#monica bannister

[ilovedamsels1962]

Monica Bannister

#Monica Bannister #legs #pinup

[beautifulactres]

Monica Bannister (1910-2002)

#Monica Bannister

[oldcarlson]

Noirchick In Old Hollywood

@Noirchick1

Monica Bannister, who graced the screen in several Pre-Code films, photographed rather spectacularly by Murray Korman, 1933.

[starlingsrps]

when you know, you know

it matters very much to eliza that she look nice when indigo comes to visit her in santa monica. they’ve talked on the phone damn near every day in the month since they met so she clearly left an impression but still - she left an impression in her flight suit and reeking of engine grease. sue her if she wants to knock him dead a little. she’s pretty all the time but she’s prettier in a dress and smelling like flowers.

she snatches her green dress with the cap sleeves and little buttons back from dorothy’s closet while she’s at work and trades dishes duty with claire to have her brush out her bangs  when she realizes she’s all thumbs. while the boarding house isn’t her favorite thing (privacy is a foreign concept and someone is always borrowing something without asking) but it does come in handy. she only had joey growing up and while she certainly misses him, she still hasn’t stopped wishing she had an older sister instead. it’s nice to have friends to help her get ready for a date instead of a brother lurking nearby being vaguely threatening.

instead she has claire, who has been perched against her headboard like a mother bird.

“one more time,” claire asks. “where are you going?”

eliza rolls her eyes at the floor while she squats to buckles the ankle strap of her shoe. “for the last time: the pier, dinner, and then we’ll figure it out.”

“dinner where?”

“no idea,” she straightens and laughs at the look on claire’s face. she looks like she’s been sucking on lemons. “what?”

“do you plan anything?”

“claire, look: when you see him, you’ll understand why there’s no plan. if he wants to park and screw, i don’t care if he wants to buy me a hot dog when it’s over.”

“your funeral. i’d at least try to get a steak out of it.”

“i’m not going to stop him if he does. might even bring you a doggie bag.”

“ass.” claire shifts to her knees and eliza’s bed and gives her a long, steady look. “do you have rubbers?”

“claire!” eliza feigns shock, as though she’s not checking her purse for them at that very moment. “what kind of girl do you take me for?”

“well, at least one who’s not getting knocked up by an airman. aren’t you the one who always says they’ll fuck anything that moves and hump anything slow enough to catch?”

eliza clicks her tongue and gestures for her to get off of her bed so she can lock her door and go downstairs to wait. “there’s always an exception.” while locking up, there’s a rustle and the door opening down in the entry hall and she hears the chirp of linda’s voice answered by the rumble of indigo’s voice. she hadn’t heard it a month ago and now can’t picture going without.

claire leans over the edge of the bannister and whistles under her breath. “shit. hell of an exception.”

“when i do it, i do it right.” eliza smooths her dress over her hips. “do i look okay?”

“i’d buy you a steak.”

———

he buys her a burger when they emerge from the backseat and finally make it to the pier. 

eliza can’t remember ever feeling this comfortable with anyone but with indigo, she can’t picture any other way. his arm slings so easily around her shoulders when they’re walking that it’s only natural for her to reach up to twine her fingers with his. she knows from their phone conversations that there’s very little they haven’t talked about yet but they don’t seem to run out of topics. 

texas feels less like a fluke and more like fate.

they make their way down to the beach when the sun starts to set, settling on the sand. generally, she doesn’t think much of california - it’s where she hangs her hat between flights and she misses the rain - but times like this, she understands the appeal. sitting on the beach with a gorgeous man she’s definitely falling in love with? that’s almost certainly worth getting sand all over.

“what do you want to do when it’s over?” she asks, bumping her shoulder against his. 

he shakes his head and snorts. “no idea. probably go back to seattle, make it up as i go along.”

“i could go back to seattle,” eliza says, hoping she sounds casual.  

he surveys her and then smiles. “good. i guess keep flying but-“ he shrugs. “bound to come up with something. now you.”

