#Kay Aldridge

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Kay Aldridge

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Julie Doing “Stuff” with Famous People (23rd post)

Director Busby Berkeley shows Julie the ropes on the set of THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL above.

On his last film, Julie and Shelley Winters get guidance from director, John Berry who sets up a scene in HE RAN ALL THE WAY.

Eleanor Parker and Julie are comfy on the floor absorbed in the comic pages in a scene for PRIDE OF THE MARINES.

Priscilla Lane spoon feeds Julie in a promotional photo for DUST BE MY DESTINY.

And the two pose for PHOTOPLAY magazine with a smoldering kiss!

The photo caption for this pixelated pic reads: “Who says Harpo won't talk? John Garfield had a grand chat with the elfin-faced comic.”

From a magazine feature: “Inhibitions fall down and go boom: John Garfield and (actress) Kay Aldridge were prettily for their picture against the deck tennis net aboard the S.S. America when…

…the net suddenly broke and Mr. Garfield and Miss Aldridge hit the deck. They tried to get up again and missed connections, all which made for a lot of fun for Fink.” (Not sure who Fink is!)

Julie chats with With Photoplay magazine writer, Maxine Arnold.

Julie clowns with his wife, Robbe and actors, Richard Conte and Alexander Knox. I read somewhere Julie helped Conte early in his career.

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12 gennaio … ricordiamo …

12 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Ronnie Spector, all’anagrafe Veronica Yvette Bennett, cantante statunitense, frontwoman del gruppo femminile The Ronettes. Fu moglie di Phil Spector ed era conosciuta come “l’originale cattiva ragazza del rock and roll”. Nel 1982 sposò il suo manager Jonathan Greenfield. Avevano due figli.  Ha pubblicato il suo libro di memorie Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness,…

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Kenne Duncan, Dale Van Sickel, Kane Richmond and Kay Aldridge in Haunted Harbor (top photo). Other two pictures feature Kay Aldridge and Kane Richmond.

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What I Read in February 2023

another surreal romp and hijinks

most excellent, the characters felt real, neither utter paragons nor the #worst the plot was interesting. 

Cute, but I admit I’d have liked to see the boys parents actually react to meeting both of them and the ending felt a bit rushed.

Come on Erza!

Also kitty Natsu 🤣

Awww, all the kids are adorable and it looks like they’ll be offering healing to our main girl.

“the way of the true pot”

I did feel sorry for Paola for distancing herself from one friend and another doing the distancing (then ouch with Dante). I did like the story but am uncertain what was wrong with her moms boyfriend besides her mom moving things a bit fast for Paola and then the guy just being dropped at the end of the book for reasons. 

Diving back into FMA

Finished ^_^

here we go again ^_^

I don’t think marriages should be that easy. 

really enjoyable, though the “solution” for demon and boy felt a bit abrupt. 

Richard suffers so 😂😊also the gem stuff always has me looking things up. ^_^

finally got volume 5 so I could read 6-8 ^_^

started good, then it got kinda slow, but the pace quickened again and I really enjoyed the book.

this series is  a lot of fun

his yoga class

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Kay Aldridge- PEIRLS OF NYOKA (1942)

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hi friends!! i've gotten a few asks / messages about book recommendations for the new septembers readathon so i figured i'd list some here! i tried to do a range of genres & mix up YA/adult + tried to fit the autumny september vibes where i could! if anyone wants more specific recs, feel free to send me a message 🤍

a book about witches: the very secret society of irregular witches by sangu mandanna, the witch haven by sasha peyton smith, the nature of witches by rachel griffin

a murder mystery: tita rosie's kitchen mystery series by mia p. manansala, queen of the tiles by hanna alkaf, miss aldridge regrets by louise hare

a book that takes place at a private school/boarding school: every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire, if you could see the sun by ann liang, a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

a creepy or horror book: house of hollow by krystal sutherland, the gathering dark: an anthology of folk horror, our wives under the sea by julia armfield

a book that takes place in september: answered here!

a short story collection: eternally yours, toil & trouble: 15 tales of women & witchcraft, in these hallowed halls: a dark academia anthology

a gothic novel (classic or contemporary): a dowry of blood by s.t. gibson, all the dead lie down by kyrie mccauley, wuthering heights by emily brontë

an autumnal romance: the dead romantics by ashley poston, the ex hex by erin sterling, the night circus by erin morgenstern

a book about a haunted house: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia, the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

a book about vampires: court of the undying seasons by a.m. strickland, house of hunger by alexis henderson

a cozy fantasy: legends and lattes by travis baldree, the undertaking of hart and mercy by megan bannen, half a soul by olivia atwater, emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett

a classic / retelling: little thieves by margaret owen, a wish in the dark by christina soontornvat, enter the body by joy mccullough

a new release (published this september): you again by kate goldbeck, the wake-up call by beth o'leary, cleat cute by meryl wilsner, a study in drowning by ava reid, if i have to be haunted by miranda sun

an autumnal classic: anne of green gables by l.m. montgomery, rebecca by daphne du maurier, northanger abbey by jane austen

a dark academia book: babel by r.f. kuang, these violent delights by micah nemerever, ace of spades by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

a graphic novel: the tea dragon society by kay o'neill, the witch boy by molly ostertag, check please by ngozi ukazu, heavy vinyl by nina vakueva & carly usdin, cheer up: love and pompoms by crystal frasier & val wise, displacement by kiku hughes

