Details

Garret

Acrobats

Friends like these

Everett Sinderoff’s friends. Speaking of which, MUSCLE POWER magazine illustrated a photo of a group including Sinderoff which promised that once “you take up bodybuilding you will find it easy to make friends like these”!

Unidentified model by Irving Penn (1917-2009)

Fashion photo by Joseph Jasgur (1919-2009)

“Training for Paris 1924” by Henri Manuel (1874-1947)

Ganna Walska

The much-married Ganna Walska (Hanna Puacz, 1887-1984), a mediocre singer (said to be a model for Susan Alexander Kane in CITIZEN KANE) and a visionary garden designer. Photograph by Herman Mishkin (1871-1948)

This photo suggests the specificity of artist portraiture in the 1910s and 1920s - the setting for this portrait pays tribute to Walska’s good taste and successful marital career. 

Shirts Optional 15

From 1949?

Familiar faces?

Bob McKibbon

“Darling Lad”

Annotated "Alice” in one hand; “Darling Lad. 1873. Not to be taken away” in another.

Carte de visite by Hills & Saunders, the studio founded by Robert Hills (1821-1882) at Oxford in 1856; John Henry Saunders (1836-1890) became a partner in 1860. The studio had branches in London; Cambridge as well as Oxford; Eton College and Harrow School; and the military academies at Aldershot and Sandhurst. Today, only the branch at Eton survives.

Mystery Men, Studio Edition?

Jack de Marco

Bo Branden by Champion Studio

Greg Lion

More beach bodies

Kodachrome, June 1955

Details

A flâneur

Bud Kraft

Chet Rogers, Lavalette, New Jersey, August 1941

Street fashion

International Man of Mystery

Wedding day

AMG in Bel Air

Sam Hunter

A last group from my collection.

Sam Hunter 

and Keith Stephan

John Addington

Hank Prater

 

Marion Davies by Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston was especially noted for his portraits of the showgirls in the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. While Marion Davies was a member of the 1916 FOLLIES cast, it appears that this image was taken for YOLANDA (1924), a film whose cast included Ian Maclaren and Leon Errol, both of whom had also appeared in the FOLLIES.

This has a “Heidi” vibe

Academy Founders 21

N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927. 

21. Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) of the Producers Branch with his wife (Edith) Norma Shearer (1902-1983).

A romantic figure who knew he was fated to die young, Thalberg went to work for Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures at the age of 21. He moved on to work for the (then) minor Louis B. Mayer Productions, which put him in good stead when Mayer merged his company with Metro-Goldwyn to form MGM. 

Thalberg has 89 credits as an (uncredited) producer. Only his last film, THE GOOD EARTH (1937), boasts one, and it was released after his death; in life Thalberg eschewed all screen credit. Some of the films he produced: FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926), THE CROWD (1928), ANNA CHRISTIE (1930), THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET (1931), GRAND HOTEL (1932), A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935), CAMILLE (1936), and A DAY AT THE RACES (1937).

After his death, the Academy created the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, for "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production."