#Joan Blackman

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman on the beach in a still from the film Blue Hawaii, directed by Norman Taurog (1961).

[doll-elvis]

I would love to know more about Elvis’s relationships/affairs with the actresses who starred in his movies. Many of them were close in age to him too but they���re rarely discussed except for like Ann Margret.

I do think Ann Margret is particularly special, therefore talked about more, but I totally agree that his other leading ladies/costars deserve some love also !! <3

here are some of my personal favorite offscreen romances// (names are in order of the photos) Yvonne Lime, Juliet Prowse, Joan Blackman, Anne Helm, Tuesday Weld, and Jane Elliot 🎀

and while Shelley Fabares and Nancy Sinatra both deny ever having a romantic relationship with him, I know that Elvis had a massive crush on Shelley (who played his leading lady more than anyone else) and there were definitely mutual feelings between him and Nancy 👀

and another girl that’s rarely talked about (who worked behind the camera as a wardrobe consultant) was the beautiful Nancy Sharp!! Elvis was very serious about her and he even flew to Missouri to meet her parents

[make-a-little-mischief]

📸 NEW PHOTO SERIES 📸

🎬 MOVIE OF THE WEEK 🎥

EVERY WEEK I'LL POST A PHOTO A DAY FROM MY MOVIE COLLECTION. SOME MOVIES MAY GET A PART TWO WEEK BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF PHOTOS I HAVE. JUST SOMETHING FUN TO PROVIDE A LITTLE HAPPY. A JERRY A DAY KEEPS THE FROWNS AT BAY...

Up first we have VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET 👽🪐

[presleypictures]

Elvis with Joan Blackman and Lola Albright in publicity photos for “Kid Galahad”, 1962.

[musicandoldmovies]

Anthony Franciosa and Joan Blackman in Career

[missmaywemeetagain]

Listen, I too need to press myself (my crotch) into Elvis (‘s crotch) wearing nothing but a two-piece bathing suit whilst he is wearing those god-given little white shorts.

On the set of Blue Hawaii

[queen-of-the-seven-kingdoms]

on your bookshelf / at the library / in stores now

inspo:

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. – Jeanette Winterson

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. – Malorie Blackman

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. – Nora Ephron

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. – Joan Didion

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. – Andre Dubus

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. – Jhumpa Lahiri

Books may well be the only true magic. – Alice Hoffman

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could change your life.' – Helen Exley

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Inupiaq Books

This post was inspired by learning about and daydreaming about visiting Birchbark Books, a Native-owned bookstore in Minneapolis, so there will be some links to buy the books they have on this list.

Starting Things Off with Two Inupiaq Poets

Joan Naviyuk Kane, whose available collections include:

Hyperboreal

Black Milk Carbon

The Cormorant Hunter's Wife

She also wrote Dark Traffic, but this site doesn't seem to carry any copies

Dg Nanouk Okpik, whose available collections include

Blood Snow

Corpse Whale

Fictionalized Accounts of Historical Events

A Line of Driftwood: the Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy, also available at Birchwood Books, is a fictionalized account of Ada Blackjack's experience surviving the explorers she was working with on Wrangel Island, based on historical records and Blackjack's own diary.

Goodbye, My Island by Rie Muñoz is a historical fiction aimed at younger readers with little knowledge of the Inupiat about a little girl living on King Island. Reads a lot like an American Girl book in case anyone wants to relive that nostalgia

Blessing's Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson is a Young Adult historical fiction novel about hardships faced by two generations of girls in the same family, 70 years apart. One reviewer pointed out that the second part of the book, set in the 1980s, is written in Village English, so that might be a new experience for some of you

Photography

Menadelook: and Inupiaq Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 edited by Eileen Norbert is, exactly as the title suggests, a collection of documentary photographs depicting village life in early 20th century Alaska.

Nuvuk, the Northernmost: Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska by David James Inulak Lume is another collection of documentary photographs published in 2013, with a focus on the wildlife and negative effects of climate change

Guidebooks (i only found one specifically Inupiaq)

Plants That We Eat/Nauriat Niģiñaqtuat: from the Traditional Wisdom of Iñupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska by Anore Jones is a guide to Alaskan vegetation that in Inupiat have subsisted on for generations upon generations with info on how to identify them and how they were traditionally used.

Anthropology

Kuuvangmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century by Douglas B. Anderson et al details traditional lifestyles and subsistance customs of the Kobuk River Inupiat

Life at the Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact by Douglas D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson: a multidisciplinary study of a specific Kobuk River group, the Amilgaqtau Yaagmiut, at the very beginning of European and Asian trade.

Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut by Margaret B. Blackman is a collection of essays reflecting on almost 20 years of anthropological fieldwork focused on the Nunamiut of Anuktuvuk Pass: the traditional culture and the adaption to new technology.

