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British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 26. Charles Rogers in Wings (William Wellman, 1927).
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (1904-1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicised as "America's Boy Friend". Rogers starred in such films as Wings (1927) and My Best Girl (1927), the latter opposite his later wife Mary Pickford. He also found success as a bandleader and a musician.
Charles Edward 'Buddy' Rogers was born in 1904 in Olathe, Kansas, to Maude and Bert Henry Rogers. His father was a newsman who later became a probate judge in Johnson County. Charles He attended Olathe high school and studied at the University of Kansas where he became an active member of Phi Kappa Psi. In the mid-1920s, he trained at the Paramount Picture School and began acting professionally in Hollywood films. His film debut was a starring role in the silent romantic comedy Fascinating Youth (Sam Wood, 1926), along with Thelma Todd and Josephine Dunn in supporting roles. That year, he also appeared in the comedy So's Your Old Man (Gregory La Cava, 1926) starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce. Nicknamed "Buddy", his most-remembered film performance was opposite Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in the Oscar-winning war film Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927), the first film ever honored as Best Picture. Hundreds of extras and some 300 pilots were involved in the filming, including pilots and planes of the United States Army Air Corps which were brought in for the filming and to provide assistance and supervision. Wellman extensively rehearsed the scenes for the Battle of Saint-Mihiel over ten days with some 3500 infantrymen on a battlefield made for the production on location. Although the cast and crew had much spare time during the filming because of weather delays, shooting conditions were intense, and Wings took approximately nine months to complete in total. Acclaimed for its technical prowess and realism upon release, the film became the yardstick against which future aviation films were measured, mainly because of its realistic air-combat sequences. According to Wikipedia, Wings was one of the first films to show two men kissing, and also one of the first widely released films to show nudity. In the enlistment office are nude men undergoing physical exams, who can be seen from behind through a door which is opened and closed. Bow's breasts are revealed for a second during the Paris bedroom scene when military police barge in as she is changing her clothes. In the scene in which Rogers becomes drunk, the intoxication displayed on the screen was genuine, as although 22 years of age, he had never tasted liquor before, and quickly became inebriated from drinking champagne. A boom was built with the camera mounted on an extension to shoot the Café de Paris scene. For many years, Wings was considered a lost film until 1992 when a print was found in the Cinémathèque Française film archive in Paris and quickly copied from nitrate film to safety film stock. It was again shown in theaters, including some theaters where the film was accompanied by Wurlitzer pipe organs. In 1997, Wings was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Rogers then appeared in the silent romantic comedy My Best Girl (Sam Taylor, 1927) opposite his future wife Mary Pickford. Charles Rosher received an Academy Award nomination for his cinematography of this film in 1928. He co-starred again with Clara Bow in the romantic comedy Get Your Man (Dorothy Arzner, 1927). His first part-talkie was Abie's Irish Rose (Victor Fleming, 1928) with Nancy Carroll. They co-starred again in the musical Close Harmony (John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland, 1929).
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers was a talented trombonist skilled on several other musical instruments. He performed with his own dance band in films and on the radio. He performed in such musicals as the all-star American revue Paramount on Parade (Edmund Gouldin, and ten other directors, 1930), and the British musical Dance Band (Marcel Varnel, 1935). In 1930, he recorded two records for Columbia as a solo singer with a small jazz band accompanying. In 1932, he signed with Victor and recorded four sweet dance band records with a group organized by drummer, and later actor, Jess Kirkpatrick. In 1933–1934 Rogers took over the popular Joe Haymes orchestra, to which he added drummer Gene Krupa. His later bands were organised by Milt Shaw. In 1938, he signed with Vocalion and recorded six swing records. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as a flight training instructor. After making An Innocent Affair (Lloyd Bacon, 1948), he retired from the screen for nine years, concentrating on television and radio work. His final screen appearance before his retirement from films was in the Western The Parson and the Outlaw (Oliver Drake, 1957). It was produced by Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Anthony Dexter as Billy the Kid, along with Buddy Rogers, Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, and Jean Parker. In 1960, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated to Rogers at 6135 Hollywood Blvd, for his contribution to the motion picture industry. In 1986, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Rogers with The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and in 1993, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. In 1937, Rogers became the third husband of silent film actress Mary Pickford. Their romance had begun in 1927, when they co-starred in My Best Girl, but they kept it on ice until Pickford's separation and 1936 divorce from Douglas Fairbanks. According to IMDb, he reported that Clark Gable "once told Mary [Mary Pickford] when we got married, that it wouldn't last six months" because he was 11 years younger than her. They remained married for 42 years until Pickford's death in 1979. The couple adopted two children — Roxanne (born 1944, adopted in 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted in 1943). He became estranged from daughter Roxanne when, at age 18, she ran off to marry a man her parents did not approve of. In 1982, Rogers married Beverly Ricono, a well-regarded philanthropist in the Palm Desert area, and the couple remained together till his death. According to Wikipedia, Rogers was reportedly bisexual and had an affair with Gene Raymond who was married to Jeanette MacDonald. IMDb: "Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond were married on June 16, 1937. Nine days later, Mary Pickford and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers were wed. That same night, both couples left aboard the liner Lurline to honeymoon in Honolulu. Their respective cabins were adjacent, and Raymond and Rogers seem to have already been quite well acquainted. According to reliable sources, the two wives found the two grooms commencing a honeymoon of their own." Charles 'Buddy' Rogers died in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1999, at the age of 94 of natural causes, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Cathedral City, near Palm Springs.
