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Greek actor George Roussakis. Part of a commissioned photo shoot for the actor's portfolio and promotion.
Strobist info: 1 speedlight 1 meter away right and a little above the model.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. 1301. Photo: Warner Bros.
Australian born actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959) achieved fame in Hollywood with his suave, debonair, devil-may-care attitude. He was known for his romantic Swashbuckler roles in films like Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), often co-starring with Olivia deHavilland. In 1942, the tall, athletic and exceptionally handsome, Flynn became an American citizen. He developed a reputation for womanising, hard drinking and for a time in the 1940s, narcotics abuse. He was linked romantically with Lupe Vélez, Marlene Dietrich, and Dolores del Río, among many others.
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was born in a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, in 1909. His father, Theodore, was a lecturer and later professor of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mother was Lily Mary Young. After early schooling in Hobart, from 1923 to 1925 Flynn was educated at the South West London College, a private boarding school in Barnes, London, and in 1926 returned to Australia to attend Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School) where he was the classmate of a future Australian prime minister, John Gorton. His formal education ended with his expulsion from Shore for theft. After being dismissed from a job as a junior clerk with a Sydney shipping company for pilfering petty cash, he went to Papua New Guinea at the age of eighteen, seeking his fortune in tobacco planting and metals mining. He spent the next five years oscillating between the New Guinea frontier territory and Sydney. In early 1933, Flynn appeared as an amateur actor in the low-budget Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty (Charles Chauvel, 1933), in the lead role of Fletcher Christian. Later that year he returned to Britain to pursue a career in acting, and soon secured a job with the Northampton Repertory Company at the town's Royal Theatre, where he worked and received his training as a professional actor for seven months. In 1934 Flynn was dismissed from Northampton Rep. reportedly after he threw a female stage manager down a stairwell. He returned to Warner Brothers' Teddington Studios in Middlesex where he had worked as an extra in the film I Adore You (George King, 1933) before going to Northampton. With his new-found acting skills he was cast as the lead in Murder at Monte Carlo (Ralp Ince, 1935), now considered a lost film. During its filming he was spotted by a talent scout for Warner Bros. and Flynn emigrated to the U.S. as a contract actor.
In Hollywood, Errol Flynn was first cast in two insignificant films, but then he got his great chance. He could replace Robert Donat in the title role of Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935). Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks rocketed him overnight to international stardom. Over the next six years, he was typecast as a dashing adventurer in The Charge of the Light Brigade (Michael Curtiz, 1936),The Prince and the Pauper (William Keighley, 1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938; his first Technicolor film), The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding, 1938) with David Niven, Dodge City (Michael Curtiz, 1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz, 1939) and The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz, 1940). His striking good looks and screen charisma won him millions of fans. Flynn played an integral role in the re-invention of the action-adventure genre. In collaboration with Hollywood's best fight arrangers, Flynn became noted for fast-paced sword fights. He demonstrated an acting range beyond action-adventure roles in light contemporary social comedies, such as The Perfect Specimen (Michael Curtiz, 1937) and Four's a Crowd (Michael Curtiz, 1938), and melodrama The Sisters (Anatole Litvak, 1938). During this period Flynn published his first book, Beam Ends (1937), an autobiographical account of his sailing experiences around Australia as a youth. He also travelled to Spain, in 1937, as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland a total of eight times, and together they made the most successful on-screen romantic partnership in Hollywood in the late 1930s-early 1940s in eight films. Flynn's relationship with Bette Davis, his co-star in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz, 1939), was quarrelsome. Davis allegedly slapped him across the face far harder than necessary during one scene.
