Circle | The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge.
January 2, 2016 § Leave a comment
Bunny Boots, Apocalypse Now, 1979.
January 2, 2016 § Leave a comment
Costume sketches for Bunny #2, Apocalypse Now (1979), c 1976 at The Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
Apocalypse Now Trivia IMDB
The visit by the Playboy Playmates was based on an actual visit by 1965 Playmate of the Year Jo Collins. She was so popular with the troops that she was made an honorary GI. The Playmate of the Year character in the movie was played by Cynthia Wood, who was herself Playmate of the Year in 1974.
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Artist Ralph Barton | Woman In Dressing Room, January, 1915.
December 31, 2015 § 2 Comments
This morning wanting to get on the bandwagon with my Facebook friends who have been vivaciously posting New Years Greetings, I began to peruse the internet in search of my own when I stumbled upon the illustration here by artist Ralph Barton. The internet has a way of making you forget what you originally set out to do and before long I found myself swept away by his story and beautiful artwork. I hope you will take a moment and do the same.
~Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
Courtesy Library of Congress.
A CASE OF MELANCHOLIA ~ The New Yorker
Ralph Barton and Charlie Chaplin.
On May 19, 1931, in his East Midtown Manhattan penthouse apartment, Barton shot himself through the right temple. He was 39 years old. His suicide note said he had irrevocably “lost the only woman I ever loved” (the actress Carlotta Monterey had divorced Barton in 1926 and married Eugene O’Neill in 1929), and that he feared his worsening manic-depression was approaching insanity. Almost immediately, his reputation dropped from sight; several years after his death, a caricature of George Gershwin sold for a mere $5. Ralph Barton’s ashes were returned to his native Kansas City and interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery. -Wikipedia
Carlotta Monterey.
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Holiday Greetings From All The Folks At Goodyear | December 15th, 1961.
December 28, 2015 § Leave a comment
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Salvatore Ferragamo Windows, Christmas 2015.
December 26, 2015 § 1 Comment
In 1955 my grandfather, Ben Benjamin, then the general manager for I. Miller shoes embarked on a European trip to help improve the production value of the I. Miller shoes being manufactured in Europe. In the letter below, written while they were in Italy, Salvatore Ferragmo’s sister, Rosina Ferragamo, is mentioned as worth seeing.
Women's Footwear in America 