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Versatility is my final project after a one year photographic course. All the pictures are made from my old pictures of flowers.
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Taken using the portrait spotlight setting on my iPhone, which helped black out the background. Although it did keep telling me "No person found"!! lol
Ophrydium versatile, Colonial Protozoa
A gelatinous green colony of Ophrydium versatile photographed at New Marsh in the North Tract of the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA. Special thanks to my friend Richard Orr for pointing this organism out to me and explaining what we were observing.
Ophrydium versatile is a colonial protozoan, meaning it is made up of many single-celled organisms that live and function together as a unified colony rather than as independent individuals. What appears to be a single organism is actually a highly organized structure composed of tens of thousands to several million microscopic single-celled zooids (individual protozoan cells) embedded within a shared gelatinous matrix that they collectively produce.
Each zooid contains symbiotic green algae (Chlorella), which photosynthesize and give the colony its vivid green coloration while supplying nutrients to the host cells. The colony grows as individual zooids reproduce by cell division and remain integrated within the structure, and new colonies can form when free-swimming stages settle and begin building their own matrix.
Functionally, the colony operates as a coordinated system, with each cell feeding by creating tiny water currents using cilia while also benefiting from the internal algae’s energy production. Shape can vary from spherical to irregular depending on environmental conditions, which explains differences in appearance between observations.
This image captures a rarely noticed freshwater micro-ecosystem made visible at a scale large enough to be appreciated with the naked eye.
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A slice of Victoria sponge anyone.
(Actually made in the Cosori Air Fryer as an experiment - it was delicious.)
CC Most Versatile - Eat Your Veggies
Some of the vegetables in this dish came in a package of precut, mixed veggies. I don't plan on doing that again as the cutting makes them go bad quicker. And the asparagus was quite woody. They must have used the parts of the plant that I would normally cut off when prepping. Also, the precut round carrots are just plain boring and make me think of cafeteria food. The food was still delicious, with added flavors of wine, ginger, lemon grass paste, and low sodium soy sauce.
August Most Versatile - Feet - for Compositionally Challenged
While down on the gravel to photograph some flower petals, Charlie flopped down right in the way and started grooming himself.
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Versatile little short-wheelbase locomotives. 01001 and 01002 were retained to service the Holyhead Breakwater, being the only locomotives light enough for the track.
Seen at Holyhead Breakwater May1978.
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Bella on HER doormat in HER kitchen. For once she was waiting almost patiently!
CC Most Versatile, backlight - natural sunlight through a glass door
Vega-C liftoff from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 00:52 local time (04:52 BST/05:52 CEST) on 19 May 2026. Vega-C carried the Smile mission to space on flight VV29.
Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Vega-C programme is led by ESA, working with Avio as prime contractor and design authority. It ensures that Europe has versatile and independent access to space.
[Image description: A night-time photo showing a rocket taking off from a launchpad. It is surrounded by four metal pylons and clouds of smoke.]
CREDIT: ESA-S. Corvaja
Lomography Sprocket Rocket, Kodak Portra 800
I think this is the film I'll shoot in this camera from now on. Way more versatile with how "light hungry" this camera is.
Say hi to Quicksilver Industries' latest addition to the firearms market: the "Iriomote" assault rifle.
To design this utmost versatile weapon, Quicksilver Industries put their hands together with FN, Steyr and ST Kinetics. The result is this beautiful bullpup assault rifle.
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- 40 round waffle magazine
- adjustable cheek rest
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- slightly textured pistol grip
- two staged AUG styled trigger
Quicksilver Ind. produces top of the notch firearms made for easy and cheap mass production, while maintaining very high quality. Our firearms will always be fully ambidextrous, two toned, operator-friendly and accessory-friendly.
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First real gun in about a month, because I've been rather inspirationless for the past few weeks. Also, Ghosts. Love it so far.
Quality of this upload might be a bit shite, but as soon as I have my USB stick back (I left it at home >_>) I'll replace the photo. Hope you like it anyway.
