Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Cartoon Friendship day greetings card

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Friendship pic :
Two funny friends wishing you happy friendship day


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Friendship pic :
Nice cartoon

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Friendship pic :
Two friends
Friendship Msg : The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Tomorrow Friendship Day

 
The World Friendship Day was observed on July 30. However, some of the countries observe the friendship day on first Sunday of August.
India will observe the Friendship on August 7, 2011.
The custom of celebrating Friendship Day is getting popularized by the frequent use of mobile phones and Internet. The custom of sending Friendship SMS, and Friendship messages, Friendship Quotes, Friendship scraps and Friendship greetings are getting popular vial cellphones and social networking websites.

Happy Friendship day

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A gift of 50 cigarette cards

Yesterday my Dad returned from visiting my eldest brother at uni. (aka helping him move his belongings from one house to another and then bringing another part of my brother's HUGE book collection home to completely incapacitate the spare room ;D) and gave me an album of 50 cigarette cards that my brother had bought for me. I was, and still am, over the moon! They're so wonderful; I can't stop looking at them! Thank you, big brother!

I believe they're from around 1938/1939 going from the films that it says some of the stars have just completed. I'm enjoying reading the little biographies on the back so much - it's interesting to seeing the erroneous birth dates of the stars we know lied about their age (*cough*Constance Bennett*cough*). They' cards are in brilliant condition and I am so pleased and grateful that I have them!

I've italicised the names of the actors/actresses I hadn't heard about until now, so it would be great if you could recommend some films of their's for me to watch!

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(Top row l-r: Brian Aherne, June Duprez, Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer
Bottom row l-r: Virginia Bruce, Diana Churchill,  Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis (I lol'd when I realised that Joan and Bette were next to each other ;D)) 

 (Top row l-r: Olivia de Havilland, Deanna Durbin, Nelson Eddy, Gracie Fields, Errol Flynn, 
Bottom row l-r: George Formby, Valerie Hobson, John Howard, Allan Jones, Patric Knowles)

 (Top row l-r: Dick Powell, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Lockwood, Myrna Loy, Corinne Luchaire
Bottom row l-r: Jeanette MacDonald, Barry MacKay, Frederic March, Raymond Massey, Ray Milland)

(Top row l-r: Mary Morris, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan
Bottom row l-r: Lilli Palmer, Nova Pilbeam, Eleanor Powell, Luise Rainer, Basil Rathbone)

(Top row l-r: Rene Ray, Shirley Ross, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, James Stewart
Bottom row l-r: Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone, Spencer Tracy, Conrad Veidt, Anton Walbrook)

Hope you enjoyed looking at them! :D

Monday, August 8, 2011

Box Set Monday #6: Thelma Ritter


Thelma Ritter is the featured star of this week's "Box Set Monday" post. She was one of the great character actresses and received 6 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominations (interesting fact: she is tied with Deborah for being nominated the most times in one particular category without a win.).


Contains:
All About Eve, 1950
The Mating Season, 1951
Pickup on South Street, 1953
Rear Window, 1954
Pillow Talk, 1959
The Misfits, 1961


All About Eve is the first film I remember seeing Thelma Ritter in and in every film I've seen her in since then she has never failed to impress. She plays Margo Channing's (Bette Davis, as if you didn't know!) gritty, outspoken maid - the only member of Margo's close circle who dislikes Anne Baxter's conniving Eve Harrington. Thelma gained her first Academy Award nomination for her absolutely stellar performance. 


In The Mating Season, Thelma plays gives such a sweet, funny performance as the mother-in-law of socialite Maggie McNulty (Gene Tierney) who arrives at Maggie and her son's house and is mistaken by her daughter-in-law for the maid. It's such a delightful film, I can't recommend it enough. Also, Thelma plays a bigger part in the film than she does in many others so that is always wonderful!

I think Thelma's performance in Pickup on South Street is probably her finest ever. She plays Moe, a weary peddler of neck ties and seller of information. She is great in the entire film, but her final few minutes are what make her really stand out. If I could award Thelma the Academy Award she never won, this would be the performance I would give it too.


