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The hideout of notorious highwayman humphrey Kynaston.... a sort of Shropshire Robin Hood, if legends are to be believed! Only we weren't allowed to go in because Bats are roosting there.....
West-German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin / Crazy Cards, Berlin. Photo: RKO Radio Film. Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, 1952).
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly re-invented herself, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress in 1920s Berlin, she became a Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, a World War II frontline entertainer, and finally an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s. Eventually, she became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century.
Marlene Dietrich made her film debut in Im Schatten des Glücks (Jakob Fleck, Luise Fleck, 1919) In 1921, she auditioned unsuccessfully for Max Reinhardt's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas. The next year she played a part in So sind die Männer (Georg Jacoby, 1922). She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of another film made that year, Tragödie der Liebe (Joe May, 1923). Throughout the 1920s she continued to work on stage and in the film both in Berlin and Vienna. She attracted most attention in stage musicals and revues, such as 'Broadway', 'Es Liegt in der Luft', and 'Zwei Krawatten'. By the late 1920s, she was also playing sizable parts in films like Café Elektric (Gustav Ucicky, 1927), Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (Robert Land, 1929), and Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (Kurt/Curtis Bernhardt, 1929.
In 1929 Marlene Dietrich played her breakthrough role of Lola-Lola, a cabaret singer who causes the downfall of a hitherto respected schoolmaster, in UFA's production, Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930). Von Sternberg thereafter took credit for having ‘discovered’ her. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced her signature song Falling in Love Again. On the strength of The Blue Angel's success, and with encouragement and promotion from von Sternberg Dietrich then moved to Hollywood, Paramount sought to market her as a German answer to MGM's Swedish sensation Greta Garbo. Her first American film, Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930) earned her her only Oscar nomination. Between 1930 and 1935 she was the star of six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount: It would be Marlene Dietrich’s most lasting contribution to film history.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Notoriously shy normally (here in Australia anyway), this individual broke the mould by feeding in the open for a few minutes this afternoon. Likely a recent arrival from Japan needing to build its strength after the long flight.
Notorious bushranger of the 1870s, Harry Power used this natural vantage point to look out for approaching police.
From the Australian Dictionary of Biography online:
" Henry (Harry) Power (1820-1891), bushranger, also known as Johnson, was born at Waterford, Ireland. He was transported for seven years in 1840 for stealing a pair of shoes, and arrived at Hobart Town in the Isabella on 21 May 1842. He received a ticket-of-leave in November 1847 and certificate of freedom in September 1848, and then moved to the Port Phillip District. He became a horse-dealer at Geelong, but was attracted by the gold discoveries. Stopped by two troopers at Daisy Hill, near Maryborough, in March 1855 on suspicion of horse-stealing, he wounded one of the police. A week later he was arrested whilst attempting to cross the Murray River and was sentenced on 25 September 1855 to thirteen years on the roads.
Confined to the hulk Success, Johnson was implicated with Captain Melville and others in the murder of Owen Owens and John Turner on 22 October 1856, but was found not guilty. After two years and a half in the hulks, he was transferred to Pentridge stockade. As Power he escaped in 1862, and lived at Middle Creek in the Ovens District, where he was assisted by the Kelly, Quinn and Lloyd families. Arrested on a charge of horse-stealing, he was sentenced at Beechworth on 19 February 1864 to seven years on the roads.
Power again escaped from Pentridge on 16 February 1869. He was assisted briefly by Ned Kelly, who was then 13, but the arrangement proved unsatisfactory and thereafter Power operated independently. He held up the mail-coach at Porepunkah on 7 May and another coach on the Longwood-Mansfield Road on the 22nd. These were the first of over a year's depredations, during which Power claimed to have committed over 600 robberies.
