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Simply A Matter of Perspective by johnshlau

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"Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to look at things that makes the difference." – David Niven

Taken on the spiraling staircase at Tai Kwun, or Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong

Tai Kwun 大館 is situated in the restored Central Police Station compound, one of the most significant revitalization projects in Hong Kong, comprising three declared monuments—the former Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison.

RU-48-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Original French EP from early 1960's

TRACKS:

- Husky

- From russia with love

- Happy silence

- Ode to dawn

FRENCH PRESSING

Label: PRESIDENT/PRC616/

CA-09-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Artist: BOB MITCHELL & HIS ORCHESTRA

TSIDE A: CASINO ROYALE (from the Columbia picture: CASINO ROYALE) - THE PERSIAN BEAT

SIDE B: SPRINGTIME (from the Mercury picture WEST OF HELL) - THE FONORAMA ORCHESTRA

Country: ITALY

Company: CAR dischi JB

Number: CRJnp 1014

GO-88-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Catherine Élia

Accompagnée par Michel Colombier et son Orchestre

- Le printemps sur la colline

- Des fleurs pour Sophie (Ribbons and Roses)

- Sur la ville, il pleut (Walking in the Rain)

- Goldfinger

Label: Riviera

231059 - 1965 BIEM

Pressage original français

GO-89-R002 by Johan Oomen

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EPSON scanner image

Dr. No Mosaic - August 2010 by Johan Oomen

Mosaic with 500 scans! Master image: www.flickr.com/photos/ateam/4218641855/

🎃The One and Only...🎃 by Randy E. Crisp

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Vincent Price

I drew this with colored pencils, and like always, it looks REALLY bad when I take a picture of it to put online. Anyway, I got the excuses. heheh

Squint your eyes and you might be able to see him.

At first, I could not tell if he was, Vincent Price, Walt Disney, or David Niven.

Drawn, then touched up in Photoshop to darken/smooth the grain.

I was going for realism at first, then when I saw it was so grainy, I just did my sloppy stuff to it.

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Otom by Pat M

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Saint Jean Cap Ferrat #portraits #henrymatisse #lyztaylor #winstonchurchill #romyschneider #jeancocteau #beatricederothschild #davidniven #art by #otom #otomart #wallart #paintingart #streetart #streetart06 ##saintjeancapferrat #patm666photos

RE-78-F001 by Johan Oomen

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H.K. Connie Chan

EMI 7" Single PHK 1003 James Bond Cover

Label: 1st press 1966's Pathe/EMI Records, Made in India.

Cat # : PHK-1003.

GO-158-F by Johan Oomen

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THE ROLAND SHAW ORCHESTRA

The James Bond Thrillers

London EPP-698

VG+/VG- Condition

Scarce extended play. Includes the tracks "Goldfinger/ 007 Theme/ Guitar Lament/ The James Bond Theme". Manufactured in Mexico back in 1966 by Discos Peerless. Vinyl shows some surface marks which does not affect playing. No skips. Cover w/ some margin wear and creases. No writings. No repairs.

RE-61-F001 by Johan Oomen

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HONG KONG CHAN PAO CHU

*LONG HAIR LADY*

Track Listing : See Scans.

Format : 7" EP.

Label : 1967's, OST, Pathe Records, Made in Singapore By EMI Records (S.E.A).

Product Code : PHK-1013.

Raffles by Chatwick Harpax

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A. J. Raffles

E. W. Hornung wrote a series of twenty-six short stories and one novel about the adventures of Arthur J. Raffles, cricketer and gentleman thief, and his chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders, in London, between 1898 and 1909. The first story, "The Ides of March", appeared in the June 1898 edition of Cassell's Magazine.[1] The early adventures were published in The Amateur Cracksman[2] and continued with The Black Mask.[3] The last collection, A Thief in the Night[4] and the novel Mr. Justice Raffles[5] tell of adventures previously withheld.

Hornung dedicated the first collection of stories, The Amateur Cracksman, to his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, intending Raffles as a "form of flattery."[1] In contrast to Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson, Raffles and Bunny are "something dark, morally uncertain, yet convincingly, reassuringly English."[6]

I think I may claim that his famous character Raffles was a kind of inversion of Sherlock Holmes, Bunny playing Watson. He admits as much in his kindly dedication. I think there are few finer examples of short-story writing in our language than these, though I confess I think they are rather dangerous in their suggestion. I told him so before he put pen to paper, and the result has, I fear, borne me out. You must not make the criminal a hero.

—Arthur Conan Doyle[1]

Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he "never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War."[7] Additionally, the "recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is [a] recurrent subtext" throughout the stories.[1]

According to the Strand Magazine, these stories made Raffles "the second most popular fictional character of the time," behind Sherlock Holmes.[1] They have been adapted to film, television, stage, and radio, with the first appearing in 1903.

Characters[edit]

Arthur J. Raffles[edit]

Main article: A. J. Raffles (character)

Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes.[1][2]

Harry "Bunny" Manders[edit]

Main article: Bunny Manders

Bunny Manders, a struggling journalist, is Watson to Raffles' Holmes, his partner and chronicler. They met initially at school and then again on the night Bunny intended to commit suicide after writing bad checks to cover gambling debts. Raffles, also penniless, but thriving, convinced Bunny to join him instead.[1][2]

Plot details[edit]

The "Raffles" stories have two distinct phases. In the first phase, Raffles and Bunny are men-about-town who also commit burglaries. Raffles is a famous gentleman cricketer, a marvellous spin bowler who is often invited to social events that would be out of his reach otherwise. "I was asked about for my cricket", he comments after this period is over. It ends when they are caught and exposed on an ocean voyage while attempting another theft; Raffles dives overboard and is presumed drowned. These stories were collected in The Amateur Cracksman.[2] Other stories set in this period, written after Raffles had been "killed off". were collected in A Thief in the Night.[4]

The second phase begins some time later when Bunny – having served a prison sentence – is summoned to the house of a rich invalid. This turns out to be Raffles himself, back in England in disguise. Then begins their "professional" period, exiled from Society, in which they are straightforward thieves trying to earn a living while keeping Raffles's identity a secret. They finally volunteer for the Boer War, where Bunny is wounded and Raffles dies in battle after exposing an enemy spy. These stories were originally collected in The Black Mask, although they were subsequently published in one volume with the phase one stories.[3] The last few stories in A Thief in the Night were set during this period as well.[4]

Like Sherlock Holmes after his disappearance into the Reichenbach Falls, Raffles was never quite the same after his reappearance. The "classic" Raffles elements are all found in the first stories: cricket, high society, West End clubs, Bond Street jewellers – and two men in immaculate evening dress pulling off impossible robberies.

