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Pictures from a weekend out on the lake at my house in Aitkin , MN. August 7 and 8, 2010.
Please excuse the quantity and repetitive nature of the pictures in this batch/upload. I've done that to share the photos with those in them.
French postcard by Cinémagazine-Selection, Paris, no. 1000. Photo: Studio Rudolph.
Seductive daredevil Roland Toutain (1905-1977) was a French actor, songwriter and stuntman. He is best known for playing the aviator André Jurieux in Jean Renoir's film La Règle du jeu (1939).
Roland Toutain was born in Paris in 1905. He was the son of a horse breeder from Normandy, and a fearless artist from Corsica. When he was two, his father liked to throw him in lake Vésinet, thinking he would learn to swim naturally that way. As a teenager Toutain climbed the Eiffel Tower and loved to do acrobatics on cars and trains. He spent a lot of time on airports, so it was logical he was going to aerial stunts. The cinema attracted the young stuntman, was an admirer of American film star Douglas Fairbanks. After meeting director Marcel L’Herbier, he played some small parts in the silent films La Galerie des monstres/Gallery of Monsters (Jaque Catelain, 1923) and L'Inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924). He first gained fame in the crime film Le mystère de la chambre jaune/The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Marcel L’Herbier, 1930) based on one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels, written by Gaston Leroux. Toutain was perfectly cast as the youthful journalist Joseph Rouletabille, Leroux's equivalent of Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes. He returned in the sequel Le parfum de la dame en noir/The Perfume of the Lady in Black Room (Marcel L’Herbier, 1930), in fact one long story divided into two episodes. Later he reprised the role in Rouletabille aviateur/Flying Gold (Steve Sekely, 1932). Toutain had a supporting role in Fritz Lang’s only French film, the fantasy Liliom (1934) starring Charles Boyer and Madeleine Ozeray. He served as a foil to romantic young leads like Jean-Pierre Aumont in L'équipage/Flight Into Darkness (Anatole Litvak, 1935) and La porte du large/The Great Temptation (Marcel L'Herbier, 1936). In 1937, he appeared in the French drama Yoshiwara (Max Ophüls, 1937) starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa and Michiko Tanaka. The film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. His best known role is the aviator André Jurieux in the a satire of the upper-middle classes La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939). The film capitalized on stories in fan magazines about Toutain’s daredevil air stunts and his reckless personality. In the film, the French aviation hero has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio). Renoir’s classic comedy of manners contrasts the romantic entanglements of rich and poor during a a weekend hunting party at the country estate. In the 1930s Toutain was befriended with boxer Al Brown and together they would often hit the nightclubs of Montmartre.
During the 1940s Roland Toutain played the seductive charmer in several interesting adventure films. He appeared as Scapin in Le capitaine Fracasse/Captain Fracasse (Abel Gance, 1942) with Fernand Gravey, and played a garage owner in the box office hit L'Éternel retour/The Eternal Return (Jean Delannoy, 1943), written by Jean Cocteau, and starring Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais. Then he was Cabrion, in Les Mystères de Paris/ The Mysteries of Paris (Jacques de Baroncelli, 1943). He reunited with Marcel L’Herbier for La vie de bohème (Marcel L’Herbier, 1945) starring María Dénis and Louis Jourdan. In his films he jumped off a moving train into a river and did trapeze stunts under a flying airplane. In 1949 , he founded the Club des Casse-cou (Club Daredevil), bringing together the famous stuntmen of the time, including specialist Gil Delamare who died in 1966 during the filming of Le Saint prend l'Affût. In 1951, Toutain had an accident for the umptieth time and one of his legs had to be amputated. Still in his final film, L'inspecteur aime la bagarre/The inspector likes to fight (Jean-Devaivre, 1956), he did some amazing stunts. After his retirement he spent his time generously for La roue tourne, an association dedicated to needy actors. He lives with his mother in Argenteuil, where he died in poverty in 1977, at the age of 71. His good friend Jean Marais organized his funeral. Toutain lies buried in Argentueil, with a miniature of a stuntman on top of a plane on his grave. Roland Toutain married and divorced three times. With his girlfriend Odette Calais, he had a son: actor Jacques Maire, whom he never recognized, despite mediation by Jean Marais. In 1951 he published his souvenirs as Les quatre cents coups, with prefaces by Jean Cocteau and Joseph Kessel. In French 'faire les 400 coups' means committing all the possible stupidities. Les quatre cents coups (The 400 blows, 1959) is also the title of a famous film by François Truffaut.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
Welcome home party after finishing my London to Istanbul Walk. Photos by Marcus Dawes - www.marcusdawes.com/
Phobos - a seductive demoness. She and her twin sister Deimos are approximate subordinate to demon Succub.
After years of work, she took become a foreign ambassador. Also she is the mistress of the most popular public house in Hell.
Phobos is Soom Cuprit
Make-up is by Bell-chan
Dress is our handmade
Material: Linen
Color: As Show in the Picture
Size: Free Size
Cloth Length: 134(Except Elastic Straps) cm Bust: 78
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Angkor Wat is famous for having more than 3000 beguiling apsaras (heavenly nymphs) carved into its walls. Each of them is unique, and there are 37 different hairstyles for budding stylists to check out.
There is a tradition in the Boise/Nampa area to start the New Year off with a open call group photo shoot. You never know who is going to show up and you end up shooting with people you've never met before. Fun event. In this case I had a chance to shoot with the lovely Jacque - but I had a brief shoot with her last year. She's a great lady to shoot with.
It was about 15 degrees and very cold during the shoot but she was a real trooper about it - and she didn't even stick to any of the metal we were shooting on!