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After previewing Pandora and the Flying Dutchman at Eastman House last week, I told assistant film curator Ed Stratmann that Jack Cardiff must be thrilled. The 94-year-old Cardiff is the fabled cinematographer of several of the most famous of color films — Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The African Queen and more. He shot Pandora in 1951 for its florid director Albert Lewin, who was creating a modern-day interpretation of two ancient legends, blending the story of the all-time temptress and of the sailor who was condemned to sail the seas until he could find a woman who loved him so much she would die for him.
Clearly, Cardiff was inspired by being able to train his cameras on three very beautiful things: the Mediterranean coast of Spain, the handsome James Mason and the stunning Ava Gardner.
The film's Technicolor imagery makes it a cinematic equivalent of an elegant coffee-table book. It may not be the greatest film you've ever seen, but it's surely one of the best-looking. (In that sense, it's not unlike its iconic star. Ava Gardner never won an Oscar, but she sure was easy on the eyes.)
The Eastman House is one of only a handful of institutions involved in the noble task of preserving our film heritage. The restoration of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman was conducted with the financial support of The Film Foundation, the primary organization engaged in film preservation work, with Academy Film Archive (Los Angeles); Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.); Museum of Modern Art (New York); and UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles); along with the Eastman House.
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After previewing Pandora and the Flying Dutchman at Eastman House last week, I told assistant film curator Ed Stratmann that Jack Cardiff must be thrilled. The 94-year-old Cardiff is the fabled cinematographer of several of the most famous of color films — Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The African Queen and more. He shot Pandora in 1951 for its florid director Albert Lewin, who was creating a modern-day interpretation of two ancient legends, blending the story of the all-time temptress and of the sailor who was condemned to sail the seas until he could find a woman who loved him so much she would die for him.
Clearly, Cardiff was inspired by being able to train his cameras on three very beautiful things: the Mediterranean coast of Spain, the handsome James Mason and the stunning Ava Gardner.
The film's Technicolor imagery makes it a cinematic equivalent of an elegant coffee-table book. It may not be the greatest film you've ever seen, but it's surely one of the best-looking. (In that sense, it's not unlike its iconic star. Ava Gardner never won an Oscar, but she sure was easy on the eyes.)
The Eastman House is one of only a handful of institutions involved in the noble task of preserving our film heritage. The restoration of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman was conducted with the financial support of The Film Foundation, the primary organization engaged in film preservation work, with Academy Film Archive (Los Angeles); Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.); Museum of Modern Art (New York); and UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles); along with the Eastman House.
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The Alisal Ranch is located just south of Solvang, on Alisal Road in the Santa Ynez Valley. It is probably best known for its guest accommodations and range of recreational activities, yet part of the Alisal is still a working cattle ranch.
The guest ranch began in summer 1946 under the ownership of Pete Jackson, with accommodations for 30 people. It became a popular getaway for celebrities: Clark Gable got married there to Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949, and other guests included Groucho Marx, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Kirk Douglas.
The Alisal Ranch is located just south of Solvang, on Alisal Road in the Santa Ynez Valley. It is probably best known for its guest accommodations and range of recreational activities, yet part of the Alisal is still a working cattle ranch.
The guest ranch began in summer 1946 under the ownership of Pete Jackson, with accommodations for 30 people. It became a popular getaway for celebrities: Clark Gable got married there to Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949, and other guests included Groucho Marx, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Kirk Douglas.
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Don’ t avoid the obvious: there is a half-naked woman on the cover of Steve Amick’s new book – wearing “nothing but a smile,” which appropriately is the title of the book (wink-wink). She made quite the impression on you when you walked into Nicola’s Books, where Amick was doing a book signing Tuesday night.
How she got there is quite an innocent story. The book, “Wearing Nothing But a Smile,” deftly balances the innocence of WWII pin-up girls with the harsh realities of the war back home.
Amick admits to stumbling on the idea of a book with the pin-up industry central to the plot.
In 2006, the Ann Arbor author said he and his father-in-law had been talking about cheesecake art, especially the work of noted pin-up artist Gil Elvgren, whose work they both admired. Later, Amick was looking for a calendar online when he came across an especially cheesy pin-up.
“It was old – really old amateur photograph of a girl in a bathing suit. Well, actually half a bathing suit,” Amick said. He showed the audience his muse at the book signing and it appeared that no bathing suit was closer to the truth.
He printed out the pin-up and put it in his writing file. A day later he looked at it and made it his assignment to write about that picture.
“I thought it would be a great assignment and I gave it the title ‘Girlies,’” he said. “I’m a writer who works with assignments.” This may be partially derived from Amick’s song writing and art skills. Amick has a CD and drew the dust jacket art for his first book, “The Lake, the River & the Other Lake.”
