Follies of God

James Grissom/Alfred A. Knopf

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Hedy Lamarr as Lucienne Talbot in 'Crossroads' 1942, one of the five major film noir movies in which Lamarr appeared.

During the time of this film (early 1940s), Lamarr not only acted, but also developed inventions, including the frequency-hopping technology patented in 1942, the basis of modern wireless communications.

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Happy birthday, Sir Ian McKellen

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Leonor Fini, Portrait of Prince Hassan Aziz Hassan, 1951

[ladybegood]

Joan Crawford photographed by George Hurrell, 1935

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Barbra Streisand I the original Broadway production of Funny Girl. New York, 1964.

[bygone-hollywood]

Gary Cooper and Tallulah Bankhead in “Devil and the Deep” (1932)

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Bruce Weber

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Untitled, 1951, Irving Canner. (1924 - 1998)

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actress judith anderson photographed by johan hagemeyer, 1941.

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Keith Haring photographed by Makoto Murata in New York City, circa 1982-83.

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Wearing a sequined evening gown and carrying two popsicles and two chihuahuas, blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield gets inside her pink convertible outside of the Market Town grocery store in Las Vegas, photo by Bruno Bernard, 1959. Fun Fact: prior to her passing in 1967, Jayne added two additional chihuahuas to her menagerie which she cleverly named "Momsicle" and "Popsicle".

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Faust (1926) dir. F. W. Murnau

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From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895).

[unwins]

Amadeus (1984)

He was my idol. Mozart, I can’t think of a time when I didn’t know his name.

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Tehachapi, CA

@ Sinziana Velicescu