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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 1h

#BOTD 1913 Janis Carter: American stage and film actress who performed throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s. During the mid-1950s, she began working regularly on television, co-hosting with Bud Collyer the NBC daytime show Feather Your Nest. Girl Trouble (1942), Framed (1947), Santa Fe (1951)...

Janis Carter and Glenn Ford behind the scenes on the set of the film noir Framed in November 1946.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 4h

#BOTD 1900 Helen Hayes MacArthur: American actress. Often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", she was the second person and first woman to win the EGOT, and the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting.

Helen Hayes as amateur sleuth Ernesta Snoop and Alice Cooper as a cult leader named Prince in the 1974 television episode The Devil Made Me Do It! from the series The Snoop Sisters.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 4h

#BOTD 1892 Constance Worth in Rawdon, West Yorkshire. Actress, known for Wisp o' the Woods (1919), The Starting Point (1919) and Oranges Lemons (1920).

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#NowPlaying Blue Chemise - Mothers of All (DL-Students of Decay) "For acolytes of The Caretaker, Biosphere, Elodie, Akira Rabelais, Lynch and Gas...a brand of liminal wooo, tripping the line between bucolic and noir in this looping, midsummer’s-dream-like inception." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-y...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#BOTD 1918 Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova: Russian-French actress of the screen and stage. For her portrayal of Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek (1964), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Russian actress to win the award. Torn Curtain (1966), The Tennant (1976)...

Lila Kedrova in the 1966 Alfred Hitchcock Cold War thriller Torn Curtain.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#NowWatching Onslaught (D:Adam Winged, 2026) "Yet, the main problem is that Wingard seems to perceive Onslaught as pastiche in a way that he didn’t with his other films and bad pastiche fails both the present-day viewer and the works the film is supposedly paying homage to."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#BOTD 1911 Sally Stewart in Carlisle, Cumbria. Actress, known for The Lady Vanishes (1938), Holiday's End (1937) and Falling in Love (1934).

Actress Sally Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have a great trip Catherine. If you're in the area: Royal Oak - Richmond Park, Star and Garter Hill (51.444629,-0.283511) you can type Longitude and Latitude into Google Maps for directions, don't forget comma. 600 + years old. You should return with a few #ThickTrunkTuesdays.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#BOTD 1923 Sonja Kolthoff in Stockholm, Sweden. Actress, known for Topaz (1969), Sju vackra flickor (1956) and Eurydike (1961).

Actors Sonja Kolthoff (left), Tina Hedström (center), and Per-Axel Arosenius (right) in a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock Topaz (1969).

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#BOTD 1922 Martha Ruth Stewart Shelley (Martha Stewart) American actress. Noted for playing Mildred Atkinson in In a Lonely Place (1950) alongside Humphrey Bogart. Come Back to Me (1945), Daisy Kenyon (1947), Convicted (1950)...

Humphrey Bogart and actress Martha Stewart in a scene from In a Lonely Place (1950).

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eva Marie Saint, 1924-2026 Among the last icons of the golden age of Hollywood, Saint was never quite a movie star in the conventional sense. The Oscar-winning actress leaves behind a career defined less by celebrity than by generosity, craft and an abiding faith in the ensemble

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Eva Marie Saint obituary: Oscar-winning star of On the Waterfront and North by Northwest

Among the last icons of the golden age of Hollywood, Saint was never quite a movie star in the conventional sense. The Oscar-winning actress, who has died aged 102, leaves behind a career defined less...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Morning Catherine. Glad to see replacements flourishing, wish we had some more replanting going on around here.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BOTD 1926 Josephine Douglas: British actress and TV and film producer. Played a pioneering role as a woman in television production at a time when it was dominated by men. Co-producer and co-host of Britain's first pop chart television show, Six-Five Special, during 1957–58. Stage Fright (1950)

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#BOTD 1849 Basil Zaharoff: Greek arms dealer and industrialist. Zaharoff was described as both a "merchant of death" and a "mystery man of Europe", an arms salesman who made a career out of selling to both sides in a conflict... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Greek-born international arms dealer and financier Basil Zaharoff walking on the street in Monte Carlo in February 1931.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#NowWatching Lust for Gold (D/P: S.Sylvan Simon,1949) "Clean-shaven Glenn Ford: baby-faced lover Glenn Ford with a five o'clock shadow: ruthless killer."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Part triffid part War of the Worlds.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Morning Catherine! A fine thick trunk it is too.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#NowWatching Four Ways Out (D: Pietro Germi, 1951) "Noir meets neorealism. The simple morality of how crime doesn't pay with everyone being doomed from the very beginning. Fellini, Comencini share writing credits, Germi's direction is expectedly strong and the location photography is great."

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Glynis Johns, born 5 October 1923.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BOTD 1885 Ida Lvovna Rubinstein: Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. Performed with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 and later formed her own company. Boléro by Ravel was among her commissions. florentschmitt.com/2015/09/08/m...

Ida Rubinstein as Cléopâtre in the production Antoine et Cléopâtre at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra in Paris.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a day early, apols, I was sure it was the 6th!

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

6 October 1908 – 1942 Carole Lombard, age 33, (Plane Crash), US actress. Clark Gable (m. 1939 to her death) "You can trust that little screwball with your life, or your hopes, or your weaknesses, and she wouldn't even know how to think about letting you down." - Clark Gable

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

6 October 1908 – 1942 Carole Lombard, (b. Jane Peters), 33, (Plane Crash), US actress. Film debut: A Perfect Crime (1921) * Mack Sennett silent comedies (1927-29) Twentieth Century * My Man Godfrey (OscarNom) * Nothing Sacred * True Confession * Mr & Mrs Smith * To Be or Not to Be (1942 final film)

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi Catherine, good luck with that dentist! I'm there myself this week, but "just" the hygienist.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1511. Fingers crossed for Monday.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SundayAfternoonWestern Terror in a Texas Town (D:Joseph H.Lewis, 1958) "...a deeply unsettling and morally complex film that transcends its low-budget origins to deliver a powerful critique of American society...the film confronts uncomfortable truths about power, justice, and societal complicity."

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alexander-sims.bsky.social @alexander-sims.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Drop some TRANSFORMATIONS 🔄🖤😳

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#BOTD 1891 Sybil Grove: English actress known for Let Us Be Gay (1930), C.O.D. (1932), Maid Happy (1933) and Alfred Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934).

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Caturday Frank Kelley Freas, Weird Tales, 1990. Looks like one of those 'Woman into Cat' stories though am at a loss to explain the plate of biscuits resembling Malted Milk.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BOTD 1908 Berlin Evelyn Holt: German actress. Known for Die Waise von Lowood (1926), Namensheirat (1930) and Eine Stunde Glück (1931). "Adolf Hitler’s coming to power in 1933, abruptly ended her profession as a film actress. The reason: her original name looked too Jewish. "

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BOTD 1880 Theodora Bosanquet: writer, editor, secretary, and amanuensis to Henry James. Worked as Executive Secretary of the International Federation of University Women, as well as a contributor, director and literary editor of, the magazine Time and Tide. spartacus-educational.com/Theodora_Bos...

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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.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BOTD 1901 Alice Ernestine Prin, nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse: French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. naja.co/blogs/wonder...

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Wonder Women: Alice Prin

The “Queen of Montparnasse” was the nickname given to the inimitable force of nature born as Alice Ernestine Prin. Growing up in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Alice, or as she later came to be known – Kiki of ...

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