In September the Victorian government offered a reward of £200, soon increased to £500, for Power's arrest; as a result he moved to New South Wales. He soon returned to Victoria where police efforts to capture him proved fruitless until he was arrested on 5 June 1870 by Superintendents Nicolson and Hare, who with Sergeant Montford and a black tracker, surprised Power in his hide-out (Power's Lookout) overlooking the Quinn property on the King River. The police were led there by James Quinn, who received the reward of £500. Power was sentenced at Beechworth to fifteen-years hard labour on three counts of bushranging and was again held at Pentridge.
In 1877, after accounts of Power's ill health by the 'Vagabond' in the Argus, he was released on the application of several women, including Lady Janet Clarke. He worked on the Clarke property at Sunbury until he became a guide of the hulk Success in 1891. His body was found in the Murray River; he died 'on or about 11 October 1891 … near Swan Hill from drowning … there is nothing to show how he came into the river'.
Power was a fearless and daring rider and bushman, but never killed police or his victims. He broke from prison several times, defied the police in the Ovens District for a decade and was finally convicted through an informer."
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Notorious urban gang members are arrested for adopting an innocent-enough ‘My Little Pony’ logo as their mascot.
Casting her dark shadow throughout the underworld is Darkday, the notorious underground urban explorer
Conor Mcgregor cosplayer at the 2018 New York C0mic Con.
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Fernald Preserve in Harrison, Ohio. Fernald is a reclaimed once notorious uranium waste site that is now a nature preserve that local birders frequent. They have a very nice visitor center where the Ohio Valley Camera Club Meetup group held a still life and macro shoot. Members brought all kinds of items to be used in the shoot as well as backdrops and lighting.
Notorious building, built in 1927 as a refrigerated warehouse and abandoned for many years, will finally be coming down after various plans to rehabilitate and repurpose it failed. Albany, New York.
On the right is the Ponte delle Tette, so named because in the days of the Venetian Republic, topless prostitutes would solicit on the bridge. All very respectable these days! Posted for Window Wednesdays and Wall Wednesday, HWW x 2!
Wildflowers bloom on the slowly recovering northern slopes of Mt. St. Helens.
Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. PDT, the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. A massive debris avalanche triggered by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale caused an eruption that reduced the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft (2,950 m) to 8,363 ft (2,549 m), replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied. [Wikipedia]
West-German postcard by F.J. Rüdel, Filmpostkartenverlag. Hamburg-Bergedorf, no. 213. Photo: RKO. Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946).
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was ‘Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood’. In the 1940s the fresh and naturally beautiful actress won three times the Oscar, twice the Emmy, and once the Tony Award for Best Actress. Little known is that before she went to Hollywood she already had a European film career.
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1915 to a Swedish father and a German mother. At age 17, she had a taste of acting when she played an uncredited role of a girl standing in line in the Swedish film Landskamp (Gunnar Skoglund, 1932). The next year she was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, but she soon decided that stage acting was not for her. During her first summer break, she was hired at a Swedish film studio to work in film full-time. Her first film part was in Munkbrogreven/The Count of the Old Town (Edvin Adolphson, 1935), where she had a speaking part as Elsa Edlund. In the following years, she made a dozen films in Sweden that established her as a class actress. Among them were Bränningar/The Surf (Ivar Johansson, 1935) and Dollar (Gustaf Mollander, 1938). Another film, En kvinnas ansikte (Gustaf Molander, 1938) would later be remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford. Bergman also made a film in Germany, Die Vier Gesellen/The Four Companions (Carl Froelich, 1938).
Ingrid Bergman's breakthrough film was Intermezzo (Gustaf Molander, 1936), in which she played a pianist who has a love affair with a celebrated and married violinist, played by Gösta Ekman. Hollywood producer David O. Selznick saw it and sent a representative from MGM to gain the rights to the story and have the actress sign a contract. Ingrid went to California and starred in MGM's remake Intermezzo: A Love Story (Gregory Ratoff, 1939), reprising her original role. The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie industry had seen before and her acting was superb. She was under contract to go back to Sweden to film Juninatten/A Night in June (Per Lindberg, 1940). Back in the US, she appeared in three films, all well-received. In 1942 she played in only one film, but that film, Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942), would make her a huge star. Bergman chose her roles well after Casablanca. In 1943, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sam Wood, 1943), the only film she made that year. The critics and public didn't forget her when she made Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) the following year - her role as the persecuted wife of Charles Boyer got her the Oscar for Best Actress. In 1945, Ingrid played in Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) with Gregory Peck, Saratoga Trunk (Sam Wood, 1945), and The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey, 1945), for which she received her third Oscar nomination for her part as Sister Benedict.
