days like highways

Just rolling along...

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If this was a leap year, it would be my father's 118th birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! Miss you always! #williamwellman

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Hahaa

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Barbara Stanwyck & Brian Donlevy in The Great Man’s Lady (1942, dir. William A. Wellman) (via)

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What a shot!

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guess who was born on Leap Day???? William A Wellman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  thanks to the glorious Film Forum, we saw 18 of his films over the past two weeks!!!! 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

top left - Wellman, wife Dorothy Coonan and children on the set of Battleground

top right - Marjorie Crawford lights husband Wellman’s pipe

bottom left - Wellman directs Loretta Young and Franchot Tone in Midnight Mary

bottom right -Wellman directs Irene Dunne and Mary Boland in Stingaree

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Frank Borzage (second from left) celebrates his first 20 years as a film director with Ernst Lubitsch, wife Rena Rogers, Richard Dix and William A. Wellman.

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the incredible Folies Bergère tracking shot in William A Wellman’s Wings

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A Yugoslav poster for The Ox Bridge Incident

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My grandfather’s director’s chair in Lone Pine’s film museum.

Woke up next to a double rainbow over snowy mountain tops at June Lake… Visited a ghost town… drove through all 102 degrees of Death Valley… And now I’m somehow posting this from a hotel lobby in Las Vegas.

We apparently need a bellhop for all our camera gear.

Cheers!

M

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My daughter is on a photographic road trip thru the South West and stopped in Lone Pine to see some of her Grandfather's memorabilia at the Film Museum there.

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wishes

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Dorothy Coonan Wellman (November 25, 1913 - September 16, 2009) with Edwin Phillips, and Frankie Darro in (future husband) William A Wellman’s Wild Boys of the Road

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Sweet Momie, happy 99th bday...miss you so.

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Fox! I want!

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A Twitter Breakdown by http://longliveirony.com/

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Dorothy Coonan in Wild Boys of the Road ( dir. William A. Wellman, 1933)

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My grandma <3

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My mom in Wild Boys of the Road, she hated the nose scrunching smile but dad made her do it!

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happy birthday, allen ginsberg

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