Thursday, January 28, 2016

Tracking with Closeups: Louise Brooks

Louise at the wrap party for her final Hollywood film, Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
 Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Friday, January 22, 2016

Monday, January 18, 2016

Martin Luther King, Jr's Hollywood Connections

Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day in the US with this 1963 photo of the civil rights leader meeting with Hollywood Stars. 
 
Martin Luther King Jr, with Anthony Franciosa, Ralph Abernathy, Paul Newman, Polly Bergen, Joanne Woodward, Sammy Davis Jr. and Marlon Brando during his 1963 visit to Los Angeles for a civil rights rally.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Bevy of Beauties: Wild Partiers

Clara Bow, Jean Lorraine, Alice Adaire and Adrienne Dore in The Wild Party (1929)

Friday, January 15, 2016

On the Set: Carroll Baker

with producer Joseph Levine and designer Edith Head on the set of Harlow (1965)

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 137

Carla Gugino
Chloe Sevigny
Christina Hendricks
Duffy
Isabella Rossellini
Kathleen Turner in "Tallulah" (stageplay, 2001)
Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction (1994)
Linda Hamilton
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Nicole Kidman