“me?”

“yeah, you. you want to fly?”

“i do but not all the time,” she says honestly. “just for fun. i want a husband and kids and all that but i’d be miserable if i couldn’t fly.”

“how many are you thinking?”

she screws up her face, pretending to think. “ten.”

“ten?” he laughs. “how about three?”

“six.”

“five. final offer.”

“six. i like even numbers.”

he rolls his eyes and huffs a laugh before extending his hand for them to shake on it. “deal.”

“seattle and six it is,” she says, kissing him instead.

his smile is soft around the edges when they part. “seattle and six.”

#type: writing #s: eliza x indigo #verse: at the end of the world

[byneddiedingo]

Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell in Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. Screenplay: Don Mullaly, Carl Ericson, Charles Belden. Cinematography: Ray Rennahan. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: George Amy. 

The ever-imperiled Fay Wray gets higher billing, but the real star of Mystery of the Wax Museum is Glenda Farrell, playing an intrepid (what else?), tough-talking (ditto) newspaper reporter, Florence Dempsey. Flo's boss, Jim (Frank McHugh), gives her her walking papers, so she sets out to find a sensational story to save her job. She uncovers the sinister plot of Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), who is opening a new wax museum in New York. Igor had a similar museum in London, but it was losing money, so his partner in the business, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), burned it down to collect the insurance. Igor was trapped in the conflagration but survived. Handicapped by his wounds, he trains new sculptors to re-create the glories of the old museum. One of the trainees is Ralph Burton (Allen Vincent), whose fiancée, Charlotte Duncan (Wray), turns out to be the spitting image of Igor's most prized sculpture in the old museum, an effigy of Marie Antoinette. Naturally, Igor plans to "sculpt" Charlotte into a new Marie: His method of capturing images is, let's say, not the traditional one. By a bit of breaking and entering, Flo manages to discover the macabre truth behind the wax museum's images. The plot gimmick -- a reporter uncovers a madman's schemes -- is exactly that of Doctor X (1932), Michael Curtiz's other venture into horror movie territory filmed in two-strip Technicolor, which also starred Atwill and Wray. Mystery of the Wax Museum is the better movie, with Farrell giving a better performance as the snoopy reporter than Lee Tracy in the earlier movie. It also has a neater plot, and a real creep factor in the spooky statues -- most of which are actors standing very still. Makeup artists Ray Romero and Perc Westmore and costume designer Orry-Kelly deserve special mention.

#Mystery of the Wax Museum #Michael Curtiz #Fay Wray #Glenda Farrell

[classicfilmblr]

Monica Bannister as Joan of Arc in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) directed by Michael Curtiz

#mystery of the wax museum #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #horroredit #by jonah #ours #1930s #film #monica bannister #classicfilmsource #filmgifs #horrorgifs #userteri #userdeforest #usercandy #userandree #userbrittany

[screenshotingmonstercinema]

#mystery of the wax museum #michael curtiz #monica bannister #30s #horrorstills

[johngarfieldtribute]

JULIE DOING “STUFF” WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE (8th post)

Judy Garland and Gloria DeHaven sandwich Julie in lively conversation above.

Julie made three films with director, Jean Negulesco. Above they are chatting on the set of their first together, NOBODY LIVES FOREVER.

Above the director chats with Julie and costar, Joan Crawford between scenes of HUMORESQUE.

Monica Bannister who had an uncredited role in FLOWING GOLD cuts a rug (or rather wood floor) with Julie off camera. I CAN’T LOVE THIS PHOTO MORE!!!

Julie got Low, Low, Low, Low!

Julie lugs that accordion around between scenes of DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS. He is shown with two of the Lane sisters, Lola and Priscilla above.

Julie’s rolled up his sleeves for kitchen duty in publicity still for GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT. Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire are listening intently.

Julie is with Edward G. Robinson in a gathering of some type for their film, THE SEA WOLF. Above them is Everett C. Callow who worked in advertising.