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Yours truly,
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CC Most Versatile - Straight
I expect this creek, which at times is completely dry, will be much fuller once the next storm comes along. Ten consecutive days of rain are expected later in the month. Debris from fallen trees can be seen built up on the pilings from when the water was a little higher.
I am making some stocking fillers for my great nieces and nephews. (I like to start Christmas early!)
These are only 6 inches tall (15cm in modern money) and are made up of so many small parts that they are fiddly. The fairy took a whole week to make!
The Ring Road (Route 1) goes around the outskirts of Iceland and offers an amazing amount of versatility and beauty in it's landscapes.
This is Seljalandsfoss, which was one of my favorite waterfalls on our first trip to Iceland. It is 60 meters high and looks even more beautiful in the summer, with the lush green grass and flowered fields seeming to stretch for days into the distance along the cliff side.
From Wikipedia:
Seljalandsfoss is one of the best known waterfalls in Iceland. Seljalandsfoss is located in the South Region in Iceland right by Route 1 (Iceland) and the road that leads to Þórsmörk Road 249. The waterfall is one of the most popular waterfalls and natural wonders in Iceland. The waterfall drops 60 meters and is part of the river Seljalands-river that has its origin in the volcano glacier Eyjafjallajokull. One of the interesting things about this waterfall is the fact that visitors can walk behind it into a small cave. It was a waypoint during the first leg of The Amazing Race 6
Not only can this serve as an efficient critter-catching-cup, a couple of discount airlines have used a similar setup for their public address system.
The talented and versatile naturalist Mark Catesby (1682-1749) in the second volume of his marvellous natural history of North America gives a set of descriptions and drawings of plants and trees paired with snakes. Thus his rendering of Echinacea purpurea, eastern Purple Coneflower (called by him Chrysanthemum americanum) also shows an elegantly curling Caecilia maculata, Glass Snake. How he came to associate our Coneflower with that Snake I don't know. It's a little curious that he didn't paint it with Bumblebees or this wonderful Emerald Lover of Stamens, Agapostemon virescens, one of the boringly named Sweat Bees. On a warm sunny day both insects can hardly be overlooked on this flower... And here in Lincoln Park I certainly saw no snakes!
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Canon AE-1 | Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 | Kodak Max Versatility 400 (expired 2006-09)
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Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent virtually guaranteed her stardom. Her most notable films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963), Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968).
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale was born in La Goulette in Tunisia in 1938 (some sources claim 1939). Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Italian (Sicilian) emigrants from Trapani, Italy. Her father was an Italian (Sicilian) railway worker, born in Gela, Italy. Her native languages were Tunisian Arabic and French. She received a French education and she had to learn Italian once she pursued her acting career. She had her break in films after she was voted the most beautiful Italian girl in Tunisia in 1957. The contest of the Italian embassy had as a prize a trip to the Venice Film Festival. She made her film debut in the French-Tunisian coproduction Goha (Jacques Baratier, 1958) starring Omar Sharif. After attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome for two months, she signed a 7-year contract with the Vides studios. The contract forbade her to cut her hair, to marry or to gain weight. Later that year she had a role in the heist comedy I soliti ignoti/Big Deal On Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958) with Vittorio Gassman and Renato Salvatori. The film was an international success, and her film career was off and running. At this point, the press, noting her initials, announced that CC was the natural successor to BB (Brigitte Bardot), and began beating the drum on her behalf. Dozens of alluring photographs of Claudia Cardinale were displayed in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. According to IMDb, she has appeared on more than 900 magazine covers in over 25 countries. The contrast between these pictures and those of Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield is striking. Cardinale never appeared in a nude or fully topless scene. Her pictures promoted an image of a shy family girl who just happened to have a beautiful face and a sexy body. A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gate fold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde (1966), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.