Adaptations[edit]

Film[edit]

There have been numerous films based on Raffles and his adventures, including:

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1905)[1]

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917), starring John Barrymore and Frank Morgan[1][8]

Mr. Justice Raffles (1921) starring Gerald Ames[9]

Raffles (1925), with House Peters[10]

Raffles (1930), featuring Ronald Colman and Bramwell Fletcher[11]

The Return of Raffles (1932) starring George Barraud and Claud Allister[12]

Raffles (1939), starring David Niven and Douglas Walton[13]

Television[edit]

Raffles (1975), a made-for-TV film, with Anthony Valentine portraying Raffles and Christopher Strauli playing his partner Bunny Manders.[14]

Raffles (TV series) Valentine and Strauli reprised their roles in a television series produced by Yorkshire Television in 1977 and scripted by Philip Mackie. The series was intermittently repeated on ITV3 in 2006, and has been released on DVD.[7][15]

The Gentleman Thief (2001), starring Nigel Havers[16]

Audio[edit]

Raffles (1985–1993), four series on BBC Radio 4 and World Service starring Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny Manders.[17]

Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, read by David Rintoul.[18]

Raffles, the Gentleman Thief, continuing radio series by Imagination Theater, scripted by M. J. Elliott, Jim French and John Hall.[19]

Theatre[edit]

The story of A. J. Raffles was first performed on Broadway as Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman on 27 October 1903 at the Princess Theatre.[20] The play moved to the Savoy Theatre in February 1904 and closed out in March of that year racking up 168 performances. It starred Kyrle Bellew as Raffles, a young Clara Blandick as Gwendolyn and E. M. Holland as Captain Bedford.[21]

In Langdon McCormick's 1905 play, The Burglar and the Lady, Raffles went up against Arthur Conan Doyle's famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Former boxer "Gentleman Jim" Corbett played Raffles, who was portrayed as an American to match his casting. McCormick did not secure permission from either Doyle or Hornung to use their characters. A 1914 movie adaptation of the play removed Holmes but kept Raffles, again played by Corbett.[22]

Pastiches[edit]

The Raffles character was continued by Barry Perowne. During the 1930s and early 1940s,[1] his series featured Raffles as a fairly typical contemporary pulp adventure hero and plays the role of detective alongside that of thief. When he picked up the series again in the 1950s, and once again during the 1970s, the stories were set closer to the late Victorian-setting of the original stories.

In 2011 and 2012 Richard Foreman published a series of six Raffles stories, collected in a single volume, Raffles: The Complete Innings.[23] These stories, contemporaneous with The Amateur Cracksman, begin with "The Gentleman Thief," in which Raffles and Bunny are hired by Sherlock Holmes to steal a stolen letter. Later stories in the sextet see Raffles and Bunny encounter H.G. Wells and Irene Adler. Foreman's Raffles is also more moralistic than the original: the gentleman thief often donates part of his ill-gotten gains to various charitable causes.

John Kendrick Bangs authored a 1906 novel, R. Holmes & Co.,[24] starring Raffles' grandson (and Sherlock Holmes's son, by Raffles' daughter Marjorie), Raffles Holmes. The novel's second chapter tells the story of Holmes's pursuit of Raffles and his growing affection for Raffles's daughter. Bangs also wrote Mrs Raffles,[25] in which Raffles's sidekick Bunny Manders teams-up in America with the cracksman's hitherto-unchronicled wife.

Graham Greene wrote a play called The Return of A. J. Raffles which differs from the Hornung canon on several points, including reinventing Raffles and Bunny as a homosexual couple.[26][27]

Peter Tremayne wrote the novel The Return of Raffles in which Raffles becomes involved in a plot between rival spies.[28]

Philip José Farmer put Raffles and Manders into a science-fictional situation in his story, "The Problem of the Sore Bridge – Among Others", in which he and Bunny solve three mysteries unsolved by Sherlock Holmes and save humanity from alien invasion.[29]

The 1977 novel Raffles, by David Fletcher, is a fresh re-write of many of Hornung's original stories, deriving from the television series of the same year.[30]

Adam Corres authored the 2008 novel Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate,[31] a modern crime thriller in which A. J. Raffles, a master of gamesmanship, explores the corrupt world of international cricket match fixing.

Other character appearances[edit]

The character was mentioned in the 2007 epistolary graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier.[32] Following this he recently appeared as a central character in the first chapter of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, set in 1910.[33]

The character of Raffles appeared in the TV film Incident at Victoria Falls under the name Stanley Bullard and played by Alan Coates. He encountered Sherlock Holmes, the creation of Hornung's brother-in-law.[34]

Raffles makes a cameo appearance in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula (1992). Although never mentioned by name, the character is described as an amateur cracksman (a reference to the title of the first short story collection), and mutters the epigram, "You play what's chucked at you, I always say."[35]

Raffles and Bunny feature in Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Ubervilles, also by Kim Newman, in a chapter depicting the gathering of the world's greatest criminals.[36]

Raffles and Bunny also make a minor appearance in Lost in a Good Book, a 2004 novel written by Jasper Fforde. They are pulled out of the literary world into the real world to help crack a safe containing the stolen manuscript of Shakespeare's Cardenio.[37]

Parody[edit]

In one of Robert L. Fish's Sherlock Homes stories, "The Adventure of the Odd Lotteries", Homes and Watney encounter a cracksman and hypochondriac known as "A.J. Lotteries."[38]

Raffles, Gentleman Thug is a strip in Viz that features a character who shares his name (plus the name of his assistant, Bunny) with the literary Raffles. He is depicted as an upper-class, late Victorian or early Edwardian version of a "chav".

Jon L. Breen's story "Ruffles versus Ruffles" is based on the conceit that Hornung's Raffles and Perowne's Raffles are separate people, playing off the differing characterisation used by the two authors.[39]

Les Aventures d'Arsène Lupin by Chatwick Harpax

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Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc.

Lupin was featured in 20 novels and 28 short stories by Leblanc, with the short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books. The first story, "L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin", was published in the magazine Je sais tout on 15 July 1905.

The character has also appeared in a number of books from other writers as well as numerous film, television , stage play, and comic book adaptations.

Arsene Lupin Contre Herlock Sholmes

Aside from the Arsène Lupin stories written by Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) himself, five authorized sequels were written in the 1970s by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac.

