| Intl. Notebook | May 17 2018 |
Redhead risks serious sunburn to get a base tan.
Belgium's Ciné-Revue is one of the best film magazines of the mid-century era. It's also one of the hardest to scan. Not only do the pages need to be scanned in halves and joined via computer, but the tiny text makes lining the halves up a real challenge. We didn't think about that when we bought a stack of these in Paris several years back, and now the sheer effort involved causes us to doubt we'll ever get them all uploaded. But we managed to carve out a few hours, so today we have this issue from May 1975 with French actress Marlène Jobert doing a little topless boating on the cover, hopefully well slathered in sunscreen. Jobert also features in the beachy center spread wearing even less clothing (and theoretically more sunscreen), but the real star of this issue is Bette Davis, who receives a career retrospective with shots from seemingly every movie she ever made. You also get William Holden, Jane Birkin, Dominique Sanda, Sidney Poitier, Sophia Loren, Rita Hayworth, Agostina Belli, a feature on Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and much more, in forty-plus scans.
BelgiumCiné-RevueJawsWilliam HoldenJane BirkinMarlène JobertSidney PoitierAgostina BelliOrson WellesRichard DreyfussRoy ScheiderRobert ShawBette DavisDominique SandaLee MarvinRoger MooreMaud AdamsSerge GainsbourgMonica VittiKatherine RossSophia LorenVirginia BellEsther AndersonRita HayworthSteven Spielbergcinema
| Intl. Notebook | Jun 21 2013 |
The year’s longest day in a season that’s always too short.
In some places the weather is warm every day, pretty much, but in others, warmth is a fleeting gift. Regardless of where you are, we are officially at the beginning of summer, with the solstice arriving today or tomorrow, depending on your time zone. So we’ve decided to pull together some summery promo pix. These are from Japanese magazines and feature stars who were most famous during the 1950s and 1960s, including Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, Yvette Mimieux, and others. You can similar summer collections from previous years here and here.
JapanJaqueline BisssetJoanna ShimkusJane BirkinUrsula AndressBrigitte BardotRaquel WelchMarlène JobertKatia ChristinaYuko AsanoClaudia CardinaleSylva KoscinaBarbara BouchetYvette Mimieux
| Hollywoodland | Sep 4 2010 |
Thirty days of summer.
Summer is dwindling in the parts of the world that have actual seasons. As a reminder of everyone’s favorite time of year we’ve searched the internet and cobbled together a collection of thirty vintage images featuring some of yesteryear’s fittest femmes and hommes enjoying the sun, and sometimes each other. If you haven’t had a summertime moment like one of those below, there’s still time. Get to it.
Sean ConneryUrsula AndressAlison Chang-YenJane HowardAva GardnerRoxanne ArlenRock HudsonSharon TateMarlène JobertAudrey HepburnFernando LamasErrol FlynnMaruschka DetmersAgnes LumCary GrantMarilyn MonroeGloria HendryRaquel WelchRicardo MontalbanBettie PageFarrah FawcettJoan CollinsJolene BrandChristina LindbergPam GrierTerry MoorePaul NewmanGievanna LizzaBarbara CarreraAnnette HavenJames Deansex symbolnudity
| Femmes Fatales | Jul 4 2009 |
French actress Marlène Jobert, circa 1972. She is the mother of actress Eva Green.