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hi! i’m looking for some nonbinary/trans books. preferably middle grade, maybe younger YA. queer joy is a bonus!

You got it! There are all MG, with asterisks signifying books coming later in the year:

Trans Boys:

Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

Trans Girls:

Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

Joy, to the World by Lisa Bunker and Kai Shappley

Melissa by Alex Gino

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith (Graphic Novel)

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio (text) and Jenn St-Onge (illustration) (Graphic Novel)

Nonbinary MCs:

*Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge

Moonflower by Kacen Callender

Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino

*Green by Alex Gino

*The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan

Skating on Mars by Caroline Huntoon

*Elle Campbell Saves Their Saturday by Ben Kahn

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias (Genderfluid)

The One Who Loves You Most by medina – A

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée and K.C. Oster (Graphic Novel)

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van Otterloo

Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky

Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley

Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Ellen Outside the Lines by AJ Sass

Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and AJ Sass

The Fabulous Zeb Watson! by Kevin Sylvester and Basil Sylvester

The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson

The House that Whispers by Lin Thompson (Amz)

*The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans

There is also very significant nonbinary representation in Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff, Twelfth by Janet Key, and A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo.

In younger YA, there's not a ton, but I'd definitely give a shout to the genderqueer paranormal Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve, and I think the trans girl graphic novel romance Cheer Up! could work too!

(If you want all these links on one page, and/or to track ones coming up even further in the future, here's the MG page: https://lgbtqreads.com/middle-grade/)

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A Possible Peter Lorre Photo

It looks like Peter at the back right - what do you think?

Other folks per this article of guesses (I didn't go through all the guesses):

Wallace Beery, far left.

Lana Turner as the blond?

George Raft in the front with tie.

Art Linkletter behind Raft to the right.

Red Skelton behind Raft to the left.

Lady in hat…Deanna Durbin? Betty Grable?

Couple in the middle: Kay Aldridge and maybe Wayne Morris.

Mustached man toward the bottom left could be Melvin Hazen, city commissioner for the District of Columbia. On his lap is Carol Ann Beery, daugther of Wallace Beery.

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A smoldering Ben Aldridge before the premiere of Knock at the Cabin, 2023

Photographed by Kate Owen Styled by Felicity Kay

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Orang-orang yang ada disekitar!

In writer's POV!

Galang Pradipa, sosok yang setahun lebih tua dari Ranti ini merupakan anak dari teman mamanya kala SMA. Namun bagi Ranti, Galang bukan hanya sekadar kenalan mamanya atau teman kecil. Peran Galang bagi Ranti adalah seorang kakak laki-laki yang siap beri ia bahu atau tangan jika Ranti merasa butuh. Galang ini sifatnya jahil, gemar membuat Ranti naik darah. Ada beberapa orang mengatakan bahwa itu adalah tanda bahwa Galang menyukainya. Akan tetapi, Ranti menolak mentah sebab ia merasa tak mungkin. Lagipula, orang tua Galang pun menganggapnya sebagai anak. Menganggap Ranti sebagai adik yang punya tahta tertinggi. Jadi, mana mungkin begitu?

Eureeka Asmara, namanya. Gadis dengan panggilan Mara ini merupakan sahabat yang ia kenal ketika duduk di bangku sekolah dasar. Meskipun sempat berpisah karena tak berada di SMP yang sama, namun hubungan Ranti dan Mara tak pernah sedikitpun berubah. Sama-sama berstatus tunggal membuat mereka memahami satu sama lain. Bahkan, Ranti punya rutinitas untuk berkunjung ke rumah Mara setidaknya sekali dalam seminggu jika sempat. Hal ini pun disambut dengan baik dan hangat oleh ibunnya Mara! Jadi, jangan heran apabila ia terkadang lebih nyaman di rumah Mara dibanding rumahnya sendiri.