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Actor Matthew McConaughey, a native of Uvalde, Texas as well as a father and a gun owner, speaks to reporters about mass shootings in the United States during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
My comment:
Matthew McConaughey's delivered a heart-felt message to those lawmakers living in a remote parallel universe where lives of other citizens matter & conflict resolutions take place on a psychoanalytic couch not on a shoot out with innocent bystanders having nothing to do with their grievances!
1870s carte de visite of Victorian stage actors George Rignold and Mlle. Berthe Girardin as King Henry and Katharine, as photographed by Sarony of New York.
Actor head shots. Thanks for the inspiration from Shineylewis, Regina Pagles.
Lighting: AB800 in medium softbox CR, AB800 with grid, fill with 64" PLM with cover for fill.
Was sad to hear of the recent passing of the actor Bernard Cribbins. So this is my small tribute to a fine actor who was the voice of "The Wombles" the annoying guest Mr Hutchinson in a Fawlty Towers episode and many other acting roles that a lot of us may remember from our childhood. But perhaps best remembered for playing Albert Perks the station porter in the 1970 all time great family film "The Railway Children" May he rest in peace.
Bernard Cribbins (1928- 2022)
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Robert Pattinson, the English actor who plays Cedric Diggory in the latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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"Harry Potter E A Pedra Filosofal."
‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone, was the original UK. title.
It was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone."
Thanks to Missive Maven's info.
Italian postcard by TV Stelle in the Star Collection, no. 7. Design: C. Rea.
Hunky Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart (1969) started as a teen idol in B-films and TV movies,. He turned his career in a more serious direction with arthouse hits like Michelangelo Antonioni’s Al di là delle nuvole and Romanzo Criminale/Crime Novel (2005). He also became a notable film director himself.
Kim Rossi Stuart was born in Rome in 1969 and named after the Rudyard Kipling novel Kim. His father, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, was an actor of Italian and Scottish descent. Kim's mother, Klara Müller, is a former top model of German and Dutch descent. Kim has three sisters, two of them actresses: Loretta Rossi Stuart and Valentina Rossi Stuart, the latter also stunt-woman. Ombretta is his third sister. Kim began acting at the age of 5 with his father Giacomo in the film drama Fatti di gente perbene/The Murri Affair (Mauro Bolognini, 1974), starring Catherine Deneuve. In 1983, the 14-years-old left his parents' home and also left school to further his career as an actor. He studied theatre and in 1986 he began to act regularly for TV and film. He played a novice in Der Name der Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), the film version of Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose. He became popular with his lead in the martial arts film Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro/Karate Warrior (Fabrizio De Angelis, 1987) and its sequels. Seymour Asses at IMDb: “It's a poorly made "young guy learns karate from old Asian master in order fight his arch nemesis over a girl" type movie. The plot is lifted from The Karate Kid 2, but Karate Warrior expands on this by adding magic to the mix. Really, really stupid magic.” More interesting was the dark and funny comedy Lo zio indegno/The Sleazy Uncle (Franco Brusati, 1989), starring Vittorio Gassman. Rossi-Stuart was again a smash among young Italian audiences as a dashing prince in the TV movie Fantaghirò/Cave of the Golden Rose (Lamberto Bava, 1991) with Alessandra Martines. and the success lead to several sequels. He began to focus on quality films, like Senza pelle/No Skin (Alessandro D'Alatri, 1994), where his role, a man with psychological problems, was appreciated by the critics. A popular film was the crime-drama Poliziotti/Policemen (Giulio Base, 1995), with Claudio Amendola and Michele Placido. Then he acted for legendary director Michelangelo Antonioni in Al di là delle nuvole/Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, 1995).
