#Helen Vinson

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Jewel Robbery (1932)

#jewel robbery #kay francis #helen vinson

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#helen vinson #hollywood furs #old hollywood

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The Kennel Murder Case (1933) Michael Curtiz

December 26th 2022

#the kennel murder case #1933 #michael curtiz #william powell #eugene pallette #robert mcwade #mary astor #etienne girardot #robert barrat #ralph morgan #arthur hohl #paul cavanagh #helen vinson #james lee #jack la rue #pre-code

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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1999

Sylvia Sidney at 88 from cancer

Marguerite Chapman at 81 from unknown events

Dana Plato at 34 from overdose

Vanessa Brown at 71 from cancer

Madeline Kahn at 57 from cancer

Helen Vinson at 92 from natural causes

Hillary Brooke at 84 from pulmonary embolism

Faith Domergue at 74 from cancer

Chili Bouchier at 89 from skull fracture

Ruth Roman at 76 from natural causes

#sylvia sidney #marguerite chapman #dana plato #vanessa brown #madeline kahn #helen vinson #hillary brooke #faith domergue #chili bouchier #ruth roman #thedabara

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Irving Cummings directing Warner Baxter and Helen Vinson in Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938.

#irving cummings #warner baxter #helen vinson

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#two against the world #1932 #30s #bw #multi #still #bedroom #drapery #costume #helen vinson #constance bennett #<3

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#Beyond Tomorrow #Charles Winninger #Richard Carlson #Maria Ouspenskaya #Jean Parker #Helen Vinson #C. Aubrey Smith #Harry Carey #A. Edward Sutherland #1940

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Kay Francis and William Powell in Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932)

Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray, André Luguet, Henry Kolker, Spencer Charters, Lee Kohlmar, Clarence Wilson. Screenplay: Erwin Gelsey, based on a play by Ladislas Fodor and a translation by Bertram Bloch. Cinematography: Robert Kurrle. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: Ralph Dawson. Music: Bernhard Kaun.

Jewel Robbery is a perfect storm of what would be taboos under the Production Code: Not only does it condone adultery and let crime go unpunished, but it also allows William Powell's jewel thief -- pardon me, robber -- to slip a cigarette laced with an uncommonly potent strain of cannabis to the jewelry store guard, thereby violating the forthcoming ban on drug references in movies. (We are assured that, after a case of the giggles, the guard will fall sound asleep to wake refreshed with no hangover but the munchies.) The adulteress is Baroness Teri (Kay Francis), a golddigger who has married the aging Baron von Horhenfels (Henry Kolker) for his money, while carrying on a liaison with the much younger cabinet member Paul (Hardie Albright). Unfortunately, as Teri tells her confidante Marianne (Helen Vinson), Paul is a bit of a bore. She makes the best of it, however, swanning around in gowns designed by Orry-Kelly that defy the law of gravity and raking in the jewels her husband provides. Which leads her to the jewelry store that is about to be robbed and to the robber himself, with whom she swiftly falls in love. The rest is a story of crime and absence of punishment that ends well for Teri and her thief -- uh, robber. Francis and Powell were never better, and there's a good deal of charm and wit to the film. It could have been directed with a lighter touch: William Dieterle is better known for the somewhat stuffy biopics The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), and he doesn't have the Viennese insouciance that the script needs. But he lets his actors provide that, with good results.

#Jewel Robbery #William Dieterle #Kay Francis #William Powell

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Paul Muni and Helen Vinson in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

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Birthdays 1.22

Beer Birthdays

Pat Hagerman (1964)

James Renfrew (1965)

Motor (1966)

Bud Bundy, character on Married… with Children, named after Al Bundy's favorite beer (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Francis Bacon; writer, philosopher (1561)

Sergei Eisenstein; Russian director & screenwriter (1898)

Robert E. Howard; fantasy writer (1906)

J.J. Johnson; jazz trombonist, bandleader (1924)

Diane Lane; actress (1965)

Famous Birthdays

Andre Marie Ampere; physicist (1775)

George Balanchine; choreographer (1904)

Bill Bixby; actor (1934)

Richard Blackmore; English physician & poet (1654)

Linda Blair; actress (1959)

Ed Bradley; television journalist (1941)

Ernst Busch; German actor and singer (1900)

Lord Byron; poet (1788)

Seymour Cassel; actor (1935)

Sam Cooke; musician (1931)

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan; pilot (1907)

Olivia d'Abo; actor (1967)

John Donne; English poet & cleric (1573)

Joe Esposito; author (1938)

Guy Fieri; chef, author, and tv host (1968)

