#Gail Edwards

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I just remembered all the late 80s to early 2000s sitcom women I crushed on back in the day....

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Hey, people who’ve never seen Get Crazy (1983)—based on the montage below, what would you guess is the plot?

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Milestone Monday

The Morse Dry Dock Dial, 1921

New York Movie, 1939

Houses of Squam Light, 1923

Interior, 1925

Self Portrait, 1904

Cape Ann Granite, 1928

Night Windows, 1928

Jo Painting, 1936

Nighthawks, 1942

Cape Cod Morning, 1950

July 22nd marks the birthday of American realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Born in Nyack, New York, Hopper took to art at a young age exploring shadows and shapes through charcoal drawings. By age ten, he started to sign and date his work and, with his parents' encouragement, spent his teen years delving into watercolor and oil painting. Declaring his professional interest in art, Hopper attended the New York School of Art and went on to become a renowned figure in American Realism.  

Like many before him, Hopper started his career in commercial illustration to pay the bills but by the late twenties he was supporting himself through showing and selling his paintings. Hopper’s work explores architectural American environments and intimate rural scenes through a lens of solitude. The dramatic moods of his paintings are created through his expertise in capturing light and shadow to convey the subtilties of human experience.  

In celebration of the day, we’re sharing Edward Hopper: a catalogue raisonné published in 1995 by Whitney Museum of American Art and edited by art historian Gail Levin (b. 1948). The three-volume catalog is a definitive work on Hopper featuring essays on the artist and hundreds of plates encompassing the entire scope of his career. Scholars will delight at the publication’s inclusion of bibliographic details including provenance and exhibition histories attributed to most pieces.  

Read other Milestone Monday posts here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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John Farrow’s NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, starring Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell and John Lund, premiered in New York City 75 years ago today.

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Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933).

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Murders in the Zoo (1933)

"Mr. Yates, never be afraid of a wild animal. Let it alone and it will leave you alone. That's more than you can say of most humans."

"You don't mean to say you really like these beasts?"

"I love them. Their honesty, their simplicity, their primitive emotions: they love, they hate, they kill."

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NOIR CITY 20 at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Day 9: Matinée-NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES (1:00) & ALL MY SONS (3:00). Matinée screenings introduced by Alan K. Rode. Evening shows by Eddie Muller. Full festival and tickets: www.NoirCity.com

1:00 PM

NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES

In this rarity, Edward G. Robinson stars as John Triton, a phony vaudeville mentalist who is one day cursed with the actual ability to predict the future. Gail Russell is the heiress who seems doomed by Triton's vision of her death. Or is it a scheme to steal her impending inheritance? John Farrow, a director at his most stylish in noir terrain, adapts from the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. Co-starring John Lund and William Demarest. Universal Pictures struck this print exclusively for NOIR CITY back in 2008.

Originally released October 13, 1948. Paramount [Universal], 81 minutes. Screenplay by Jonathan Latimer and Barré Lyndon, from the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Produced by Endre Bohem. Directed by John Farrow.

3:00 PM

ALL MY SONS

Edward G. Robinson gives one of his most affecting performances as successful businessman Joe Keller, grappling with guilt over having framed his business partner for a crime he committed. When his son (Burt Lancaster) becomes engaged to the convicted man's daughter, the sins of the past come hurtling back. Reis and writer-producer Chester Erskine—aided by the noir-stained cinematography of Russell Metty—create a powerful (and inexplicably rare) version of Arthur Miller's Tony Award-winning play. First time at NOIR CITY!Originally released March 27, 1948. Universal–International, 94 minutes. Screenplay by Chester Erskine, from the play by Arthur Miller. Produced by Chester Erskine. Directed by Irving Reis.

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My main OCs, if you were wondering

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Gail Russell-John Lund-Edward G. Robinson "Mil ojos tiene la noche" (Night has a thousand eyes) 1948, de John Farrow.

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No More Ladies (1935) Edward H. Griffith & George Cukor

December 6th 2022

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