2/21/09

AKA Witchfinder Girl

Vincent Price
This is Hilary Heath, AKA Hilary Dwyer, from
Witchfinder General, AKA The Conqueror Worm
(1968), which has been restored and is available on
DVD in an MGM Scream Legends boxed set.
Vincent Price
witchfinder
witchfinder general
witchfinder general

2/20/09

Great Earrings of the 20th Century 3

Jean Simmons
Yvonne Decarlo

Joan Caulfield
Lana Turner
This last is one of my favorite pictures of Lana
Turner. It was obviously taken before all the
husbands and alcohol and gangsters and lawyers.

2/17/09

Claudette-Cleo-Cigarette

Claudette Colbert
When she wasn't playing Cleopatra or smoking cigarettes, Claudette Colbert could sometimes be seen playing a character named "Cigarette" in Under Two Flags (1936), where she replaced Simone Simone, who was being particularly "difficult" to the film's director, Frank Lloyd, who later directed Colbert in Maid of Salem, which featured Chief John Big Tree, a Seneca Indian who showed up in John Ford westerns and Cecil B. DeMille extravaganzas, which is of course completely irrelevant, except to provide a slender linguistic thread to the otherwise unrelated photographs in this post. Thank you for playing.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert

2/15/09

Details, My Sweet

Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe
Murder, My Sweet (1944) from Raymond Chandler's novel
Farewell, My Lovely.

2/14/09

VD!

Annette Funicello
Happy Valentine's Day to lovers everywhere!

It's Enrico Pallazzo!

Luciana Paluzzi
Actually, it's Luciana Paluzzi.
Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi
[For the real Enrico Pallazzo, see The Naked Gun: From the Files
of Police Squad (1988).]