Rear Window is one of my favourite Hitchcock films, not least because of Thelma's fantastic performance as James Stewart's nurse, Stella (STELLAAAAAAA! or maybe not...). It wasn't one of her biggest roles, but her dry wit and perfect timing gives the film a little extra something that makes it all the more exhilarating.


Thelma's comedic, slightly over the top performance as Doris Day's nosy, drunken maid in Pillow Talk may not be one her strongest performances but she is so entertaining and engaging that you can't help but love her. The scenes in the lift make me chuckle every time!

The Misfits and Rear Window are the only films in this box set that didn't gain Thelma an Academy Award nomination; it seems so strange to me that she was overlooked for her performance in The Misfits. She plays Isabelle, a tired, sad, and slightly wistful character who befriends Marilyn Monroe's beautiful and vulnerable Roslyn. This was Thelma's second film with Marilyn Monroe with the first being All About Eve in which MM had a very small part as a young, aspiring actress. I can't recommend The Misfits enough, it's a film I think everyone should see at least once.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Happy Friendship Day : Friends Forever!

‘A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else‘ and ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends’. What is life without friends? The wise say that 1000 relatives = 1 friend. We are sure all of you have had special friends in different phases of your life. Some may be still in touch and some may have lost touch. Let us recollect all the good times and remember those wonderful moments spent with our friends. On the occasion of ‘Friendship Day’ on Aug. 1, I Wish you A “Happy Friendship Day".


Let us remember our friends right from the nursery days to our present. Wherever they are and whatever they are doing, let them know that we are right here waiting for them. :) Here is a chance to remember the good times we spent with them. Here is a chance to show your gratitude. A blog post would remain forever and so will your friendship. Share the wonderful times you had with your friends, an interesting story, great moments – your post should help relive those wonderful times! Go ahead and write one now...! 


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Loving Lucy | Thank you, Lucille!

(This is part of the Loving Lucy blogathon which is being hosted over at True Classics. Go and check out all the other brilliant posts!)

Today marks the 100th birthday of one of the world's most loved actresses and comediennes, Lucille Ball. It's 60 years since I Love Lucy started airing and, as a testament to it's greatness, it is still one of the most loved tv shows of all time. Even if someone has never seen ILL, show them a picture of a certain ditzy red head with a flaming putty nose and they will know it's Lucille Ball. She becomes part of your life whether you realise it or not.


I didn't grow up watching I Love Lucy because it is rarely, if ever, aired over here in UK, but when I discovered Lucille Ball, and subsequently ILL, it was at a time when I needed to laugh and needed to be taken out of myself, even if just for half an hour. I didn't need just anyone though, I needed someone I could understand and relate to, someone who I could feel was my friend. Lucille Ball was just who I needed. Even in the darkest moments, she could make me smile and feel as though everything wasn't so bad after all. She was one of us, not some aloof movie star that very few could feel close to, but someone who shared with us (as Bob Hope said) one of the greatest gifts to mankind, laughter. Lucy knew how wonderful the gift of laughter is, and she shared it in the most real and tangible way possible through a (then) new medium which assured it reached and touched the lives of thousands of people. 


The world has changed a tremendous lot in the past 60 years but one thing is certain, we need Lucy now just as much as we did in the post-WWII years. I firmly believe that in another 100 years the world will still love her as much as it does now. Thank you, Lucille Ball, for brightening so many people's lives ♥

Happy birthday, Lucille!






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I wish I could have written something with a bit more depth to it; I had so many things I wanted to say about Lucille but I've been trying to write them down all week and it just hasn't happened. I haven't been feeling too good so perhaps that's why, but at least I managed to write something as at one point I was so frustrated I didn't think I'd be able to post anything! 

Friday, August 5, 2011

Miss Teen USA Pageant 2011 – Danielle Doty

Danielle Doty was crowned Miss Teen USA 2011 on July 16, 2011 at the beautiful Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The 18-year-old winner is from Harlingen, Texas. Doty is the second Texan to be named Miss Teen USA. Here are some wonderful photos of “Miss Teen USA” Danielle Doty given below. 09 More images after the break...
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Portraits of Lips


Skill: Instead of a paintbrush, Ms Irish employs her rouged lips to create a portrait of Marilyn Monroe

Jackson Pollock painted with drips, while this young artist paints with her lips.
Natalie Irish of Houston, Texas paints by putting on lipstick, then pressing her lips against a blank canvas.