In 1940, at the zenith of his career, Erroll Flynn was voted the fourth most popular star in the US. Flynn became a naturalised American citizen in 1942. As the United States had by then entered the Second World War, he attempted to enlist in the armed services, but failed the physical exam due to multiple heart problems and other diseases. This created an image problem for both Flynn, the supposed paragon of male physical prowess, and for Warner Brothers, which continued to cast him in athletic roles, including such patriotic productions as Dive Bomber (Michael Curtiz, 1941), Desperate Journey (Raoul Walsh, 1942) and Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh, 1945). His womanizing lifestyle caught up with him in 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape at the Bel Air home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy, and on board Flynn's yacht, respectively. The scandal received immense press attention. Many of Flynn's fans, assuming that his screen persona was a reflection of his actual personality, refused to accept that the charges were true. Flynn was acquitted, but the trial's widespread coverage and lurid overtones permanently damaged his carefully cultivated screen image as an idealised romantic leading player. In 1946, Flynn published an adventure novel, Showdown, and earned a reported $184,000. In 1947 he signed a 15-year contract with Warner Bros. for $225,000 per film. After the Second World War, the taste of the American film going audience changed from European-themed material and the English history-based escapist epics in which Flynn excelled, to more gritty, urban realism and film noir, reflecting modern American life. Flynn tried unsuccessfully to make the transition in Uncertain Glory (Raoul Walsh, 1944) with Paul Lukas, and Cry Wolf (Peter Godfrey, 1947) with Barbara Stanwyck, and then increasingly passé Westerns such as Silver River (Raoul Walsh, 1948) and Montana (Ray Enright, 1950). Flynn's behaviour became increasingly disruptive during filming; he was released from his contract in 1950 by Jack L. Warner as part of a stable-clearing of 1930s glamour-generation stars. His Hollywood career over at the age of 41, Flynn entered a steep financial and physical decline.
In the 1950s, Errol Flynn became a parody of himself. He lost his savings from the Hollywood years in a series of financial disasters, including The Story of William Tell (Jack Cardiff, 1954) with Waltraut Haas. Aimlessly he sailed around the Western Mediterranean aboard his yacht Zaca. Heavy alcohol abuse left him prematurely aged and overweight. He staved off financial ruin with roles in forgettable productions such as Hello God (William Marshall, 1951), Il maestro di Don Giovanni/Crossed Swords (Milton Krims, 1954) opposite Gina Lollobrigida, and King's Rhapsody (Herbert Wilcox, 1955) with Anna Neagle. He performed in such also-ran Hollywood films as Mara Maru (Gordon Douglas, 1952) and Istanbul (Joseph Pevney, 1957) with Cornell Borchers, and made occasional television appearances. As early as 1952 he had been seriously ill with hepatitis resulting in liver damage. In 1956 he presented and sometimes performed in the television anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre that was filmed in Britain. He enjoyed a brief revival of popularity with The Sun Also Rises (Henry King, 1957); The Big Boodle (Richard Wilson, 1957), filmed in Cuba; Too Much, Too Soon (Art Napoleon, 1958); and The Roots of Heaven (John Huston, 1958) with Juliette Gréco. In these films he played drunks and washed out bums, and brought a poignancy to his performances that had not been there during his glamorous heydays. He met with Stanley Kubrick to discuss a role in Lolita, but nothing came of it. Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film the self-produced B film Cuban Rebel Girls (Barry Mahon, 1959), where he met Fidel Castro and was initially an enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Revolution. He wrote a series of newspaper and magazine articles for the New York Journal American and other publications documenting his time in Cuba with Castro. Many of these pieces were lost until 2009, when they were rediscovered in a collection at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History. He narrated a short film titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959), his last known work as an actor. He published his autobiography, My Wicked Wicked Ways. In 1959, Errol Flynn died of a heart attack in Vancouver, Canada. Flynn was married three times. His first wife was actress Lili Damita (1935-1942). They had one son, actor and war correspondent Sean Flynn (1941-1971). Sean and his colleague Dana Stone disappeared in Cambodia in 1970, during the Vietnam War, while both were working as freelance photojournalists for Time magazine. It is generally assumed that they were killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. Errol was married a second time to Nora Eddington from 1943 till 1949. They had two daughters, Deirdre (1945) and Rory (1947). His third wife was actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death. They had one daughter, Arnella Roma (1953–1998). In 1980, author Charles Higham published a controversial biography, Errol Flynn: The Untold Story, in which he alleged that Flynn was a fascist sympathiser who spied for the Nazis before and during the Second World War, and that he was bisexual and had multiple gay affairs. Later Flynn biographers were critical of Higham's allegations, and found no evidence to corroborate them.
Sources: Charles Culbertson (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag G.m.b.H., Minden/Westf, no. 714. Photo: Warner Bros. Publicity still for Serenade (Anthony Mann, 1956).
Mario Lanza (1921–1959) was an American tenor, actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. His masterpiece was The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe, 1951), the top-grossing film in the world in 1951. Lanza's voice was so dazzling that an awestruck Arturo Toscanini called it the "voice of the century".