The character of Lupin was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. He was originally called Arsène Lopin, until a local politician of the same name protested, resulting in the name change.

Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats, always with his characteristic Gallic style and panache, are worse villains than he. Lupin shares distinct similarities with E. W. Hornung's archetypal gentleman thief A. J. Raffles who first appeared in The Amateur Cracksman in 1899, but both creations can be said to anticipate and have inspired later characters such as Louis Joseph Vance's The Lone Wolf and Leslie Charteris's The Saint.

The character of Arsène Lupin might also have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905, but Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.

The official last book of the series, The Billions of Arsene Lupin, was published without the ninth chapter "The Safe" ("IX. Les coffres-forts"), and even the published book was withdrawn at Leblanc's son's request. However, in 2002, by the efforts of some Lupinians and Korean translator Sung Gwi-Su, the missing part was restored and the complete final collection of Arsene Lupin happened to be published first in Korea, from Kkachi Publishing House.

Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes

Leblanc introduced Sherlock Holmes to Lupin in the short story "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late" in Je sais tout No. 17, 15 June 1906. In it, Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. After legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to "Herlock Sholmes" when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1.

Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes", and then in a guest-starring role in the battle for the secret of the Hollow Needle in L'Aiguille creuse. Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes was published in the United States in 1910 under the title "The Blonde Lady" which used the name "Holmlock Shears" for Sherlock Holmes, and "Wilson" for Watson.

In 813, Lupin manages to solve a riddle that Herlock Sholmes was unable to figure out.

Sherlock Holmes, this time with his real name and accompanied by familiar characters such as Watson and Lestrade (all copyright protection having long expired), also confronted Arsène Lupin in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin. In this game Holmes (and occasionally others) are attempting to stop Lupin from stealing five British valuable items. Lupin wants to steal the items in order to humiliate Britain, but he also admires Holmes and thus challenges him to try to stop him.

In a novella "The Prisoner of the Tower, or A Short But Beautiful Journey of Three Wise Men" by Boris Akunin published in 2008 in Russia as the conclusion of "Jade Rosary Beads" book, Sherlock Holmes and Erast Fandorin oppose Arsène Lupin on December 31, 1899.

Fantasy elements

Several Arsène Lupin novels contain some interesting fantasy elements: a radioactive 'god-stone' that cures people and causes mutations is the object of an epic battle in L’Île aux trente cercueils; the secret of the Fountain of Youth, a mineral water source hidden beneath a lake in the Auvergne, is the goal sought by the protagonists in La Demoiselle aux yeux verts; finally, in La Comtesse de Cagliostro, Lupin's arch-enemy and lover is none other than Joséphine Balsamo, the alleged granddaughter of Cagliostro himself.

Bibliography

1.Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, 1907 coll., 9 stories) (AKA Exploits of Arsène Lupin, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin)

2.Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès, 1908 coll., 2 stories) (AKA The Blonde Lady)

3.The Hollow Needle (L'Aiguille creuse, 1909)

4.813 (813, 1910)

5.The Crystal Stopper (Le Bouchon de cristal, 1912)

6.The Confessions of Arsene Lupin (Les Confidences d'Arsène Lupin, 1913 coll., 9 stories)

7.The Shell Shard (L'Éclat d'obus, 1916) (AKA: Woman of Mystery) Not originally part of the Arsène Lupin series, Lupin was written into the story in the 1923 edition.

8.The Golden Triangle (Le Triangle d'or, 1918) (AKA: The Return of Arsène Lupin)

9.The Island of Thirty Coffins (L’Île aux trente cercueils, 1919) (AKA: The Secret of Sarek)

10.The Teeth of The Tiger (Les Dents du tigre, 1921)

11.The Eight Strokes of The Clock (Les Huit Coups de l'horloge, 1923 coll., 8 stories)

12.The Countess of Cagliostro (La Comtesse de Cagliostro, 1924) (AKA: Memoirs of Arsene Lupin)

13.The Damsel With Green Eyes (La Demoiselle aux yeux verts, 1927) (AKA: The Girl With the Green Eyes, Arsène Lupin, Super Sleuth)

14.The Overcoat of Arsène Lupin (Le Pardessus d'Arsène Lupin, published in English in 1926) First published in 1924 in France as Dent d'Hercule Petitgris. Altered into a Lupin story and published in English as The Overcoat of Arsène Lupin in 1926 in The Popular Magazine.

15.The Man with the Goatskin (L'Homme à la peau de bique (1927)

16.The Barnett & Co. Agency (L'Agence Barnett et Cie., 1928 coll., 8 stories) (AKA: Jim Barnett Intervenes, Arsène Lupin Intervenes)

17.The Mysterious Mansion (La Demeure mystérieuse, 1929) (AKA: The Melamare Mystery)

18.The Mystery of The Green Ruby (La Barre-y-va, 1930)

19.The Emerald Cabochon (Le Cabochon d'émeraude (1930)

20.The Woman With Two Smiles (La Femme aux deux sourires, 1933) (AKA: The Double Smile)

21.Victor of the Vice Squad (Victor de la Brigade mondaine, 1933) (AKA: The Return of Arsene Lupin)

22.The Revenge of The Countess of Cagliostro (La Cagliostro se venge, 1935)

23.The Billions of Arsène Lupin (Les Milliards d'Arsène Lupin, 1939)

24.The Last Love of Arsene Lupin (Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin, 2012)

Other material by LeBlanc

1.Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin (pièce de théâtre) Originally a 4-part play written by Maurice LeBlanc and Francis de Croisset, it was subsequently novelized by LeBlanc and published in 1909. It was then translated into English by Edgar Jepson and published in 1909 by Doubleday as "Arsene Lupin: By Maurice LeBlanc & Edgar Jepson"

By other writers

Boileau-Narcejac1.Le Secret d’Eunerville (1973)

2.La Poudrière (1974)

3.Le Second visage d’Arsène Lupin (1975)

4.La Justice d’Arsène Lupin (1977)

5.Le Serment d’Arsène Lupin (1979)

Notable pastiches

The Adventure of Mona Lisa by Carolyn Wells in The Century (January, 1912)

Sure Way to Catch Every Criminal. Ha! Ha! by Carolyn Wells in The Century (July, 1912)

The Adventure of the Clothes-Line by Carolyn Wells in The Century (May, 1915)

The Silver Hair Crime (= Clue?) by Nick Carter in New Magnet Library No. 1282 (1930)

