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Big East-German card by VEB Lied der Zeit, Berlin, 1969. Photo: Helmut Raddatz.
French actress and chanson singer Juliette Gréco has passed away today, 23 September 2020. She was the muse of the existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Later she became the protégée of film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her in his films. She was 93.
Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier, in the south of France in 1927. Juliette's father, who was born in Corsica, worked as a policeman on the Côte d'Azur. She rarely saw him in her childhood as she and her elder sister Charlotte were raised by their maternal grandparents who lived in Bordeaux. Juliette's mother had joined the resistance and Gestapo officers had arrested her in 1943. Charlotte and Juliette were also caught but the 16-years-old Juliette was not deported because of her young age. In 1946, she moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés at the left bank in Paris. Juliette soon became part of the post-war art scene, hanging out with poets, jazz musicians, writers, and painters in the cafés of Saint-Germain, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Raymond Queneau, Boris Vian, Jean Cocteau, and Miles Davis. She dressed generally in black and let her long, black hair hang free. Thanks to the combination of intelligence, looks and attitude, Juliette soon became a major figure on the Saint Germain scene She became a muse not only for Sartre and Camus but also for Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Cocteau gave her a role in his film Orphée/Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950) starring Jean Marais. Other films in which she appeared were Au royaume des cieux/The Sinners (Julien Duvivier, 1949) with Serge Reggiani, the comedy ...Sans laisser d'adresse/Without Leaving An Address (Jean-Paul Le Chanois, 1951), Quand tu liras cette lettre/When You Read This Letter (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1953), and Elena et les hommes/Elena and the Men (Jean Renoir, 1956), starring Ingrid Bergman.
In 1949 Julliette Gréco also began a singing career. Si tu t'imagines (1950), with lyrics by Raymond Queneau, was one of her earliest songs to become popular. In 1951 she went into the studio to record her début single Je suis comme je suis (I Am What I Am). This song, written by Jacques Prévert and set to music by Joseph Kosma, would go on to become an absolute classic of the Gréco repertoire. Other famous songs are Les Dames de la poste (1952) and Déshabillez-moi (1967). In 1956, during the shooting of the film The Sun Also Rises (Henry King, 1957) starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner, she became the paramour of American film producer and 20th Century-Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck. He cast his protégee in films like The Naked Earth (Vincent Sherman, 1958), The Roots of Heaven (John Huston, 1958) with Errol Flynn, and Crack in the Mirror (Richard Fleischer, 1960) with Orson Welles. She also prospered after parting company with 20th Century-Fox in the early 1960s, continuing to play choice club dates and to co-star in such internationally financed films as The Night of the Generals (Anatole Litvak, 1967) with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. By the mid-1960s Juliette Gréco had become one of the best-known faces in French showbiz, thanks to her role in the famous French television series Belphégor (which she began filming in 1965). In later years, she appeared in Lily, aime-moi/Lily, Love Me (Maurice Dugowson, 1975) with Patrick Dewaere, the fantasy film and remake Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre/Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (Jean-Paul Salomé, 2001) with Sophie Marceau, and Jedermanns Fest/Everyman's Feast (Fritz Lehner, 2002) opposite Klaus Maria Brandauer. In 1982 she published her autobiography, Jujube. She suffered a heart attack on stage in her hometown Montpellier in 2001, but she recovered. Juliette Gréco has been married three times: to actor Philippe Lemaire (1953-1956); actor Michel Piccoli (1966-1977), and pianist Gérard Jouannest (since 1988). Her daughter, Laurence-Marie Lemaire, is an actress too. In 2009 Juliette Gréco´s newest album, Je Me Souviens De Tout (I Remember Everything), was released. To mark the occasion, Gréco, accompanied by her husband Gérard Jouannest on the piano, and Jean-Louis Matinier on the accordion gave four concerts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in early June. In 2015, she presented a new album, Merci, and started her farewell tour. Since then, despite some health problems, she continued to tour around the globe. Juliette Greco passed away in Ramatuelle, France, in 2020.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Glyn Brown (The Independent), RFIMusique, Europopmusic, Wikipedia (English and French), and IMDb.
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Born in Florence to American expatriate parents, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is considered Europe's leading portrait painter of the Edwardian era. He was educated at both Accademia delle Belle Arti and Paris's École des Beaux Arts. While in Paris, under the guidance of Émile–Auguste Carolus–Duran, a portraitist and muralist, Sargent learned to paint directly from observation without first sketching, employing a fluidity, influenced by the Impressionists. Sargent created more than 2,900 paintings, mainly portraits and landscapes from his travels across the Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and America. We've collected some of his finest public domain paintings in this collection, including his most famous opus, Madame X, they are all available to download under the CC0 license.
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Newstead Abbey
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June 12th, 2022.
The Singer Owners Club rally, 2022.
A line-up of classic models.
Nola is a town with a population of about 35.000, located on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius. In the early 5th century, Paulinus von Nola worked in the city, which has been a bishopric since the 2nd century. In 410 Nola was devastated by the Goths under Alaric I. In 455 the Vandal king Genseric had it completely destroyed and its residents sold into captivity. Further looting and destruction were followed in 594 by Lombards, in 860 by Saracens, and in 934 by Hungarians. After the conquest by the Staufer Manfred in 1254, it was annexed to the Kingdom of Sicily.
Here, Singer offers much more than just sewing machines
This lovely sewing machine was a present from my grandmother. It's motorized as the treadle and tabletop were missing when my granddad found it left in an attic. It's fully operational now and I just made my first pillow case!
Singer sewing treadle machine, Model 15? - year 1927
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Foi da mãe de uma amiga minha e é a coisa mais linda do mundo. Funciona super bem. Presente mais lindo não há. Amei! Vamos dar um trato na boneca pra ela ficar linda. Aà vou ter que fazer um curso pra aprender a laçar a linha de baixo. Alguém se habilita a me ensinar?
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I had the great fortune to shoot with rising
star, singer-songwriter Aubrey Burchell. This industrious songstress is busy gigging around the local area, and beyond, while also creating original songs, the next of which will be released during the coming month or so.
Her musical stylings convey a bold contemporary vibe with undertones of blues and funk. Be sure to catch her at one of Westmoreland County's many cozy local live music venues, or find her work online!
Wet Wet Wet singer at Sage Gateshead. June 2018 photo-set www.harrisonaphotos.co.uk/Music/Marti-Pellow-at-Sage-Gate...
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