#the love parade 1928

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

MAURICE CHEVALIER (1888-1972)

NOMINATIONS:

Lead- 1928/29 for The Big Pond and The Love Parade

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RACHEL GRIFFITHS (1968-)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1998 for Hillary and Jackie

#oscars #academy awards #oscar nominees #actors #film #maurice chevalier #rachel griffiths #the big pond 1928 #the love parade 1928 #hillary and jackie #nominees group a #nominees group a polls

[adventuressclubamericas]

Adventuresses We Love – Amy Johnson Adventuress Amy Johnson started taking flying lessons at the London Aeroplane Club in 1928. Typical chauvinistic attitudes of the day meant she had to spend twice as much time in training as her male colleagues, but she did finally earn her pilot’s license in 1929. Later that year, she became the first British woman to qualify as an aircraft ground engineer. She then set her eyes on another goal – Australia. On May 5, 1930, with only 75 hours flying time under her belt, Johnson took off from Croydon in her deHavilland Gipsy Moth she’d named Jason. The flight would not be an easy one. Along the way, she’d battle sandstorms, monsoons, and blistering heat. As she sheltered from a sandstorm, packs of wild dogs got a little too close for comfort. Low on fuel, she made an emergency landing on a military parade ground in Pakistan, scattering the soldiers assembled there in the process. Finally, on May 24, she landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. For this feat, she was awarded the Harmon Trophy, and a CBE by King George V. This was the first of several long-distance record flights for Johnson. In 1932 she flew from London to Cape Town, South Africa, beating the previous record (set by her husband,) by 11 hours. During World War II Johnson flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary, ferrying aircraft around England. On January 5, 1941, Adventuress Amy Johnson disappeared when the plane she was ferrying crashed into the Thames estuary. She was 37 years old; her body was never recovered. Jason is on permanent display at the Science Museum of London. Photo of Jason courtesy of the Science Museum of London, shared under the creative commons license.

#mfmm #miss fisher's murder mysteries #adventuresseswelove #adventuresses #airplane #aviation #aviatrix

[mogwai-movie-house]

A Film A Year

Going through an old hard drive today I found this almost-completed list from 2015 in which I'd set myself the task of choosing a single film for each year of the preceding hundred. It was interesting to see in what ways my tastes had changed and just how many more films I'd discovered and fallen in love with in the meantime.

Anyways, I thought I'd finish it off and update it to the present: I very much tried to keep it to just one film per year, but the competition some years was just too high so they've had to share joint first places:

1915 A Night In The Show 1916 The Vagabond 1917 Easy Street 1918 A Dog's Life 1919 Sunnyside 1920 One Week 1921 The Kid 1922 Dr Mabuse, The Gambler 1923 Safety Last / Why Worry? 1924 Sherlock Jr / The Last Laugh 1925 The Gold Rush 1926 The General 1927 Sunrise / Seventh Heaven 1928 The Last Command / Steamboat Jr. / The Man Who Laughs / The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929 The Love Parade / Un Chien Andalou / Lucky Star 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front 1931 City Lights/ The Smiling Lieutenant 1932 Horse Feathers / Love Me Tonight 1933 Duck Soup / The Invisible Man 1934 It Happened One Night 1935 The 39 Steps 1936 My Man Godfrey 1937 Nothing Sacred 1938 Adventures Of Robin Hood / Pygmalion 1939 The Cat And The Canary / The Wizard of Oz / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1940 His Girl Friday / Pinocchio 1941 Citizen Kane / The Maltese Falcon / Dumbo / Sullivan's Travels 1942 Casablanca 1943 Le Corbeau 1944 Arsenic & Old Lace 1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / And Then There Were None 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 The Third Man / Kind Hearts & Coronets 1950 Sunset Blvd. / La Ronde 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Singin' In The Rain / Le Plaisir 1953 Calamity Jane 1954 Hobson's Choice 1955 The Night Of The Hunter /The Ladykillers 1956 The Searchers 1957 The Seventh Seal 1958 Vertigo 1959 North By Northwest / Ballad of A Soldier 1960 Psycho / The Virgin Spring / Two Women 1961 Breakfast At Tiffanys 1962 Le Doulos 1963 The Great Escape / The Birds 1964 Onibaba 1965 For A Few Dollars More 1966 Blow Up 1967 Le Samourai / Cool Hand Luke 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1970 Le Cercle Rouge 1971 Get Carter / Harold & Maude 1972 The Godfather 1973 Don't Look Now 1974 The Godfather Part II / Chinatown 1975 Jaws / The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1976 Network 1977 Star Wars / Annie Hall 1978 Halloween / Superman 1979 Apocalypse Now / Alien / Life Of Brian / Manhattan 1980 Stardust Memories / Raging Bull 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 Blade Runner / The Thing 1983 The Dead Zone / Zelig 1984 Ghostbusters / The Terminator / Blood Simple 1985 Back To The Future 1986 Hannah & Her Sisters / The Fly 1987 Withnail & I / Wings of Desire 1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1989 Crimes & Misdemeanors / Dead Poets Society 1990 Goodfellas 1991 The Silence of The Lambs / Terminator 2 1992 Reservoir Dogs / The Player 1993 Schindler's List / Groundhog Day 1994 Pulp Fiction 1995 Se7en / Casino / The Usual Suspects 1996 Fargo 1997 LA Confidential / Grosse Point Blank / Boogie Nights 1998 The Truman Show / Happiness / Buffalo '66 1999 American Beauty / Magnolia / Being John Malkovich / Fight Club 2000 Memento 2001 Mulholland Drive / The Royal Tennenbaums / The Piano Teacher 2002 Adaptation / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 Lost In Translation 2004 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Life Aquatic 2005 Me & You & Everyone We Know 2006 The Prestige / Perfume 2007 No Country For Old Men / There Will Be Blood 2008 The Dark Knight / Let The Right One In / Tropic Thunder 2009 Cold Souls / Up / Zombieland 2010 I Saw The Devil / The Ghost Writer 2011 The Hidden Face 2012 The Avengers 2013 Her 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Winter Soldier 2015 The Survivalist / The Lobster 2016 Like Crazy 2017 Coco 2018 Deadpool 2 2019 The Irishman 2020 Kajillionaire 2021 The French Dispatch 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin

#the real oscars #a century of film

[the-blue-fairie]

Good Vibes Challenge: Speedy (1928)

Speedy (1928) - Harold Lloyd's last silent feature, recommended by @thealmightyemprex and quite delightful, overall.

Okay, so - it's probably been over a decade since I've seen any Harold Lloyd. My uncle got a collection once that included Safety Last and a few other films, so I remember the iconic clocktower film. Unfortunately, the only other film I remember from that collection turned out to be quite racist, so I remember it negatively indeed. I shan't repeat its title - because even that turned out to be a racist play on words - but it had "Haunted" in the title, so if you look it up... ugh, it's that one.

BUT this film isn't that one, and it's much more in the vein of Safety Last, so that's a good thing. It's just a nearly nonstop parade of sight gags and slapstick, one after the other after, down to the film's last second.

The plot centers on Lloyd as Harold "Speedy" Swift as he tries (unsuccessfully) to hold down a job and help out his girlfriend and her dad, who runs the last horse-drawn streetcar in the city of New York. It's broken up into different sequences - Speedy as a soda jerk, Speedy and Jane at Coney Island, Speedy's hijinks as a cabdriver (with a very memorable Babe Ruth cameo), a brawl of Civil War veterans and thugs trying to bring down the streetcar, etc.

Okay, so - first things first. That dog is iconic. Good doggo.

I think my favorite segment was the Coney Island one. It's got Speedy and Jane being adorable, so that's sweet. It's got the "wet paint" gag, which is quite amusing. It's got the dog and the hot dog, which is amazing glorious wonderful. (Also HOT DOG BALLOON. Glorious.) It's got the lobster gag which - oh good grief, but it was a riot especially when they were on the spinning ride.

AND WHEN THAT GUY TRIES TO HIT SPEEDY BUT WINS HIM A DOLL INSTEAD? Loved that.

And when the dog returned later in the sequence and smashed all those things? We love to see it. That dog was, again, iconic.

I will say that the Coney Island and "Speedy tries to be a cab driver" sequences felt stronger than some of the later sequences, like the "looks like rain" brawl, but the last part of the film DID have the phony mannequin cop, so - that's awesome.

