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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W 771. Photo: Paramount.
American actor Robert Stack (1919-2003) became a star as Deanne Durbin's young lover in Henry Koster's First Love (1939). After the war, he had massive success with Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the Wind (1956) for which he was nominated for the Oscar. Internationally, he became famous as Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables (1959-1963).
Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, in 1919. His first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father, a professional soldier Robert was the grandson of Marina Perrini, an opera singer at the Scala theatre in Milan. When little Robert was five, his father was transferred to the US embassy in France. Robert went to school in Paris and learnt French rather than his mother tongue. At 11, he returned to America, and at 13, he became a top athlete. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy, and at age 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He played polo, saxophone and clarinet at Southern California University. A broken wrist ended his career as a sports athlete. He took drama classes and made his stage debut at 20. He joined Universal Studios in 1939. In his first film, he starred as Deanne Durbin's young lover in First love (Henry Koster, 1939). He gave the teenage film star her first on-screen kiss. Around this "event," Universal producer Joe Pasternak provided a lot of publicity. Stack established himself as an actor and the following year he appeared as a young Nazi in The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) alongside Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. Stack was reunited with Durbin in Pasternak's musical Nice Girl? (William A. Seiter, 1941). In 1942 he appeared as a Polish Air Force pilot in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their acting abilities to fool the occupying troops. The film has become recognised as a comedy classic. Stack played another pilot in Eagle Squadron (Arthur Lubin, 1942), a huge hit. Then Stack's career was interrupted by military service. He did duty as a gunnery instructor in the United States Navy during World War II.
After World War II, Robert Stack continued his career. He returned to the screen with roles in films such as Fighter Squadron (Raoul Walsh, 1948) with Edmond O'Brien and A Date with Judy (Richard Thorpe, 1948) with Elizabeth Taylor. In 1952 Stack starred in Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler, 1952), the first major film production in 3D. He played the second leading role alongside John Wayne in William A. Wellman's aviation drama It's Always Day (1954). Sam Fuller cast him in the lead of House of Bamboo (1955), shot in Japan. Stack enjoyed one of his greatest successes with Douglas Sirk's drama Written in the Wind (1956). He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley. From the late 1950s Stack turned increasingly to television. Internationally, Robert became famous with his role in the television series The Untouchables in which he starred as the clean-cut Chicago police officer Eliot Ness during the Prohibition era. Around 120 episodes were made between 1959 and 1963. Other leading roles followed for Stack in the television series The Name of the Game (1968-1971), Most Wanted (1976) and Strike Force (1981). The multilingual Stack also took the lead role in the German-language film Die Hölle von Macao/The Hell of Macau (James Hill, 1966) alongside Elke Sommer, and he also appeared in French- or Italian-language productions. With advancing age, Stack also frequently took on deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona in films such as 1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980) or Caddyshack II (Allan Arkush, 1988). Between 1987 and 2002 he was the host of the television series Unsolved Mysteries, which was dedicated to mysterious murder cases. He worked as an actor until his death. In 1956 he married actress Rosemarie Bowe (1932-2019), to whom he was married until the end of his life. The couple had two children. Robert Stack died of pneumonia in 2003 in Beverly Hills at the age of 84 and was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
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I'd been wanting to check out these stacks for a long exposure and finally went over there with my friend Chris and broke out the star machine.
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Taken in 2016.
(The "2015" date is wrong.)
I went to see the (then) newly renovated Johnson Building of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. It's the third-largest public library in the United States, behind only the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.
South Stack Lighthouse
The Isle of Anglesey coast path
The Welsh coast path
Wales.
Great Britain.
United Kingdom.
Stack of 20 leaf plates that go with my dishware set. Not sure what these are really good for at the table but they are really cute and great for pictures.
Went for a wander near Stanley today and took a wrong turn to where I intended going to, but found this nice and simple composition which was in my opinion, crying out to be photographed. A very pleasant early autumn afternoon!
minolta-16 II subminiature / spy camera
rokkor 22mm f2.8
kodak vision 7201 50D 16mm (expired)
home development ecn2
v600 scan
- still standing since c.1805
The skill in fitting these stones together is pretty amazing when you look closely. Other than a little clay here and there, it is the weight of the stones, pressing down on each other, that keeps it standing...
257/365
I finally got a chance to have a go at star-stacking.
Image is composed of 39 120s exposures.. with Lensbaby composer fisheye..
Nonpareils are one of my Favorite candies.
I usually have some around the house.
These I stacked up for the Round 50 Hunt Item 20.
Then I noticed this would fit in the 52 in2014 group as Chocolate Item 42.
And also in the 114 Pictures in 2014 as #69 White on White.
Triple play for this photo.
These sea stacks are a short walk south of Duncansby Head.
Temperature 7°C, powerful winds and raining. I didn't hang around as long as I should have done. The white specks to the right of the picture are nesting sea birds.
This is a composite of 10 stacked photos for the sky, and 1 three second exposure of the foreground with some cars passing by (motion blur).
Hi Guys! I miss Flickr, I've been out taking as many pics as I can of Fall color before it goes away. Last night, I imported more pics in Lightroom and my computer told me my Hard Disk space is almost full. yikes! It didn't come at a good time either because I just ordered the full version of Photoshop and am getting it tomorrow. I need all the extra space I can get! TIme to do a ton of deleting...the "not-so-fun-part" of photography.
Anyway, I've always loved pics of stacked food on flickr like cookies, etc. I didn't have any cookies so thought I'd try crackers.
I'll be around soon to see your streams.
Some rainbow colored stacking rings I made for Amelia. She's just started to become interested in them--she likes to practice her new ability to hold things with the green and blue rings.
Manual focus stack out of two pictures.
Shot with my 50mm f:1.8 and some macro tubes.
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