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Great Horned Owl at Hawk Mountain, 2011. He is a rescue bird, a victim of a car crash, and a reason why conservation groups matter. Also like all good actors, he enjoys showing off his profile.
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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.
Actress and fight coordinator Katie Warner
Sword by Rogue Steel
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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.
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, Utrecht, no. AX 6343.
Today, French singer and actor Dick Rivers (1945-2019) passed away on 24 April 2019. With Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday, he was one of the three stars who introduced Rock and Roll in France in the early 1960s. In later life, he also appeared in some films. Dick Rivers was 74.
Dick Rivers was born Hervé Fornieri in in Villefranche-sur-Mer in southern France in 1945. He was fascinated by America, the juke box and Rock and Roll. He admired Elvis Presley, who highly influenced both his singing and his looks. In 1960, at the age of fifteen, Hervé founded with three friends, guitarists Jean-Claude and Gerard Roboly and bassist Gerard Jacquemus, the group Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats). With his black hair slicked back, his never worn jeans and his cowboy boots he was the lead singer. His stage name came from the character (Deke Rivers) that Presley played in his second film, Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957). In February 1961, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Rivers concert at the Palais des Sports de Paris, whilst headlining with Vince Taylor, had turned into a full-scale riot. Between May 1961 and June 1962, he recorded with Les Chats Sauvages more than a hundred songs, and they sold more than 2 million albums. Big hits were Ma petite amie est vache (My girlfriend is a cow), Twist à Saint-Tropez (Twist in Saint-Tropez) and Est-ce que tu le sais (Do you know). The band’s success extended to all French-speaking countries, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec, where they attracted large crowds. But then, Rivers suddenly left Les Chats Sauvages.
In September 1962, Dick Rivers released his solo single Baby John which sold 200,000 copies. It was the start of a long and successful solo career, with more than thirty albums (three in English) and many singles. Among his hits were Tu n'es plus là (1963), the French version of Roy Orbison’s Blue Bayou, and Va t'en va t'en (1965), based on Go Now by the Moody Blues. In the 1970s, his music seemed outdated. For ten years, between 1982 and 1992, he hosted a program devoted to rock on Radio Monte Carlo. In 1994, a first collection of his old successes, Very-Dick was certified gold the following year. He started to record new music. In 1999, Dick made his first film La Candide Madame Duff/The Candid Lady Duff (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1999) and gave about 60 concerts in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2003, Rivers played in the comedy Le Furet/The Ferret (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 2003) with Jacques Villeret and Michel Serrault. The following year he appeared on stage in the play Les Paravents (The Screens) by Jean Genet, at the Théâtre National de Chaillot. It was a success. Furthermore, he was the French voice of Shere Khan in Jungle Book 2 (Steve Trenbirth) and also gave his voice to Arthur et les Minimoys/Arthur and the Invisibles (Luc Besson, 2006). On television he appeared in Mon amour de fantôme/Phantom Love (Arnaud Sélignac, 2007). His latest album, called Mister D, was released in 2011 to celebrate his 50-year career. At the same time, a book with the same title was published containing his memoirs collected by Sam Bernett. He returned to the stage and in 2012, he was on tour in France. Dick Rivers passed away on 24 April 2019. He was married to Micheline Davis and had an adopted daughter, Natala, who lived for three years with the American director George Lucas.
Sources: RFI Musique (French), Dick Rivers.com (French), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
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Spanish postcard, no. 5008.
Van Heflin (1908-1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He played mostly character parts throughout his film career, but during the 1940s Heflin had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Robert Taylor's doomed best friend in the Film Noir Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942). This led to leading roles in such musicals as Seven Sweethearts (Frank Borzage, 1942), and Presenting Lily Mars (Norman Taurog, 1943), as Judy Garland's love interest. After the war, he appeared opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the Film Noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946), and opposite Joan Crawford in Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947). He also co-starred with Lana Turner in the historical drama Green Dolphin Street (Victor Saville, 1947), a big prestige film for MGM and their biggest hit of 1947.