Also, even though the Babe Ruth was quite funny, which I didn't expect.

Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable romp.

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland

#good vibes challenge

[homomenhommes]

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 …

1889 – Maurice Chevalier, born in Paris (d.1972), was a French actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer. He is noted as a Sprechgesang (spoken-song) performer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls". His trademark was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo.

Chevalier was born in Paris. He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in four menial jobs as a teenager. In 1909, he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Fréhel. Although their relationship was brief, she secured him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in l'Alcazar in Marseille, for which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics. In 1917, he discovered jazz and ragtime and went to London, where he found new success at the Palace Theatre.

After this, he toured the United States, where he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. He also developed an interest in acting, and had success in the operetta Dédé. When talkies arrived, he went to Hollywood in 1928, where he played his first American role in Innocents of Paris. In 1930, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in The Love Parade (1929) and The Big Pond (1930), which secured his first big American hit, Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight.

In 1957, he appeared in Love in the Afternoon, which was his first Hollywood film in more than 20 years. In the early 1960s, he made eight films, including Can-Can in 1960 and Fanny the following year. In 1970 he made his final contribution to the film industry where he sang the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats. He died in Paris, on January 1, 1972, aged 83.

He may have Chevalier "thanked Heaven for little girls" and have had several public affairs with women, but it is believed he had a long-time relationship with his "valet" Felix Paquet, to whom he went home every night. He is also thought to have had a homosexual relationship with a soldier in WWI. There are also claims he had the hots for his fellow French actor, Charles Boyer.

Actress Kay Francis claimed that"Chevalier is lousy in bed, and always attacks homosexuals so as to throw suspicion from himself."

1944 – David Hurles, born in Cincinnati, is a gay pornographer, whose one-man company, run from a private mailbox, was called Old Reliable Tape and Picture Company. His work, produced primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, falls into three categories: photographs, audio tapes, and videotapes. Hurles' models were typically ex-cons, hustlers, drifters, and lowlifes.

At age 20, inspired by John Rechy's just-published novel City of Night, David left Cincinnati, and moved to Berkeley. In the 1960s, he appeared in movies and magazines, with Guild Press, Washington D.C., for whom he was also a photographer. In 1975, already filming in Super-8 format used by his mentor and longtime friend Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, he met and became a great friend of Jack Fritscher, editor of Drummer magazine, who described David as "my longtime pal and housemate". The character Solly Blue in Fritscher's novel Some Dance to Remember has much in common with Hurles.

Hurles has written of San Francisco at the time: "Perhaps you had to be there...the 70's, San Francisco, the blossoming and peak of the gay sexual culture. It was a rare time; everything, it seemed, was perfect. So perfect, in fact, that those of us there could not have possibly imagined it might ever be otherwise!" Jim Stewart describes his encounter with Hurles, and the neighborhood they both lived in, in the first chapter of his Folsom Street Blues. His first published pictures appeared in Drummer; no other magazine would touch them. He also shot many covers and centerfolds for Fritscher's zine Man2Man Quarterly (1980-1982), whose mailing address was Hurles' San Francisco apartment. Subsequently Hurles' photos have appeared in dozens of gay magazines.

His models were recruited among ex-convicts and addicts. David liked psychos. Nude ones. Money-hungry drug addicts with big dicks. Rage-filled robbers without rubbers. And of course, convicts. Many of them were dangerous — he wanted them to be, that was a key part of their attractiveness for him — but part of David's skill, which no one since has duplicated, was being able to manage them so that they would perform as instructed and not attack him.

Hurles chose to downplay technical fireworks with his camera in order to focus on the emotional pyrotechnics of his models. His models, picked up on the street or sent to him by referral, would come to his apartment, get naked, and masturbate. They were distinguished by "attitude" - straight, in your face, angry, contemptuous of fags, dangerous, smoking cigars, giving the finger, flexing their biceps. "Rough trade is too tame a word", was the description of John Calendo. Getting robbed by his models, or having his equipment stolen, he viewed as part of the cost of doing business.

A large number of Hurles' pictures are posted on http://vintageoldreliable.blogspot.com, and also in the Yahoo! Group Old Reliable Trailer Park. There are no permission statements posted with any of these photos, and presumably David receives no compensation from this use of his pictures.

A wrestling accident in 1990 led to the gradual loss of eyesight in one eye, a disaster for a photographer. Shortly thereafter, the arrival of pornography on the Internet destroyed most of the market for Hurles' material, at the same time that AIDS (and drugs) killed many models and potential models. "I know where a great many of them [my models] are. Six feet under". His company folded, and he lived on welfare and food stamps. In 2008 he had a massive stroke, and currently "is the most popular resident of a state-funded nursing home in East Hollywood". He is conscious and can communicate. Pictures of him from 2009 through 2011 can be found on his Facebook page.

1964 – "Chip" Kidd is an American graphic designer, best known for his book covers. Based in New York city, Kidd has become one of the most famous book cover designers to date.

Born in Shillington, Berks Country, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up being fascinated and heavily inspired by American popular culture. Comic books were his gateway into graphic design, with Batman and Superman populating some of his earliest childhood memories. Kidd attended Pennsylvania State University, where he graduated in 1986 with a degree in graphic design.

Kidd is currently the associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He first joined the Knopf design team in 1986, when he was hired as a junior assistant. Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 covers a year, Kidd has freelanced for Amazon, Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Grove Press, HarperCollins, Penguin/Putnam, Scribner and Columbia University Press, in addition to his work for Knopf.

His most notable book cover design was for Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel, which was so successful that it carried over into marketing for the film adaptation.

Kidd is a huge fan of comic book media, particularly Batman, and has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, and Jack Cole and Plastic Man. He also designed Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross and wrote an exclusive Batman/Superman story illustrated by Ross for the book.

Kidd lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He was married to the late poet and Yale Review editor J. D. McClatchy; the couple married in November 2013.He continues to edit comics at Pantheon and frequently writes about graphic design and pop culture for publications including McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly.

1967 – Two men in California Governor Ronald Reagan's cabinet are forced out of their jobs when it is discovered that they are having an affair. When confronted with the evidence, Reagan is supposed to have said, "My god, has government failed?"

[brookston]

Holidays 8.6

Holidays

A-Bomb Day

Andorra la Vella Festival (Andorra)

Accession Day (United Arab Emirates)

Balloons to Heaven Day

Battle of Junin Day (Peru)

Beach Volleyball Day

Birthday of the Internet

Celebración del Divino Salvador del Mundo (El Salvador)

Constitution Day (Anguilla)

Corporate Baby Name Day

Cy Young Day

Farmworker Appreciation Day

Feast of Everything Green Except Money

Feast of Transfiguration

Fresh Breath Day

Gentian Day (French Republic)

Godsmack Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Hejira Holiday (Kuwait)

H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)

Hiroshima Day

International Descent of Sella

International MHOFU Day (Zimbabwe)

International Naval Wargames Day

International Physicians for Peace Day

International Sailor Moon Day

KFS Awareness Day

National Ariana Grande Day

National Beach Volleyball Day

National Carolyn Day

National Fresh Breath Day

National Gossip Day

National Henry Day

National Pamper Yourself Today

National Tree Day

National Youth and Children’s Day (Kiribati)

No Nukes Day

Nuclear Prayer Day

Peace Memorial Ceremony (Japan)

Psychic Day

Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)

Tanabata Festival begins (Sendai, Japan)

Tax the Robots Day

Voting Rights Act Anniversary Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Ham Day (Japan)

National Root Beer Float Day

1st Sunday in August

American Family Day [1st Sunday]

Blessing of the Sea [1st Sunday]

Day of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ukraine) [1st Sunday]

Dé Domhnaigh Crum-Dubh (a.k.a. Crom Dubh Sunday; Celtic/Ireland) [1st Sunday]

International Forgiveness Day [1st Sunday]

International Friendship Day (India) [1st Sunday]

National Doll Day [1st Sunday]

National Friendship Day [1st Sunday]

National Kids Day [1st Sunday]

National Peacekeepers' Day (Canada) [Sunday closest to 9th]

Psychic Day [1st Sunday]

Selaks Wines’ National Roast Day (New Zealand) [1st Sunday]

Sisters' Day [1st Sunday]

World Naked Kitchen Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Bolivia (from Spain, 1825)

Jamaica (from UK, 1962)

Lomellina (a.k.a. Principality of Lomellina; Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Agapitus (Christian; Saint)