Claudia Cardinale's early career was largely managed producer Franco Cristaldi. Because of her film contract, she told everyone that her son Patrizio was her baby brother. He was born out of wedlock when she was 17; the father was a mysterious Frenchman. She did not reveal to the child that he was her son until he was 19 years old. In 1966, she married Cristaldi, who adopted Patrizio. In only three years she made a stream of great films. First she made three successful comedies, Un Maledetto imbroglio/The Facts of Murder (Pietro Germi, 1959), Il Bell'Antonio/Bell'Antonio (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) featuring Marcello Mastroianni, and Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti/Fiasco in Milan (Nanni Loy, 1960). Cardinale had a supporting part in the epic drama Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) in which she played the sister-in-law of Alain Delon and Renato Salvatori. And then followed leading parts in La Ragazza con la valigia/Girl with a Suitcase (Valerio Zurlini, 1961), La Viaccia/The Lovemakers (Mauro Bolognini, 1961) with Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Senilità/Careless (Mauro Bolognini, 1961). Claudia Cardinale had a deep, sultry voice and spoke Italian with a heavy French accent, so her voice was dubbed in her early films. In Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), she was finally allowed to dub her own dialogue. In the film, she plays a dream woman - a character named Claudia, who is the object of the fantasies of the director in the film, played by Marcello Mastroianni. With Fellini's surrealistic masterpiece she received her widest exposure to date with this film. That same year, she also appeared in another masterpiece of the Italian cinema, the epic Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) with Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. The combined success of these two classic films made her rise to the front ranks of the Italian cinema. And it also piqued Hollywood's interest.
In 1963 Claudia Cardinale played the princess who owned the Pink Panther diamond in The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963) which was filmed in Italy. It was the first in the series of detective comedies starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau (the mishap-prone snoop was actually a supporting player in his debut). The film was an enormous success and brought CC to English speaking audiences. In 1964 she co-starred with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth in her first American production, Circus World (Henry Hathaway, 1964). It was another box-office hit. The following year she appeared with Rock Hudson in Blindfold (Philip Dunne, 1966), an offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy. The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966) is her favourite among her Hollywood films. In this Western she is a gutsy Mexican woman married against her will to a rich American. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Direction (Richard Brooks), Best Screenplay (Brooks again), and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall). Cardinale continued dividing her time between Hollywood and Europe for the remainder of the decade. Throughout the 1960s, Claudia Cardinale also appeared in some of the best European films. In France she appeared in the Swashbuckler Cartouche (Philippe de Broca, 1962) featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Back in Italy, she played in I Giorno della civetta/The Day of the Owl (Damiano Damiani, 1968) with Franco Nero, and Nell'anno del Signore/The Conspirators (Luigi Magni, 1969) with Nino Manfredi. Mesmerizing is her performance in Sandra/Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Luchino Visconti, 1965) as a Holocaust survivor with an incestuous relationship with her brother (Jean Sorel). Another highlight in her career is C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), the ultimate Spaghetti Western. Lucia Bozzola writes in her review at AllMovie: "In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. (...) As in his 'Dollars' trilogy, Leone transforms the standard Western plot through the visual impact of widescreen landscapes and the figures therein. At its full length, Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's operatic masterwork, worthy of its legend-making title."
In the following decades, Claudia Cardinale remained mainly active in the European cinema. She played a small part for Visconti in Gruppo di famiglia in un interno/Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) starring Burt Lancaster and Silvana Mangano. She worked with other major Italian directors at Goodbye e amen (Damiano Damiani, 1977), the TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zeffirelli, 1977) as the adulteress, and La Pelle/The Skin (Liliana Cavani, 1981) starring Marcello Mastroianni and based on the bitter novel by Curzio Malaparte concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. An international arthouse hit was Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982), the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America. In his diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog writes: "Claudia Cardinale is great help because she is such a good sport, a real trouper, and has a special radiance before the camera. In her presence, [Klaus Kinski] usually acts like a gentleman." Other interesting films include the Luigi Pirandello adaptation Enrico IV/Henry IV (Marco Bellocchio, 1984) with Marcello Mastroianni, the epic La révolution française/The French Revolution (Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron, 1989), the nostalgic drama Mayrig/Mother (Henri Verneuil, 1991), and the romantic thriller And now... Ladies and Gentlemen (Claude Lelouch, 2002) starring Jeremy Irons. On Television she gave another well-received performance in the TV drama La storia/History (Luigi Comencini, 1986), in which she plays a widow raising a son during World War II.
