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Arnold Genthe ~ Marion Morgan Dancers. From Out of the Shadows. 1920s| src david pollack

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#Arnold Genthe #marion morgan dancers #dance pose #danseuse #dance costume #tanzpose #dancer #Tänzerin #danzatrice #bailarina #tanzkostum #greek clothing #1920s #greek gown #greek style #marion morgan dancer #pictorialism #pictorialisme #pictorialismo #Piktorialismus #sheer fabric #tambourine

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Marion Morgan (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 4 January 1881  

RIP: 10 November 1971

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, screenwriter

Note: Longtime romantic partner of Dorothy Arzner

#Marion Morgan #lgbt history #lesbianism #lesbian history #wlw #female #lesbian #1881 #rip #historical #white #dancer #choreographer #screenwriter

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Byron Company · Two of Marion Morgan’s dancers with flowing scarf, posing on rocks at the beach, Rye, New York (1920)

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"In the monastery of your heart and body, you have a temple where all buddhas unite."

~ Milarepa

#Marion Morgan #dancers #Milarepa #bodymind #expression #quotes

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March, 1915 The Marion Morgan Dancers perform barefoot in snow in Central Park. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

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Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather Sunshine and Shadow (Marion Morgan Dancers) 1921

#pictorialism #dancer

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Jump Wins By Dancer

17 Wins: Cami Vorhees

11 Wins: Kayla Mak

8 Wins: Brady Farrar, Brooklyn Simpson, Kya Massimino, Madison Taylor, Vivian Ruiz

7 Wins: Ella Horan, Kamryn Funk, Nicholas Bustos, Ying Lei Pham

6 Wins: Crystal Huang, Hailey Meyers, Katie McCleary, Kayla LaVine, Lily Gentile, Lola Iglesias, Rachel Quiner

5 Wins: Ava Brooks, Brooklyn Cooley, Christina Ricucci, Elizabeth Scott Lanier, Ellary Day Szyndlar, Giselle Gandarilla, Gracyn French, Isabella Jarvis, Jonathan Wade, Kaylin Maggard, Kylee Casares, Lucy Vallely, Mariana Rodriguez, Olivia Alboher, Sarah Moore, Sophia Lucia

4 Wins: Aimee Brotton, Ali Ogle, Ana Maria Zertuche, Ava Wagner, Avery Gay, Cambry Bethke, Camille Cabrera, Campbell Clark, Carly Thinfen, Christian Burse, David Keingatti, Destanye Diaz, Eliana Hayward, Emma Sutherland, Hailey Bills, Halle Lum, Izzy Howard, Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl, Jaycee Wilkins, Jayci Kalb, Kelsie Jacobson, Kensington Dressing, Lauren Yakima, Logan Epstein, Madalin Autry, Makaia Roux, Makayla Ryan, Mary Jordan Clodfelter, Mila Simunic, Patricio Lopez, Rosie Elliott, Sabine Nehls, Scott Autry, Sophia Frilot, Sophie Garcia, Stella Brinkerhoff, Sylvia Borash, Talia Gabriel, Taylor Worden, Tim Blankenship, Valadie Cammack

3 Wins: Addison Moffett, Aimee Smyke, Ali Deucher, Allie Andrew, Alyssa Robert, Amy Benedetto, Avery Lau, Bostyn Brown, Braylynn Grizzaffi, Britton Johnson, Brooke Cheek, Brooke Cox, Brooke Toro, Caden Hunter, Caitlyn Polis, Camila Cordero, Candace Vincent, Casey Tran, Chau, Chloe Madding, D'Angelo Castro, Dasha Waldemer, Dyllan Blackburn, Ella Dobler, Ella Jones, Ellen Grace Olansen, Emma York, Erin Bailey, Esme Chou, Findlay McConnel, Fiona Sartain, Fiona Wu, Grace Lethbridge, Harper Anderson, Hayden Hopkins, Hudson Pletcher, Isabel Ulloa, Isabella Lynch, Isabella Vorhees, Isabella Weidmann, Jazmine Raine Werner, Jessica Ferretti, Josie Lutz, JT Church, Justin Pham, Keagan Capps, Keely Meyers, Keira Redpath, Kennedy Anderson, Lauren Shaw, Libby Borash, Lindsey Weaver, Logan Hernandez, Lucia Piedrahita, Mackenzie Meldrum, Maddie Ziegler, Maria Jose Gonzalez, Mariandrea Villegas, Marion Norris, Michelle Quiner, Mini Preston, Miyah LaGrant, Morgan Higgins, Neala Murphy, Nicole Ishimaru, Payton Schultz, Preslie Rosamond, Rachel Louiselle, Reegan Francis, Regina Lozano, Ricky Ubeda, Ruby Castro, Samantha Falk, Savannah Folding, Savannah Manning, Savannah Manzel, Scarlett Ferrell, Selena Hamilton, Sidney Ramsey, Sienna Morris, Sylvie Win Szyndlar, Tessa Marr, Vera Escamilla