Aristide Dupin who appears in Union Jack Nos. 1481, 1483, 1489, 1493 and 1498 (1932) in the Sexton Blake collection by Gwyn Evans

La Clé est sous le paillasson by Marcel Aymé (1934)

Gaspard Zemba who appears in The Shadow Magazine (December 1, 1935) by Walter B. Gibson

Arsène Lupin vs. Colonel Linnaus by Anthony Boucher in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vo. 5, No. 19 (1944)

L’Affaire Oliveira by Thomas Narcejac in Confidences dans ma nuit (1946)

Le Gentleman en Noir by Claude Ferny (c. 1950) (two novels)

International Investigators, Inc. by Edward G. Ashton in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (February 1952)

Le Secret des rois de France ou La Véritable identité d’Arsène Lupin by Valère Catogan (1955)

In Compartment 813 by Arthur Porges in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (June 1966)

Arsène Lupin, gentleman de la nuit by Jean-Claude Lamy (1983)

Auguste Lupa in Son of Holmes (1986) and Rasputin’s Revenge (1987) by John Lescroart

Various stories in the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, ed. by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press (2005-ongoing)

Arsène Lupin is also referred to as the grandfather of Lupin III in the Japanese manga series of the same name. He appears in chapter 37 of the series.

Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes have been the basis for the popular Japanese manga series Detective Conan. Kaitou Kid (originating from Magic Kaito) resembles and represents Lupin, while Conan Edogawa resembles and represents Sherlock Holmes.

In the Adventure of The Doraemons, the robot cat The Mysterious Thief Dorapent resembles Lupin.

A funny animal pastiche of Arsène Lupin is Arpin Lusène, of the Scrooge McDuck Universe.

Případ Grendwal (A Grendwal Case), a play by Pavel Dostál, Czech playwright and Minister of Culture

Tuxedo Mask from the popular Japanese manga and anime series Sailor Moon, also resembles Arsène Lupin.

Arsène Lupin et le mystère d'Arsonval by Michel Zink

Qui fait peur à Virginia Woolf ? (... Élémentaire mon cher Lupin !) by Gabriel Thoveron

Crimes parfaits by Christian Poslaniec

La Dent de Jane by Daniel Salmon (2001)

Les Lupins de Vincent by Caroline Cayol et Didier Cayol (2006)

Code Lupin by Michel Bussi (2006)

L'Église creuse by Patrick Genevaux (2009) (short story)

The Many Faces of Arsène Lupin collection of short stories edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier (Black Coat Press, 2012)

Other Reading

Dorothée, Danseuse de Corde (1923) (The Secret Tomb) an eponymous heroine solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets.

Films

Arsène Lupin 2004 movie posterThe Gentleman Burglar (B&W., US, 1908) with William Ranows (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin (B&W., 1914) with Georges Tréville (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin (B&W., UK, 1915) with Gerald Ames (Lupin).

The Gentleman Burglar (B&W., US, 1915) with William Stowell (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin (B&W., US, 1917) with Earle Williams (Lupin).

The Teeth of the Tiger (B&W., US, 1919) with David Powell (Lupin).

813 (B&W., US, 1920) with Wedgewood Nowell (Lupin) and Wallace Beery.

Les Dernières aventures d'Arsène Lupin (B&W., France/Hungary, 1921).

813 - Rupimono (B&W., Japan, 1923) with Minami Mitsuaki (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin (B&W., US, 1932) with John Barrymore (Lupin).[1]

Arsène Lupin, Détective (B&W., 1937) with Jules Berry (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin Returns (B&W., US, 1938) with Melvyn Douglas (Lupin).

Enter Arsène Lupin (B&W., US, 1944) with Charles Korvin (Lupin).

Arsenio Lupin (B&W., Mexico, 1945) with R. Pereda (Lupin).

Nanatsu-no Houseki (B&W., Japan, 1950) with Keiji Sada (Lupin).

Tora no-Kiba (B&W., Japan, 1951) with Ken Uehara (Lupin).

Kao-no Nai Otoko (B&W., Japan, 1955) with Eiji Okada (Lupin).

Les Aventures d'Arsène Lupin (col., 1957) with Robert Lamoureux (Lupin).

Signé Arsène Lupin (B&W., 1959) with Robert Lamoureux (Lupin).

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (B&W., 1962) with Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jean-Claude Brialy (Lupins).

Arsène Lupin (col., 2004) with Romain Duris (Lupin).

Lupin no Kiganjo (col., Japan, 2011) with Kōichi Yamadera (Lupin).

Television

Arsène Lupin, 26 60-minute episodes (1971, 1973–1974) with Georges Descrières (Lupin), Arsène Lupin at the Internet Movie Database.

L'Île aux trente cercueils, six 60-minute episodes (1979) (the character of Lupin, who only appears at the end of the novel, was removed entirely).

Arsène Lupin joue et perd, six 52-minute episodes (1980) loosely based on 813 with Jean-Claude Brialy (Lupin).

Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin, twelve 90-minute episodes (1989–1990) and Les Nouveaux Exploits d'Arsène Lupin, eight 90-minute episodes (1995–1996) with François Dunoyer (Lupin).

Lupin (Philippine TV series), Philippines (2007) with Richard Gutierrez (Lupin).

Stage

Arsène Lupin by Francis de Croisset and Maurice Leblanc. Four-act play first performed on October 28, 1908, at the Athenée in Paris.

Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès by Victor Darlay & Henri de Gorsse. Four-act play first performed on October 10, 1910, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. (American edition ISBN 1-932983-16-3)

Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin by Francis de Croisset and Maurice Leblanc. One-act play first performed on September 16, 1911, at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Paris.

Arsène Lupin, Banquier by Yves Mirande & Albert Willemetz, libretto by Marcel Lattès. Three-act operetta, first performed on May 7, 1930, at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiennes in Paris.

A/L The Youth of Phantom Thief Lupin by Yoshimasa Saitou . Takarazuka Revue performance, 2007, starring Yūga Yamato and Hana Hizuki.

Rupan －ARSÈNE LUPIN－ by Haruhiko Masatsuka . Takarazuka Revue performance, 2013, starring Masaki Ryū and Reika Manaki (after Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin)

Comics and animation

Les Exploits d'Arsène Lupin aka Night Hood, produced by Cinar & France-Animation, 26 episodes for 24 min. in (1996)

Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, a character created by Monkey Punch for a series of manga, anime television shows, movies and OVA's based in Japan and around the world. Because Monkey Punch did not seek permission to use the character from the Leblanc estate, the character was renamed in the early English adaptations and also had to be renamed when the anime series was broadcast on French TV.