Claudia Cardinale is a liberal with strong political convictions. She is involved in many humanitarian causes, and pro-women and pro-gay issues, and she has frequently stated her pride in her Tunisian and Arab roots - as evidenced by her appearance as herself in the Tunisian film Un été à La Goulette/A Summer at La Goulette (Férid Boughedir, 1996). She has managed to combine her acting work with a role of goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and advocate for the work of Luchino Visconti with whom she made four films. She wrote an autobiography, Moi Claudia, Toi Claudia (Me Claudia, You Claudia). In 2005, she also published a French-language book, Mes Etoiles (My Stars), about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show-business. In 2002, she won an honorary Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival, and previously in 1993 she was awarded an honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Cardinale works steadily on and in recent years she has also worked in the theatre. In the cinema she appeared recently in the French-Tunisian gay drama Le fil/The String (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009), the Algerian drama Un balcon sur la mer/A View of Love (Nicole Garcia, 2010) in which she played the mother of Jean Dujardin, and the costume drama Effie Gray (Richard Laxton, 2014) with Dakota Fanning. Claudia Cardinale currently lives in Paris. She has made over 135 films in the past 60 years and still does two or three a year.
Sources: Lucia Bozzola (AllMovie), Steve Rose (The Guardian), IMDb, and Wikipedia.
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Since the trees were taken down, behind my house, I can now see the sunset from my back door!
Deciduous trees - CC January Versatile.
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baby faced glam doll with versatility, she gives structured which can also be softened depending on lower cheek slider, love this one so much, the work that went into it and the personalization makes it sauuur special to me. She comes in a range of tones, and is show on avalon!! she will be available in mainstore! ⭐
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The Optare Solo is one of the versatile bus designs ever built and has been used in various guises by operators large and small. Here are a few shots of them, all taken in October 2019.
Whilst the big groups have enjoyed the Optare Solo, it is small operators that have really embraced it most. MX58KYU is a long wheelbase example and is part of the Eurotaxis fleet in South Gloucestershire. Still wearing the colours of previous owner, Marchants of Cheltenham, it is seen on October 21st 2019 at Cribbs Causeway having just undertaken a journey on the three day a week 623 tendered service to/from Hallen
This is a part of the series of the diving fishermen gathering mussels off the coast of Kerala.
The divers use this versatile wooden canoe called Catamaran for this activity. These are planks of curved wood which are lashed together and rowed with a 4 feet flat splint of bamboo.
The fishing catamarans remain out all night long in the deep seas . Here the catamaran is in the open sea but about 6-10 feet away from a huge rock face at the bottom of which the mussels are tethered. A most dangerous place to be as the sea water seethes and hurls itself in a periodic rhythm of fury. It is a fine art that these fishermen follow to time their dives with the rhythm of the breaking waves so that they do not get wiped out.
All shots taken on my recent trip to Kovalam, Kerala. Perched on the precarious rock face at about 0700-0830 AM
Dates
Taken on March 6, 2008 at 8.04AM IST (edit)
Posted to Flickr March 10, 2008 at 9.41PM IST (edit)
Replaced on Flickr March 10, 2008 at 1.08AM IST
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Camera Nikon D70
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 130 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
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Swiss-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Stroud, no. 56738, 1996. Photo: Sam Shaw. Caption: Lee Remick, on the Bowery, New York City, 1960.
Lee Remick (1935-1991) was an American actress admired for her versatility and beauty. Her best-known films include A Face in the Crowd (1957), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Wild River (1960), and Days of Wine and Roses (1962).