Ingrid Bergman also worked with Alfred Hitchcock on another classic, Notorious (1946) with Cary Grant, and the less successful Under Capricorn (1949) with Joseph Cotten. Bergman went to Alaska during World War II in order to entertain troops. Soon after the war ended, she also went to Europe for the same purpose, where she was able to see the devastation caused by the war. It was during this time that she began a relationship with the famous photographer Robert Capa. She made no films in 1947 but bounced back with a fourth nomination for Joan of Arc (Victor Fleming, 1948). She played the part of Jeanne d'Arc three times in her career: on stage in 1946 in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine for which she won the Tony Award, in the film version in 1948, and in 1954 in the Italian film Giovanna d'Arco al rogo/Joan of Arc at the Stake (Roberto Rossellini, 1954), based on a 1935 dramatic oratorio by Arthur Honegger. But in 1949 Saint Ingrid first would suffer a sudden and disastrous fall from grace. In 1949 Ingrid Bergman went to Italy to film Stromboli (1950), directed by Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him and got pregnant. The pregnancy caused a huge scandal in the United States. It even led to Bergman being denounced on the floor of the US Senate by Edwin C. Johnson, a Democratic senator, who referred to her as "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil." In addition, there was a floor vote, which resulted in her being made 'persona non grata'. The scandal forced Bergman to exile herself to Italy, leaving her husband, Dr. Petter Lindström, and daughter, Pia Lindström in the United States. Dr. Lindström eventually sued for desertion and waged a custody battle for their daughter.
In 1950, Ingrid Bergman married Rossellini and the same year their son, Renato Roberto, was born. In 1952 Ingrid had twins, Isotta and Isabella Rossellini. Isabella would later become an outstanding actress in her own right, as did her half-sister Pia.
From 1950 to 1955 Bergman and Rossellini made six films together: Stromboli (1950), Europa '51/No Greater Love (1952), a segment of Siamo donne/We, the Women (1953), Viaggio in Italia/Voyage in Italy (1954), La paura/Fear (1954) and Giovanna d'Arco al rogo/Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954). These films were ahead of their time but were generally not received well, especially in the US, where many conservative political and religious leaders still raised a hue and cry about her past. Bergman also starred in Jean Renoir's Elena et les Hommes/Elena and Her Men (1956), a romantic comedy where she played a Polish princess caught in political intrigue. Although the film wasn't a success, it has since come to be regarded as one of her best performances. Finally, after being exiled from Hollywood for seven years, Bergman returned opposite Yul Brynner in the title role in Anastasia (Anatole Litvak, 1956), which was filmed in England. For this, she won her second Academy Award. She had scarcely missed a beat. The award was accepted for her by her friend Cary Grant. Bergman would not make her first post-scandal public appearance in Hollywood until the 1958 Academy Awards when she was the presenter of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Furthermore, after being introduced by Cary Grant and walking out on stage to present, she was given a standing ovation. In 1957 she divorced Rosselini and in 1958 she married Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy Swedish shipping family. After all the years she spent away from Hollywood, she still managed to maintain her status as a major star, as the success of films like Indiscreet (Stanley Donen, 1958) opposite Cary Grant and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Mark Robson, 1958) with Curd Jürgens showed.