#cami is unstoppable #i don't think anyone will ever beat that #dance #dancers #jump

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 3

1752 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian, born (d.1809); Müller's Geschichten der Schweizer (Swiss History), a project that occupied most of his life and took him more than forty years to complete. Müller's tome (18 volumes in the French translation) is now considered hopelessly unreliable, even though in its day it stirred Swiss nationalism and had profound influence.

Müller's place here is due to his favorite extracurricular activity - writing love letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten, a young, devastatingly handsome Swiss writer.

Charles Victor de Bonstetten

Bonstetten was also the object of desire for Thomas Gray, the English poet. Müller's love letters, among the loveliest ever penned, were published in 1835, twenty-five years after his death. Long before then, however, Goethe had gone on record declaring Müller's sexuality.

1900 – Dorothy Arzner (d.1979), although not the first woman to direct films in Hollywood, was the only woman director to work through the turbulent, richly productive, 1930s and 1940s—the period crucial to the development of Classical Hollywood Cinema.

Born in San Francisco, she grew up around the filmmakers and actors who frequented her father's Hollywood restaurant. After dropping out of university, where she had intended to become a doctor, Arzner interviewed with William DeMille (of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, i.e., Paramount Studios) and accepted her first film job as a script typist. She soon moved on to cutting and editing, eventually editing fifty-two pictures as chief editor for RealArt, a subsidiary of Paramount.

Arzner made her directorial debut at Paramount with Fashions for Women in 1927. Between 1927 and 1933, she directed eleven films for Paramount; in the ten years between 1933 and when she left the Hollywood film industry in 1943, Arzner directed another six films as a freelancer with RKO, United Artists, MGM, and Columbia.

During this time, Arzner received media attention as a "woman director" in the popular press; and as a woman, her work and her career were constantly scrutinized. For all this, however, Arzner remained enigmatic, even provocatively so: observers commented on the juxtaposition of her petite figure and her "mannish" dress; journalists reassured readers that this woman gave her orders on the set with a soft and "feminine" voice; and publicity photos regularly romanced her relationship with her female stars, who included such actresses as Clara Bow, Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford.

Arzner's lesbianism seems to have been well-known within the Hollywood community, though little attention was paid to it publicly. She lived openly with her companion Marion Morgan, a choreographer and dancer, from 1930 until Morgan's death in 1971. The prominence of dance in several of Arzner's films may reflect Morgan's influence.

Arzner left Hollywood in 1943 to recover from an illness, and she never returned. Coincidentally, post-World War II Hollywood experienced a radical movement towards conservative "family values" quite incompatible with Arzner's general themes and interests, and her work seems to have fallen out of favor.

After her Hollywood career, Arzner directed training films for the Women's Army Corps, taught in the film program at UCLA (1959-1963), and was honored by the Director's Guild of America in 1975. She died on October 1, 1979.

As a woman "pioneer" in the film industry, and as a lesbian, Arzner has attracted considerable attention recently. She has been recognized for her innovations in using sound and her films, though many are still hard to find outside of archives, have seen a renewed interest both academically and popularly.

1948 - Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey revealed a high incidence of same-sex acts among men. Behavior in the Human Male is published, in which the researcher concludes that 37% of American males have had at least one gay sexual experience to the point of orgasm. Five years later Kinsey publishes his report on women, which puts the comparable figure at 13%.

1964 – Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.

LaBruce was born Bryan Bruce in Tiverton, Ontario, and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher. He first gained public attention with the publication of the queer punk zine J.D.s, which he co-edited with G.B. Jones. He currently writes and photographs for a variety of publications including Vice, Nerve.com and BlackBook magazine, and has made a number of films which merged the artistic techniques of independent film with gay pornography.

He has also previously been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine Exclaim! and Toronto's eye weekly, and he was a contributing editor and photographer for many years at New York's index magazine. He has also been published in Toronto Life and the National Post as well as the UK Guardian. His movie, Otto, or, Up With Dead People debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. L.A. Zombie was banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors, it would have been refused classification. However, the film was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes, a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011.