Soul Eater episode 3, the introduction of Death The Kid and the Thompson Sisters initially depicts them chasing the demonic form of Arsène Lupin so that the sisters could claim and devour his soul. When Death The Kid begins panicking about the lack of symmetry with the sisters and their appearances, Lupin escapes down a manhole and is not seen for the rest of the episode.

Hidan no Aria episode 4, Riko Mine reveals that she is a descendant of Arsène Lupin after she hijacked the airplane that Aria took. She also reveals Aria's identity as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

The exploits of Arsène Lupin inspired an entire Phantom Thief (Kaitō) sub-genre of Japanese media.

Kaito Kid from the manga series Magic Kaito and Detective Conan is often compared to Arsene Lupin. Lupin is also highlighted in volume 4 of the Detective Conan manga's edition of "Gosho Aoyama's Mystery Library", a section of the graphic novels (usually the last page) where the author introduces a different detective (or in this case, a villain/detective) from literature.

Meimi Haneoka, who "transforms" into Kaitō Saint Tail heavily inspired by Arsene Lupin, a thief with acrobatic and magician skills, from Saint Tail (by Megumi Tachikawa)

Chizuko "Chiko" Mikamo, from The Daughter of Twenty Faces.

There is also an ongoing manga adaptation of Arsene Lupin first published in 2011, from Gundam artist Takashi Morita.

Comics

Arsene Lupin, as he appeared in volume 4 of Case ClosedArsène Lupin, written by Georges Cheylard, art by Bourdin. Daily strip published in France-Soir in 1948-49.

Arsène Lupin, written & drawn by Jacques Blondeau. 575 daily strips published in Le Parisien Libéré from 1956-58.

Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès: La Dame blonde, written by Joëlle Gilles, art by Gilles & B. Cado, published by the authors, 1983.

Arsène Lupin, written by André-Paul Duchateau, artist Géron, published by C. Lefrancq. 1.Le Bouchon de cristal (1989)

2.813 — La Double Vie d'Arsène Lupin (1990)

3.813 — Les Trois crimes d'Arsène Lupin (1991)

4.La Demoiselle aux yeux verts (1992)

5.L'Aiguille creuse (1994)

Arpin Lusène is featured as a character in the Donald Duck & Co stories The Black Knight (1997), Attaaaaaack! (2000) and The Black Knight GLORPS again! (2004) by Don Rosa.

In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Lupin is featured as a member of Les Hommes Mysterieux, the French analogue of Britain's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Raffles (1940) by Chatwick Harpax

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Raffles (1930 film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other film versions, see Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, Raffles (1925 film) and Raffles (1939 film).

Raffles

Poster of Raffles (1930 film).jpg

Directed byGeorge Fitzmaurice

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (uncredited and replaced by Fitzmaurice)

Produced bySamuel Goldwyn

Written byEugene Wiley Presbrey (play)

E. W. Hornung (play and novel)

Sidney Howard

StarringRonald Colman

Kay Francis

Edited byStuart Heisler

Production

company

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Distributed byUnited Artists

Release datesJuly 24, 1930

Running time72 minutes

CountryUnited States

LanguageEnglish

Raffles (1930) is a comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the titular character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the 1906 play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 novel of the same name by Hornung.

Oscar Lagerstrom was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound, Recording.[1]

The story had been filmed previously as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman in 1917 with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again in 1925 by Universal Studios. A 1939 film version, also produced by Goldwyn, stars David Niven in the title role.

Contents [hide]

1 Plot

2 Cast

3 Production

4 Reception

5 References

6 External links

Plot[edit]

Gentleman jewel thief Raffles (Ronald Colman) decides to give up his criminal ways as the notorious "Amateur Cracksman" after falling in love with Lady Gwen (Kay Francis). However, when his friend Bunny Manders (Bramwell Fletcher) tries to commit suicide because of a gambling debt he cannot repay, Raffles decides to take on one more job for Bunny's sake. He joins Bunny and Gwen as guests of Lord and Lady Melrose, with an eye toward acquiring the Melrose necklace, once the property of Empress Joséphine.

Complications arise when a gang of thieves also decides to try for the necklace at the same time. Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard (David Torrence) gets wind of their plot and shows up at the Melrose estate with his men. Burglar Crawshaw breaks into the house and succeeds in stealing the jewelry, only to have Raffles take it away from him. Crawshaw is caught by the police, but learns his robber's identity.

Meanwhile, both Gwen and Mackenzie suspect that Raffles is the famous jewel thief. When the necklace is not found, Mackenzie insists that all the guests remain inside, then quickly changes his mind. Gwen overhears Mackenzie tell one of his men that he intends to let Crawshaw escape, expecting the crook to go after Raffles and thereby incriminate him. She follows Raffles back to London to warn him.

Crawshaw does as Mackenzie anticipated. However, Raffles convinces Crawshaw that it is too dangerous to pursue his original goal with all the policemen around and helps him escape. Then, Raffles publicly confesses to being the Amateur Cracksman. When Lord Melrose shows up, Raffles reminds him of the reward he offered for the necklace's return (conveniently the same amount that Bunny owes) and produces the jewelry. Then, he outwits Mackenzie and escapes, after arranging with Gwen to meet her in Paris.

Cast[edit]

Ronald Colman as A.J. Raffles

Kay Francis as Gwen

Bramwell Fletcher as Bunny

Frances Dade as Ethel Crowley

David Torrence as Inspector McKenzie

Alison Skipworth as Lady Kitty Melrose

Frederick Kerr as Lord Harry Melrose

John Rogers as Crawshaw

Wilson Benge as Barraclough

Production[edit]

According to Robert Osborne, host on Turner Classic Movies, this was the last film that Samuel Goldwyn made in both a silent and talking version.

Reception[edit]

Raffles was a substantial hit with audiences and critics when it was released in the summer of 1930. The movie was release on DVD by Warner Archive Collection in 2014. Reviewing the disc (which also featured the David Niven 1939 version), Paul Mavis of DVDTalk.com wrote, Raffles cleanly mixes equal doses of humor and criminal derring-do, along with potent dashes of "Colmanized" romance for the actor's core female audience....Since this was written and shot prior to the enforcement of the Production Code, there's an enjoyably tolerant (and modern feeling) looseness to the Raffles character that's buttoned back up for the Niven remake."[2]

"Around the World in Eighty Days", movie film poster from 1956 as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 2010 by mikeyashworth

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Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station's lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway.

