davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 4h"Dreyer preys upon our subconscious fears. Dread and obsession are the film's substance, and its mood is evocative, dreamy, spectral." Critic Pauline Kael on Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" (1932). 1325
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 4hI tried their blizzard but stayed for the company. 0161
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 4hFrank Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole at the Villa Capri in Los Angeles, 1955. 0154
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 7hWhat with Warner Oland and Henry Hull both #BOTD I suppose it was inevitable that it would come to this... 0247
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 8hCover art by John Walter Scott, December 1939. 0186
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 8hFrom 1956, Helen Frankenthaler in her studio. Photo by Gordon Parks. 06319
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 8h"I never cry, but yesterday, when I heard the news [about Stevie's death] I sat down on my bed and cried like a little baby." (John Lee Hooker) Stevie Ray Vaughan, born 3 October 1954. 0183
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 8hFirst #Caturday of October. From five years ago, the girls keeping careful watch on a visiting squirrel. 1211
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Audrey Hepburn as Ondine in the adaptation of Giraudoux's play of the same name. The drama was successfully staged on Broadway in 1954. Photo by Milton H. Greene. 0375
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Artist and illustrator Charles de Sousy Ricketts, born 2 October 1866. 0275
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Happy Birthday to Annie Leibovitz, #BOTD. 0224
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Happy Birthday to Annie Leibovitz, born 2 October 1949. 04510
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed." Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, #BOTD. 0303
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition." Graham Greene, born 2 October 1904. 2379
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's the second of October and Christmas is almost here. 4263
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Julius Henry Marx, born 2 October 1890. 1537
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, born 1 October 1903. 1234
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From 1951, recently married Yves Montand and Simone Signoret driving through the Côte d'Azur region. In the back seat is Signoret's daughter Catherine Allégret from her previous marriage. Photo by Walter Carone. 0304
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Jean Gabin left Paris just before the Nazis took control and followed others to Hollywood. Dissatisfied with studio offerings he returned to Europe to fight with the Free French, eventually rising to tank commander, and subsequently awarded the Médaille militaire and Croix de Guerre. 316930
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Actors take themselves so seriously. Samuel Beckett is important, James Joyce is--they left something behind them. But even Laurence Olivier is totally unimportant. Acting is actually very simple, but actors try to elevate it to an art." Richard Harris, born 1 October 1930. 4477
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Laurence Harvey, born 1 October 1928. 0425
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"A lot of parts I want they give to Robert Redford." Walter Matthau, born 1 October 1920. 0477
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"They were afraid of dying but even more afraid to show it... They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." Happy Birthday to Tim O'Brien, born 1 October 1946. 0237
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/20261 October 1975: In brutally hot, humid conditions, Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier fought their third and final fight in the Philippines. At the end of the 14th round, Frazier's corner men refused to let him continue and Ali won by a TKO. Ali later said, "This is the closest I've ever been to dying." 4298
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Happy Birthday to Angie Dickinson wherever you are... 2302
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The best, my favorite... Life would be kind if I could live it with Deborah around." Robert Mitchum speaking of his favorite co-star Deborah Kerr, born 30 September 1921. 0317
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Dream No. 7: Who Will She Be?” (1949) Photo by Grete Stern 0323
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026San Francisco, 1953. Photo by Fred Lyon. 0252
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Paris, 1954. Photo by Gianni Berengo Gardin. 0182
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In Tiznit, Morocco, 1987. Photo by Bruno Barbey. 0171
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Spend your winter in Juan-Les-Pins in the Antibes, c. 1930. Poster by Bernard de Guinhald. 0295
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I'd rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of 'The King and I'..." Deborah Kerr, born 30 September 1921. 2345
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From 1963, Jeanne Moreau by Georges Dambier. 1294
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"My wife is American, though, and she's been my wife for 36 years, and I do love the place. When I see all this Trump bullshit, all his bombast and stupidity, I think that's not the America I know." Happy Birthday to Ian McShane, born 29 September 1942. 1427
davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Actually, I hold a degree in speech therapy. I was going to get my doctorate but acting got in the way. Pity, I always thought I'd like to do something dignified." The very talented Madeline Kahn, born 29 September 1942. 37616