Nonfiction

Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill is about Project Chariot. In an attempt to find peaceful uses of wartime technology, Edward Teller planned to drop six nukes on the Inupiaq village of Point Hope, officially to build a harbor but it can't be ignored that the US government wanted to know the effects radiation had on humans and animals. The scope is wider than the Inupiat people involved and their resistance to the project, but as it is no small part of this lesser discussed moment of history, it only feels right to include this

Fifty Miles From Tomorrow: a Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iģģiaģruk Hensley is an autobiography following the author's tradition upbringing, pursuit of an education, and his part in the Alaska Native Settlement Claims Act, where he and other Alaska Native activists had to teach themselves United States Law to best lobby the government for land and financial compensation as reparations for colonization.

Sadie Bower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman by Margaret B. Blackman is a biography of the titular Sadie Bower Neakok, a beloved public figure of Utqiagvik, former Barrow. Neakok grew up one of ten children of an Inupiaq woman named Asianggataq, and the first white settler to live in Utqiagvik/Barrow, Charles Bower. She used the out-of-state college education she received to aid her community as a teacher, a wellfare worker, and advocate who won the right for Native languages to be used in court when defendants couldn't speak English, and more.

Folktales and Oral Histories

Folktales of the Riverine and Costal Iñupiat/Unipchallu Uqaqtuallu Kuungmiuñļu Taģiuģmiuñļu edited by Wanni W. Anderson and Ruth Tatqaviñ Sampson, transcribed by Angeline Ipiiļik Newlin and translated by Michael Qakiq Atorak is a collection of eleven Inupiaq folktales in English and the original Inupiaq.

The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska by Wanni W. Anderson is a collection of Kobuk River Inupiaq folktales and oral histories collected from Inupiat storytellers and accompanied by Anderson's own essays explaining cultural context. Unlike the other two collections of traditional stories mentioned on this list, this one is only written in English.

Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit/King Island Tales: Eskimo Historu and Legends from Bering Strait compiled and edited by Lawrence D. Kaplan, collected by Gertrude Analoak, Margaret Seeganna, and Mary Alexander, and translated and transcribed by Gertrude Analoak and Margaret Seeganna is another collection of folktales and oral history. Focusing on the Ugiuvangmiut, this one also contains introductions to provide cultural context and stories written in both english and the original Inupiaq.

The Winter Walk by Loretta Outwater Cox is an oral history about a pregnant widow journeying home with her two children having to survive the harsh winter the entire way. This is often recommended with a similar book detailing Athabascan survival called Two Old Women.

Dictionaries and Language Books

Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Donald H. Webster and Wilfred Zibell, with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster, is an older Inupiaq to English dictionary. It predates the standardization of Inupiaq spelling, uses some outdated and even offensive language that was considered correct at the time of its publication, and the free pdf provided by UAF seems to be missing some pages. In spite of this it is still a useful resource. The words are organized by subject matter rather than alphabetically, each entry indicating if it's specific to any one dialect, and the illustrations are quite charming.

Let's Learn Eskimo by Donald H. Webster with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster makes a great companion to the Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary, going over grammar and sentence structure rather than translations. The tables of pronouns are especially helpful in my opinion.

Ilisaqativut.org also has some helpful tools and materials and recommendations for learning the Inupiat language with links to buy physical books, download free pdfs, and look through searchable online versions

[kwebtv]

Season 1 Episode 6

Miami Undercover - Miss Venus - Syndication - February 27, 1961

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by P. K. Palmer

Produced by Aubrey Schenck

Directed by Howard W. Koch

Stars:

Lee Bowman as Jeff Thompson

Rocky Graziano as Rocky

Joan Tabor as Miss Venus

Theo Marcuse as Warman (as Theodore Marcuse)

Carolyn Hughes as Grace (as Larolyn Hughes)

Georgine Darcy as Velda (as Georgine D'Arcy)

Count Billy Varga as Muscles

John Day as Johnny

Tom Greenway as Calder

Nora Evans as Stephanie

Hugh Lawrence as Lt. O'Malley

Lonie Blackman as Dusty

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.18

Beer Birthdays

Jeff Bagby (1974)

James Watt (1982)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Brooks Robinson; Baltimore Orioles 3B (1937)

Bertrand Russell; English philosopher, mathematician, writer (1872)

Big Joe Turner; blues singer (1911)

Kai Winding; jazz trombonist (1922)

Chow Yun-Fat; actor (1955)

Famous Birthdays

Joan Blackman; actor (1938)

Matthew Brady; photographer (1822)

Richard Brooks; film director (1912)

Frank Capra; film director (1897)

Perry Como; pop singer (1912)

Wreckless Eric; pop singer (1954)

