Sex on wheels: cars of the stars

FATTY ARBUCKLE AND HIS 1919 PIERCE ARROW

ERICH VON STROHEIM AND HIS CADILLAC

HAROLD LLOYD AND WIFE MILDRED DAVIS WITH THEIR BUICK

LINCOLN THEODORE MONROE ANDREW PERRY, AKA STEPIN FETCHIT, WITH HIS CADILLAC PHAETON

JOAN CRAWFORD WITH HER 1929 FORD TOWN CAR

BABE RUTH RECEIVING A 1926 AUBURN ROADSTER AS A GIFT

LILLIAN HARVEY AND HER MERCEDES

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER WITH HIS 1932 CHEVROLET

CLARK GABLE WITH HIS 1932 PACKARD

LAUREL AND HARDY IN THEIR BUICK 1930 SERIES 30 MODEL 30-45 PHAETON

JOAN CRAWFORD (AGAIN) AND HER 1930 (OR 1931) CADILLAC FLEETWOOD

CARL BRISSON BEHIND THE WHEEL OF HIS 1934 ISOTTA FRASCHINI

AL JOLSON WITH HIS MERCEDES

JEAN HARLOW WITH HER CADILLAC

WILLIAM POWELL ADMIRES GARY COOPER'S DUESENBERG

BUCK JONES WITH HIS 1933 PACKARD SPECIAL

ERROL FLYNN DRIVING HIS PACKARD

.... AND AUBURN ROADSTER

TYRONE POWER WITH HIS DUESENBERG

.... AND POST-WAR JAGUAR

ROBERT MONTGOMERY WITH HIS CADILLAC SPORT PHAETON

JOAN CRAWFORD (YES, AGAIN) IN HER 1933 FORD ROADSTER

JAMES "JIMMY" STEWART WITH HIS PLYMOUTH

GINGER ROGERS AND HER 1937 DODGE

NORWEGIAN OLYMPIC FIGURE-SKATING CHAMPION, AND HOLLYWOOD STAR SONJA HENIE, POSING WITH HER 1936 CORD 810

CECIL B. DE MILLE WITH HIS 1937 CORD

RITA HAYWORTH WITH HER 1941 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL

BING CROSBY GIVING RIDES AROUND THE STUDIO LOT IN HIS 1939 OLDS COUPE CONVERTIBLE

CARY GRANT PARKED ON THE FENDER OF HIS 1941 BUICK CENTURY

JOHN WAYNE AND MAUREEN O'HARA IN A 1914 STUTZ BEARCAT

(Sent to me by Matt Paust, along with another display of rip-roaring Old West photos which I might reproduce here. These are, as far as I am able to make out, in the public domain, unless passing them around five thousand times means you gotta get permission. I won't say anything about them because they speak for themselves. I have a major jones for old cars AND a major jones for old Hollywood, so this is pure bliss to me.)

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Caitlin's grad: ready to fly!

Caitlin graduates from Grade 7. . . with proud Mom and Dad.

With proud Grandma and Grandpa.

Proud Caitlin!

Grandma made Caitlin's grad gift, the photo frame, out of old CDs. No glue gun, so I broke my budget on that clear packing tape, you know the kind that keeps sticking back on the roll/ripping? Oh well, it turned out pretty good.

Lovely Caitlin.

Run, run, RUN!

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The First Movie

Phenakistoscope

One of Muybridge's early gizmos to try to make his still pictures/motion study sequences "move". I'm not sure how he did this, perhaps he painted the images on, but that would mean painting a lot of nude women onto glass plates. Then, I assume, it would spin around and you'd look at it. There is no more than a second or two of animation here, but then, the "first movie ever made" ain't exactly Gone with the Wind either:

I can't post the Director's Cut here because I can't get it to come up. So that means another post. Sigh. Some day these will end, I promise!

Splash!