Funny (and Saucy) Girl.

Here's a different angle on Fanny Brice:

I don't know about the Snooks part, but seeing this I can definitely say....oh Baby!

Lunch Time!

Don Ameche, Peter Lorre and Sonja Heine at the Fox commissary

Gable at the MGM commissary

Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury at the Paramount commissary

Ida Lupino and Jeffrey Lynn at the Warner Bros. Commissary

Gene Reynolds at the MGM commissary

Fred MacMurray and Lana Turner at the Fox commissary

Nils Asther at the MGM commissary

Rita Hayworth and Robert Parrish at the Columbia commissary

Errol Flynn at the Warner Bros. commissary

A Great Big Thank You To 'King' Cole.

Today, a moment of appreciation for the all too unsung genius of choreographer/director

Jack Cole (1911-1974). 

Jack Cole, 1930s

He began as a Denishawn dancer and then moved on to nightclub work.  But it was film that captured his brilliance for all time.

He informed all those that would follow from Michael Kidd to Bob Fosse.  Gwen Verdon was his assistant for seven years.

In addition to his incomparable dance directing, his art direction of color palettes and sets his camera angles (most of these, by the way, going uncredited) make for some spectacular frames of film.  In an interview before her death Jane Russell said that during the dance numbers on "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"  Howard Hawks was rarely even present!

His last work was teaching at UCLA up until two weeks before his death.

Jack Cole 1971

He made 'em Sparkle:

He made 'em Sizzle:

 

And sometimes, inexplicably:

He made 'em make you wanna make 'em!


As always I have combed many different sources before assembling this post, but if you want more info on Mr. Cole, one place stands above the rest.  It's Debra Levine's fine 'arts * meme'.  You will find it Here.

Cuban Plantation?

1959

Desi Arnaz confers with an employee on the Desilu Culver City backlot, while the remains of the Tara plantation facade forlornly looks on from behind it's fence.  'Tara' would be demolished shortly afterward.

Sales Force

Mitzi and the boys, gettin' brassy

Buster.  Just a goyim.

Natalie Wood.  A fudge packer?

Sunday Activities....

found at the fabulous soyons-suave.

Lucille At 100 - A Colorful Life

Happy 100th Lucy.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other.

Liza, Up.  Bette, Down.

Just Friends.....?

Joan Crawford and Claudette Colbert enjoy a few days at Claudette's private getaway in Palm Springs.