In the mid 1990s, Kim Rossi Stuart returned to the theatre to play in William Shakespeare’s Re Lear (King Lear), directed by Luca Ronconi, and with Turi Ferro in Il visitatore (The Visitor) written by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and directed by Antonio Calenda. On TV, he played Julien Sorel in the French-series Le Rouge et le Noir/The Red and the Black (Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, 1997), based upon the famous book by Stendhal. In 2002 he participated in the film Pinocchio (Roberto Benigni, 2002) as Lucignolo. Then, he played in Le Chiavi di Casa/The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio, 2004), as a young father who attempts to forge a relationship with his teenage, handicapped son after he meets him for the first time. The film and his performance won several awards. Later he played Mimmo in the TV-film Il tunnel della libertà/The tunnel of the Freedom (Enzo Monteleone, 2004) and he had one of the leading-roles in Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale/Kings of Crime (Michele Placido, 2005). This film was also highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. Rossi Stuart wrote the screenplay, directed and acted in the film Anche libero va bene/Along the Ridge (Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006). It was followed by a lead role in Piano, solo (Riccardo Milani, 2007), a film based on the life of Italian jazz great Luca Flores, with Rossi Stuart playing Flores. He then starred in the comedy-drama Questione Di Cuore/A Question of the Heart (Francesca Archibugi, 2009). Then followed Vallanzasca - Gli Angeli Del Male/Angel of Evil (Michele Placido, 2011), based on the life of Renato Vallanzasca, a famous 1970s Italian bank robber. Wallys Chamber at IMDb: “Kim Rossi Stuart has a lot of charm, mixed with a crazy brutality and a great face to slap on the front of a newspaper. There's a fantastic scene where Vallanzasca dresses as a business man and just strolls straight through into the bank's back room to help himself and it's only with this charm that he manages to go through with it.” In the French romantic comedy L'ex de ma vie (Dorothée Sebbagh, 2014) he appeared as the Italian ex Nino of Géraldine Nakache. And he directed himself in the comedy-drama Tommaso (Kim Rossi Stuart, 2016). Kim Rossi Stuart was in a relationship with the actresses Veronica Logan and and Simona Cavallari. He speaks English, French and Italian, is an accomplished swimmer and also plays the trumpet. He has a son Ettore (2011) by his girlfriend Ilaria Spada.
Sources: Dante Balzano (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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An image of actor Bess Roche taken during rehearsals for Chiltern Shakespeare Company's 2023 production of Twelfth Night
It appears they wear grease paint, and I suspect they are actors having a drink on a break.Velox divided back American postcard
German collectors card in the "Deutsche Film-Lieblinge" series I. Photo: O.E. Hasse in Canaris (Alfred Weidenmann, 1954).
German actor and director O.E. Hasse (1903-1978) became a star of the German cinema when he was already in his fifties. He also appeared in several international productions, including Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) and Costa-Gravas’ État de Siège/State of Siege (1972).
Otto Eduard Hasse was born to Wilhelm Gustav Eduard Hasse, a blacksmith, and Valeria Hasse in the village of Obersitzko in Imperial Germany (now Obrzycko, Poland) in 1903. He gained his first stage experiences at highschool at Kolmar together with his classmate Berta Drews. Hasse began to study law at the University of Berlin but abandoned this study after three semesters and moved over to the Reinhardt-Seminar, Max Reinhardt's actor school at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin to receive an actor's education. His film career began already in 1924 with an uncredited small part in F.W. Murnau’s classic Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (1924) starring Emil Jannings. The following decade he appeared incidentally in supporting roles in films like the comedy Peter Voß, der Millionendieb/Peter Voss Who Stole Millions (Ewald André Dupont, 1932) featuring Willi Forst, and Die vertauschte Braut/The exchanged bride (Carl Lamac, 1934) with Anny Ondra. After several performances at Sommertheater Thale in the Harz region, he became a cast member of Junge Bühne Berlin and went to Deutsches Theater in 1925/26. From 1926 to 1929, he performed at Vereinigte Theater Breslau and at several theatres in Berlin. From 1930 till 1939 he played at the Kammerspiele in Munich. Here, Hasse met Karl Valentin and worked with him on the film Der verhexte Scheinwerfer/The Bewitched headlights (Carl Lamac, 1934). In Munich, he also worked for the first time as a stage director. In the spring of 1939, he was arrested under § 175 because of his homosexuality and he was sentenced to two months in prison. It was a relatively light sentence because he had confessed and because of his artistic achievements. Reportedly Hitler was impressed by his performance in the play Caesar and Cleopatra. After his sentence, he moved to the German Theater in Prague and shortened his name to O.E. instead of Otto Eduard. Among his films during the Nazi period were the propaganda film Stukas (Karl Ritter, 1941) with Carl Raddatz, the film biography Rembrandt (Hans Steinhoff, 1942) and Dr. Crippen an Bord/Dr. Crippen (Erich Engels, 1942). In 1944, Hasse was conscripted to the Luftwaffe and became slightly wounded.
