Kate O'Mara, who died today (30th March 2014) aged 74, pictured here in a publicity photo in 1971, at which time she was playing the villain in the ill-fated stage version of the British television show, "The Avengers".
Original B&W photo.
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Sunday, 30 March 2014
Kate O'Mara
Kate O'Mara, who died today (30th March 2014) aged 74, pictured here in a publicity photo in 1971, at which time she was playing the villain in the ill-fated stage version of the British television show, "The Avengers".
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Karol Józef Wojtyła
A young Karol Józef Wojtyła, later to be known worldwide as Pope John Paul II, probably in 1938, while at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Original B&W photo
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Bela Lugosi
This is one of a series of photos that the young Bela Lugosi had taken of himself when he played Jesus in a passion play in the Easter of 1909, in his native Hungary.
Original B&W photo.
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Earl Moran and Marilyn
The painting, “Bus Stop” by Earl Moran, is from 1946, so I think this posed photo was taken then, or shortly after. Norma Jeane Dougherty, as Marilyn Monroe was called at this time, posed for Moran in several sessions between 1946 and 1950, usually for photos that Moran would use to paint from.
Original B&W photo.
A version of the painting as published.
Friday, 28 February 2014
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy, in 1914, the year he made his first movie. Born Norvell Hardy, he took his stage name from his father, who had died less than a year after Norvell's birth. At the time of this photo, he was billed as O.N.Hardy and, because of his height and his heavy build, was usually cast as heavies and villains.
Original B&W photo.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Stan Laurel
Original B&W photo.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn. In this photo, he's not sporting his trademark moustache, so my guess is that this is from the mid 1930s.
Original B&W photo.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
"In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Stocking....
...Was looked on as something shocking
Now heaven knows
Anything goes."
So the song goes. In fact, artistic nudity in photographs goes back to the beginning of photography, and images far stronger than these too.
This is a small selection of pictures that were considered quite tame, until an attack of puritanism emanated from the USA in the 1930s, starting with Hollywood's "Production Code". They are from the Victorian era up to the 1920s.
Here are the original black and white and sepia photos, along with a hand tinted one:
Now heaven knows
Anything goes."
So the song goes. In fact, artistic nudity in photographs goes back to the beginning of photography, and images far stronger than these too.
This is a small selection of pictures that were considered quite tame, until an attack of puritanism emanated from the USA in the 1930s, starting with Hollywood's "Production Code". They are from the Victorian era up to the 1920s.
Here are the original black and white and sepia photos, along with a hand tinted one:
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby mimicking the pose in the painting. I'm not sure of the date of this photo, but most sources tentatively cite 1938.
Original B&W photo.
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple, who died yesterday (10th February 2014) at the age of 85, is pictured here in 1948 with her first child, Linda Susan Agar, from her first marriage, to John Agar.
Original B&W photo.
George Sanders
A publicity photo of George Sanders, in the 1944 film, "The Lodger".
Original B&W photo.
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, in 1960, with her Oscar for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) in the 1959 film "Suddenly, Last Summer".
Original B&W photo.
Lucille Ball - Teenager
Teenager Lucille Ball, before she dyed her hair blonde for her acting career, then later dyed it red.
Original hand-tinted B&W photo.
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney, in a publicity photo for the 1941 film "Sundown", in which she starred.
Original B&W photo.
Monday, 3 February 2014
David Jason
A 14 year old David John White, long before he found fame, with the stage name David Jason, in many television shows like "Darling Buds of May", "Only Fools and Horses" and "A Touch of Frost".
Original B&W photo.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen, long before he found new fame in "The Beverly Hillbillies", in a publicity shot for "Captain January", in 1936.
Original B&W photo.
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