Remembering Edward G. Robinson on his birthday π
π· Harry Benson, 1967
"The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free."
Allan Grant
Edward G. Robinson bows to restaurateur Mike Romanoff, 1958
Shots like this, of the *real* Hollywood, are one of the reasons Life photographers were so good. They had the access to, & trust of, the people that readers wanted to see, going about their daily lives.
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden & Edward G. Robinson in The Cincinnati Kind, 1965
"Gentlemen, this game is five-card stud poker. There's no limit. No string bets. You can check and raise. A dead man has one half-hour to raise his roll outside and get back in the game."
[deals]
Nickolas Muray turns a Pabst advertisement into a wonderful portrait of Edward G. Robinson, c. 1950. In the next tweet I'll reveal the name of the painting, from Robinson's own collection. It's on this list of 40 works he lent to @MuseumModernArt: moma.org/momaorg/sharedβ¦
Amongst the 40 works that Edward G. Robinson lent to MOMA in 1953 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's L'Italienne ou La Femme Γ la Manche Jaune (The Italian Woman, or the Woman with Yellow Sleeve), about 1870. It's now in the @NationalGallery in London.
Life Magazine's Yale Joel document's three paintings from Edward G. Robinson's collection: Rouault's Court Room Scene, Bonnard's Still Life & Vuillard's Interior, April 1957. Robinson had to sell his entire collection in 1956 to pay for a divorce; these were new purchases!
"We Hold These Truths" broadcast on December 15, 1941, the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights.
Birthday boy Edward G. Robinson is by the NBC mic. Lots of stars here!
See how many you can name; I'll tweet the caption -->
Orson Welles, Rudy Vallee, unknown, Bernard Herrmann, Edward G. Robinson, Bob Burns, James Stewart, Norman Corwin, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold
Seated: Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Walter Huston
Produced in KNX studios, Hollywood
Edward G. Robinson at Sam Spiegel's New Year's Eve party, 1949.
π· Peter Stackpole for Life magazine
I wondered at first if it was him, but he had that exact moustache in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1949 film House of Strangers
Edward G. Robinson in Paddy Chayevsky's The Middle of the Night. With Gena Rowlands, Effie Afton & Martin Balsam. A great photo by Gordon Parks for Life magazine, 1956
Coffee with Edward G. Robinson βοΈ
π· Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Cannes, 1950
Edward G. Robinson & Anatole Litvak at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival
π· Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1953
I don't think HCB normally did these kind of red carpet shots. His photograph is all about the shiny cars & the spectators behind the fence.
Mac Julian's photograph from the set of John Huston's Key Largo, 1948
With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson & Claire Trevor. What a wonderful film!
Edward G. Robinson was one of the organizers of the anti-Nazi Committee of 56, calling for an economic boycott of Nazi Germany. Stars including Claude Rains, Henry Fonda, Joan Crawford, Gloria Stuart & John Garfield sign the manifesto, 1938
Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"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 ππ―
π· 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. π§΅
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 π
π· Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur β 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
π· 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 ππ―
π· 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 π
π· 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
π· Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
π· 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.