After World War II, O.E. Hasse was a cast member of Hebbel Theater, and of Schlossparktheater. Furthermore, he appeared at numerous Berlin theatres. On the big screen, Hasse had only played minor roles until then. But he became enormously successful after the war. First, he played in German films like Berliner Ballade/Berlin Ballad (Robert A. Stemmle, 1948) with Gert Fröbe, and the crime drama Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid/Epilogue (Helmut Käutner, 1950). Then followed roles in international productions like The Big Lift (George Seaton, 1950) about Operation Vittles - the 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift, the war film Decision Before Dawn (Anatole Litvak, 1951), and Betrayed (Gottfried Reinhardt, 1954), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. In Hitchcock’s I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) he played the murderer – an exiled artist, helpless and paranoid. Another acclaimed part was the title role in the film biography Canaris/Deadly Decision (Alfred Weidenmann, 1954) about Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, leader of the German military Secret Service during the Nazi period. Hasse also played in two parts of the 08/15 trilogy (Paul May, 1955) with Joachim Fuchsberger, and in the comedy, Kitty und die große Welt/Kitty and the great world (Alfred Weidenmann, 1956) with Romy Schneider. In the French crime film Les Aventures d'Arsène Lupin (Jacques Becker, 1957) he appeared opposite Robert Lamoureux as Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was successful with literary adaptations as Der Maulkorb/The Muzzle (Wolfgang Staudte, 1958) after Heinrich Spoerl, Frau Warrens Gewerbe/Mrs. Warren's Profession (Ákos Ráthonyi, 1960) after George Bernard Shaw, and Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi/The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (Kurt Hoffmann, 1961) based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In 1959 he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
During the 1960s, O.E. Hasse focused on his stage work but also appeared in films like Le Caporal épinglé/The Elusive Corporal (Jean Renoir, 1962) starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, the Krimi Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse/The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (Hugo Fregonese, 1964) starring Peter van Eyck, and the French drama Trois chambres à Manhattan/Three Rooms in Manhattan (Marcel Carné, 1965) with Annie Girardot. One of his later films was the international political thriller État de siège/State of Siege (Costa-Gravas, 1972) starring Yves Montand. Since 1950, Hasse was also the German dubbing voice of Charles Laughton, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, and Clark Gable. In 1974 he was honored with the Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Germany’s Cross of Merit). He continued to film and played as an old man in films as Eiszeit/Ice Age (Peter Zadek, 1975), the Italian film L'età della pace/The Peaceful Age (Fabio Carpi, 1976) and the TV film Konkurs/Bankruptcy (Alfred Weidenmann, 1977). O.E. Hasse died in Berlin in 1978. His life partner for 30 years was Max Wiener, who worked as a manager at the Swiss media corporation Ringier. Since 1981 the German Academy of Arts donates an O.E. Hasse Prize to benefit young actors.
Sources: Gudrun Grimpe Christen (Gbbb-Berlin) (German), Filmportal.de, Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
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James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). Wikipedia
German promotion card by Deutsche Schallplatten Gmbh. Photo: Wolfgang Kühn, Duisburg.
French singer, and actor Jacques Dutronc (1943) is with his nonchalant playboy image and his legendary irony one of the most popular performers in the French-speaking world. He wrote successful songs for his later wife Françoise Hardy in the 1960s before moving on to pursue a successful solo career. In 1973, he branched out into film acting, and earned a Cesar for Best Actor in 1992 for the leading role in Van Gogh (1992).
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Mock advertisement with an image of myself as Darla Chandler, a 1960s British pop singer/secret agent from my "Absolutely Smashing" franchise.
These are three actors prior to a re-enactment of action during WW II in the South Pacific. A narrator gave us a lesson on the history of some to these battles for our education. He was very well versed.
This "Sailor" was showing the actresses shots he had taken with his camera; probably candids of the two of them earlier. The one in green "fatigues" is shading the screen while the Aviatrix is admiring the photos.
Most of the actors/actresses were volunteers at the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, TX. The show was outstanding and quite realistic of one of the battles. They actually demonstrated some weapons by firing a Thompson Machine Gun, a 12 guage shotgun, a 1903 Springfield rifle and an M1 rifle. During the "battle" they also fired a "flame thrower."
The battle was real enough to cause one to really think about the real thing.
A guest was introduced who sat near us who had been in the battle of Iwo Jima. He had to be in his 90's but, was very spry and animated waving to the crowd,