Andy Warhol (Artology)

Anna Maria Rubatto (Christian; Blessed)

Blecka (Muppetism)

Dance of the Insensitive Bastards Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Donatus, Bishop of Arezzo (Christian; Martyr)

Feast of the Transfiguration (Old Catholic Church)

Festival of Thoth (Moon God; Ancient Egypt)

Hormisdas (Christian; Saint)

Joachim (Jesus’ Maternal Grandfather; Christian; Saint)

John Robertson Reid (Artology)

Justus and Pastor (Christian; Martyrs)

Petrarca (Positivist; Saint)

Squirrel Spotting Day (Pastafarian)

Walburga (Christian; Virgin) [Bruges]

Wheat Day (Pagan)

Xystus (a.k.a. Sixtus II), Pope (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [29 of 53]

Historically Bad Day (1st electric chair execution, atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, world’s oldest tree accidentally cut down & 4 other tragedies) [5 of 11]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [43 of 71]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Bella Donna, by Stevie Nicks (Album; 1981)

Bottle Shock (Film; 2008)

Crimes of Passion, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1980)

Don Juan (Film; 1926)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (Film; 1972)

Freaky Friday (Film; 2003)

The Fugitive (Film; 1993)

A Game of Thrones (Novel; 1996)

The Good Earth (Film; 1937)

Hamilton (Broadway Musical; 2015)

Help!, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

High Up (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

I Love a Parade (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

The Iron Giant (Animated Film; 1999)

The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse (Novel; 1932)

Jumping’ Jupiter (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Mona the Virgin Nymph (Adult Film; 1970)

My Boyfriend’s Back (Film; 1993)

Mystery Men (Film; 1999)

The Night of Iguana (Film; 1964)

The Other Guys (Film; 2010)

Out of the Inkwell (Animated TV Series; 1962)

Pineapple Express (Film; 2008)

Porky & Daffy (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Sixth Sense (Film; 1999)

The Suicide Squad (Film; 2021)

Tuesday Night Music Club, by Sheryl Crow (Album; 1993)

Yo! MTV Raps (Music TV Series; 1988)

You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’, by Judas Priest (Song; 1982)

Today’s Name Days

Christi Verklärung (Austria)

Just, Oktavijan, Oktavije (Croatia)

Oldřiška (Czech Republic)

Laina, Laine, Lainela, Laini, Laive, Laivi (Estonia)

Keimo, Toimi (Finland)

Christi Verklärung, Gilbert (Germany)

Sotiria, Sotiris (Greece)

Berta, Bettina (Hungary)

Aisma, Askolds (Latvia)

Bylotas, Daiva, Karolina (Lithuania)

Gunnlaug, Gunnleiv (Norway)

Felicysym, Jakub, January, Sława, Stefan, Sykstus, Wincenty (Poland)

Josefína (Slovakia)

Claudia, Justo, Pastor, Salvador (Spain)

Alfons, Inez (Sweden)

Adriel, Araceli, Falco, Falcon, Itzel, Lucia, Lucille, Lucine, Lucy, Luz (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 218 of 2024; 147 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 31 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 20 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 19 Av 5783

Islamic: 19 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 8 Hasa; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 23 July 2023

Moon: 69%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Dante (8th Month) [Petrarca]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 47 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 16 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.6

Holidays

A-Bomb Day

Andorra la Vella Festival (Andorra)

Accession Day (United Arab Emirates)

Balloons to Heaven Day

Battle of Junin Day (Peru)

Beach Volleyball Day

Birthday of the Internet

Celebración del Divino Salvador del Mundo (El Salvador)

Constitution Day (Anguilla)

Corporate Baby Name Day

Cy Young Day

Farmworker Appreciation Day

Feast of Everything Green Except Money

Feast of Transfiguration

Fresh Breath Day

Gentian Day (French Republic)

Godsmack Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Hejira Holiday (Kuwait)

H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)

Hiroshima Day

International Descent of Sella

International MHOFU Day (Zimbabwe)

International Naval Wargames Day

International Physicians for Peace Day

International Sailor Moon Day

KFS Awareness Day

National Ariana Grande Day

National Beach Volleyball Day

National Carolyn Day

National Fresh Breath Day

National Gossip Day

National Henry Day

National Pamper Yourself Today

National Tree Day

National Youth and Children’s Day (Kiribati)

No Nukes Day

Nuclear Prayer Day

Peace Memorial Ceremony (Japan)

Psychic Day

Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)

Tanabata Festival begins (Sendai, Japan)

Tax the Robots Day

Voting Rights Act Anniversary Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Ham Day (Japan)

National Root Beer Float Day

1st Sunday in August

American Family Day [1st Sunday]

Blessing of the Sea [1st Sunday]

Day of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ukraine) [1st Sunday]

Dé Domhnaigh Crum-Dubh (a.k.a. Crom Dubh Sunday; Celtic/Ireland) [1st Sunday]

International Forgiveness Day [1st Sunday]

International Friendship Day (India) [1st Sunday]

National Doll Day [1st Sunday]

National Friendship Day [1st Sunday]

National Kids Day [1st Sunday]

National Peacekeepers' Day (Canada) [Sunday closest to 9th]

Psychic Day [1st Sunday]

Selaks Wines’ National Roast Day (New Zealand) [1st Sunday]

Sisters' Day [1st Sunday]

World Naked Kitchen Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Bolivia (from Spain, 1825)

Jamaica (from UK, 1962)

Lomellina (a.k.a. Principality of Lomellina; Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Agapitus (Christian; Saint)

Andy Warhol (Artology)

Anna Maria Rubatto (Christian; Blessed)

Blecka (Muppetism)

Dance of the Insensitive Bastards Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Donatus, Bishop of Arezzo (Christian; Martyr)

Feast of the Transfiguration (Old Catholic Church)

Festival of Thoth (Moon God; Ancient Egypt)

Hormisdas (Christian; Saint)

Joachim (Jesus’ Maternal Grandfather; Christian; Saint)

John Robertson Reid (Artology)

Justus and Pastor (Christian; Martyrs)

Petrarca (Positivist; Saint)

Squirrel Spotting Day (Pastafarian)

Walburga (Christian; Virgin) [Bruges]

Wheat Day (Pagan)

Xystus (a.k.a. Sixtus II), Pope (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [29 of 53]

Historically Bad Day (1st electric chair execution, atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, world’s oldest tree accidentally cut down & 4 other tragedies) [5 of 11]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [43 of 71]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Bella Donna, by Stevie Nicks (Album; 1981)

Bottle Shock (Film; 2008)

Crimes of Passion, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1980)

Don Juan (Film; 1926)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (Film; 1972)

Freaky Friday (Film; 2003)

The Fugitive (Film; 1993)

A Game of Thrones (Novel; 1996)

The Good Earth (Film; 1937)

Hamilton (Broadway Musical; 2015)

Help!, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

High Up (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

I Love a Parade (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

The Iron Giant (Animated Film; 1999)

The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse (Novel; 1932)

Jumping’ Jupiter (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Mona the Virgin Nymph (Adult Film; 1970)

My Boyfriend’s Back (Film; 1993)

Mystery Men (Film; 1999)

The Night of Iguana (Film; 1964)

The Other Guys (Film; 2010)

Out of the Inkwell (Animated TV Series; 1962)

Pineapple Express (Film; 2008)

Porky & Daffy (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Sixth Sense (Film; 1999)

The Suicide Squad (Film; 2021)

Tuesday Night Music Club, by Sheryl Crow (Album; 1993)

Yo! MTV Raps (Music TV Series; 1988)

You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’, by Judas Priest (Song; 1982)

Today’s Name Days

Christi Verklärung (Austria)

Just, Oktavijan, Oktavije (Croatia)

Oldřiška (Czech Republic)

Laina, Laine, Lainela, Laini, Laive, Laivi (Estonia)

Keimo, Toimi (Finland)

Christi Verklärung, Gilbert (Germany)

Sotiria, Sotiris (Greece)

Berta, Bettina (Hungary)

Aisma, Askolds (Latvia)

Bylotas, Daiva, Karolina (Lithuania)

Gunnlaug, Gunnleiv (Norway)

Felicysym, Jakub, January, Sława, Stefan, Sykstus, Wincenty (Poland)

Josefína (Slovakia)

Claudia, Justo, Pastor, Salvador (Spain)

Alfons, Inez (Sweden)

