Remembering Rita Hayworth on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Florea, 1947
"If you watch Hayworth closely, you can see a woman playing with feminine artifice, constantly at work on the performance—and destruction—of carefully posed allure."
- @PamHutch
Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry, December 1945
For a Life magazine story about Gilda, & Columbia's $60,000 wardrobe purchase for the film.
Anselmo Ballester's poster for William Dieterle's Salome, 1953, with Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger & Charles Laughton. A Technicolor movie with a Technicolor poster.
"Celebrities are most interesting when they’re mating."
- Mike Nichols
Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, 1947. The still photographer on the set was Ned Scott.
Coffee with Rita Hayworth & Errol Flynn ☕️
📷 Ivan Dmitri, 1940
The most glamorous one can be and still be playing #PingPong: Rita Hayworth 🏓
Rita Hayworth by A. L. Whitey Schafer, 1938
"A whole different personality came out for the camera. It was an amazing transformation - or, rather, an amazing combination. You couldn’t believe the two were the same person!"
- Hermes Pan
Rita Hayworth by Philippe Halsman, 1950
"The complexity of her performances on-screen includes a subtly ironic quality that suggests a knowing self-awareness, a disarming ability to act inside quotation marks."
- @PamHutch
Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! 🎩🪄
Orson Welles with Rita Hayworth, August 1943. The two were married the next month.
📷 Gene Lester
Philippe Halsman
Rita Hayworth being photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1943
Every time I see a shot like this I'm struck by how hard everyone works for a portrait, & not always just the subject & the photographer.
Rita Hayworth with her husband the Aga Khan at a Jacques Fath fashion show
📷 Robert Capa, 1951
Jack Lemmon, Rita Hayworth & Robert Mitchum
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1956
"I’ve never really thought of myself as a sex goddess, more as a comedienne who could dance."
Rita Hayworth dancing with Kirk Douglas, Ciro's, March 14, 1952
"Please boys, no more pictures." @laplphotos
Rita Hayworth by A. L. "Whitey" Schafer, 1940s
"Nothing is too difficult for her. She watches, goes home, practices up, and the next day she’s got it perfect."
- Fred Astaire
Philippe Halsman's photographs of Rita Hayworth show a different side of her. Is this relaxed, informal shot from 1943 closer to the real Rita, or is this just another role from a superb actress?
Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire rehearse for a scene in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942.
📷 Earl Theisen
"I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire."
Xavier Cugat's cartoon of Rita & Fred dancing in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942. With Adolphe Menjou & Cougie himself.
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk 🎂
📷 Ara Güler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. 🧵
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola 🎂
📷 Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur — a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday 🎂
📷 Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.