Tina Fey; comedian, actor, writer (1970)

Margot Fonteyn; ballerina (1919)

Karl Goldmark; composer (1830)

Walter Gropius; German architect (1883)

Oliver Heaviside; English physicist (1850)

Dwayne Hickman; actor (1934)

Reggie Jackson; Oakland Athletics/NY Yankees RF (1946)

Jack Johnson; pop singer (1975)

Omar Khayyam; Persian mathematician, poet, philosopher (1048)

Bill Macy; actor (1922)

Don Martin; cartoonist (1931)

Robert Morse; actor (1931)

Fred Perry; tennis player (1909)

Pernell Roberts; actor (1928)

James Stephens; actor (1951)

George Strait; country singer (1952

Rick Wakeman; rock keyboardist (1949)

Meredith Wilson; composer (1902)

[bambiesque]

New thread for CBaker!Doctor.

Serial: The Twin Dilemma - Well. That was a thing. Poor Peri has been grabbed, shaken, strangled. Why does she stay? CBaker!Doctor is not impressing me so far.

Serial: Attack of the Cybermen - CBaker!Doctor is a lot more likeable in this one. Peri is flourescent. The Cybermen are actually pretty creepy.

Serial: Vengeance on Varos - This is very grim. I don't like it. Sil is repulsive.

Serial: The Mark of the Rani - Peri is in a lovely outfit today. Oh, the scarecrow is moving. No thank you. Yay, the Master is back! Yay, the Rani! So much bickering - I love it. The three of them are ridiculous.

Serial: The Two Doctors - Jacqueline Pearce <3 How have they managed to make the Sontarans look worse? I'm actually mad about it.

Serial: Timelash - And now Paul Darrrow, yay. I am enjoying CBaker!Doctor and Peri's relationship. They're like an old married couple. I wish people would stop grabbing her though.

Serial: Revelation of the Daleks - "Shut the fool up" made me laugh but possibly for the wrong reasons. This is the most disappointing Dalek story there's ever been. So far. Eleanor Bron is the best thing about it.

Serial: Trial of a Timelord - The Mysterious Planet: What is this music? Lynda Bellingham is excellent. Peri looks like a grownup. Joan Sims!!! I quite like the framing device of the trial.

Serial: Trial of a Timelord - Mindwarp: So much neon. Ugh, Sil's back. Brian Blessed being Brian Blessed. Nooooooo. Peri. That was very strange.

Serial: Trial of a Timelord - Terror of the Vervoids: Honor Blackman! So Mel's just there, huh. Doing lots of exercise. It's so jarring. Parts 1 and 2 both ended with her screaming too - why?

Serial: Trial of a Timelord - The Ultimate Foe: The Master - Thank God! Love that he's like, "You tell them, babe!" And these echoing childrens voices are creepy af. I'm glad Peri is not dead, even if it was half-hearted.

CBaker!Doctor Era Round-up

Favourite Companion: Peri Brown.

Least favourite Companion: None

Favourite Serial: The Mark of the Rani

Least Favourite Serial: The Twin Dilemma

I feel really bad for Colin Baker, because he's not a bad Doctor - i like him more than Hartnell and Troughton. There's a lot of good stuff there and the problems aren't really of his making. You can feel the poor production now - and the fact Michael Grade wanted it gone - and it's disappointing.

Current Doctor standings

Davison

Pertwee

TBaker

CBaker

Troughton

Hartnell

Current Top 10 Companions (no change - Peri goes in at number 11)

Jo Grant

Tegan Jovanka

Barbara Wright

Vislor Turlough

Sarah Jane Smith

Nyssa of Traken

Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart

Leela

Romana II

Zoe

[hooked-on-elvis]

"Almost Always True" (1961)

Soundtrack album: "Blue Hawaii". Release date: October 20, 1961

Scene from movie "Blue Hawaii", released on November 22, 1961 (United States). Elvis Presley as Chadwick "Chad" Gates and Joan Blackman as Maile Duval.

LYRICS I was always, baby, I was always Well almost always true to you Met a pretty mademoiselle Her papa owned a small hotel Oh, I was almost always true to you I resisted tho' my arm was twisted I was almost always true to you Stayed away from drinkin' wine Thought about you all the time Oh, I was almost always true to you Kept refusin' don't jump to conclusions I was almost always true to you I would never grab like this I would never steal a kiss Oh, I was almost always true to you

Composition: Benjamin Weisman / Fred Wise

[doll-elvis]

to be fair, according to marty, elvis had firmly believed that blacks and whites should be separate romantically. he dated joan blackman and when marty asked about her, he said she revealed she'd gone on a date w/ a black man and it turned him off. elvis was known to be contradictory and hold other ppl to standards he didn't hold himself to and i think his attraction to black woman was another example. that's probably why marty claimed that about the flirting.