Adriel, Araceli, Falco, Falcon, Itzel, Lucia, Lucille, Lucine, Lucy, Luz (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 218 of 2024; 147 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 31 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 20 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 19 Av 5783

Islamic: 19 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 8 Hasa; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 23 July 2023

Moon: 69%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Dante (8th Month) [Petrarca]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 47 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 16 of 31)

#Holidays

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Cleaning out my movie lists

SciFi List 👽

Barbie Movie List 💖

Barbie List Round 2 📝

Phone Gallery 📷

Off the top of my head ⭐

1920s deep dive 🎞

From an old Tumblr post ⏪

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The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920) 🎞

The Kid (1921)🎞

Häxan (1922)🎞

Hard Luck (1922)🎞

Norrtullsligan (1923)🎞

Aelita (1924)🎞

Sherlock Jr (1924)🎞

The Battleship Potemkin (1925)🎞

Gold Rush (1925)🎞

Body and Soul (1925)🎞

The Big Parade (1925)🎞

Strike (1925)🎞

Faust (1926)🎞

A Page of Madness (1926)🎞

Menilmontant (1926)🎞

Metropolis (1927)🎞

Sunrise (1927)🎞

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)🎞

Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)🎞

The Docks of New York (1928)🎞

The Man Who Laughs (1928)🎞

Jujiro (1928)🎞

Zvenigora (1928) 🎞

The Crowd (1928)🎞

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)🎞

Blackmail (1929)🎞

Finis Terræ (1929)🎞

Un Chien Andalou (1929)🎞

Twentieth Century (1934) 📝

Modern Times (1936) 👍

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) 📝

His Girl Friday (1940) 📝

Philadelphia Story (1940) 📝

Citizen Kane (1941) ⏪

Matter of Life and Death (1946) 📝

The Red Shoes (1948) 📝

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)👽

Tales of Hoffmann (1951) 📷

An American in Paris (1951) 📝

Earrings of Madame De... (1953) 📝

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 👽

Forbidden Planet (1956) is 👽

1984 (1956) 👽

Mon Oncle (1958) 📝

The Children's Hour (1961) 📷

The Ladies Man (1961) 📝

The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses (1963) 📷

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 💖

Dr. Strangelove (1964)👽

Young Girls of Rouchefort (1967) 📝

Playtime (1967) 📝

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 📝

Model Shop (1969) 📝

Solaris (1972) 👽

The Godfather (1972) 📝

The Wicker Man (1973) 📷

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Saturday Night Fever (1977) 📝

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 👽

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) 👽

Heaven Can Wait (1978) 📝

All That Jazz (1979) 📝

Wrath of Khan (1982) 👽

And the Ship Sails On (1983) 📝

Splash (1984) 📝

Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) 📝

Wings of Desire (1987) 📝

Akira (1988) 👽

Woman on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 📝

Troop Beverly Hills (1989) ⭐

Edward Scissorhands (1990)💖

Party Girl (1995)📝

Ghost in the Shell (1995) 👽

Watermelon Woman (1996) ⏪

Goodwill Hunting (1997) ⏪

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) ⭐

Big Fish (2003) 💖

Saving Face (2004) ⏪

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 📷

Waitress (2007)📝

Pariah (2011) ⏪

Inception (2010) 👽

Ex Machina (2014) 👍

Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 📷

Tangerine (2015) ⏪

Brooklyn (2015) 📷

Jackie (2016)💖

The Love Witch (2016) 💖

Lady Macbeth (2016)⭐

Handmaiden (2016) ⏪

Moonlight (2016) ⏪

Roma (2018) ⏪

Mama Mia 2 (2018) ⭐

Little Women (2019)💖

Greener Grass (2019) 💖

Knives Out (2019) ⭐

Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar (2021)💖

White Noise (2022)💖

Do Revenge (2022) 💖

Knives Out 2 (2022) ⭐

X (2022) ⭐

The Wonder (2022) ⭐

Nope (2022) ⭐

[byneddiedingo]

Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949) Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, Kent Smith, Henry Hull, Ray Collins. Screenplay: Ayn Rand, based on her novel. Cinematography: Robert Burks. Art direction: Edward Carrere. Music: Max Steiner. Ayn Rand, proponent of a "philosophy" beloved of 20-year-old frat-boy business majors, is still very much with us, as the would-be Randian Übermensch who recently inhabited the White House too well demonstrates. So it's probably worth brushing up on the ideas that seem to captivate perpetual adolescents and sociopaths. Fortunately, you don't have to slog through her doorstop novels to get the gist: All you have to do is watch The Fountainhead, for which she wrote the screenplay. Its sociopath hero, Howard Roark, would be intolerable if he weren't played by Gary Cooper, taking on a role that is a curious inversion of the "common man" he played for Frank Capra in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) or the pawn of the Establishment in Meet John Doe (1941). Cooper's occasional eye twinkles or wry smiles help keep us from believing that he's really the kind of arrogant shit who says things like "I don't give or ask for help" or "The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing." As Dominique Francon, Patricia Neal does a lot of seething and surging about; it's not a good performance by a long shot, but it's watchable. But Raymond Massey manages to give an almost good performance, even when forced to deliver lines like: "What I want to find in our marriage will remain my own concern. I exact no promises and impose no obligations. Incidentally, since it is of no importance to you, I love you." Was ever woman in this humor wooed? The real saving grace of The Fountainhead, however, is its director, King Vidor, whose career began and flourished in the silent era, with classics like The Big Parade (1925) and The Crowd (1928), which honed his visual sense before he had to work with dialogue. If The Fountainhead had been a silent movie, not cluttered with Rand's dialogue and sermonizing, it might have been a classic itself, especially since it had a first-rate cinematographer in Robert Burks and a clever set designer in Edward Carrere. Max Steiner's overbearing score also helps distract us from the clanking and clattering of Rand's screenplay. The Fountainhead, in short, is a hoot, but a perversely fascinating one.

#The Fountainhead #King Vidor #Gary Cooper'

[mogwai-movie-house]

The 100 Best Films of the 1920s (and before)

The shiniest jewels of the silent age, ranked and rated, high to low: 1. The Gold Rush (1925) {1942 Version} ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. The Kid (1921) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. The Last Command (1928) ★★★★★★★★★★ 4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) ★★★★★★★★★★ 5. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) ★★★★★★★★★½ 6. 7th Heaven (1927) ★★★★★★★★★½ 7. The General (1926) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 8. Safety Last! (1923) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 10. The Love Parade (1929) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 11. The Man Who Laughs (1928) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 12. Why Worry? (1923) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 13. The Last Laugh (1924) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 14. Sherlock Jr. (1924) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 15. Wings (1927) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 16. The Kid Brother (1927) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 17. Varieté (1925) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 18. Un Chien Andalou (1929) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 19. Lucky Star (1929) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 20. The Freshman (1925) ★★★★★★★★☆�� 21. The Circus (1928) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 22. The Big Parade (1925) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 23. Pay Day (1922) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 24. Seven Chances (1925) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 25. One Week (1920) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 26. Easy Street (1917) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 27. Girl Shy (1924) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 28. The Pilgrim (1923) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 29. A Dog's Life (1918) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 30. The Penalty (1920) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 31. The Cameraman (1928) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 32. The Navigator (1924) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 33. It (1927) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 34. Shoulder Arms (1918) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 35. College (1927) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 36. Our Hospitality (1923) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 37. Speedy (1928) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 38. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 39. The Immigrant (1917) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 40. For Heaven's Sake (1926) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 41. Cops ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 42. Spies (Spione) (1928) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 43. A Night In The Show Spies (1915) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 44. Flesh and the Devil (1926) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 45. The Wind (1928) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 46. One A.M. (1916) ★★★★★★★½☆☆   47. Street Angel (1928) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 48. Napoleon (1927) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 49. The Thief of Bagdad (1924) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 50. Liberty (1929) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 51. Never Weaken (1921) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 52. The Student Prince (1927) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 53. Faust (1926) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 54. The Adventurer (1917) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 55. The Cocoanuts (1929) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 56. The Play House (1921) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 57. The Black Pirate (1926) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 58. Spite Marriage (1929) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 59. The Matinee Idol (1928) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 60. Dr. Jack (1922) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 61. The Vagabond (1916) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 62. Underworld (1927) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 63. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 64. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 65. The Bank (1915) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 66. Sunnyside (1919) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 67. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 68. Metropolis (1927) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69. Battleship Potemkin (1925) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 70. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 71. The Eagle (1925) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 72. The Count (1916) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73. Beggars of Life (1928) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 74. The Rink (1916) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 75. Eternal Love (1929) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 76. Hot Water (1924) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 77. Asphalt (1929) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 78. The Music Blasters (1928) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 79. My Wife's Relations (1922) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 80. Broken Blossoms (1919) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 81. Pandora's Box (1929) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 82. Police (1916) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 83. The Son of the Sheik (1926) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 84. Human Sparrows (1926) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 85. The Crowd (1928) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 86. A Trip to the Moon (1902) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 87. Nosferatu (1922) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 88. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 89. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 90. Battling Butler (1926) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 91. The Boat (1921) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 92. The Unknown (1927) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 93. The Cat and the Canary (1927) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 94. The Sheik (1921) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 95. The Marriage Circle (1924) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 96. Intolerance (1916) ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 97. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 98. The Jazz Singer (1927) ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 99. Greed (1924) ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 100. The Birth of a Nation (1915) ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