This poster is for the 1956 film "Around the World in 80 Days", then in its "second year" and it was showing at the Astoria Theatre in Charing Cross Road - a venue just demolished for the Crossrail extension to Tottenham Court Road station.

We will be leaving these intact - and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible - which is why they've probably survived 50 odd years!

The photos were taken officially - please do credit London Underground in any links.

posées sur le mur du souvenir ! by Chris¨^-^

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"LA PERLE DU CAP "maison de DAVID NIVEN

Flexi-10-R002 by Johan Oomen

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Goldfinger (1964) is the third film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

Country: Japan

Flexi-Disc with booklet

Raffles (1939) by Chatwick Harpax

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Raffles (1930 film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other film versions, see Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, Raffles (1925 film) and Raffles (1939 film).

Raffles

Poster of Raffles (1930 film).jpg

Directed byGeorge Fitzmaurice

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (uncredited and replaced by Fitzmaurice)

Produced bySamuel Goldwyn

Written byEugene Wiley Presbrey (play)

E. W. Hornung (play and novel)

Sidney Howard

StarringRonald Colman

Kay Francis

Edited byStuart Heisler

Production

company

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Distributed byUnited Artists

Release datesJuly 24, 1930

Running time72 minutes

CountryUnited States

LanguageEnglish

Raffles (1930) is a comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the titular character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the 1906 play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 novel of the same name by Hornung.

Oscar Lagerstrom was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound, Recording.[1]

The story had been filmed previously as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman in 1917 with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again in 1925 by Universal Studios. A 1939 film version, also produced by Goldwyn, stars David Niven in the title role.

Contents [hide]

1 Plot

2 Cast

3 Production

4 Reception

5 References

6 External links

Plot[edit]

Gentleman jewel thief Raffles (Ronald Colman) decides to give up his criminal ways as the notorious "Amateur Cracksman" after falling in love with Lady Gwen (Kay Francis). However, when his friend Bunny Manders (Bramwell Fletcher) tries to commit suicide because of a gambling debt he cannot repay, Raffles decides to take on one more job for Bunny's sake. He joins Bunny and Gwen as guests of Lord and Lady Melrose, with an eye toward acquiring the Melrose necklace, once the property of Empress Joséphine.

Complications arise when a gang of thieves also decides to try for the necklace at the same time. Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard (David Torrence) gets wind of their plot and shows up at the Melrose estate with his men. Burglar Crawshaw breaks into the house and succeeds in stealing the jewelry, only to have Raffles take it away from him. Crawshaw is caught by the police, but learns his robber's identity.

Meanwhile, both Gwen and Mackenzie suspect that Raffles is the famous jewel thief. When the necklace is not found, Mackenzie insists that all the guests remain inside, then quickly changes his mind. Gwen overhears Mackenzie tell one of his men that he intends to let Crawshaw escape, expecting the crook to go after Raffles and thereby incriminate him. She follows Raffles back to London to warn him.

Crawshaw does as Mackenzie anticipated. However, Raffles convinces Crawshaw that it is too dangerous to pursue his original goal with all the policemen around and helps him escape. Then, Raffles publicly confesses to being the Amateur Cracksman. When Lord Melrose shows up, Raffles reminds him of the reward he offered for the necklace's return (conveniently the same amount that Bunny owes) and produces the jewelry. Then, he outwits Mackenzie and escapes, after arranging with Gwen to meet her in Paris.

Cast[edit]

Ronald Colman as A.J. Raffles

Kay Francis as Gwen

Bramwell Fletcher as Bunny

Frances Dade as Ethel Crowley

David Torrence as Inspector McKenzie

Alison Skipworth as Lady Kitty Melrose

Frederick Kerr as Lord Harry Melrose

John Rogers as Crawshaw

Wilson Benge as Barraclough

Production[edit]

According to Robert Osborne, host on Turner Classic Movies, this was the last film that Samuel Goldwyn made in both a silent and talking version.

Reception[edit]

Raffles was a substantial hit with audiences and critics when it was released in the summer of 1930. The movie was release on DVD by Warner Archive Collection in 2014. Reviewing the disc (which also featured the David Niven 1939 version), Paul Mavis of DVDTalk.com wrote, Raffles cleanly mixes equal doses of humor and criminal derring-do, along with potent dashes of "Colmanized" romance for the actor's core female audience....Since this was written and shot prior to the enforcement of the Production Code, there's an enjoyably tolerant (and modern feeling) looseness to the Raffles character that's buttoned back up for the Niven remake."[2]

Vintage 1950s advertising posters in disused passageways at Notting Hill Gate tube station, London - photographed in 2010 by mikeyashworth

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Many people now know the story of the uncovered and disused ex-lift passageways in Notting Hill Gate tube station that LU workers rediscovered in 2010 after 50 years of being sealed up. I've now added a few more pictures to the set - a set that has garnered more attention that I could have ever imagined!

This is a slightly wider view of a group dominated by movie of film posters - with a range of more damaged posters to the right that include London Transport's own ones and a fine Peposdent toothpaste poster - the bright smile still ringing true after 60 years!

The posters and passageways have, after much thought, been re-entombed and are again inaccessible so please don't pester the station staff

Stowe House viewed from the Corinthian Arch by Jayembee69

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The house was begun in 1679, but was altered and enlarged in subsequent years with Vanbrugh, William Kent and Robert Adam involved in its design. As it stands now it is largely unaltered since 1779.

It was the seat of the Temple family, who through marriage and political careers, climbed the ranks of the nobility (Viscount Cobham, Earl Temple, Marquess of Buckingham, and Duke of Buckingham & Chandos).

In 1889, the 3rd Duke of Buckingham & Chandos died without a male heir and the house passed through the hands of succesive untitled relatives who couldn't afford its upkeep.

It was eventually sold (minus the estate) to the governers of a school in 1922.

Notable former pupils of the school include the actor David Niven and Richard Branson (expelled).

Stowe is most famous for its extensive 18th century gardens which are owned by the National Trust and can be visited by the public.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe_House

1949 Honey had fallen for the attractive rogue, whose eyes were only on her jewels. by Chatwick Harpax

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Honey had fallen for the attractive rogue, whose eyes were only on her jewels.

From a Storyline Fall 1949

Rip Kirby is a popular American comic strip featuring the adventures of the eponymous lead character, a private detective created by Alex Raymond in 1946. Displaying the talents of more than a dozen writers and illustrators, the strip had a long run, spanning five decades.

