Remembering Henry Fonda on his birthday ๐
๐ท David Lees, 1955
"Our most ingratiating male star... His effortless, modulated style of acting is a minor miracle."
- Brooks Atkinson
My favourite Henry Fonda film: Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve, 1941
What a shot by on set still photographer G.E. Richardson. Look at the martini glasses in the foreground! Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, & the superb Eugene Pallette.
Henry Fonda, Terence Hill & Sergio Leone filming Tonino Valerii's My Name is Nobody, 1973.
The film was based on an idea by Leone, & he replaced Valerii on the set for a day when the director had an ear infection.
The photo is by still photographer Angel Novi #stillonset
William Auerbach-Levy
Henry Fonda as Charles Christian Wertenbaker & Olivia de Havilland as Lael Tucker Wertenbaker in A Gift of Time, 1962
Henry Fonda & Bette Davis in William Wyler's Jezebel
๐ท George Hurrell, 1938
Henry Fonda having a spirited game of #Pingpong with James Stewart in 1937 ๐
Jimmy Stewart plays accordion, & Henry Fonda is on trumpet
๐ท John Swope, 1940
Henry Fonda by Gianni Ferrari, Segovia, Spain, 1974
Henry Fonda by Slim Aarons
New York, 1951
Richard Widmark called him "the frontier American - part history, part folklore, part mythology."
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Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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. ๐งต
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 ๐
๐ท Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur โ 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
๐ท 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 ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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 ๐
๐ท 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
๐ท Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
๐ท 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.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread ๐งต
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
๐ท W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
๐ท Dennis Stock, 1959