DEVIL IN A YELLOW DRESS

It's good she manages to have fun, since nobody around her does.

Back in 2010 we discussed the 1951 Mexican drama Susana and shared a poster from that country. We recently found this French promo and liked the vibrancy of it, so we’re augmenting our coverage of the film. This piece was painted by Russian artist Boris Grinsson, a great talent who worked mostly in France and who we’ve highlighted often. Just feast your eyes on this example.

Susana, known in France as Susana la perverse, starred Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, and Víctor Manuel. If you check dictionaries the word perverse is defined multiple ways, but we like “willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired,” which is definitely the crux of the film. It’s isn’t perfect, but it’s worth a watch for Quintana’s life-wrecking femme fatale. It premiered in France today in 1952.

France, Spain, Russia, Susana, Susana la perverse, Boris Grinsson, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel, poster art, cinema

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January 17

1950—The Great Brinks Robbery Occurs

In the U.S., eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The skillful execution of the crime, with only a bare minimum of clues left at the scene, results in the robbery being billed as “the crime of the century.” Despite this, all the members of the gang are later arrested.

January 17

1977—Gary Gilmore Is Executed

Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. Gilmore’s story is later turned into a 1979 novel entitled The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, and the book wins the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

January 16

1942—Carole Lombard Dies in Plane Crash

American actress Carole Lombard, who was the highest paid star in Hollywood during the late 1930s, dies in the crash of TWA Flight 3, on which she was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headlining a war bond rally in support of America’s military efforts. She was thirty-three years old.

January 15

1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.

January 14

1967—Summer of Love Begins

The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people in attendance, their purpose being to promote their ideals of personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological preservation, and higher consciousness. The event is considered the beginning of the famed counterculture Summer of Love.

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