#classic movies #film recommendations #1920s #silent film

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The most wonderful valuable gems claimed by Indian regal families

A decent couple of years prior, the Indian subcontinent was known to be the money box of the world. The mineral-rich terrains that yielded the best of stones pulled in many achieved architects and craftspeople. Indian imperial families have been illustriously parading their monstrous abundance through their stunning strongholds, castles and gems. From Kashmiri Sapphires to Golconda jewels, the Indian royals have seen and claimed everything. Gems have for some time been a necessary piece of India's customary and stylish personality, all the more thus, among the leaders of the land. Here's taking a gander at a portion of the unbelievably flawless gems claimed by the imperial groups of India. To know more click here best jewellery in Hyderabad.

Patiala ruby choker - Maharani of Patiala

Made via Cartier Paris in the year 1931, this Patiala ruby choker was a great choker jewelry made in platinum. Rubies, pearls and precious stones were utilized to make this incredible piece of gem. Simply the upper piece of the jewelry comprised of six layers of rubies with precious stones as well as pearls on the sides. The middle piece of the neckband contains rubies with pearls while the lowermost piece of the accessory was the heaviest of all with pearls and precious stones. To know more click here best jewellery in Tamil Nadu.

Precious stone crown - Maharaja of Kapurthala

Wearing a lovely precious stone crown and a 12-string Basra pearl jewelry alongside a bejeweled precious stone belt, the Maharaja of Kapurthala generally had a liking for terrific gems. The Maharaja is seen wearing a customary sherwani with gold brocade weaving with his regular band and the Star of India clasp, an honor gave to choose Indian rulers by the British Crown. By simply investigating this picture, you can perceive how the Maharaja had a reasonable preference for his regal gems and a sharp eye for style, plan as well as show. To know more click here best jewellery in Andhra Pradesh.

Star of the South precious stone accessory - Maharani Sita Devi of Baroda

A 3-layered precious stone neckband comprising of a noteworthy 128 carat Star of the South jewel was worn by Maharani Sita Devi of Baroda. It likewise had a 78.5 carat English Dresden precious stone in it. The Mulhar Rao, the Gaekwar of Baroda purchased the Star of South for £80,000, or around 20 million INR. Later on, this piece of adornment was purchased by Rustomjee Jamsetjee of Mumbai and offered to Cartier in 2002. To know more click here royal Indian jewellery in Hyderabad.

Kundan haar - Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh of Banares

Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh of Benares used to take his legal gems out for intermittent circulating. In this photo, the Maharaja is seen wearing a stunning Kundan jewel haar made for certain other valuable gemstones. He is seen wearing the average sarpech with an appended feather tuft. He likewise wears numerous other complex articles of gems that incorporate chime and polki precious stone shoulder braces, bazubandhs, a bejeweled sword, a bejeweled belt, wristbands as well as rings. These are seen on a stately court outfit alongside the Star of India ornament.

Patiala accessory - Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala

This exceptional regal neckband comprised of a sum of 2,930 jewels. It had the world's seventh biggest precious stone, a 234-carat yellow 'De Beers' as its focal point. This shocking piece was additionally made via Cartier Paris in the year 1928 for Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. The astounding piece of adornment contained precious stones, topazes, manufactured rubies, citrine, platinum, zirconia, smoky quartz and Burmese rubies. To know more click here royal Indian jewellery in Tamil Nadu.

Jewel dastar - Maharaja Shrimant Sir Ranjit Singhji Sahib Bahadur of Ratlam

Taking a gander at the wedding photo of the grandson of Sayajirao III Gaekwad of Baroda, you can perceive he is wearing a remarkable turban shrouded in a cross section of multifaceted sarpattis made of jewels, pearls and a few other valuable gemstones. Maharaja Shrimant Sir Ranjit Singhji Sahib Bahadur of Ratlam is likewise seen wearing a Kundan haar made of jewels, pearls and gemstones, a pearl choker as well as hoops. Assuming you notice, you'll see even the angarkha that the Maharaja is wearing is shrouded in an enriching example of gold strings and sequins. To know more click here royal Indian jewellery in Andhra Pradesh.

Precious stone serpech - Maharaja Duleep Sing of Lahore

Maharaja Duleep Singh of Lahore, the last Maharaja of the Sikh domain is seen wearing a superb precious stone serpech. Fundamentally an embellishment is made for the turban. The three crests are completely made of jewels with a stunning emerald set solidly in the middle. By simply taking a gander at this representation of the Maharaja, you can perceive that he had perfect desire for gems going from hoops to layered neckpieces and bazubandhs. To know more click here bridal jewellery online shopping.

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[omgthatdress]

I'm calling it now, Beyoncé is either going to wear Ann Lowe to the Met Gala, or wear something inspired by Ann Lowe.

Lowe was born in Clayton, Alabama, in 1898. Her great-grandmother worked as a seamstress while enslaved, and the skill was passed down through each generation to Ann. This actually isn't terribly unique. Many enslaved women were skilled seamstresses who made the elaborate gowns worn by southern belles as they danced cotillion. After emancipation, many were able to find work as dressmakers and passed the skill on to their daughters. Lowe's mother and grandmother made dresses for the high society ladies of Montgomery, and Ann took over the business when she was 16.

In 1919, she moved to my hometown of Tampa, Florida, where she found her niche making dresses for Tampa's annual pirate-themed parade and society event, Gasparilla.

In Tampa, she built up her reputation and a devoted clientele. In 1928, she moved to New York, where she opened her own salon.

In 1946, Olivia de Havilland won an Oscar for To Have and Have Not while wearing a Lowe dress.

In 1953, socialite Jacqueline Bouvier wore Ann Lowe when she married up-and-coming senator John F. Kennedy.

Despite her thriving business, Lowe struggled to make and hold on to money. Even though she made dresses on commission for all of New York's high-end department stores, she never sold out to mass manufacturing. "I'm an awful snob," she later said, "I love my clothes and I'm particular about who wears them. I am not interested in sewing for cafe society or social climbers. I do not cater to Mary and Sue. I sew for the families of the Social Register." Because of this, Lowe's work remains incredibly rare today.

When The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture opened, it put several of Lowe's gowns on display, which has led to a renewal of interest in Lowe's life and work.

#Ann Lowe #In America

[dweemeister]

The complete list of films featured in 2021′s “31 Days of Oscar” marathon

What follows is the exhaustive list of all 403 short- and feature-length films featured on this blog over the last thirty-one days for the 31 Days of Oscar marathon. This number is up from last year’s count of 327 and is the second-highest number of films I have ever featured in this marathon (behind the 410 films from 2016). Despite the number, this remains only a fraction of the nearly 5,000 films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. This year’s marathon was harder to plan than usual due to the fact it was presented in alphabetical order - with the exception of any write-ups I did.