The result is an unusual look at the war on the home front, complete with a love lost, a love found and survival wrapped around an innocent diversion that gradually becomes sleazy.
The plot is like one of those innumerable WWII war movies. Near the end of the war, the central character, Wink Dutton, returns home with a hand injury which has ruined his cartooning career. He decides to make an unannounced visit to Sal, his buddy’s wife who has stepped in to operate a family camera store in Chicago. Wink rents a room from Sal and discovers she has been attempting to supplement her income by selling pin-up photos with herself as the model. Of course, Wink graciously offers to step in as the photographer.
Amick said that although the book is peripherally about the pin-up industry, that it “wasn’t going to be another Kavalier & Clay,” (which detailed the comic book industry while along the way winning the Pulitzer Prize).
“It is really about two people putting themselves into positions where conflicts and needs are created. I just let flow. It’s a he said/she said novel,” he told the large crowd which filled every seat in Nicola’s on a cold wet night. It may have been gloomy outside, but Amick entertained the group with his wit and readings, which were frequently punctuated with laughter.
It’s a funny book, in addition to being a romantic and historical look at an era. The one scene he read where Sal and her friend Renee buy black market nylons for the budding pin-up business was reminiscent of Lucy and Ethel and their outlandish skits on the Ricky Ricardo show. The book nails the era: the home front city of Chicago, the burgeoning women’s movement, the black market economy and tough and tumble streets of Chicago’s Loop.
If you’ve ever seen a WWII-era interior photograph of a soldier’s barracks, you’ve probably noticed pin-ups adorning a wall above a bed. Not only did GIs carry the folded pin-ups into battle, but they ended up on the noses of bombers and fighter planes (probably some made right here in nearby Ypsilanti). Many a GI’s green trunk came home from the war with Ava Gardner pasted on the inside of the plywood luggage.
Don’ t avoid the obvious: there is a half-naked woman on the cover of Steve Amick’s new book – wearing “nothing but a smile,” which appropriately is the title of the book (wink-wink). She made quite the impression on you when you walked into Nicola’s Books, where Amick was doing a book signing Tuesday night.
How she got there is quite an innocent story. The book, “Wearing Nothing But a Smile,” deftly balances the innocence of WWII pin-up girls with the harsh realities of the war back home.
Amick admits to stumbling on the idea of a book with the pin-up industry central to the plot.
In 2006, the Ann Arbor author said he and his father-in-law had been talking about cheesecake art, especially the work of noted pin-up artist Gil Elvgren, whose work they both admired. Later, Amick was looking for a calendar online when he came across an especially cheesy pin-up.
“It was old – really old amateur photograph of a girl in a bathing suit. Well, actually half a bathing suit,” Amick said. He showed the audience his muse at the book signing and it appeared that no bathing suit was closer to the truth.
He printed out the pin-up and put it in his writing file. A day later he looked at it and made it his assignment to write about that picture.
“I thought it would be a great assignment and I gave it the title ‘Girlies,’” he said. “I’m a writer who works with assignments.” This may be partially derived from Amick’s song writing and art skills. Amick has a CD and drew the dust jacket art for his first book, “The Lake, the River & the Other Lake.”
The result is an unusual look at the war on the home front, complete with a love lost, a love found and survival wrapped around an innocent diversion that gradually becomes sleazy.
The plot is like one of those innumerable WWII war movies. Near the end of the war, the central character, Wink Dutton, returns home with a hand injury which has ruined his cartooning career. He decides to make an unannounced visit to Sal, his buddy’s wife who has stepped in to operate a family camera store in Chicago. Wink rents a room from Sal and discovers she has been attempting to supplement her income by selling pin-up photos with herself as the model. Of course, Wink graciously offers to step in as the photographer.
Amick said that although the book is peripherally about the pin-up industry, that it “wasn’t going to be another Kavalier & Clay,” (which detailed the comic book industry while along the way winning the Pulitzer Prize).
“It is really about two people putting themselves into positions where conflicts and needs are created. I just let flow. It’s a he said/she said novel,” he told the large crowd which filled every seat in Nicola’s on a cold wet night. It may have been gloomy outside, but Amick entertained the group with his wit and readings, which were frequently punctuated with laughter.
It’s a funny book, in addition to being a romantic and historical look at an era. The one scene he read where Sal and her friend Renee buy black market nylons for the budding pin-up business was reminiscent of Lucy and Ethel and their outlandish skits on the Ricky Ricardo show. The book nails the era: the home front city of Chicago, the burgeoning women’s movement, the black market economy and tough and tumble streets of Chicago’s Loop.
