Vintage shots from days gone by!

Looks like it to me. Great actor but hard taskmaster as producer/director.

 

West German girls chat with their grandparents in East Germany, separated from them by an early version of the Berlin Wall.

 

ispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia (1938)

From an interesting Spanish engineering firm with quite the reputation for plane-like luxury cars (worth mentioning they also built aviation engines).

 

Muhammad Ali - 1960s

 

Lewis Carroll, Rev. Thomas Childe Barker and his daughter, May 1864

 

Lulu

 

Carmen Miranda “Week-End in Havana” 1941

 

In the 60's wasn't he still Cassiaus Clay? When did he change his name?

BB

 

He changed from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali in '64.

 

Richmond CA Executive motor inn

 

New Orleans

 

Reminds me of the "BLOB" movie! Is it going to eat that car?

 

Springfield MA

 

Cool.

 

Tommy James and the Shondells

 

Is that Ann Margaret in the bottom picture?Yeow!

 

The guy in the Tommy James pic on the end looks like one of the 3 stooges teenage kids.

 

Harry Miller’s first masterpiece, a SOHC 16-Valve – Four Cylinder Engine and the Golden Submarine many more photos and info here.

 

At first I thought he was a blowhard and full of himself. But he made a believer out of me. He wasn't bragging, he was telling a fact. He was "the greatest".

 

Sandwiched between "Rio Bravo" ('59) and "The Alamo" ('60) was the fact-based Civil War cavalry action movie, "The Horse Soldiers," dramatizing Grierson's Raid, a two-week, behind-the-lines dash, mainly in April 1863, by some 150 Union horse soldiers. Their mission was (1) to conduct a diversion so that U.S. Grant could prepare to prosecute the Vicksburg Campaign from the Mississippi River, and (2) if possible, to take out a strategically placed tressle on a rail line supplying the Confederate stronghold. In short, Grierson's Raid succeeded, and with few casualties, to boot.

On film, though, veteran stuntman Fred Kennedy was killed when his horse fell during the climactic cavalry charge. Director John Ford was so upset, he ceased the onsite shooting in Louisiana and Mississippi, resulting in an abrupt ending wherein the viewer is left knowing -- though not SEEING -- Wayne lead his troopers to safely rejoin the main Union force. Oddly, seems to me, Ford left the scene showing Kennedy fall in the movie's final cut.

That said, still another eye-popping Ford action flick, typical of the aforementioned movies of the time!

 

A couple of candid shots from the Mississippi/Louisiana sets of "The Horse Soldiers,"
1959. Anybody know who the vet bit player rapping with the Duke and John Ford is???
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Both photos are from a fan site called johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=786&start=90&st=0&sk=t&sd... Search it & read
the interesting member commentary!

 

Member Gary Zaboly of the above-mentioned site believes this "Horse Soldiers"
mural was done by famed Hollywood poster artist Reynold Brown who did
probably hundreds of posters for disparate films, from "The 10 Commandments"
and "Ben Hur" to "Butterfield 8," "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" and "I
Was a Teenage Werewolf." I think Gary is right! Brown was kept in the shadows
throughout his career, just like the bit screen players whose faces we ALWAYS
recognize but whose NAMES rarely apppear in the titles! I hope that people ev-
erywhere will look harder at the classic movie posters and help give Reynold
Brown the credit he deserved. Heck, HIS ART was responsible for putting paying
moviegoers into theater seats!




Above, a trademark of Brown's work was the tedious inclusion of scores of figures in the background.
Below, same art, simplified for the comicbook version.

 

The charming pic below from the set of "The Horse Soldiers" came from the site I mentioned
and was provided by one John Farkis. I'm guessing that little Aissa here is one of Duke's
youngest children (with his missus, Pilar) who was visiting the movie set. Any Wayne fans
out there who know for sure?