By varying the pressure of her kisses, as if titillating a lover, she can create large, nuanced images.

In a recent video she uploaded to YouTube (made by Chris O'Malley), Ms Irish creates a gorgeous portrait of icon Marilyn Monroe, solely with the use of her puckered lips.

Ms Irish told MailOnline.com that she had learned how to paint pictures with thumbprints back in high school.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Art on the tables

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Different Seasons

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Old Paris

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

New Poll: Who's the Screwball Queen? (+previous poll results)

Whenever I think of screwball comedy, I immediately think of a handful of highly talented ladies who made some of the greatest films of the genre. So for this poll I'm asking you to pick between 8 equally fabulous ladies and vote for whom you think is the Queen of Screwball Comedy.

Irene Dunne


Carole Lombard


Rosalind Russell


Claudette Colbert


Myrna Loy


Jean Arthur


Barbara Stanwyck


Katharine Hepburn


Happy voting! :D
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According to the previous poll (which ended over a month ago... oops!) Liesl is the most popular von Trapp kid, with Brigitta coming in second (YAY!), cute little Gretl third, and Louisa, Marta and the two boys all tying for last place with 1 vote. Thanks for voting everyone!

Please check out yesterday's Box Set Monday post featuring on the ladies in the poll.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Box Set Monday #5: Carole Lombard

The star of today's "Box Set Monday" post is Carole Lombard, the gorgeous, tremendously talented Queen of Screwball Comedy.


Contains:
Twentieth Century, 1934
My Man Godfrey, 1936
Nothing Sacred, 1937
True Confession, 1937
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 1941
To Be or Not To Be, 1942

I saw Twentieth Century for the first time today and just had to put it in the box set (it knocked out No Man of Her Own). Carole plays a lingerie model who is turned into a huge theatrical star by Oscar Jaffe (incredibly played by John Barrymore), a Broadway impresario. It encompasses everything a screwball comedy should and does so with such ease that you become entirely engrossed in the crazy and hilarious goings-on.

My Man Godfrey is the quintessential Lombard film, I think. If you don't end up loving dizzy, scatter-brained heiress Irene Bullock, then there's something wrong with you. William Powell also gives a smashing performance as the butler and only sane member of the Bullock household. MMG one of the most perfect examples of screwball comedy you will ever see, and I would not hesitate in using this film to lure people into the Old Hollywood downward spiral of obsession. ;D


The third film in the box set is Nothing Sacred, the first screwball comedy to be filmed in colour and Carole's only technicolour film (and yes, she is just as flawless in colour as in black and white!). Carole plays Hazel Flagg, a woman dying of radium poisoning. As such, she is invited to New York and becomes the talk of the town. Everything is smooth sailing until it's discovered that Hazel isn't actually dying...

True Confession is a wonderful comedy about husband and wife Helen and Ken Bartlett (Fred MacMurray). Helen is a writer and pathological liar, and Ken is a very honest lawyer. Going against against her husband's wishes and behind his back, Helen gets a job as a secretary. However, she soon finds herself in a bit of a pickle. I can't recommend this highly entertaining little film enough.  On a side note, Carole and Fred are one of my favourite '30s on-screen couples.  


One of Hitchcock's few comedy films, Mrs. and Mrs. Smith is a lively little film about a happily married couple who one day find out that they aren't actually married. Will they remarry or... ? The combination of Carole's perfect comedic timing, Robert Montgomery's pure brilliance, and Hitch's peerless skills as a director, makes this one of my all time favourite films.


To Be or Not To Be is a comedy drama (with an emphasis on drama) of the highest caliber. Most of the films in  this box set see Carole in slightly crazy comedic roles, but for the character of Maria Tura in this you have a chance to see her exercise her dramatic chops whilst still maintaining that glorious touch of Lombard comedic genius that we all know and love. TBONTB was the last film Carole made before her tragic death in a plane crash on January 16, 1942.


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