Jan Sterling squints into the desert sun in Ace in the Hole. Behind her is a truck with an all-timer of a Billy Wilder joke painted on the side: "THE GREAT S&M AMUSEMENT CORP."
"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
—Jan Sterling as Lorraine, the greedy (but perceptive) wife of the man trapped in a cave in Billy Wilder's ACE IN THE HOLE. Sterling was #BornThisDay right here in New York, New York, in 1921.
Gloria Swanson in her heyday, portrait in profile with a white satin drape around her shoulders.
"Gloria was just perfect — a pleasure on, off, and everywhere."
—Allan Dwan
Gloria Swanson, one of the pantheon greats, was #BornThisDay in 1899. Please don't stop at Sunset Boulevard! Three great silent films she made with Dwan are on the Internet Archive: Zaza, Manhandled, and Stage Struck.
#Remembering Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 – December 11, 2022) a unique #American #composer scoring films for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks, The Straight Story, & Mulholland Drive. His music will always be a light in the dark.
#AngeloBadalamenti #bornthisday
#OnThisDay #Remembering sci-fi poet, frontman extraordinaire and self-declared “hypo-manic” Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 – 14 August 1988). He is principally known for his role as a member of the #psychedelic warlords #Hawkwind
#RobertCalvert #bornthisday #70smusic #rockmusic #musicsky
Photo has the yellowed old-paper tint. Mackaill's hair is down, she is looking at the camera and holding what appears to be a silk shawl around her shoulders (and not much else)
A striking fan-magazine portrait of actress Dorothy Mackaill, 1923. She was #BornThisDay in 1903, in Kingston upon Hull, U.K. Much of her silent work is lost, but SAFE IN HELL (1931) is brilliant and easy to find.
"Politcs? Hah! You couldn't get into politics!" My all-time Jean Harlow moment in DINNER AT EIGHT isn't her closing exchange with Marie Dressler; it's the knock-down-drag-out marital scrap where she wipes the floor with Wallace Beery. The great Harlow was #BornThisDay in 1911 in Kansas City, Mo.
Happy birthday, Arthur Schopenhauer ☀️
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#mauswohn #redbubble #schopenhauer #philosophie #philosophy #wisdom #weiheit #mauspad #mousepad #portrait #collage #aesthetic #designtrend #bornthisday
It’s my birthday… and I’m not the same person I was last year. 🔥
Growth looks good on me.
Say something nice or share your birthday twin month 👇. #HappyBirthdayToMe
#BirthdayVibes
#BirthdayMood
#BirthdayEnergy
#LevelingUp
#AnotherYearStronger
#GratefulHeart
#BornThisDay
#OnThisDay #Remembering the one and only John Warren Geils Jr. (February 20, 1946 – April 11, 2017), known professionally as #JGeils #JayGeils unsung American guitarist & leader of The J. Geils Band.
#BornThisDay #JGeilsBand #classicrock #rockmusic
Few careers in American history have matched the breadth and impact of his. We honor his legacy today, and every day, through our continued commitment to equality, fairness, and justice under law.
#RHJC #OTD #BornThisDay #SupremeCourt #JusticeForAll #CivicEducation #HappyBirthday
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
#williamsburroughs #bornthisday #btd #1914
#OnThisDay #Remembering Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) one of the most beautiful and dramatic flowers in the garden of music. A blooming rose that sadly left us too soon.
#BornThisDay #JanisJoplin
Austrian postcard of Gilbert Roland in a hat and suit, sans mustache, circa 1926
Dutch postcard of Gilbert Roland in his MGM years, with the familiar mustache.
The almost unspeakably handsome Gilbert Roland, birth name Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, was #BornThisDay in (probably) Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1905. My recommendations include THE FURIES, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, CHEYENNE AUTUMN, and perhaps his best, THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY.
