5/10/09

From the "Non-Blonde Misc." folder

Susan Kohner
Just routine maintenance on the "Non-Blonde"
folder. But there are some stunners in here.
pinup picture
glamour
(Isn't the Venetian blind shadow effect supposed
to mean something viscerally significant in the
visual language of film noir? Doesn't it indicate
a social, moral, or geopolitical stratification?
Doesn't it dice up the hard-boiled detective's
psychological background or vivisect his angst
or ennui or some such B.S.?)
Kathryn Grayson
Zanuck
pinup
Gila Golan
pinup
Munsters
Clare Bloom
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3 comments:

  1. CunninghamMay 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    Venetian blinds -

    I think the model posing is Linda Stirling the serial Queen from Republic Studios (which I hope will be the subject of one of your posts - the starlets of Republic).

    The venetian blinds was a way to add texture to the background without it looking "staged".
    The angular beam of light found across the backgrounds of many a Hollywood photo shoot is called a "Hollywood slash".

    The slash provided a bit of angular interest and the venetian blinds version is a more natural, yet threatening version.

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  2. AnonymousMay 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    The actress in the third photo -- the jpeg labeled "mysterious loose brunette" -- is, I believe, Linda Stirling, who appeared as "The Tiger Woman" in the film/serial of the same name in 1944.

    Tom Ruegger

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  3. C. ParkerMay 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM

    Thanks, both of you.

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