BREAKDOWN BY DECADE 1927-1929: 7 1930s: 44 1940s: 63 1950s: 63 1960s: 46 1970s: 25 1980s: 29 1990s: 28 2000s: 25 2010s: 43 2020s: 30

Year with most representation (2020 excluded): 1940 (ten films) Median year: 1964

And now, the list. Best Picture winners and the one (and only) winner for Unique and Artistic Production are in bold. Asterisked (*) films are films I haven’t seen in their entirety as of the publishing of this post.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Adam’s Rib (1949)*

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

After the Thin Man (1936)*

Airport (1970)*

Aladdin (1992)

Albert Nobbs (2011)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Almost Famous (2000)

An American in Paris (1951)

Anastasia (1956)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Annie (1982)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Arrival (2016)

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, France)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Babe (1995)

Baby Doll (1956)*

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Soviet Union)*

The Band Wagon (1953)

Bao (2018 short)

Ben-Hur (1959)

Berkeley Square (1933)

The Best Man (1964)

Better Days (2019, Hong Kong)*

The Big Chill (1983)*

The Birds (1963)

Birds Anonymous (1957 short)

Black Orpheus (1959, Brazil)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)*

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)*

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Brotherhood (2018 short, Tunisia/Canada/Qatar/Sweden)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Carol (2015)*

Casablanca (1942)

Casino (1995)*

Charade (1963)

The Circus (1928)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City of God (2002, Brazil)*

Claudine (1974)*

Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia)

Coraline (2009)*

Da 5 Bloods (2020)*

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Death in Venice (1971)*

Destination Moon (1950)*

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Down Argentine Way (1940)

Dunkirk (2017)

Easter Parade (1948)

The Edge of Democracy (2019, Brazil)*

Educated Fish (1937 short)*

El Cid (1961)*

Elmer Gantry (1960)

The End of the Affair (1999)*

Ernest & Celestine (2012, France/Belgium)

Face to Face (1976, Sweden)*

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Fantasia (1940)

A Fantastic Woman (2017, Chile)*

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)*

A Farewell to Arms (1932)*

A Few Good Men (1992)*

Five Easy Pieces (1970)*

The Five Pennies (1959)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Flowers and Trees (1932 short)

Flying Down to Rio (1933)*

For All Mankind (1989)

For Sama (2019)*

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forrest Gump (1994)

42nd Street (1933)

Four Days in November (1964)*

The Four Feathers (1939)

The 400 Blows (1959, France)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)*

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Funny Face (1957)

Funny Girl (1968)

Fury (1936)*

Gandhi (1982)

The Garden of Allah (1936)

Garden Party (2017 short, France)

Gaslight (1944)

Giant (1956)

Gigi (1958)

Gladiator (2000)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Gorillas in the Mist (1988)*

Gosford Park (2001)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Grand Prix (1966)*

The Great Beauty (2013, Italy)

The Great Race (1965)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Green Book (2018)

Green Dolphin Street (1947)*

The Green Mile (1999)*

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Gunga Din (1939)

Hair Love (2019 short)

Hallelujah (1929)*

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1996)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)*

The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)*

The Heiress (1949)

Hell’s Angels (1930)*

Henry V (1989)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Hero (2002, China)*

Hidden Figures (2016)

The High and the Mighty (1954)*

High Noon (1952)

High Society (1956)

Himalaya (1999, France/Switzerland/United Kingdom/Nepal)*

Home Alone (1990)

Honeysuckle Rose (1980)*

Hoosiers (1986)

The House on 92nd Street (1945)*

How the West Was Won (1962)

How to Survive a Plague (2012)*

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Married a Witch (1942)*

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

I Vitelloni (1953, Italy)*

I Wanted Wings (1941)*

I, Tonya (2017)*

Ida (2013, Poland)

Imitation of Life (1959)

In Cold Blood (1967)

In the Absence (2018 short, South Korea)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)*

Inside Moves (1980)*

It Happened One Night (1934)

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)*

It Should Happen to You (1954)*

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)

Jackie Brown (1997)*

Jammin’ the Blues (1944 short)*

Jaws (1975)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Jerry’s Cousin (1951 short)

Jesus Camp (2006)*

Jezebel (1938)

Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)*

Joe’s Violin (2016 short)

The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

Joyeux Noel (2005, France)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Julia (1977)*

Juliet of the Spirits (1965, Italy)

Kagemusha (1980, Japan)

The Karate Kid (1984)

The Killers (1946)*

The King and I (1956)

The King’s Speech (2010)

The Kite Runner (2007)

Knights of the Round Table (1953)*

Knives Out (2019)

Kundun (1997)*

La Ronde (1950, France)*

La Strada (1954, Italy)

La Traviata (1982, Italy)*

Lady Be Good (1941)*

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Ladykillers (1955)*

The Last Emperor (1987)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

The Life Ahead (2020, Italy)*

Life is Beautiful (1997, Italy)

Life with Feathers (1945 short)

Lili (1953)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

The Lion in Winter (1968)*

Little Caesar (1931)

A Little Romance (1979)

Little Women (2019)

Logan (2017)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Lost Horizon (1937)

Love Affair (1939)*

Love Story (1970)*

Loving Vincent (2017)

The Magic Flute (1975, Sweden)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Malcolm X (1992)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Maria Full of Grace (2004, Colombia)*

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)*

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Mighty Joe Young (1949)*

Milk (2008)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)*

The Miracle Worker (1962)*

Mon Oncle (1958, France)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953, France)*

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

My Fair Lady (1964)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

My Favorite Year (1982)

My Night at Maud’s (1969)*

The Narrow Margin (1952)

The Natural (1984)

Nebraska (2013)

Network (1976)

Night Must Fall (1937)*

Nightcrawler (2014)*

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Ninotchka (1939)

Nowhere in Africa (2001, Germany)*

Odd Man Out (1947)*

The Official Story (1985, Argentina)*

Oklahoma! (1955)*

Oliver! (1968)

On Golden Pond (1981)*

On the Riviera (1951)*

On the Waterfront (1954)

One Day in September (1999)*

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

One Hour with You (1932)

One Potato, Two Potato (1964)*

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*

Our Town (1940)

Paisan (1946, Italy)

Pal Joey (1957)*

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Mexico)

Paper Moon (1973)*

Parasite (2019, South Korea)

The Parent Trap (1961)

A Passage to India (1984)*

Patton (1970)

Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Denmark)*

Period. End of Sentence. (2018 short)

Persepolis (2007, France)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Pigs in a Polka (1943 short)*

Pillow Talk (1959)*

Pinocchio (1940)

Places in the Heart (1984)*

Poltergeist (1982)

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Precious (2009)*

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)*

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)*

The Producers (1967)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Purple Rain (1984)

Puss Gets the Boot (1940 short)

Pygmalion (1938)

Quiet Please! (1945 short)

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020, Bosnia-Herzegovina)*

Rachel, Rachel (1968)*

Ran (1985, Japan)

Random Harvest (1942)

Rashômon (1950, Japan)

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)*

Rear Window (1954)

Rebecca (1940)

Red River (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Roma (2018, Mexico)

Saludos Amigos (1942)

Same Time, Next Year (1978)*

The Secret of Kells (2009)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)*

Sergeant York (1941)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954, Japan)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)*

She Done Him Wrong (1933)*

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

The Shootist (1976)

The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Silverado (1985)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

The Snake Pit (1948)*

Song of the Sea (2014)

Sounder (1972)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Spanish Main (1945)*

Speedy (1928)

Speedy Gonzales (1955 short)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spirited Away (2001, Japan)

Stagecoach (1939)

A Star is Born (1937)

A Star is Born (1954)

A Star is Born (1976)*

A Star is Born (2018)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Wars (1977)

Starship Troopers (1997)

The Sting (1973)

A Stolen Life (1946)*

The Story of Three Loves (1953)*

The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003, Mongolia)*

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)*

The Stranger (1946)*

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Strings (1991 short)*

The Sundowners (1960)*

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Superman (1978)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Swing Time (1936)

T-Men (1947)*

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Japan)

Tangerines (2013, Estonia)*

Tenet (2020)

Them! (1954)

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)*

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)*

This is Cinerama (1952)*

The Three Musketeers (1948)

Three Orphan Kittens (1935 short)

Time (2020)*

Timecode (2016 short, Spain)

Tom Jones (1963)

Toni Erdmann (2016, Germany)*

Top Hat (1935)

The Triplets of Belleville (2003, France)*

The Truman Show (1998)*

12 Angry Men (1957)

Twilight of Honor (1963)*

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Umberto D. (1952, Italy)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, France)

Unforgiven (1992)

Up (2009)

Vertigo (1958)

Victor/Victoria (1982)

WALL-E (2008)

Watch on the Rhine (1943)*

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Weary River (1929)*

West Side Story (1961)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968 short)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wolfwalkers (2020)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Zorba the Greek (1964)*

The 15 nominated short films for the 93rd Academy Awards

The 8 nominees for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, including the winner, Nomadland

Until next year’s ceremony, folks - February will be here before we know it!