If you’ve ever seen a WWII-era interior photograph of a soldier’s barracks, you’ve probably noticed pin-ups adorning a wall above a bed. Not only did GIs carry the folded pin-ups into battle, but they ended up on the noses of bombers and fighter planes (probably some made right here in nearby Ypsilanti). Many a GI’s green trunk came home from the war with Ava Gardner pasted on the inside of the plywood luggage.
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Although equally as well known for her beauty and her famous husbands as she was for her acting (one Oscar nomination, no wins), Ava Gardner nevertheless gave us many memorable performances during her 45-year career.
Born Ava Lavinia Gardner on December 24, 1922, the daughter of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, she caught MGM's eye as a beautiful teenager and was playing bit parts in films by the time she was 20. She landed her first starring role in Whistle Stop (1946), then made a splash that same year in The Killers, co-starring with Burt Lancaster. But it wasn't until 1953 when John Ford cast her in Mogambo with Clark Gable that her true talent emerged, gaining her one Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. The Barefoot Contessa followed in 1954, then George Cukor's Bhowani Junction in 1956. Other notable films during this period included Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), with Gregory Peck, The Sun Also Rises (1957), with Tyrone Power, and On the Beach (1959), again with Peck.
Her marriages were even bigger news than her films. She married actor Mickey Rooney 1941; that lasted until 1943. She married bandleader Artie Shaw in 1945; they divorced the followed year. Her marriage to Frank Sinatra was the most famous and the longest-lasting, from 1948 to 1957. (During her marriage to Sinatra, she had to lend him money, since it was during a low point in his career. Sinatra, in turn, paid all her medical expenses after her stroke in 1989, even though they were no longer married.)
It all became too much, especially when she continued to have trouble getting quality parts, and she moved to Spain in the late 50s, making most of her films in Europe after that. She later moved to London, where she lived until her death. She delivered strong performances in 55 Days at Peking (1963), with Charlton Heston, The Night of the Iguana (1964), with Richard Burton, Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, but that was about all. Her beauty continued to be her greatest strength, even when she was over 50. In 1974 she appeared in Earthquake, playing Lorne Greene's daughter in spite of the fact that she was only 6 years younger than him at the time! Her final film was an undistinguished 1986 made-for-TV effort called Harem. She spent her final years living in her apartment in London with her housekeeper Carmen and her dog, Morgan (both of whom were taken in by Gregory Peck after she died). She passed away of pneumonia in London on January 25, 1990, at the age of 67. She had just finished work on her autobiography ("Ava, My Story"), but didn't live to see the book published
Although equally as well known for her beauty and her famous husbands as she was for her acting (one Oscar nomination, no wins), Ava Gardner nevertheless gave us many memorable performances during her 45-year career.
Born Ava Lavinia Gardner on December 24, 1922, the daughter of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, she caught MGM's eye as a beautiful teenager and was playing bit parts in films by the time she was 20. She landed her first starring role in Whistle Stop (1946), then made a splash that same year in The Killers, co-starring with Burt Lancaster. But it wasn't until 1953 when John Ford cast her in Mogambo with Clark Gable that her true talent emerged, gaining her one Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. The Barefoot Contessa followed in 1954, then George Cukor's Bhowani Junction in 1956. Other notable films during this period included Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), with Gregory Peck, The Sun Also Rises (1957), with Tyrone Power, and On the Beach (1959), again with Peck.
Her marriages were even bigger news than her films. She married actor Mickey Rooney 1941; that lasted until 1943. She married bandleader Artie Shaw in 1945; they divorced the followed year. Her marriage to Frank Sinatra was the most famous and the longest-lasting, from 1948 to 1957. (During her marriage to Sinatra, she had to lend him money, since it was during a low point in his career. Sinatra, in turn, paid all her medical expenses after her stroke in 1989, even though they were no longer married.)
It all became too much, especially when she continued to have trouble getting quality parts, and she moved to Spain in the late 50s, making most of her films in Europe after that. She later moved to London, where she lived until her death. She delivered strong performances in 55 Days at Peking (1963), with Charlton Heston, The Night of the Iguana (1964), with Richard Burton, Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, but that was about all. Her beauty continued to be her greatest strength, even when she was over 50. In 1974 she appeared in Earthquake, playing Lorne Greene's daughter in spite of the fact that she was only 6 years younger than him at the time! Her final film was an undistinguished 1986 made-for-TV effort called Harem. She spent her final years living in her apartment in London with her housekeeper Carmen and her dog, Morgan (both of whom were taken in by Gregory Peck after she died). She passed away of pneumonia in London on January 25, 1990, at the age of 67. She had just finished work on her autobiography ("Ava, My Story"), but didn't live to see the book published
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N, glad to have found a pic you haven't seen yet.
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Thank you, N, that is very nice to hear! I love the pic above.
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