#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Joyce Tenneson, 2001
"Lansbury is one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved. (Science, or at least People magazine, confirmed it in 1994 when she scored a perfect 100 on a 'lovability index.')"
- Jesse Green
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Yousuf Karsh, 1946
One of Karsh's most perfect portraits, I think.
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Philippe Halsman, 1944
5 Tony Awards
18 Emmy Awards nominations
3 Academy Award nominations
Angela Lansbury with Basil Rathbone at the Paramount Commissary, in costume for The Court Jester. #RIP
π· Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1954
#RIP Angela Lansbury
In "Dear World", for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress
π· Kenn Duncan, 1969 @NYPL digital collection
#RIP Angela Lansbury
With Len Cariou & Victor Garber in Sweeney Todd
π· Martha Swope, 1979 @NYPL digital collection
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Marco Grob
archival digital print, 2009 @NPGLondon
βMalicious, witty, fractious, bitchy, and highly attractive, she is a constant delight, and it is a sadness that Cukor or Minnelli never made more of her.β
- David Thomson
Angela Lansbury & Peter Shaw dance at Sam Spiegel's New Year's Eve party, 1948. The two were married in London that August. #RIP
π· Peter Stackpole
#RIP Angela Lansbury
With James Gregory in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.
My favourite Lansbury performance.
The still photographer on set was Bill Craemer #stillonset
#RIP Angela Lansbury
She steals another scene in George Cukor's Gaslight. Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman didn't have a chance.
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Jack Mitchell, 1966
βShe does comfortable sugar as decently as anyone, but she is a real actress who is more interesting with a touch of lemon juice, or acid. I would trade all the Jessica Fletchers for her wife in Sondheimβs Sweeney Todd.β
- David Thomson
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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.