I mentioned Marty Lacker specifically because in the Alanna Nash book whenever race is mentioned, it just seems like it is always him who has something to say about black people and Elvis. He just seemed hyper-fixated on race and that’s why I believe he may have held some prejudice and wanted to extinguish the idea that Elvis found black women attractive because he didn’t agree with that himself. Like for example when asked about if Elvis dated Maggie Smith (a black woman) Marty alluded that she wasn’t attractive enough for Elvis, and then also telling that Diana Ross story and saying that Elvis found her unattractive… it just comes off as strange to me personally

I’m not hating against Marty or saying that he lies about everything, I just wanted to point out that all of these men have their own biases and will only tell stories as they see them, even if it the situation had a different reality

but I have read that story about Joan Blackman and it was also what ended the relationship between him and Mindi Miller in the late 70s

“But then Elvis found out she’d been involved with black actor-football star Fred Williamson, and while it preceded their own relationship, he pulled the plug, just as he had on Joan Blackman when he heard she’d dated a black man, too. “He wasn’t a racist person,” Mindi Miller clarifies. “That’s just the way he was raised.”

(excerpt from BLPH by Alanna Nash)

This is obviously a touchy and complicated subject, like Mindi clarifies I genuinely don’t believe he was racist however I’m not saying he wasn’t without his prejudices whether it was conscious or sub-conscious

And we also have to remember this man was born in 1935 in the conservative and religious south and was most likely just a product of his time/environment. I have also read every Memphis Mafia member and some girlfriends say that Elvis held homophobic views but again that can be attributed to his environment and something that was just sub-conscious because of how he was raised and what he was taught. But I don’t believe that he would ever mistreat a gay person or be outwardly homophobic against them despite what he was probably taught to believe

Billy Smith said “I hate to say it, but Elvis was prejudiced about homosexuals…He wouldn’t mistreat them for anything”

I think that having an opinion is very different from actively expressing it

So I don’t believe that he strongly thought that black and white people should be separate romantically because to my knowledge he never said an unkind word about Myrna Smith (a black woman) and Jerry Schilling (a white man) dating. If he was so against it, why would he still be friends with them?

But like you said Elvis could be contradictory and hold others to standards that he didn’t hold himself to

However I think that actions speak louder than words and I’ve never read a story where he mistreated a black person or publicly expressed any racist views. I want to remember him for the good that he did and there are so many beautiful stories where he helped the black community and uplifted and defended black artists

most notably when he threatened to pull out of playing at Houston as they expressed they didn’t want him to bring his black back up singers, the Sweet Inspirations.

Elvis was having none of that so he straight up gave them an ultimatum and of course Houston caved in and allowed the Sweet Inspirations to perform

And there is no doubt in my mind that Elvis loved the Sweet Inspirations and that they loved him. They have said nothing but good things about him and his character (also have y’all seen the video where he kisses them all before rehearsal in Elvis on tour <3 ?!?!)

Like Elvis once wrote “To judge a man by his weakest deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave”

[make-a-little-mischief]

🎥 MOVIE OF THE WEEK 🎞

👽 VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET 🛸

DAY 4

[pocketfulofelviss]

“On his next picture, Kid Galahad, a remake of the 1937 boxer film of the same title, Elvis was once more romantically paired with Joan Blackman. He had requested her on the film, but by the time it went into production, he was also involved with twenty-three-year-old Connie Stevens, who he’d seen in the Hawaiian Eye television series. As soon as he asked her out, ‘I knew,’ she says, ‘this was a fellow who could break your heart.’ Still, she couldn’t resist him: ‘He was just so beautiful. He had mischievous eyes that darted around the room.’” (Nash, 2010: 351) * #elvispresley #presley #theking #graceland #elvis #smile #love #idol #music #iconic #vintage #style #classy #vintagefashion #kingofmusic #rockandroll #sideburns #blessedsoul #rip #elvisthepelvis #memphis #tupelo #soldier #elvislegacy #epe https://www.instagram.com/p/Coc-8dsLfsz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[loving-elvis]

Okay, as much as I wish he'd kiss me like that, how the heck did Walter think that "Oh, this woman's beautiful and I've known her for like two days. What should I do? Oh, I know, I'll marry her and choose to be with her the rest of my life despite the fact that I barely know her!" Even by 60s standards, I'm pretty sure that'd be a rash decision.

https://www.tumblr.com/simplyelvis/122798359928/elvis-presley-and-joan-blackman-in-kid-galahad?source=share

Hello Ariana!!

Yeeah - the story is...a little weak (don't ask me what it's about though because I can't tell you lol), but he tried his best! And I mean...him in a white tank is always a lovely sight 💖💖