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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.
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit. (Casa Editrice Ballerini & Fratini, Firenze), no. 2638. Photo: Paramount Films. John Payne in The Eagle and the Hawk/Spread Eagle (Lewis R. Foster, 1950).
American film actor John Payne (1912-1989) is mainly remembered for Film Noirs and 20th Century Fox musicals films. He also starred in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the Western TV series The Restless Gun (1957-1959).
John Howard Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. His parents were Ida Hope (née Schaeffer), a singer, and George Washington Payne, a developer in Roanoke. They lived at Fort Lewis, an antebellum mansion that became a state historic property but was destroyed by fire in the late 1940s. Payne attended prep school at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and then went to Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City in the fall of 1930. He studied drama at Columbia and voice at the Juilliard School. To support himself, he took on a variety of odd jobs, including wrestling as 'Alexei Petroff, the Savage of the Steppes' and boxing as 'Tiger Jack Payne'. In 1942, while visiting his family in Roanoke, Virginia, he agreed to take a small role in a community theatre production of 'The Man Who Came to Dinner', at the Academy of Music on Salem Avenue. In 1934, a talent scout for the Shubert theaters spotted Payne and gave him a job as a stock player. He appeared in road company productions of 'Rose Marie' and 'The Student Prince'. Payne toured with several Shubert Brothers shows, and frequently sang on New York City-based radio programs. On Broadway, he appeared in the revue 'At Home Abroad' (1935–1936) alongside Eleanor Powell and Beatrice Lillie. He understudied for Reginald Gardiner and took over one night. He was seen by Fred Kohlmar of Sam Goldwyn's company and was offered a movie contract. In 1936, he left New York for Hollywood. He tested for a role in Goldwyn's Come and Get It but lost out to Frank Shields. His first role in Goldwyn's Dodsworth (1936) presented him as an affable, handsome character actor. He had the male lead in Hats Off (1936), an independent B-film. Payne was third billed in Fair Warning (1937), a B-film at Fox. He was the lead in a low-budget film Love on Toast (1937). Payne was down the cast list for Paramount's College Swing (1938). He then signed a contract with Warner Bros, where he had a notable break replacing Dick Powell, who turned down the role, in Garden of the Moon (1938). Warners used Payne as a sort of "back up Dick Powell". He was in Kid Nightingale (1939) and Wings of the Navy (1939). Payne supported Ann Sheridan in Indianapolis Speedway (1939) and starred in a short The Royal Rodeo (1939) and in Bs King of the Lumberjacks (1940) and Tear Gas Squad (1940). During this time he returned to Broadway to appear in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938–1939). Payne was unhappy with his Warner Bros roles and asked for a release.
John Payne went over to 20th Century Fox where he appeared in Star Dust (1940). During filming, Darryl F. Zanuck offered him a long-term contract. He supported Walter Brennan in Maryland (1940) and John Barrymore in The Great Profile (1940). Payne was the male lead in the enormously popular Tin Pan Alley (1940) with Alice Faye and Betty Grable. He romanced Faye again in The Great American Broadcast (1940) and Week-End in Havana (1941) and Sonja Henie in Sun Valley Serenade (1941). Fox gave him the chance to do drama in Remember the Day (1941), romancing Claudette Colbert. He was meant to be in Song of the Islands with Grable but when George Raft couldn't get released from Warners Bros to play a marine in the hugely popular To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Payne stepped in. The film, co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott, was hugely popular. So too was Footlight Serenade (1942) with Grable and Victor Mature, Springtime in the Rockies (1942) with Grable, Iceland (1943) with Henie, and especially Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) with Faye. During World War II, Payne served as a flight instructor in the United States Army Air Corps. He got his Honorable discharge in September 1944. He returned to work at Fox, who put him in The Dolly Sisters (1945) with Grable and June Haver, playing Harry Fox. It was one of Payne's most successful films. Less popular was Wake Up and Dream (1946) with Haver. Payne was teamed with Maureen O'Hara in Sentimental Journey (1946), a big hit. He was third billed in The Razor's Edge (1946) underneath Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, Fox's most prestigious film of 1946. Payne's most familiar role may be his final film for Fox, that of attorney Fred Gailey in the classic holiday favorite Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara, and Edmund Gwenn. It was another box office success. He was meant to make another with O'Hara, Sitting Pretty (1948). However, in October 1947 he got his release from the studio, despite the contract having another four years to run, which would have brought him $670,000. Payne claimed he was dissatisfied with the roles being offered him. Payne later said he had asked for his release every week for eight months before he got it. Film historian Jeanine Basinger later wrote that "Fox thought of him [Payne] as a secondary Tyrone Power. They didn't know how to use him."