Willa Ford; singer-songwriter & actress (1981)

Pierre Gassendi; French mathematician, astronomer & philosopher (1592)

D.W. Griffith; film director (1875)

Martti Haavio; Finnish poet and mythologist (1899)

Alan J. Heeger; physicist and chemist (1936)

Helen Hoyt; poet and author (1887)

John Hurt; actor (1940)

Michael Hutchence; rock singer (1960)

Jim Jarmusch; film director (1953)

DJ Jazzy Jeff; musician (1965)

Graham Kerr; chef, "Galloping Gourmet" (1934)

William Kidd; Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (1645)

Nicolas Lancret; French painter (1690)

Piper Laurie; actor (1932)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher & author (1729)

Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter & manager

Charles Morgan; writer (1894)

Steve Perry; rock musician (1949)

Francis Picabia; French painter and poet (1878)

Walter Raleigh; English poet, soldier, & explorer (1552)

Ray Rice; Baltimore Ravens RB (1987)

George "Chuck" Seifert; San Francisco 49ers coach (1940)

John Wesley Shipp; actor (1956)

Ann Sothern; actress (1909)

August Strindberg; Swedish novelist, poet, & playwright (1849)

Hikaru Walter Sulu; Star Trek character (2179)

Conrad Veidt; German-American actor, director (1893)

Frederick Vinson; supreme court chief justice (1890)

Joseph Wambaugh; writer (1937)

John Winthrop; politician (1588)

#Birthdays

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#helen vinson #stars in furs #hollywood furs

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Beyond Tomorrow (1940) A. Edward Sutherland

December 10th 2022

#beyond tomorrow #1940 #a. edward sutherland #charles winninger #richard carlson #jean parker #harry carey #c. aubrey smith #maria ouspenskaya #alex melesh #helen vinson #james bush #and so goodbye #beyond christmas

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Vogue "I Love New York" from Peter Spark on Vimeo.

Created and Directed by Bardia Zeinali Written by Jeremy O. Harris Fashion Editor: Jorden Bickham Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg Produced by Peter Spark and Natalie Pfister for One Thirty-Eight Productions

Cast: Paperboy Prince, Julia Fox, Paloma Elsesser, Emily Ratajkowski, Richie Shazam, Misty Copeland, Sean Bennett, Tashawn “Whaffle” Davis, LeeRock Starski, May Hong, David Byrne, Dara Allen, Ceyenne Doroshow, Tyshawn Jones, Raquel Willis, Akira Armstrong, Nicholas Heller, Tic and Tac, Ari Serrano, Naomi Otsu, Indya Moore, Bella Hadid, Erma Campy, Parker Kit Hill, Soul Tigers Marching Band, Kitty Kitty, Josephine Giordano, Ashley aka bestdressed, Eman Abbas, the Rockettes (Jackie Aitken, Tiffany Billings, Katie Hamrah, Alicia Lundgren), Joan Smalls, Leiomy Maldonado

Director of Photography: Chayse Irvin

Edited by Will Town at Modern Post

Production Managers: Hye-Young Shim, Hayley Stephon Wardrobe Coordinator: Leo Becerra Location Manager: Miles Sobeleski Production: Andrew Carbone, Andrew Gowen, Auguste Taylor-Young, Ben Elias, Francis McKenzie, Hased Ike, Henry Pskowski, Jacob Gottlieb, Liam Wahl, Lucas Veltrie, Luis Jaramillo, Matt Nussbaum, Max Thuemler, Zach Berry

Hair: Mustafa Yanaz Hair (Indya Moore, Joan Smalls): Hos Hounkpatin

Makeup: Emi Kaneko

Set Design: Hans Maharawal

AD: James Woods

Main Unit 1st AC - Camera A: Philey Sanneh Main Unit 2nd AC - Camera A: Emma Penrose Main Unit Loader: Helen Cassel Main Unit Key Grip / Gaffer: Iain Trimble Main Unit Grip / Swing: Greg Waszcuk B Camera Op: Sam Ellison B Camera - 1st AC: Carolyn Pender B Camera Loader: Olivia Kimmel B Camera - 2nd AC: Alex Dubois Sound Tech: Matt Caufield 2nd Unit DP: Mika Altskan Exquisite Human DP: Jac Martinez Exquisite Human 1st AC: Alice Boucherie Exquisite Human Camera PA: Royce Paris

Casting: Sergio Kletnoy, Felicity Webb, Nicholas Heller Movement Director: Vinson Fraley Tailor: Cha Cha Zutic Assistant to the Fashion Editor: Austen Turner Medic: Paradocs