Julie is shown shaking hands with Warner Bros. studio head, Jack L. Warner.

Above Julie shakes his gloved hand with professional heavyweight boxer, James J. Jeffries during the making of THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL.

#john garfield #Lola lane #priscilla lane #daughters courageous #joan crawford #jean negulesco #humoresque #Jack l Warner #Gregory peck #dorothy mcguire #Judy garland #gloria dehaven #edward g robinson #the sea wolf #flowing gold #they made me a criminal #gentleman’s agreement #NOBODY LIVES FOREVER #Joan Crawford #Monica bannister #Julie doing “stuff” with famous people

[fitesorko]

Monica Bannister

#monica bannister

[norashelley]

Little Jane Bannister finds out what Christmas is all about - even though her doll's stocking will hold one salted peanut! Harry Bannister and Ann Harding are telling Janie all about it. They built the fireplace at their new Santa Monica house especially large for the benefit of portly Santa.

#old hollywood #classic film #a #Ann Harding

[oldcarlson]

Bee Stephens, Monica Bannister, Anita Thompson, Bonnie Bannon, Marion Sayers, and Mildred Dixon are the glorious showgirls in "Gold Diggers of 1933"

[writemarcus]

The Broad Stage to Present Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Fidelio’

DEC 19, 2021

By Nicolas Quiroga

The Santa Monica-based Broad Stage is set to present Heartbeat Opera’s rendition of “Fidelio” on On Dec. 31, 2021 and Jan. 1, 2022.

This version of Beethoven’s famed opera features an all-new orchestral arrangement by Daniel Schlosberg as well as new English Dialogue co-written by Marcus Scott and Ethan Heard. The opera will be directed by Ethan Heard.

The cast will star Derrell Acon, Kelly Griffin, Victoria Lawal, Curtis Bannister, and Corey McKern. It will feature a choir of more than 100 incarcerated singers and 70 volunteers from six prison choirs throughout the Midwest including the Oakdale Choir Community Choir, Kuji Men’s Choir, Ubuntu Men’s Chorus, Hope Thru Harmony Women’s Choir, East Hill Singers, and Voices of Hope.

This version of “Fidelio” originated in 2018 and was conceived for the era of “Black Lives Matter.” The New York Times lauded the production, calling it “Urgent, powerful, and poignant.”

#Fidelio #ludwig van beethoven #Beethoven #Marcus Scott #MarcusScott #Write Marcus #WriteMarcus #The Broad Stage #Broad Stage #Heartbeat Opera #Ethan Heard #Daniel Schlosberg #Black Lives Matter #Black Opera #Black Opera Singers

[folkimplosionmusic]

Tim Buckley was born 74 years ago today. This is a pic taken in 1967 on Hart St., Santa Monica, at ‘The Stone Poney House.’ Next to Tim is his girlfriend of the time, Jainie. See if you can guess a couple other well-known faces (some more well-known than others).

I’m the kid on the bannister with my finger up my nose.

I remember the musicians, including Tim Buckley and Mike Nesmith (not pictured), regularly sitting cross-legged on the floor in that house teaching songs to each other or just playing them for anyone that happened to be there. Both had songs on the third Stone Poneys record, which has this pic on the back. Mike wrote ‘Different Drum’ and it became the breakout hit for The Poneys.

I’ve been trying to find out who took this pic. I’ve contacted Henry Diltz to see if it was him but got no response. I’d pay dearly for a nice print.

#tim buckley #tim buckley birthday

[drudge-political-influence-blog]

Closing and Bibliography

The success of the Drudge Report cannot be ignored. Drudge single-handedly managed to swiftly change the history of American politics by being the first news outlet to publish the Lewinsky scandal, and ultimately paved the way for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The unchanged and timeless design of the Drudge Report has remained current for the over two decades and no other news outlet can claim that title. Even though the Drudge Report may have influenced click bait, fake news, and even Trump, Drudge has successfully managed to create a colossal platform where Drudge holds the illuminating power to chronicle information like no other news site can.

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