In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. As one no doubt assumes, this iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as a female to male transgender Pierrot.

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“Summer" posed by the Marion Morgan dancers | Theatre Magazine, 1918

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March, 1915 The Marion Morgan Dancers barefoot in snow in Central Park.

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Enid Whittlesey led an absolutely fascinating life.  It's a shame people only remember her because of her murder and 16 year cold case that was eventually solved and featured on an episode of "Forensic Files". In 1921 her famous architect father forced her lover at gunpoint to marry Enid. This resulted in a 2 day marriage and a love triangle (he had committed bigamy) that captured the attention of the San Francisco Bay Area. She was also a member of the famous vaudeville act "The Marion Morgan Dancers". Get a glimpse into Enid's life and her intriguing story on AncientFaces.

#1920s #vaudeville #scandal #murder #dancers

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Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927 (details) Nitrate negatives | src Library of Congress

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Marion Morgan dancers 1920

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One of Marion Morgan's dancers posing with bow and arrow on rocks at the beach at Rye, New York, c.1920.

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View of members of the Marion Morgan Dancers performing an interpretive dance around a 1927 Packard 343 Series 8 convertible coupe. The dance troupe was hired by Packard to promote the 1927 Packard 343 Series 8 at auto shows and other events. Handwritten on back: "Same photo used in 'The Packard,' Spring 1927, pg. 13."

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

#marion morgan dancers #marion morgan #dance #dancers #1927 packard #1927 packard 343 series 8 #convertible #coupe #coupes #convertibles #convertible coupe #packard coupe #packard convertible #car #cars #dancer #auto #auto history #vintage #autos #automobile #automobiles #automobile history #automotive #automotive history #interpretive dance #1927 #1920s #20s #twenties

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Underwood & Underwood - Marion Morgan's Dancers Barefoot in Snow, 1916.

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

William W. Purkey

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#Underwood & Underwood #Marion Morgan's Dancers #snow #William W. Purkey #Ravenous Butterflies

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Queer Directors in the Early Days of the Film Industry

James Whale (1889 - 1957)

Notable Films: Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House

A key figure in Universal horror history, Whale was openly gay and was linked romantically with producer David Lewis for much of his adult life. This has led to some speculation that his refusal to remain in the closet led to the end of his career, and the failure The Road Back, an anti-war, anti-Nazi film which was ruined by studio interference (reportedly under pressure from Nazi Germany) certainly didn’t help. He spent his post-Hollywood career directing theatre and painting, before committing suicide at the age of 67 in 1957 after suffering from a series of strokes. He was cremated, and when David Lewis died in 1987, his ashes were placed alongside Whale’s. He was the subject of the film Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen.

Dorothy Arzner (1897 - 1979)

Notable Films: The Wild Party, Working Girls, Merrily We Go to Hell

Arzner got her start as a script editor, before getting into directing. She was the first woman to join the Director’s Guild of America, and was the first woman to direct a sound film, The Wild Party. On the set of The Wild Party, lead actress Clara Bow was having difficulties maneuvering with the cumbersome sound equipment, so Arzner attached the microphone to a fishing pole, thus inventing the boom mic. Arzner’s films often followed strong female leads and kickstarted the careers of Katherine Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Arzner was Jewish and had a 40+ year romantic relationship with Marion Morgan, a dancer and choreographer. She was also rumoured to have had a relationship with Joan Crawford. She retired from Hollywood in the forties, most likely due to the strict Hays Code and growing homophobia and sexism within the industry. She continued to work in theatre, advertising, and eventually took up teaching at UCLA, where she taught Francis Ford Coppola. She died in 1979, at age 82.

F.W. Murnau (1888 - 1931)

Notable Films: Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise, The Last Laugh

One of the most famous directors of German Expressionist cinema, with his best known works being Nosferatu and Faust. During his time in Germany he pioneered a number of camera techniques, and his films were among the first to have original musical scores. Unfortunately, of the 18 films he made in Germany, 8 are considered lost. He emigrated to America in 1926. His first Hollywood production was Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which is often considered by film historians to be one of the best silent films ever made. While we know Murnau was gay, it’s debated as to whether he was in the closet. He died from wounds sustained in a car-crash in 1931 at age 42, shortly before the premiere of his final film Tabu.

#film #film history #old hollywood #german expressionism #james whale #dorothy arzner #f.w. murnau #queer history