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Up until the late 1980s, the coach park at Battersea Wharf was used as the overflow parking area for coaches using the nearby Victoria Coach Station and as such would almost always be worth the walk over Chelsea Bridge.
Parked there in August 1984 was Midland Red (West) Leyland Leopard / Plaxton Paramount 3200 1031 Q276UOC.
The coach started life in 1980 as BVP804V complete with a Willowbrook 003 body. Following an accident in 1983, the coach was rebodied by Plaxton in early 1984 and given a Q-registration rather than its original V-suffix.
British Airways also had this Paramount Volvo B10M at Manchester on crew duties, numbered CC6016. It was new in 1991 to Gatwick airport but three years later had moved north.
This was the first time in over 20 years I had worked with white metal which from experience can be a bit of a pig to bring together., but this one generally behaved.
Construction used a combination of Deluxe Cyano superglue and Devcon epoxy adhesive.
The rear panelling was filed smooth and a new rear fabricated from Plasticard to revive the damaged boot area.
Missing internal luggage racks have been replaced with new Plasticard units and a central roof panel added to give detail down the length of the interior.
Taken from "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" (2003).
(c) 2003 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Dutch postcard by Takken, no. 1560. Photo: Paramount.
Yesterday, 29 November 2021, elegant American actress Arlene Dahl (1925) passed away. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The former MGM star achieved notability during the 1950s. She has three children, the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas. Arlene Dahl was 96.
Arlene Carol Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1925. She was the daughter of Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph S. Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive. Dahl's mother was involved in local amateur theatre. As a child, Dahl took elocution and dancing lessons and was active in theatrical events at Margaret Fuller Elementary School, Ramsey Junior High School, and Washburn Senior High School. After graduating from Washburn High School. The following year, she was voted Miss Rheingold Beer of 1946. The Rheingold ad campaign was one of the most famous beer campaigns from the 1940s through the 1950s. There was a Miss Rheingold contest each year, and by the early 1950s, more than 25 million votes were cast annually. The winner received a cash payment as well as a modeling contract and many other opportunities. Dahl held various jobs, including performing in a local drama group and briefly working as a model for department stores. Dahl briefly attended the University of Minnesota, and then went to Chicago where she was a buyer for Marshall and Brown and worked as a model. She travelled to New York where she successfully auditioned for a part in the play Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston. This led to her getting the lead in another play, Questionable Ladies which was seen by a talent scout from Hollywood. Dahl had an uncredited bit in Life with Father (1947). She was promoted to leading lady in My Wild Irish Rose (David Butler, 1947) with Dennis Morgan. The film was a big hit and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948. This led to an offer from MGM for a long-term contract. At MGM she played a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Bride Goes Wild (Norman Taurog, 1948). She remained there to play the female lead in a Red Skelton comedy A Southern Yankee (Edward Sedgwick, 1948). Both were very popular. Eagle-Lion hired her to star as the female lead in Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann, 1949), then at MGM she acted opposite Van Johnson in the Film Noir Scene of the Crime (Roy Rowland, 1949), Robert Taylor in the Western Ambush (Sam Wood, 1950), Joel McCrea in The Outriders (Roy Rowland, 1950), Fred Astaire and Skelton in the musical Three Little Words (Richard Thorpe, 1950), and Skelton again in Watch the Birdie (Jack Donohue, 1950). Of these MGM films, only The Outriders was not profitable.