#Oscars #31 Days of Oscar

[angel-princess-anna]

Speculation Sunday

In which weekly(?), I try to connect two dots (and connect nothing) in regards to the second DA film. This week, it’s more about the lack of spoilers and how it will be that way for awhile (also I realize it’s probably now Monday for most of you, whoops)

This post is based on my own perceptions and experiences having followed how they filmed and promoted the TV show and first film. I love discussing Downton, and I love hunting for spoilers, haha. Mainly because I want to know what’s gonna happen with my faves ASAP.

That said, I think we are going to get even less spoilery crumbs during the filming of DA 2021 than we did with DA 2019.

Focus and Carnival kept the official synopsis of the first film a mystery for a very long time (basically until the first full trailer came out) and I assume it will be similar this time too. They then dumped some more info and stills much closer to the release date. Interviews with the cast focused on “getting the gang back together” and I assume the DA 2021 press tour will focus on “getting the gang back together after lockdown” and “we are bringing escapism in dark times”. Understandable, but not ideal for people like me who love spoilers!

During most of the filming of the TV series, we didn’t get a lot of info and pics other than paparazzi photos (social media being less of a thing during the early series, and the latter because of cracking down on spoiler leaks), but then with S6, we were spoiled with riches given that they filmed outdoors a lot, and there was a bit of a social media campaign for the end of the show to honor the crew.

With DA 2019, all we got was a handful of outdoor sightings (the major one of course being the parade filming). This year we’ll have to rely on the paparazzi and tabloids, but again that’s if they film outdoors.

And given how most of the cast is when it comes to social media, and the worry of being punished for spoiler leaks, they aren’t gonna be taking selfies all the time.

So while we wait for Entertainment Weekly or the likes to visit the set, or one of the actors to promote another project and feed us crumbs in an interview, or a still gets released for a holiday... let’s think about what we do know.

The “original principal cast” is back. In Focus’ DA 2019 press release, that wording preceded a list of the main ensemble that was in all six series of the TV show, plus Matthew Goode and Harry Hadden-Patton. Raquel and Michael weren’t listed at that time, and while neither has posted on social media lately that I can see, Raquel’s latest post (as of writing this) has Baxley related hashtags lol. I don’t see why Baxter and Andy wouldn’t be in DA 2021. Kiddo wise, we know that the Baker boys are back as George and their triplet sister is playing someone. Fifi Hart is back as Sybbie. No word yet on the other children, but there’s five child actors from that one agency back for the new film (which doesn’t discount there being child actors from another agency).

Lily James didn’t appear in DA 2019, and I don’t think she would here either (regardless of, uh, Dominic West). Tuppence Middleton confirmed on Twitter she’s in; Max Brown confirmed he’s not. I haven’t seen anything concrete on Imelda yet, but I do assume she’d appear. We have at least four new characters, but nothing on who the new cast members will be playing.

Filming has already begun(!) at Ealing Studios, the studios they used when they filmed the TV show. And now they’ve been filming at Highclere Castle too!

Meanwhile, Rob gave us some clues on ITV’s This Morning:

- "someone goes for a bicycle ride" (easy, that’s the postman or whoever lol) - "someone has an argument" - "someone falls in love" - "someone falls out of love" - "someone goes to the shops"

As HWW said to me, perhaps it is not people that the characters are falling in and out of love with, but perhaps places, things, or ideas. And in the case of Thomas and Richard, it’s possible that they aren’t ‘over’, it’s just that they can’t see each other in the time frame of the film and maybe Thomas receives at least a letter from Richard or something. 

Now, what we don’t know, which is... mostly everything.

The timeline is a biggie, as it would definitely influence some of the plots. And it was something that really wasn’t confirmed for DA 2019 until after we got the trailer. The cast gave us vague ideas, but uh... let’s just say not all of them were correct.

Fellowes has always said that he wouldn’t take DA into the ‘30s, but he always used to say that he’d never work on DA and The Glided Age at the same time, and yet, here we are. I feel like he or Gareth mentioned at one point a sequel would follow closely to DA 2019 timeline wise. They had similarly said DA 2019 would follow closely after the TV show’s timeline, and that ended up being an 18 month gap.

Considering that DA 2021 is coming out during Christmas time, this makes me think that Christmas will be featured at some point. Not every DA Christmas Special did, but it’s festive, timely, and an event to help anchor the film and bring characters together.

The question then is, does it center around Christmas though? Of the three CSs that feature Christmas in some form (S6CS is really about New Year’s Eve, but the decorations and tree are still up), S2CS starts there but ends mid January of the next year, and S5CS and S6CS both start roughly in late summer, and then finish in late December (well 1 Jan in S6CS’ case).

One potential choice is to have it be set in December 1927 and then go into the next year, akin to S2CS. The S5/6 CS idea would set it in 1928 at the earliest.

Another thing factor to take into account here is Edith’s pregnancy. Fellowes skipped over showing Mary pregnant with Caroline in the first film and had her born before DA 2019, so the same might happen here again.

Other potential big events are perhaps a wedding between Daisy and Andy and/or Tom and Lucy.

And then the elephant in the room: Violet. Maggie’s said time and time again that Violet’s too old, and then we had the plot in DA 2019, which would set...  you know... that all up.

So like... filming outdoors in Bampton (where the town of Downton and the church was traditionally filmed for the TV series) is something is that is easily spoiled. They can put up screens to block the view around the church, but to also do it around the cemetery might be too telling. They did kinda manage with S6E8 (well, only kinda, ahem).

Thinking now about how members of the cast have said that DA 2021 will be coming at a time people are wanting/needing "escapism,” I don't think that discounts anything sad happening per se; a lot of people continued to call the TV series "escapism" when it got more darker (see: S4-5), and, I mean, people call Call the Midwife "cosy escapism" despite there being traumatic situations almost every episode it seems. So Violet's days could still very well be numbered. I remember how S3CS was marketed as a fun and frolicking trip to the Highlands, until the Norwegian channel NRK’s trailer for the episode came out and gave away that there was going to be a car accident. Escapism isn't the same for everyone anyway, so we'll have to see what this all entails. I don't necessarily want this for Violet, but I do hope that DA 2021 takes itself a bit more seriously, as the TV show did.

The first movie was written in a manner that was so that it was (somewhat?) understandable to people who didn’t watch the TV series. I have to wonder if DA 2021 has been written similarly. Part of me thinks it will be more similar to the first film than to the TV series, but with a potential sad plot for Violet... who knows, it might go back to its more “serial” roots (if that makes any sense). If DA 2021 also leans more into comedy as DA 2019, I don’t foresee it doing so but we’ll see.

That’s it for the this ramble! I have a topic for the next one regardless of the lack of crumbs! ;)

#downton abbey #da 2022 #da movie spoilers #film: my meta #film: speculation sundays

[outoftowninac]

OF THEE I SING

1931

Of Thee I Sing is a musical by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. 

In 1932, Of Thee I Sing was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform. When he falls in love with the sensible Mary Turner instead of Diana Devereaux, the beautiful pageant winner selected for him in Atlantic City, he gets into political hot water.

The musical is set in and around New York, Washington DC, and Atlantic City. 

Early in 1931, the press reported that the show would be a satiric revue and arrive sometime in April. By March 1931, it was a musical comedy due ‘next season’. 

In November, the cast shifted. Warner Bros. dropped Dell’s option in 1931 (along with most of its other musical stars), and Claudia (having become associated with musicals) was relegated to Poverty Row productions. She was replaced by June O’Dea. 

The first public performance was at the Majestic in Boston on December 7, 1931. Those who attended the star-studded opening night at the Music Box Theatre, included: Ina Claire, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew Colt, Beatrice Lillie, Florenz Ziegfeld, George White, Mayor James J. Walker, Dorothy Parker, Howard Dietz, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Gish, Oscar Levant, Grantland Rice, Irene Bordoni, George Jean Nathan, Robert Benchley, Judith Anderson, Mark Hellinger, and Sam H. Harris.

Among its satiric targets is the Miss America Pageant, held in Atlantic City since 1921. On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, bathing beauties from every state vie for the title of ‘Miss White House’. 

We're in Atlantic City To meet with the committee. And when they've made their mind up The winner will be signed up. The prize is consequential - Presidential!