After World War II, Raymond did not return to work on any of his previous successful comic strips (Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Secret Agent X-9) but instead began work on a new strip in which ex-Marine Rip Kirby returns from WWII and goes to work as a private detective, sometimes accompanied by his girlfriend, fashion model Judith Lynne "Honey" Dorian. Her given name and nickname were borrowed from the names of Raymond's three daughters.

Rip Kirby was based on the suggestion by King Features editor Ward Greene that Raymond try a "detective-type" strip. First published on March 4, 1946, the strip was given a huge promotional boost, even including fully painted promotional art, a rarity in comic strip promotions.[1] The strip enjoyed enormous success, and Raymond received the Reuben Award in 1949.[2]

During Raymond's years on the strip, the stories were initially written by Ward Greene and later, following Greene's death, by Fred Dickenson. Some sequences were also written by Raymond.

*************

Characters and story

Comics historian Don Markstein noted how the character of Remington "Rip" Kirby broke away from the usual pulp detective archetype:

"Circulation rose steadily during the strip's first few years — even though Rip wasn't the kind of private detective they were used to from pulp fiction. This one did more cogitating than fisticuffing, and smoked a leisurely pipe while he did it. He had a frail, balding assistant, Desmond (a former burglar), instead of a two-fisted sidekick. Instead of carrying on with an endless series of female clients, he had a steady girlfriend, Honey Dorian. If that wasn't enough, he even wore glasses! Even Kerry Drake didn't depart so far from the standard. If Rip was more sophisticated and urbane than the average fictional private eye, that's okay, because he was very successful — both for himself and for the people who wrote, drew and distributed him."

In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash. King Features quickly needed a replacement and found it in John Prentice.

Dickenson continued to write the series until the mid-1980s when he was forced to retire for health reasons. Prentice then took over the writing along with others. Prentice kept the strip going until his own death in 1999. The strip ended with Rip's retirement on June 26, 1999. Prentice received the National Cartoonists Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1966, 1967 and 1986 for his work on the strip.

Over the years of publication, the strip was ghosted and assisted by many artists and writers, including Frank Bolle (who completed the last episode), Al Williamson, and Gray Morrow

RU-84-F by Johan Oomen

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Billy Strange His Guitar & Orchestra* ‎– The James Bond Theme

Label: Troll ‎– CN 304, GNP Crescendo ‎– CN 304

Format: Vinyl, 7"

Country: Norway

Released: 1965

Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen

Style: Pop Rock

Tracklist

A The James Bond Theme

Written-By – Monty Norman

B 007 Theme

Written-By – John Barry

Notes

Billy Strange his guitar & orchestra.

Troll Released By Jørg-Fr. Ellertsen A/S Oslo Norway

NCB

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Vinyl label side A): CN 304 (A)

Matrix / Runout (Vinyl label side B): CN 304 (B)

Rights Society: NCB

YO-110-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Artist:Nancy Sinatra

Label:Reprise

Country:Norway

Catalogue: RA 0595

Date: Jul 1967

ANancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice

BNancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood - Jackson

RE-82-F001 by Johan Oomen

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CHAN PAO CHU

CHIVALROUS GIRL

HONG KONG CHINESE JAMES BOND 60'S BEAT

Label:Pathe

Connie Chan Po-chu was born in 1946 to impoverished parents, one of at least nine siblings, in Guangdong, China. To increase their children's chances of survival, Chan's birth parents gave away some of their youngest to other families. As a result, Chan was adopted by Chan Fei-nung and his wife, Kung Fan-hung, who were renowned Cantonese opera stars. During the 1960s, Connie Chan was one of Hong Kong cinema's most beloved teen idols.

She made more than 230 films in a variety of genres: from traditional Cantonese opera and wuxia movies to contemporary youth musicals; action films to comedies; melodramas and romances. Owing to her popularity she was dubbed "The Movie-Fan Princess". Her godfather is actor Cho Tat Wah. She has a son named Dexter Yeung, who stars in the 2008 TVB Series Wasabi Mon Amour and Moonlight Resonance.

David Niven and Doris Day in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Dutch postcard by Takken, Utrecht, no. 4457. Photo: MGM. David Niven and Doris Day in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (Charles Walters, 1960).

Today, Doris Day (1922-2019) has died at her California home at the age of 97. The legendary actress and singer performed with several big bands before going solo in 1947. In the 1950s, she made a series of popular film musicals, including Calamity Jane (1953) and The Pajama Game (1957). With Rock Hudson, she starred in the box office hit Pillow Talk (1959). On TV, she appeared in the sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968-1973). Day died early on Monday, surrounded by her close friends at her home in Carmel Valley. Que Será, Será!

Check out our blog European Film Star Postcards for a special Doris Day I.M. post tomorrow!

RE-130-R by Johan Oomen

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Anne Lönnberg* ‎– Le Silence Après Le Cri / J'taime Bien Paris

Label: Polydor ‎– 2056 628

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country: France

Released: 1977

Genre: Pop

Tracklist

A Le Silence Après Le Cri

Songwriter – B. Bergman*, François Bernheim, J.P. Lang*

B J'taime Bien Paris

Songwriter – François Bernheim

Credits

Arranged By – Michel Bernholc

Photography By – V.Rossell*

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: Sacem

Price Code: EA

Anne Lonnberg (born 17 February 1948) is an American actress and singer of Swedish descent.She was born in Berkeley, California to a Swedish father. She began her acting career in 1965, starring mostly in Greek films. She has appeared throughout her career in a number of American and French films and television series, but only supporting roles. Lonnberg is best remembered for playing the museum guide and one of Drax's girls in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979). Her last role was in the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), in which she played a Swiss photographer.

Casino Royale (1967, USA) - 02 by Jim

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David Niven and Ginger Rogers in Magnificent Doll (1946) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Spanish postcard. David Niven and Ginger Rogers in Magnificent Doll (Frank Borzage, 1946).

British Academy Award-winning actor David Niven (1910-1983) impersonated the archetypal English gentleman, witty, naturally charming, and immaculate in dress and behaviour, but he also had a dash of light-hearted sexual roguishness. He is probably best known for his role as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

American actress, dancer, and singer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) made 73 films during her long career. Her RKO musicals with Fred Astaire revolutionised the genre.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

Merle Oberon and David Niven in Wuthering Heights (1939) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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British postcard in the Film Partners Series, London, no. P 285. Photo: Sam Goldwyn. Merle Oberon and David Niven in Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939).

