MARILYN and MARLENE: a contrast in convexity.
ALICIA ALONSO, Swan Lake.
A meeting of minds and muscle: ALICIA ALONSO and MAYA PLISETSKAYA.
The Genius: ORSON WELLES, 100 years old today.
Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra; or, How to Make an Entrance.
Hollywood Mount Rushmore: The great stone faces of Virginia O’Brien and Buster Keaton.
Brigitte and Ballet
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in rehearsal.
Paulette Goddard soaps up.
I bet he preferred the Kelly gig. As I note in my newest Grand Old Movies post on the Francis The Talking Mule series, it can’t be easy to act with animals. They’re born scene stealers, who don’t even have to sing or dance or tell funny jokes. There’s something about how an animal can just exist onscreen that fascinates. Add language, and the effect is lethal. No human actor has a chance. Whenever Francis begins to speak, your attention will be riveted. It’s just the nature of the beast.
The Ides of March: Orson Welles as Brutus (left) in the 1937 Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar.
Anna Pavlova with her pet swan Jack.
Brigitte Bardot rises from the waves.
Is it Death from The Seventh Seal? Or the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol? No, it’s ROBERT HELPMANN as the devillish Dapertutto in Powell/Pressburger’s THE TALES OF HOFFMANN.
ORSON WELLES as Macbeth in his 1948 film. Complete with Statue of Liberty headgear.
Ecstatic posing: Glenda Farrell and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. are foregrounded in a clinch in Little Caesar. Edward G. Robinson in the background looks on with a scowl.
RIP, noir icon LIZABETH SCOTT.
Frederick Ashton coaches Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in his ballet
ROD TAYLOR
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