After leaving Fox, John Payne attempted to change his image and began playing tough-guy roles in Film Noirs. He did two Film Noirs at Universal, Larceny (1948), where he played the lead role and The Saxon Charm (1948) with Robert Montgomery and Susan Hayward. He had the lead in The Crooked Way (1949) for United Artists. Payne received an offer to star in a Western for Pine-Thomas Productions, a unit that operated out of Paramount Studios. El Paso (1949) was a box office success and Payne went on to make other films for the company including Captain China (1950), an adventure film; Tripoli (1950) set during the Barbary War; and The Eagle and the Hawk (1950), a Western. He signed a contract to make three more films for Pine Thomas. He did Passage West (1951), another Western; and Crosswinds (1951), an adventure film; Caribbean Gold (1952), a pirate film; The Blazing Forest (1952), an adventure story; The Vanquished (1952), a Western. Payne shrewdly insisted that the films he appeared in to be filmed in color and that the rights to the films revert to him after several years, making him wealthy when he rented them to television. In 1952 he said he got four times the fan mail he did at Fox. "I make fewer pictures now but I make the kind I want to make." For Edward Small, he starred in Kansas City Confidential (1952), a Film Noir; Payne owned 25% of the film. He later worked with Small on the pirate movie Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953), and the Film Noir 99 River Street (1953). Payne did a series of Westerns: Silver Lode (1954), for Benedict Bogeaus; Rails Into Laramie (1955), for Universal; Santa Fe Passage (1955) and The Road to Denver (1955) at Republic, and Tennessee's Partner (1955) for Bogeaus. He returned to Pine Thomas for a noir, Hell's Island (1956), then did Slightly Scarlet (1956) for Bogeaus. He made Hold Back the Night (1956) for Allied Artists and The Boss (1956) for United Artists, co-producing the latter. He did Rebel in Town (1956) and Hidden Fear (1957) for United Artists. He made one more Pine Thomas, Bailout at 43,000 (1957). In 1957 he optioned the rights for For the Life of Me, the memoir of a newspaper editor,[20] but it was not made. Payne also starred as Vint Bonner, an educated, commonsense gunfighter, in The Restless Gun which aired on NBC from 1957 to 1959, prior to Dale Robertson's Western series Tales of Wells Fargo. Dan Blocker, James Coburn, and Don Grady made their first substantive acting forays with Payne on The Restless Gun.
In March 1961, John Payne suffered extensive, life-threatening injuries when struck by a car in New York City. His recovery took two years. In his later roles, facial scars from the accident can be detected in close-ups; he chose not to have them removed. Payne directed one of his last films, They Ran for Their Lives (1968), and again teamed up with Alice Faye in a 1974 revival of the musical Good News. He also starred in the Gunsmoke episode of "Gentry's Law" in 1970. His final role was on TV in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady (1975), co-starring with Peter Falk and Janet Leigh. Later in life Payne, like former Daniel Boone-Davy Crockett series star Fess Parker, became wealthy through real estate investments in southern California. Payne was married to actress Anne Shirley from 1937 to 1942; they had a daughter, Julie Anne Payne. After their divorce, Payne then married actress Gloria DeHaven in 1944; the union produced two children, Kathleen Hope Payne (1945) and Thomas John Payne, before ending in divorce in 1950. During the filming of Kansas City Confidential (1952) he had a romance with recently divorced co-star Coleen Gray that continued well past filming. Payne then married Alexandra Beryl 'Sandy' Crowell Curtis in 1953 and remained with her until his death. He was the father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne, who was married to his oldest daughter Julie until their divorce in 1982. John Payne died in Malibu, California, of congestive heart failure in 1989, aged 77. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in motion pictures and television.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Wikipedia
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.
It appears they wear grease paint, and I suspect they are actors having a drink on a break.Velox divided back American postcard
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
Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). A maid overhears the conspiracy against Siegfried by Brunhild (Antonietta Calderari) and Hagen (Serafino Vité), but Hagen threatens to kill her if she betrays them. After Siegfried's death, Kriemhild will avenge herself by raising an enormous army against the conspirators, who have hidden in a castle of the Burgundians. Kriemhild's army invades the castle, sets it on fire, and defeats the Burgundians. According to the brochure of the film Kriemhild kills Brunhild by her own hand. The existing print lacks the last meters, so we don't see the ending of Brunhild and Hagen.
Siegfried / Sigfrido was a typical Ambrosio adaptation of the famous Nibelungenlied. The film initially follows the plot of the Nibelungenlied but greatly condenses and alters the second part of the saga (after Siegfried's death), even if Kriemhild's revenge is kept as a thriving force. Siegfried's slaying of the dragon, so prominent in Fritz Lang's film Die Nibelungen I. Siegfried (1924), has a small part in the original saga and is absent in the Ambrosio film (according to the brochure). Also, the use of the Tarnkappe, the cloak that makes invisible and thus deceives Brunhild, lacks. NB the volume Il cinema muto italiano 1912, part 2, by Aldo Bernardini and Vittorio Martinelli, indicates Dario Silvestri as playing Siegfried, while he looks very similar to the actor playing Parsifal in the eponymous film (Caserini, 1912) by Ambrosio, identified by B&M as Vitale De Stefano. The film Siegfried was released in Italy in October 1912. Both Siegfried and Parisfal were made in 1912 as prologue to the Richard Wagner centenary in 1913. Arrigo Frusta wrote the script, while Angelo Scalenghe did the cinematography. A print of the film exists within the Komiya Collection in Japan and was screened at the 2018 edition of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bolologna.