Emmett Evan Heflin was born in 1908 in Oklahoma as the son of Fanny Bleecker (Shippey) and Emmett Evan Heflin, a dentist. He moved to his grandmother in California after his parents separated. Drawn to life on the sea, Heflin shipped out on a tramp steamer upon graduating from high school, returning after a year to attend the University of Oklahoma in pursuit of a law degree. Two years into his studies, Heflin was back on the ocean. Having entertained thoughts of a theatrical career since childhood, Heflin enrolled at the prestigious Yale School of Drama and made his Broadway bow credited as "Evan Heflin" in Channing Pollock's 'Mister Moneypenny' (1928). When the play folded after 61 performances, Heflin once more retreated to the sea, sailing up and down the Pacific for nearly three years. He revitalised his acting career in 1931, appearing in one short-lived production after another until landing a long-running assignment as a radical leftist at odds with the established elite in the S.N. Behrman comedy of manners Broadway play 'End of Summer' (1936). This led to his film bow in Katharine Hepburn's A Woman Rebels (Mark Sandrich, 1936), as well as a brief contract with RKO Radio. Katharine Hepburn requested Heflin's services once more for her Broadway play 'The Philadelphia Story', and while the 1940 MGM film version of that play cast James Stewart in Heflin's role, the studio thought enough of Heflin to sign him to a contract.
Van Heflin remained at MGM for eight years (1941-1949). During WWII he served in the US Army as a combat cameraman in the 9th Air Force in Europe. After serving in various Army film units, Heflin resumed his film career. He won the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar for his third assignment at the studio, that of the alcoholic, Shakespeare-spouting best friend of Robert Taylor in Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942). He was immediately cast in the leading role as a forensically-minded detective in Kid Glove Killer (1942), which marked the debut of Fred Zinnemann as a feature director. In between wartime service and two musicals, Presenting Lily Mars (Norman Taurog, 1943) and the Jerome Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, 1946), Van appeared in the excellent Film Noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946) with Barbara Stanwyck as the inevitable femme fatale and Kirk Douglas. For a short while, he was heard on the radio as Raymond Chandler's philosophical private eye Philip Marlowe. He appeared as a jilted lover in the costume drama Green Dolphin Street (Victor Saville, 1947); he was Athos, one of The Three Musketeers (George Sidney, 1948) and an ex-GI on the trail of a psychopathic prison camp informer in Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence (1948). Heflin was poignant as the unloved Monsieur Bovary in Madame Bovary (Vincente Minnelli, 1949). He also played a cop whose affair with a married woman leads to a plot to kill her husband in The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951). Throughout the 1950s, the craggy-faced, dependable star character actor worked in both Hollywood and Europe. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "He is best remembered in this decade for his portrayal of Western characters with integrity and singularity of purpose: as the struggling homesteader at the mercy of a ruthless cattle baron who befriends Shane (George Stevens, 1953); the desperate, single-minded rancher trying to get a captured outlaw on the 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957); and the tough, uncompromisingly stern father forced to kill his errant son in Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson, 1958)." In 1963, he was engaged to narrate the prestigious TV anthology The Great Adventure. He was forced to pull out of this assignment when cast as the Louis Nizer character in the Broadway play 'A Case of Libel'. He appeared in the calamitous flop The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens, David Lean, Jean Negulesco, 1965) and the equally disastrous Stagecoach (Gordon Douglas, 1966) remake. One of his last performances was as the deranged bomber in Airport (George Seaton, Henry Hathaway, 1970). Heflin's final film appearance was in the made-for-TV speculative drama The Last Child (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1971). Van Heflin died in 1971 of a heart attack at the age of 61. He was married twice, first to silent film star Esther Ralston, then to RKO contract player Frances Neal who should not be confused with Heflin's actress sister, Frances Heflin.
Source: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.... Actor Ewan McGregor & actress Julianne Nicholson, at screen premiere of their film "August : Osage County" at TIFF
Filming has started in Lyme Regis Dorset. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are starring in the independent historical drama “Ammonite,” a story inspired by the life of fossil hunter Mary Anning. Here are a few photos I managed to get today of Kate Winslet and some of the other actors. Series of 4
Nique sa mere le Hollywood des années 60, les reconstitutions à la mad men, et les bars fakeplastic-vintage.
Actors Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner attend the 2010 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 8, 2010 in Universal City, California.
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
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Description: Max Reinhardt und seine Schauspieler, 20 Original Steinzeichnungen, von Viktor Tischler;
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Creator: Tischler, Viktor, 1890-1951
Creator: Specht, Richard, 1870-1932
Object Origin: Wien
Medium: Artists' books
Date: 1924
Call Number: r (f) PN 2657 T5
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Repository: Leo Baeck Institute, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
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