James Mason and a kitty friend (by Ian Smith)
Happy Birthday, Gary Cooper (May 7th, 1901 - May 13th, 1961)
“I looked at it this way. To get people to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has to always be out of step with his time.
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| — | Orson Welles (May 6th, 1915 - October 10th, 1985) |
Happy Birthday, Orson Welles, (May 6th, 1915 - October 10th, 1985)
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Rudolph Valentino (May 6th, 1985 - August 23rd, 1926) Photo by Edward Steichen
The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness„ beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino; a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term ‘friend’.” - John Gilbert
Happy Birthday, Rudolph Valentino (May 6th, 1895 - August 23rd, 1926)
“Women are not in love with me, but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.”
Buster Keaton’s Recipe For His Famous Pork Pie Hats (in his own words):
PORKPIE HAT
1 Stetson Hat
3 Heaping Teaspoons of granulated sugar
1 Teacup Warm Water
Mix water and sugar. Wet the top and bottom of the brim. Smooth it out on a clean, hard surface. Allow to dry until stiff.
I did the early ones myself myself, always - and then I trained my wife.
(The first one was created in 1917 for “The Butcher’s Boy”)
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