For the film's Italian brochure, see www2.museocinema.it/collezioni/Muto.aspx. For the Nibelungenlied, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied. For the screening of the Komiya Collection print in Bologna, see the text by Hiroshi Komatsu in the catalogue: festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/siegfried/
Fernanda Negri Pouget (1889-1955) was an Italian actress who starred in the Italian silent cinema of the 1910s. Little is known about the private life of Antonietta Calderari (dates of birth and death lack), but it is clear she was an actress at Turinese film companies all through her career in the 1910s and early 1920s.
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,
Vintage postcard.
German actor Raimund Harmstorf (1939-1998) became famous as the protagonist of the German TV mini series Der Seewolf/The Sea-Wolf (1971), based on Jack London's classic novel. Later on, he starred successfully in another German TV series Michael Strogoff: Der Kurier des Zaren/Michel Strogoff (1975), based on Jules Verne's adventure novel. Harmstorf was unforgettable as the handsome hero with a secret mission in an old Russia threatened by Kozaks and frozen rivers, wearing woolly hats and serious faces. Both series were sold to many countries. Harmstorf was also a star of the Eurowestern and his life ended as a tragedy. We will soon make another post on his interesting career and life.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb. For more postcards of classic TV shows, check out our set Vintage TV Heroes.
"Actor"
I made this figure from very simple human base - 32 grid.
Improvisation - this is only way that i can make something.
Finished vith acrylic paint and varnish.
Height: 12 cm
Da un idea di Giulia Catania, progetto attore/doppiatore. Con l'aiuto di Giorgio Violino e Andrea Marietta. Grazie alla collaborazione di Spazio 211 - Torino. L’attore ci affascina, ci conquista, ci fa scegliere un film. È in grado di condizionare con il suo nome, il suo volto, la sua storia, la scelta di uno spettacolo, di inchiodarci alla poltrona. Poi nel buio, quando il racconto ci trattiene, ecco che la fascinazione del volto perde forza ed è la voce che ci conquista, la sua capacità di trasformare un momento di banali sequenze, in recitazione. La storia diventa rifrangenze, sonorità, una malia. Il volto lentamente si stempera e, da quel momento, l’attore diventa la sua voce e quella voce ci seguirà in altre storie, ritornerà altre volte e sempre riandremo a quelle emozioni che hanno saputo conquistarci. A poco a poco ogni attore si sfuma, perde consistenza, quasi si annulla e di lui resta, rimbalzando per altre opere, per momenti anche brevi, la sua voce, come una eco, come un miraggio. La parte è diventata il tutto e quel tutto sarà eterno, insostituibile. Cadono i capelli spuntano le rughe, il volto diviene meno bello, non è più interessante, ma c’è una parte di quel ritratto di Dorian Gray, in una sala di registrazione, che mai invecchia che sempre resta giovane, magari un po’ più maturo, ma migliora, ogni volta, ad ogni appuntamento. E la bravura di chi dietro lo specchio anima la vita professionale di un attore, spesso viene fraintesa, dimenticata, sottovalutata. Ho voluto con questo mio lavoro restituire un volto a una voce, rendere giustizia e chi è costretto a vivere di riflesso. Sovente, finiamo per amare di più quella voce che quell’attore, anzi quell’attore ci piace proprio per quella voce. Loro danno una vita nuova agli attori che doppiano, io ho voluto restituire una vita a chi riesce a farmi continuare un sogno. Quindi, in questo gioco, ho deciso di far doppiare fisicamente in foto l'attore, in questo caso Alex Polidori, che doppia con la voce e nelle mie foto Tom Holland (Spiderman). L'idea è di fare un progetto più completo con un buon numero di doppiatori che potrebbero prendere parte alla mia idea. Se sei un doppiatore e ti interessa chiamami.
Roman copy of Greek original from post 4th century BC. Made c100AD, Rome, Quirinal Hill. It shows an actor wearing the woollen costume of Silenus from an Attic satyr play of the classical period. Antikensammlung, Berlin.
Aspiring actor and model. I've been stepping out of my comfort zone and doing more photo shoots lately. Watch out for Matthew, I believe he has it in him to do well in the business. Learn more about him here
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sesión: De Cine.
Modelo y Actor: Paco Celdrán.
Fotografía y procesado: Rodolfo Velasco (Olpho)
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