MGM gave Arlene Dahl the lead in several B-films, such as the drama Inside Straight (Gerald Mayer, 1951) and the Film Noir No Questions Asked (Harold F. Kress, 1951). Both flopped. Dahl was hired by Pine-Thomas Productions who signed her to a multi-picture contract and put her in a swashbuckler with John Payne, Caribbean Gold (Edward Ludwig, 1952). She went to Universal to co-star with Alan Ladd in a French Foreign Legion story, Desert Legion (Joseph Pevney, 1953), then Pine-Thomas used her again in Jamaica Run (Lewis R. Forster, 1953) opposite Ray Milland, and Sangaree (Edward Ludwig, 1953). In the latter, Paramount's first 3-Dimensional film release, Fernando Lamas starred. Lamas and Dahl soon marred. She supported Bob Hope in the comedy Here Come the Girls (Claude Binyon, 1953). Dahl and Lamas reunited on the adventure film The Diamond Queen (John Brahm, 1953) at Warners. In 1953 Dahl played Roxanne on stage in a short-lived revival of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer. Dahl played the ambitious Carol Talbot in Woman's World (Jean Negulesco, 1954) at Fox, and she was Rock Hudson's leading lady in Universal's adventure war film Bengal Rifles (Laslo Benedek, 1954). She began writing a syndicated beauty column in 1952 and opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, marketing cosmetics and designer lingerie. Dahl began appearing on television, including episodes of Lux Video Theatre and The Ford Television Theatre. In 1954, she played Ilsa in a TV adaptation of Casablanca. She and John Payne were reunited in a Film Noir, Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956), alongside Rhonda Fleming, another red-haired star. Dahl made some films in England for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (Ken Hughes, 1956) and Fortune Is a Woman (Sidney Gilliat, 1957) with Jack Hawkins. In 1957 she sued Columbia for $1 million saying the film's advertisements for Wicked as They Come were "lewd" and "degraded" her. A judge threw out the suit. Dahl hosted the short-lived TV series Opening Night (1958) and had the female lead in the adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin, 1959), opposite James Mason and Pat Boone. She was injured on set making the latter, but it turned out to be one of her most successful films.
In 1960, Arlene Dahl played the role of Lucy Belle in the episode 'That Taylor Affair' of Riverboat, alongside Darren McGavin. The same year she married Texas oilman Christian Holmes and announced her retirement from acting. The marriage did not last but Dahl increasingly diversified her work to become a lecturer, and beauty consultant as well as continuing her acting. She had a supporting role in Kisses for My President (Curtis Bernhardt, 1964) and could be seen on TV in Burke's Law, and Theatre of Stars. In the cinema, Dahl appeared in the French drama Du blé en liasses/Big Bank Roll (Alain Brunet, 1969) opposite Marcel Dalio and Jean Richard, the French-Italian crime-drama Les Chemins de Katmandou/The Pleasure Pit (André Cayatte, 1969) with Renaud Verley and Jane Birkin, and the Western The Land Raiders (Nathan Juran, 1970), starring Telly Savalas. Dahl returned to Broadway in the early 1970s, replacing Lauren Bacall in the role of Margo Channing in Applause. On TV, she appeared in a TV movie The Deadly Dream (Alf Kjellin, 1971) with Janet Leigh, and guest-starred on Love, American Style (1971), Jigsaw John (1976), Fantasy Island (1981), and The Love Boat (1979-1987). Her focus was on business by now. After closing her company in 1967, she began working as a vice president at ad agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year. Dahl moved to Sears Roebuck as director of beauty products in 1970, earning nearly $750,000 annually, but left in 1975 to found her short-lived fragrance company Dahlia. In 1981, Dahl declared bankruptcy. From 1981-1984, Dahl appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live as Lucinda Schenck Wilson. The character was planned as a short-termed role (she guest-starred from late 1981 to early 1982 and in late 1982), but Dahl was later offered a one-year contract to appear on the series from September 1983 to October 1984. Later, she starred in the film A Place to Hide (Scott Thomas, 1988) opposite Dana Ashbrook.
Arlene Dahl was married six times. In the early 1950s, she met actor Lex Barker; they wed in 1951 and divorced the following year. Dahl went on to marry another matinee idol, Fernando Lamas. In 1958, Dahl and Lamas had their only child, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after giving birth to Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her career as an actress, although she still appeared in films and on television occasionally. Dahl and Lamas divorced in 1960, and Dahl later remarried. In addition to Lorenzo Lamas, Dahl has two other children: a daughter Christina Carole Holmes (1961) by third husband Christian R. Holmes, and a second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum (1970), by her fifth husband, Rounsevelle W. Schaum. Her fourth husband was Alexis Lichine (1964-1969). Dahl has been married to Marc Rosen, a packaging designer, since 1984. She has six grandchildren, one of whom is Shayne Lamas, and two great-grandchildren. In 1980, she entered the field of astrology, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phone line company. Dahl has written more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology. Her last feature film role was in Night of the Warrior (Rafal Zielinski, 1991), which starred her son, Lorenzo Lamas. Dahl also guest-starred on episodes of the TV shows Renegade (1995-1997) and Air America (1999), which also starred her son. And she had a role in the soap opera All My Children (1995). Arlene Dahl divided her time between New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. She passed away in Manhattan, New York City.