Interestingly, from 1928 to 1932, there was no Miss America pageant. It was temporarily shut down due to financial problems associated with the Great Depression and suggestions that it promoted "loose morals."

Gershwin was no stranger to Atlantic City. He traveled to the seaside resort during the 1916 as a song plugger, selling new sheet music. 

A postcard that George Gershwin sent from Atlantic City in 1918was sold for  $3,000 in the hope of extracting his DNA from the stamp Gershwin presumably licked. The goal was to prove parentage. 

Just before Of Thee I Sing, book writer Morrie Ryskind had also penned the 1931 musical The Gang’s All Here, which also took place in Atlantic City. Ryskind and Kaufman had assembled 1925′s The Coconuts on the Boardwalk. Kaufman famously tackled June Moon in Atlantic City. Just prior to Of Thee I Sing, Kaufman had guided Moss Hart’s Once In A Lifetime through one of the rockiest out-of-town tryouts in the history of the Great Wooden Way. 

The original Broadway production, directed by Kaufman, opened at the Music Box Theatre on Boxing Day 1931 and ran for 441 performances, gaining critical and box office success. 

It has been revived twice on Broadway and in concert stagings in the U.S. and in London. Regional productions were also common, such as at Paper Mill Playhouse (above). Although quite a distance from Atlantic City, Paper Mill was at least located in New Jersey. Here the designer capitalizes on the real-life floats that Miss America contestants rode on in parades down the Boardwalk. 

There are also a number of college and university productions, such as this one in Illinois. This designer reinforced the Atlantic City location with signage including Steel Pier and Fralinger’s Taffy. 

Opera companies have sometimes adopted the show into their repertory, as this production in Toronto. 

A CBS television version (with laugh track) was produced in 1972 starring Carroll O'Connor as President Wintergreen with Cloris Leachman as Mary. The design of the Atlantic City scene was somewhat less specific, taking place on the beach, with references to such seashore fare as Skee-Ball and Salt Water Taffy. 

A National Radio Theater version starring John Cullum was broadcast by NPR in 1984 and the BBC in 1984 and 1992. 

A musical sequel to Of Thee I Sing was written by the same team, entitled Let 'Em Eat Cake, and was produced on Broadway in 1933. It reused some of the music from Of Thee I Sing. However, it was a critical and box office failure. It was the Gershwins’ last musical comedy. 

Season 5 of HBO's “Boardwalk Empire” takes place in 1931 and shows the Boardwalk outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel with a theatre playing the musical Of Thee I Sing. As previously noted, the show did not try out in AC, although it is set there. The Old Rumpus burlesque house was fictional but based on many such establishments found along the Boardwalk.

#Of Thee I Sing #Atlantic City #Miss America Pageant #1931 #Gershwin #Music Box Theatre #Broadway #Musical Comedy #George S. Kaufman #Morrie Ryskind #Theatre #Stage #musicals

[brookston]

Holidays 2.20

Holidays

Ansel Adams Day

Blessed Wulfric’s Day

Bun Day (Iceland)

Clean Out Your Bookcases Day

Day of Heavenly Hundred Heroes (Ukraine)

Deadpool Day

Ectodermal Dysplasia’s Awareness Day

FFA National Day of Service

Flying Car Day

Hoodie-Hoo Day (Northern Hemisphere)

International Cat Day (Mexico; South America)

International Lego Classicism Day

International Pipe Smoking Day

Johnny Cash Day (Los Angeles)

Kurt Cobain Day (Aberdeen, Washington)

Love Your Pet Day

MOMA Day

National Comfy Day

National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants

National Handcuff Day

National Leadership Day

National Student Volunteer Day

National Whistleblower Reward Day

Native Agents Day

Orbit Day

Princess Alice Day

Rih Day

Student Volunteer Day

Thank You Plant Medicine Day

Toothpick Day

World Day of Social Justice (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cherry Pie Day

Clam Chowder Day

National Muffin Day

3rd Monday in February

Canadian Heritage Day [3rd Monday] (a.k.a. ... 

Family Day (Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan; Canada)

Heritage Day (Nova Scotia, Canada)

Islander Day (PEI, Canada) [3rd Monday]

Louis Riel Day (Manitoba, Canada) [3rd Monday]

Sanity Day (Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan; Canada)

Chip Week begins [3rd Monday]

Daisy Gatson Bates Day (Arkansas) [3rd Monday]

Presidents’ Day [3rd Monday]

Washington’s Birthday (observed) [3rd Monday]

Women in Blue Jeans Day [3rd Monday]

Independence Days

Bardo (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Castacia (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Chinland (from UK, 1948) [unrecognized]

Statehood Day (Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoran; India)

Feast Days

Day of Tacita (Goddess of Silence; Ancient Rome)

Don’t Think About Elephants Day (Pastafarian)

Eleutherius of Tournai (Christian; Saint)

Eucherius of Orléans (Christian; Saint)

Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto (Christian; Saint)

Frederick Douglass (Episcopal Church (USA))

I.G. Farben Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Levitation Day (Pastafarian)

Lucretius (Positivist; Saint)

Mr. Can You Guess (Muppetism)

Scleucia and Ctesiphon, with 128 companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Shrove Monday [Monday before Ash Wednesday] (a.k.a. ... 

Bolludagur (Bun Day; Iceland)

Carnival / Carnaval (Caribbean and South America)

Carnaval Monday

Carnival Monday

Clean Monday

Collop Monday

Fasching (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)

Fastelavn (Denmark)

Fat Monday

Hall Monday

Jour Chômé d’Usage (French Guyana, Martinique)

J’ouvert (Trinidad and Tobago)

Lundi Gras (Haiti)

Lunes de Carnaval (Argentina)

Luni Gras

Merry Monday

National Cream Puff Day

Old Mask Parade (Aruba)

Paisen Monday

Peasen Monday

Rose Monday

Rosenmontag (Germany)

Shrovetide (Day 2 of 3)

Tyrannio, Zenobius, et al., in Phoenicia (Christian; Martyrs)

Ulrick of England (Christian; Saint)

Wulfric of Haselbury (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Africa Before Dark (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

The African Queen (Film; 1952)

The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1816)

Candy (Film; 1969)

Columbo (TV Serties; 1968)

The Duff (Film; 2015)

Euro Trip (Film; 2004)

Follow the Fleet (Film; 1936)

George Harrison, by George Harrison (Album; 1979)

Give It To Me Baby, by James Brown (Song; 1981)

How the West Was Won (Film; 1963)

Instant Karma, by the Plastic Ono Band (Song; 1970)

Moose Hunters (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Robot Chicken (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Sofia the First (Animated Disney TV Series; 2015)

Still Alice (Film; 2015)

Veronica, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1989)

Welcome to Mooseport (Film; 2004)

Today’s Name Days

Corona, Falko, Jacinta (Austria)

Lav, Lea, Leon (Croatia)

Oldřich (Czech Republic)

Eucharias (Denmark)

Ardi, Hardi, Hardo, Kardo, Meinhard, Meino (Estonia)

Heli, Helinä, Heljä, Hely (Finland)

Aimée (France)

Corona, Falko, Jacinta (Germany)

Leon (Greece)

Aladár, Álmos (Hungary)

Eleuterio, Eros, Otokars, Otomars, Silvano, Smuidra, Ulrico, Vitauts (Italy)

Otokars, Otomārs, Smuidra, Vitauts (Latvia)

Eitvydė, Leonas, Visgintas (Lithuania)

Halldis, Halldor (Norway)

Euchariusz, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Leon, Ludmiła, Ludomiła, Ostap, Siestrzewit (Poland)

Leon (Romania)

Lívia (Slovakia)

Eleuterio, Jacinta (Spain)

Vivianne (Sweden)

Svitlana (Ukraine)

Aimee, Alaric, Alarica, Alarice, Aimee, Ami, Amy, Amya, Cyd, Cydney, Desmond, Sid, Sidney, Syd, Sydnee, Sydney, Ulric (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 51 of 2023; 314 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 8 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 1 (Ji-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 29 Shevat 5783

Islamic: 29 Rajab II 1444

J Cal: 21 Xin; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 7 February 2023

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 23 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucretius]

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 62 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 1 of 29)

Calendar Changes

Pisces (The Fish) begins [Zodiac Sign 12; thru 3.20]

杏月 [Xìngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 2 of 12] (Apricot Month)

#calendar #Holidays