In the 1960s, Ingrid Bergman concentrated on stage work and television appearances, and collaborated with her husband, theatrical producer Lars Schmidt, in such TV plays as The Turn of The Screw (John Frankenheimer, 1960) for which she won an Emmy Award and Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (Silvio Narrizano, 1961). She didn't appear in as many films as she had before, but she continued to bounce between Europe and the US making films. After a long hiatus, Bergman appeared in Cactus Flower (Gene Saks, 1968), with Walter Matthau and Goldie Hawn. In 1972, Senator Charles H. Percy entered an apology into the Congressional Record for the attack made on Bergman 22 years earlier by Edwin C. Johnson. Bergman won her third Academy Award for her role as Greta Ohlsson in Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet, 1974). Her performance is contained in a single scene: her interrogation by Poirot, captured in a single continuous take, nearly five minutes long. By 1975 Ingrid Bergman had divorced again. In her final big-screen performance in Höstsonaten/Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) she had her seventh Academy Award nomination. Bergman plays in this film a celebrity pianist who returns to Sweden to visit her neglected daughter, played by Liv Ullmann. Though she didn't win the Oscar, many felt it was the best performance of her career. In the late 1970s, Ingrid Bergman first discovered the symptoms of cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Her last role was in the television film A Woman Called Golda (Alan Gibson, 1982), about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Ingrid Bergman died in 1982, in London, the day after having a small party with a few friends for her 67th birthday. At her burial a single violin played the song As Time Goes By, the theme from Casablanca, recalling her most famous role, that of Ilsa Lund. That year her daughter, Pia Lindström accepted the Emmy Award for Best Actress that Ingrid won posthumously for A Woman Called Golda. Seventeen years later, in 1999, she was ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of greatest female screen legends. Later she was ranked #5 in Premiere's list of 'The 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time'. Ingrid Bergman continues to be a cultural icon - for her films and for her innocent, natural beauty.
Sources: Denny Jackson, Naim81 and Ezio Flavio de Freitas (IMDb), Wikipedia, Hitchcock.tv, and IMDb.
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Commemorative MetroCard featuring The Notorious B.I.G. on Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
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Replica fifteenth century caravel, "Notorious" back in Geelong after her first visit here in 2012.
Made entirely from reclaimed timber, the ship took ten years to build being launched at Martins Point, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia on Monday, 7 February 2011.
Inspired by the Mahogany Ship legend in Warrnambool, the ship has been carefully built based on period drawings of caravelles, as well as advice from historians.
A puzzling sight, no doubt. It looks a bit worse for wear having been in a junkyard for a month or two, but judging from what remained, when this car came in it was a perfectly clean XJS V12, with not one spec of rust, a complete and turning V12, *and* euro-spec lights, which are somewhat rare in the United States.
Just why somebody would throw a car like that away (once it goes into the yard, it can't come out as anything but parts) is anybody's guess. Most likely, it had some expensive problem somewhere invisible that ultimately claimed it. But if it had been running, all it would've needed was wash to be show-worthy.
Irrespective of how it ended up where it was, somebody had stupidly smashed the headlights *after* it had arrived in the yard - odd given that the headlights could've been easily hawked for a profit on eBay. The rest of the trim had been recently removed to parts unknown, along with the seats and the back axle. Not one part had been removed from the V12.
By 1986 the XJS was a decade old,but it was still a fresh and competitive car thanks to a refresh in 1982 and being relatively contemporary with rivals like the BMW 6-series. As a successor to the E-type, the XJS never quite measured up to its predecessor in the public's imagination, but it was still a car to crave even if it was a boulevardier. It was bigger and heavier than its rivals, but it also had the Jaguar badge and cachet. It was a very expensive car - $40,000 in 1986, just a bit cheaper than the rival 635CSi and Merc 560SL.
The complexity of the V12 and the hot conditions of the XJS' engine bay meant that service was costly and some items prone to premature wear - a situation exacerbated by some owners' tendency to skimp on service. The car was also fairly rust prone, though by 1986 the tendency towards corrosion had been greatly reduced. Early cars tended to have more maladies, which saddled the XJS permanently with a reputation for unreliability it only partly deserved. XJS' are still relatively common in the United States, even though the newest cars are now 20 years old.
Sadly, this one won't be joining them on the road again.
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