Color: Tim Masick at Company 3 Stills Post Production: Dtouch Music Supervision: Jessica Gramuglia, HiNote Sound Design: Raphaël Ajuelos Music: “Rhapsody in Blue” performed by Philharmonia Orchestra; “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad” performed by Moby Title Design: Naomi Otsu Motion Design: Rinaldi Parungao for Mango Motion Design Visual Effects: Ilia Mokhtareizadeh at The Arcane Collective, Zdravko Stoitchkov at ZeeFX Assistant Editor: Lauren Friedman Archival Research: Maggie Reville

Filmed At: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, Radio City Music Hall, Top of the Rock

Special Thanks: Kodak, Millennium Hilton New York Downtown, The Smile

Vogue: Mark Guiducci, Creative Editorial Director; Robert Semmer, Vice President, Head of Video; Marina Cukeric, Executive Producer; Samantha Adler, Visual Director; Sergio Kletnoy, Entertainment Director; Felicity Webb, Bookings Director; Janelle Okwodu, Senior Fashion News Writer; Jenna Allchin, Producer; Olivia Horner, Visual Editor

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Dawnn Jewel Lewis (born August 13, 1961) is an actress. She is known for her role as Jaleesa Vinson–Taylor on A Different World, she co-wrote the theme song. Her other notable roles were the sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and the film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. She has appeared in numerous TV series, including other sitcoms, and has performed on stage. In college, she majored in musical theatre with a minor in journalism, graduating with a BSM, cum laude, from the University of Miami. She starred in the film adaptation of Dreamgirls. She released her debut CD, entitled Worth Waiting For. She played in The Wiz with New York City Center's Encores! and played on One Tree Hill. She played a minor recurring role as Lauren's mother in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She voiced Malora in Strange Frame. She appeared on Days of Our Lives. She starred in The Divorce. She is playing a recurring role. She has voiced Ruby's mother Helen Hanshaw in one episode of Sofia The First. She was cast in Doc McStuffins. She provided the voice of Maybelle Mundy in Bunyan and Babe. She began voicing Fannie Granger Spirit Riding Free and Dr. Jones in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters began voicing The Chief on animated Carmen Sandiego. She voiced Attorney General’s special agent Lenora Carter in The Simpsons episode “The Fat Blue Line”. She began portraying Tina Turner's mother in Tina on Broadway. She stars as the voice of Captain Carol Freeman in the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #zetaphibeta https://www.instagram.com/p/ChMocY5ullEXQu--R_SkzU75ubO17Z1fg5ffaQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #zetaphibeta

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#married and in love #1940 #40s #bw #single #still #helen vinson #alan marshal #coupe #fond

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Paul Muni in the final scene of I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins, Berton Churchill, Edward Ellis, David Landau, Hale Hamilton, Louise Carter, Noel Francis. Screenplay: Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes, based on a book by Robert Elliott Burns. Cinematography: Sol Polito. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: William Holmes. Music: Bernhard Kaun. With the exception of the rather stilted early scene in which World War I veteran James Allen (Paul Muni) returns home to his stereotypical sweet, gray-haired mother and his oleaginous preacher brother, who urge him to give up his dreams and go back to his old job in the factory, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang mostly feels fresh and urgent. Its final scene gives up nothing in the way of a happy ending, as Allen backs away from his girlfriend into the darkness and chokes out the words "I steal," in response to her question about how he lives. It's above all a critique of American justice, particularly the concept of "states' rights," a shibboleth that was used for a long time as a defense of slavery and then of segregation and Jim Crow. The book on which the film was based was titled I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang, pointing the finger at the state at fault, and while Warner Bros. gave in to the government of Georgia, partly in deference to the Southern box office, and trimmed the title, everyone knew that this particular exploitation of convicts was primarily Southern in nature. And even the use of maps in the montages that show the course of Allen's travels makes it pretty clear where the chain gang is located. If American movies had remained as candid as this one is about social problems, they might have had a real impact. But two forces exerted pressure to tame the movies: the box office and the censors. I Am a Fugitive was made just before the Production Code went into effect, after which some of the brutal realism of the film would be forbidden -- along with the sexual frankness surrounding the character of Marie Woods (Glenda Farrell). This was also Paul Muni's finest hour on film, along with his performance in Howard Hawks's Scarface the same year, before his energies as an actor were tamed by do-gooder roles in William Dieterle's biopics The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and The Life of Emile Zola (1937) or hidden behind yellowface makeup in The Good Earth (Sidney Franklin, 1937).

#I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang #Mervyn LeRoy #Paul Muni