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This was the first design for the demolished Paramount/Odeon cinema in London Road, Liverpool.
This sketch was done in 1930 by Frank Verity, who with Sam Beverley designed the British Paramount cinemas.
The cinema as built looked nothing like this.
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This post has been "bumped up", because it was only in a few groups, and I've created a new album "It wasn't built quite like this".
A backstage view, showing the curtain operating mechanism and a tech guy working on a project.
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The Paramount Theatre, also known as the Paramount Arts Center, is located in Aurora, Illinois. It was designed by Rapp and Rapp in the Art Deco style with Venetian elements, and opened in 1931. Over the years, it has hosted films, plays, musicals, concerts, comedy shows, and other acts. It has been extensively renovated and restored, with great attention to maintaining historical accuracy in the beautiful auditorium.
ANA459Y was a DAF MB200 / Plaxton Paramount C51F new as Jackson's of Altrincham number 459 in May 1983. On disposal in April 1985 it passed to Dodd's of Troon, and was later re-registered as WSV539. It moved to Bob Chapman t/a Gold Circle of Airdrie in May 1988, then was operated by Andrews of Stair in January 1990, then joined McColl's of Balloch in November 1991. It was later in the Copeland of Meir fleet.
Newlands Farm have this unidentified Plaxton Paramount coach, I presume as a shed. This has traditionally been a fairly remote area of Banchory Devenick just west of Portlethen although the AWPR is being built just next to it that will end that. The coach was not at the farm when Google mapped the area so has been acquired in the last few years at least. There was an unidentified Paramount just down the road at the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service but that was allover white so not this coach.
Anyone know the identity of this?
F721ENE was a Leyland Tiger TRCL10/3RZM / Plaxton Paramount 3200 C53F purchased new by Smith-Shearings (721) in December 1988, but had been transferred to their Jenkins subsidiary by the time of it's visit to Edinburgh. It would later serve with Davies Bros, Davies Coaches of Pwl, Stanways and Invincible Coaches and has been registered as OUI9095 and PUI9121 in it's time.
Paramount Coaches Plaxton Excalibur bodied Dennis Javelin JCY989 is seen here heading out of Malta Airport working a private hire.
Two types of coaches I'm very fond off. Dennis Javerlin Plaxton Premiere T103 XDE is seen here with Volvo B10M Plaxton Paramount H829 AHS for sale at the dealers.
Austin’s historic Paramount Theater opened in 1915 as a vaudeville venue, originally as the Majestic. Performers from those early days included Harry Houdini, becoming a silent movie theater from the 1920s. A tie-in with Paramount Studios led to the adoption of the theatre’s present name. The signature blade sign was removed during renovations in the 1960s but was restored in time for the theater’s centenary in 2015.
Paramount Theatre Decor, Oakland, Ca.
My friend became a U.S. Citizen today.
Ceremonies were held here.
Man, that is some of the best Art Deco I have ever seen.
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A pair of Leyland Plaxton Paramount 3200s in Brough, 31st March, 2024. PWS 492S is a Leopard rebodied in 1983 for Bristol Omnibus and subsequently operated for Badgerline whilst C131 HJN is a former Eastern National Tiger that later saw service with United.
A collection of bus photos from a holiday in North Wales in May 1996.
Here, Dennis Javelin / Plaxton Paramount III G958WNR of Pathfinder-Masons, Willenhall is seen in the Llandudno coach park in Mostyn Broadway.