Lee Ann Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1935. Her parents were Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner, and Margaret Patricia Waldo, an actress. Remick studied acting at Bernard College in Manhattan New York and at the Actor's Studio, known for its method acting. Only 16, she made her Broadway debut in 1953 with 'Be Your Age' alongside Conrad Nagel. Remick went on to appear in musicals such as 'Oklahoma!' by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and 'Show Boat'by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern. From 1953, she was seen on television in live dramas. She made her film debut in A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957). While making the film in Arkansas, Remick stayed with a local relative where she practised her baton tricks daily so she could portray herself credibly as a majorette alongside her opposite actor Walter Matthau. Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner (Orson Welles) in The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt, 1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959), where she starred opposite James Stewart. Then she reunited with director Elia Kazan for The Wild River (1960) with Montgomery Clift.
Lee Remick played the leading female role alongside Yves Montand in Sanctuary (Tony Richardson, 1961). Remick was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Jack Lemmon's alcoholic wife in The Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards, 1962). In 1962, under contract to Fox, she was approached to replace Marilyn Monroe in George Cukor's Something's Got to Give. The idea was finally abandoned. When Marilyn died, the film remained unfinished. Remick appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical 'Anyone Can Whistle', with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book and direction by Arthur Laurents, which ran for only a week. Remick's performance is captured on the original cast recording. This began a lifelong friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the 1985 concert version of his musical 'Follies'. Lee received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her portrayal of a blind woman terrorised by a gang of drug smugglers in the play 'Wait Until Dark', written by Frederick Knott, under the direction of Arthur Penn and co-starring Robert Duvall. It was a big success and ran for 373 performances. In the film version, Wait Until Dark (Terence Young, 1967), Audrey Hepburn played the role of the blind Suzy Hendrix. Remick starred in No Way to Treat a Lady (Jack Smight, 1968) with Rod Steiger and George Segal, The Detective (Gordon Douglas, 1968) with Frank Sinatra, and Hard Contract (S. Lee Pogostin, 1969) with James Coburn In 1969, she left the USA to settle in London with her second husband, director Kip Gowens.
Lee Remick was married twice. Her first husband, with whom she had a son and a daughter, was Bill Colleran, an American television producer. Her second husband was the British film producer Kip Gowens. She appeared in the British comedy Loot (Silvio Narizzano, 1970). It is based on the play of the same name by Joe Orton and stars Richard Attenborough. She won Golden Globe Awards for the TV film The Blue Knight (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974). For the latter role, she also won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and enormous popularity. In the cinema, she starred in films such as The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) opposite Gregory Peck, one of the biggest hits of the year. Remick followed it up with leading actress roles in Telefon (Don Siegel, 1977), with Charles Bronson; The Medusa Touch (Jack Gold, 1978) with Richard Burton, and The Europeans (James Ivory, 1978), based on the novel by Henry James. With her husband Kip Gowens, she worked on a number of television movies including The Women's Room (1980), and Rearview Mirror (1984). In 1988 Lee Remick formed a production company with partners James Garner and Peter K. Duchow. Lee Remick died in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 55 from the effects of kidney and liver cancer. A very weak, almost unrecognisable Lee made one of her last public appearances three months before her death, to receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. She was cremated at Westwood Memorial Park. Her children, Kate (1959) and Matt Colleran (1961), sang the title song from one of her Broadway musical shows 'Anyone Can Whistle'.
Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia (French, Dutch, and English), and IMDb.
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In Africa, where resources are much more scarce, recycling is a way of life and no scrap of material goes to waste. These are flattened strips of aluminum taken from the necks of discarded liquor bottles. Strung together they form this textile-like sculpture that recalls the woven and pieced designs of "kente", a traditional type of African Asante or Ewe royal cloth
Born in Ghana, El Anatsui currently lives in Nigeria. His work reflects his awareness of both the international contemporary art market and what he terms "classical" African art. Emerging as an artist during the vibrant West African post-independence art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, El Anatsui has gone on to receive international acclaim for his constantly evolving and highly experimental sculpture.
Photographed on display at the De Young Fine Arts Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Belgian postcard, no. 950. Photo: Warner Bros.
American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.
Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.
Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.
Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."
Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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