#John Carroll

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Ann Sothern tries out a card trick on co-star John Carroll on set of CONGO MAISIE (1940)

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John Carroll, Puppy, 1932, oil on linen, 20 1/8 × 24 3/16 in (51.1 × 61.4 cm)

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John Carroll-Susan Hayward "Hit parade 1943" 1943, de Albert S. Rogell.

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Films Watched in 2023: 79. Go West (1940) - Dir. Edward Buzzell

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The back of this publicity still reads

A portrait of John Carroll appearing in Howard Hawks' Columbia Production "Plane No. 4." (John Carroll - #1)

The title was eventually changed to Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

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Acquired: Revolve Merc / Penny Bug Vintage, Asheville, NC, January 2024

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Taking Note of John Carroll

John Carroll (born Julia La Faye, 1906-1979) was the most forgettable and forgotten of the Marx Brothers “leading men”, appearing with the team in their worst film Go West (1940). A swarthy Frenchman from New Orleans, Carroll was frequently cast as Mexicans in westerns, often bearing names like “Pepe” and “Ricardo”. Occasionally he would get to play men of his own ethnicity in movies such as…

[randomrichards]

DECISION AT SUNDOWN:

Man crashes wedding

Blames the groom for his wife’s death

Trapped in a stable

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'I look in the mirror'

At the Cavern, 1963, photo by Michael Ward

Photo by Mike McCartney

August 13, 1966, photo by Bob Bonis

We wrote with two guitars, John and I. And, as I’ve mentioned previously, the joy of that was that I was left-handed while he was right handed, so I was looking in a mirror and he was looking in a mirror. We would always tune up, have a ciggie, drink a cup of tea, start playing some stuff, look for an idea. Normally, one or the other of us would arrive with a fragment of a song. ‘Please Please Me’ was a John idea. John liked the double meaning of ‘please’. Yeah, ‘please’ is, you know, pretty please. ‘Please have intercourse with me. So, pretty please, have intercourse with me, I beg you to have intercourse with me.’ He liked that, and I liked that he liked that. This was the kind of thing we’d see in each other, the kind of thing in which we were matched up. We were in sync.

(Paul McCartney, about Please Please Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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A lot of what we had going for us was that we were both good at noticing the stuff that just pops up, and grabbing it. And the other thing is that John and I had each other. If he was sort of stuck for a line, I could finish it. If I was stuck for somewhere to go, he could make a suggestion. We could suggest the way out of the maze to each other, which was a very handy thing to have. We inspired each other.

(Paul McCartney, about Eight Days A Week in The Lyrics, 2021)

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When John and I met, the first year of our friendship was spent talking about these cover versions, the records we loved, and then playing them again and again. As we got to know each other, we practised these various covers until one day the conversation went, ‘You know, I’ve written one or two songs.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, so have I.’ That gave us something in common that was itself wholly uncommon. I went to a school of a thousand boys and I’d never met anyone who said he’d written a song. Mine were just in my head. So were John’s. We took each other by surprise. And then the logical extension was, ‘Well, maybe we could write one together.’ So that’s how we started. And we became versions of each other.

(Paul McCartney, about The Other Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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Q: "Can I ask you about Lewis Carroll?" A: "Oh, Lewis Carroll. I always admit to that because I love 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Alice Through The Looking Glass.' But I didn't even know he'd written anything else. I was that ignorant. I just happened to get those for birthday presents as a child and liked them. And I usually read those two about once a year, because I still like them."

(John Lennon, June 16, 1965, interview for BBC)

Paul McCartney in his garden at Cavendish Avenue, 7; photo by Barry Lategan (for Observer 'What Makes A Man Stylish?', July 1968)

I think of the imagined world of Lewis Carroll [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There] that John and I both loved so much.

(Paul McCartney, about I’ll Get You in The Lyrics, 2021)

We’d been together so much that if you had a question, we would both pretty much come up with the same answer. [about their hitchhike to Spain by way of Paris] <…> It’s a bit crude, but it’s fair to say that, in general, I’d had a good life and John hadn’t. His life had been tougher, and he had to develop a harder shell than I did. He was quite a cynical guy but, as they say, with a heart of gold. A big softy, but his shield was hard. So that was very good for the two of us. Opposites attract. I could calm him down, and he could fire me up. We could see things in each other that the other needed to be complete.

(Paul McCartney about Ticket To Ride in The Lyrics, 2021)

Sometimes I look in the mirror Is nobody there? But I just keep on staring and staring No Can it be? Can it be? Can it be? And if I look in the mirror And nobody´s there But I just keep on staring, and staring No Is it me? Is it me? Is it me?

(John Lennon, circa 1977)

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Chimera Constantine: a story about grief. Our series of fancomics reimagining the Golden Boy arc from Hellblazer. You can read it all in one go here:

Birthdays | Twin in the Mirror | Chimera Constantine | Reunion And Loss | The Marigold Mage’s Farewell, No Choir |

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Kathryn Grayson-John Carroll "Rio Rita" 1942, de S. Sylvan Simon.

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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"

John Tenniel (1820-1914) - The Jabberwock, 1871

illustration for Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass'

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The back of this publicity stil reads

A portrait of John Carroll, appearing in Howard Hawks Columbia production, "Plane No.4."

(The title was changed to Only Angels Have Wings).

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"You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Why do you run around doing things like this?"

"I want my money. I want my $93,000."

"$93,000? You threaten a financial structure like this for $93,000? No, Walker, I don't believe you. What do you really want?"

Point Blank (1967)

Director. John Boorman