Jane does understand, and being the perfect hostess that she is, Miss Jane serves the appropriate cocktail: a "Bellatini", a concoction containing carrot ambrosia, a wood berry essence, an ethereal salt of sorts, and a wisp of mint!...a familiar mixture amongst her friends...so Tallulah sips it quietly, and appreciates the quiet comfort that Miss Jane’s little gathering brings....
Also in attendance...
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Miss Jane (Jane D.) is an Always Me Misaki (2015) wearing a Barbie Fashionistas Teresa top (2011?) with a Veronique Perrin Fashion Plate skirt (2003) and Pillow Talk Poppy Parker slippers (2009).
Tallulah is a Dynamite Girls Holland doll (2013) wearing Re-Ment Girly Style set # 2 top (2008) with a Barbie Look Party Perfect skirt (2016) and a little fur from a Dynamite Girls Boho Upgrade Fashion from the FR Dark Romance Convention (2010).
In these pictures:
Shelf by ebay seler fr-27
Lamp and chair from Barbie’s New Dream House # 4092 (1964).
Miniature furniture from the miniature Barbie’s New Dream House # 4092 by DutchBarbieWorld on Etsy:
www.etsy.com/shop/DutchBarbieWorld
Martinis are by “It’s Barb J’s MADWORLD” at:
The ground is a Moss Mat.
The "wallpaper" is wrapping paper.
Bunny and fawns by Schleich.
Hallmark Guardian Angel ornament (2016).
Re-Ments.
Jane is a friend. An old soul, a quirky friend, a believer, a seeker, a spiritualist. At 86 I don’t know how much longer we will be able to share time with her. She collects stones and rocks; especially my painted rocks. Jane is a shaman of sorts. This stone connects us; for us to each have a little piece of the other.
To celebrate Jane's 22nd birthday, we threw her a baby themed party; as she is such a baby! Here she is in all her finery: Adult nappy, bib, bonnet, dummy, baby booties and baby bottle (filled with alcohol, of course)
hey flickr! Sorry for my lack of posts lately. I've still been shooting my 365, but I kinda needed a break from social medias! SO I'm not sure how much i'll be posting, but I wanted some feedback on this one. so here is my photo for today. what do you guys think?
I'm planning on doing a disney series for a class coming up and of course I had to try one out on myself first! I'm supposed to be Jane form Tarzan! I watched the movie(for the first time) last night and was inspired to start shooting!
Anyways, hope you all have been well :) xoxo
oh and side note: I actually made this shirt today! I couldn't find anything like what Jane wears in the movie, so i did a bit of DIY :D
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PARIS PHOTO 2024 - GRAND PALAIS
Publié sur issuu : Paris Photo 2024, Grand Palais, samedi 09 novembre 2024
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This is another shot from the Roan Highlands area taken this summer during the Rhododendron blooms. In this composition I wanted to focus of the soft lighting illuminating the massive rock on Jane Bald. This rock has such great character and I really liked the soft light in this scene. You can't tell from this photo but there were about 15 other photographers to my left and right all with our tripods battling for room to shoot and a good composition.
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Jane seems like an amazing person. As I watched her die I caught a glimpse of her face. She knew she was about to die. Jane was dead but I prayed and wished with all my heart some how, just some how she made it out alive. Jane and Charlie will never come back, but their memory will always live in my heart. R.I.P Jane and Charlie
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I was over in east London again today to look after Roxy to help Abby out as she has a deadline to meet. Roxy and I collected Elsie from school before I made my way back home. This photo is at the beginning of the evening rush hour . . .I caught the 5pm train.
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we cleared Christopher's flat over the last two days. The next thing to happen - the decorators, then new carpet, then the deep clean and then the estate agent . . . and we think we shall make a loss but hopefully will be ahead of the game as there are other flats to sell in this independent living over 60s apartment building.
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after Elsie had perfected her reindeer face makeup (see previous two photos) she turned to me and said it was time to have my face painted. Oh no, I thought, and held out my hand. Please paint something beautiful on my hand. Taking a photo iwth my left hand only wasn't easy, but I sat down to supper as Grangran and not as something from Elsie's imagination!
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from our afternoon/evening in east London yesterday. Elsie brought home a small soft toy lemming called Cliff. Her teacher said he found him at the base of a cliff in the Thames (I think the story is probably confused) and he took it into class and each child takes him home for a day and has to write his diary to tell the class what he has done.
Well, Cliff was the subject of hide-and-seek and he watched Elsie's acrobatics and dancing. He ate peas and carrots for supper. And Elsie made him a pair of leggings up in Abby's studio . . . on his last visit he was graced with a sequinned tee shirt! And he was on Elsie's pillow when I kissed her good-night . . .
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Elsie is unwell, so we are not going over to east London today. I shall be having a Roxy day on Thursday - all things being well. Our neighbours are coming to the rescue and coming to supper to help eat the meal we have prepared . . . back soon
This is a grainy one from the archive
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I have had a lot of trouble with getting photos on flickr this evening - and this has cut into my time for looking at your photos . . . will be catching up soon
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N is a schoolfriend of Elsie's who came for an unexpected sleepover today. Here they are dressing up, but I never discovered if there was a theme. N passed all sleepover rites de passage . . . she liked the evening meal, read her book to me while Elsie read hers to Abby and they went off to bed . . . but then came mention of N's mummy. Elsie and N were snuggled up in bed together when Peter and I left and hopefully that will be that. I shall be interested to hear how they fared and whether Ben in the end is banished to the spare bedroom while Abby, Elsie and N share the big bed with Roxy in the cot beside them! After all, tomorrow is International Day for Women!
Full 1830s outfit based on the 1983 TV version. 100% hand-stitched by me.
More about it in my blog: www.swish-swirl.com/2014/06/11/jane-eyre-2/
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will be back on flickr this evening to start catching up. Looking forward to seeing your photos . . .