Indian-born British actress Merle Oberon (1911-1979) had her breakthrough as Anna Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She played leading roles in such British films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), before she travelled to Hollywood to star in the classics The Dark Angel (1935) and Wuthering Heights (1939).

British Academy Award-winning actor David Niven (1910-1983) impersonated the archetypal English gentleman, witty, naturally charming, and immaculate in dress and behaviour, but he also had a dash of light-hearted sexual roguishness. He is probably best known for his role as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

“Wuthering Heights” Movie Poster (1939). Starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven. by Leo Boudreau

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Exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

"The 1939 film adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights,' Emily Bronte's renowned 1847 novel, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture. This promotional poster pictures the glamorous Merle Oberon (Cathy) reclining as the languorous heroine in the arms of Laurence Olivier (Heathcliff), one of Hollywood's preeminent stars.

"The biography of Oberon, 'the most famous actress of disguised ancestry,' offers revelatory insights into issues of race and ethnicity during Hollywood's golden age. Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson) concealed her Anglo-Indian parentage, maintaining until the last year of her life that she had been born in Australia and raised by wealthy parents. Her first major roles included Anne Boleyn in 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' (1933) and Lady Blakeney in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' (1934). In recent years, Oberon's cross-cultural origins and the fictions she devised to deny her heritage have become a subject of interest." [Text accompanying the Museum exhibit]

Casino Royale (1967) by Susanlenox

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British poster.Satire of the legendary secret agent James Bond,with a great cast.

RE-68-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Asian edition (Singapore/Malaysia/Hong Kong) pressing p/s A-Go-Go beat EP by Lee Oi Chi (李譪慈)

Featuring title track "Flame Of Love" plus 3 others

RE-87-F001 by Johan Oomen

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MARRAS – Agente Zero Zero Tette / A Tutti Piace Calda

A Agente 007

B A Tutti Piace Calda

ITALY 7" 45 RPM

Year : 1969?

Label : La Banana Record ‎– DO 107

Michael Todd’s “Around the World in 80 Days” (United Artists, 1956). British lobby card. by Leo Boudreau

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In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Met with skepticism, he makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.8 million today) with fellow members of the Reform Club that he can make the journey and arrive back at the club eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening. Together with his resourceful French valet, Passepartout (Cantinflas), Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiCO8k6Jhg

Rip told her, your diamonds were not lost, they were lifted away whilst you danced! by Chatwick Harpax

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Rip told her, your diamonds were not lost, they were lifted away whilst you danced!

From a Storyline Date unkown?

If anyone can help us with this it would be appreciated.

Rip Kirby is a popular American comic strip featuring the adventures of the eponymous lead character, a private detective created by Alex Raymond in 1946. Displaying the talents of more than a dozen writers and illustrators, the strip had a long run, spanning five decades.

After World War II, Raymond did not return to work on any of his previous successful comic strips (Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Secret Agent X-9) but instead began work on a new strip in which ex-Marine Rip Kirby returns from WWII and goes to work as a private detective, sometimes accompanied by his girlfriend, fashion model Judith Lynne "Honey" Dorian. Her given name and nickname were borrowed from the names of Raymond's three daughters.

Rip Kirby was based on the suggestion by King Features editor Ward Greene that Raymond try a "detective-type" strip. First published on March 4, 1946, the strip was given a huge promotional boost, even including fully painted promotional art, a rarity in comic strip promotions.[1] The strip enjoyed enormous success, and Raymond received the Reuben Award in 1949.[2]

During Raymond's years on the strip, the stories were initially written by Ward Greene and later, following Greene's death, by Fred Dickenson. Some sequences were also written by Raymond.

*************

Characters and story

Comics historian Don Markstein noted how the character of Remington "Rip" Kirby broke away from the usual pulp detective archetype:

"Circulation rose steadily during the strip's first few years — even though Rip wasn't the kind of private detective they were used to from pulp fiction. This one did more cogitating than fisticuffing, and smoked a leisurely pipe while he did it. He had a frail, balding assistant, Desmond (a former burglar), instead of a two-fisted sidekick. Instead of carrying on with an endless series of female clients, he had a steady girlfriend, Honey Dorian. If that wasn't enough, he even wore glasses! Even Kerry Drake didn't depart so far from the standard. If Rip was more sophisticated and urbane than the average fictional private eye, that's okay, because he was very successful — both for himself and for the people who wrote, drew and distributed him."

In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash. King Features quickly needed a replacement and found it in John Prentice.

Dickenson continued to write the series until the mid-1980s when he was forced to retire for health reasons. Prentice then took over the writing along with others. Prentice kept the strip going until his own death in 1999. The strip ended with Rip's retirement on June 26, 1999. Prentice received the National Cartoonists Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1966, 1967 and 1986 for his work on the strip.

Over the years of publication, the strip was ghosted and assisted by many artists and writers, including Frank Bolle (who completed the last episode), Al Williamson, and Gray Morrow

RE-88-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Chan Pao Chu 陳寶珠女賊金燕子

Pathe 45rpm 7" Ep

Cantonese Chinese James Bond Cover

RE-54-F001 by Johan Oomen

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RE-56-F001 by Johan Oomen

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GO-151-F001 by Johan Oomen

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AL CAIOLA

1. Goldfinger

2. El Fugitivo

3. Muneca de Oro

4. Tema de "El Tercer Hombre"

VERY RARE EP

CHILE

UNITED ARTISTS

A-85

DISTRIBUTED BY PHILIPS.

RECORD VG ,LABELS WITH CENTER OUT.PS IN WONDERFUL EX CONDITION.

IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN ANY CONDITION,I GOT FROM AN OLD 60'S COLLECTION.

RU-80-F001 by Johan Oomen

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Sean Connery as James Bond by Johan Oomen

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(from Wikipedia)

Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent James Bond. He played the character in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) -- then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful.

James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisioned of James Bond looks" and "I’m looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man," adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. However, Fleming's girlfriend told him Connery had the requisite sexual charisma. Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No premiere; he was so impressed, he created a half-Scottish, half-Swiss heritage for the literary James Bond in the later novels.

Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the action. Robert Cotton wrote in one Connery biography that Lois Maxwell (the first Miss Moneypenny) noticed, "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." Cotton wrote, "Some cast members remarked that Connery was simply doing a Terence Young impression, but Young and Connery knew they were on the right track."

In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all-new voice work by Connery as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast.

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