Pernah bertemu di kelas sebelumnya sebagai teman sebangku, membuat mereka semakin akrab hingga merubah status dari sekadar teman duduk menjadi sahabat yang bisa diandalkan! Namanya Riuh Maratih, tetapi orang-orang termasuk Ranti biasa menyapanya dengan Ratih. Selain jadi sahabat, agaknya dunia memang terasa sempit bagi mereka berdua. Sebab, siapa sangka? Bahwa Ratih merupakan sepupu dari sepupunya sendiri—Kaivan. Kalau Ranti bersepupu dengan Kai dari pihak ibu, maka Ratih adalah sebaliknya!

Nareswari Dahayu Djojohadikusumo, atau yang acapkali disapa Dayu ini merupakan sahabat Ranti yang lain! Dayu diketahui berasal dari Jogja dan berada disini seorang diri. Oleh sebab itu, tak heran apabila Ranti sering mengajaknya kesana-kemari atau mengajukan diri untuk meginap dalam rangka menemani gadis itu dengan sukarela. Barangkali terdengar sedikit menguntungkan bagi Ranti yang tidak betah di rumah, namun bukan berarti ia bersahabat hanya untuk memanfaatkan Dayu perihal masalah pribadinya. Akan tetapi, Ranti hanya tak ingin Dayu merasakan sunyi yang sangat ingin ia hindari dengan cara apapun.

Awal mula Ranti bertemu dengan puan ini adalah ketika hari pertama saat resmi menjadi kelas 13. Betul, puan yang bernama Berlin Nasution ini adalah teman sebangku Ranti selama beberapa bulan terakhir.

Oceano Aldridge

Mentari Paramita Rahayu

*Detailnya akan ditambahkan nanti.

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"How To Make A Ghost" Short Film from jared hogan on Vimeo.

Cast

Starring

Damian Young Samuel Goergen Jordan Duffy Jayden Fontaine

Gas Station Background Sara Kopkin Stranger Cantey Hammond Stranger Dakota Brock Stuntman Patrick Chu

Crew

Producer Brian Tetsuro Ivie Producer Gregory Daniel King

Executive Producer Jon Muedder Executive Producer Thom Blackburn Head of Production Michelle Wheeler Production Coordinator Michael Wine

Director Jared Hogan Producer Henry Reed Production Manager Allah Samson 1st AD Al G Sillah 2nd AD Alberto Cantu Key PA Nandi Dawson Set PA Jarren Mapp Set PA Tye Ashton Forbes Set PA Joshua "Jody" Lynch Set PA Ronnald "Ron" Baskin Truck PA Ed Austin

Cinematographer Dustin Lane 1st Camera Assistant James Teninty 2nd Camera Assistant / Loader Lia Guzman Utility Kelsey Ianuzzi BTS Photo Nicole Hernandez Gaffer Haley Manning Gaffer Ben Wallace Key Grip Bryan Tan Best Grip Isaac McCord Swing Harrison Shook

Sound Mixer Joe Batiste Boom Op Winston Johnson

Art Director Lauren Adams Jones Leadperson Grace Brass Animal Wrangler Greg Aldridge

Costume Designer Janie Driggers SPFX Makeup Becky Watson

Casting Director Jordan Brown Child Labor Coordinator Dan Murray Location Manager JT Calloway

Postproduction Supervisor Bree Doehring Edited by Jared Hogan Visual Effects by Foreign Xchange Supervising Sound Editor Matt Yocum Sound Effects Editor Kai Paquin Re-Recording Mixer Matt Yocum Colorist Jacob McKee

Original Music by Michael A. Muller Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Michael A. Muller at Elyria Sound, Los Angeles Trumpet Luis Cardenas Casillas Mezzo-Soprano Lisa McGee Tuba Bradley Möller Contrabass Sam Pankey Percussion Jeff Olson Cello Dylan Rick

Songs

"Gospod Vocarisja Prokimen" Metropolitan Choir of the Russian Cathedral in Paris 2007, Public Domain

"Mogoletie" Metropolitan Choir of the Russian Cathedral in Paris 2007, Public Domain

"Tebe Poem" Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow 2005, Public Domain

"Trezvon" Savino-Storozhevsky Monastery Choir 2005, Public Domain

Kebrado Caravan

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Yuletidings 2023, Part One: Cleese Navidad!

1.   Deck the Halls with Rubber - Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades

2.   Angels We Have Heard On High - The Decibels

3.   Feels Like Christmas - Maiah Wynn

4.   Monsieur la Neige - Castel et Casti

5.  Go Tell It on the Mountain - Kelley Hunt

6.   Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Joel Paterson

7.   Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa - Stevie Wonder

8.   What Christmas Means to Me - Overboard

9.   Roaring Fire - Emily Aldridge

10. Happy Christmas - Washington & Clarke

11. Hang Your Balls On The Christmas Tree - Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards

12. Rusby Shepherds -  Kate Rusby

13. Nothin' For Christmas - Eartha Kitt

14. Sleigh Ride - The Soulful Strings

15. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Gabrielle Aplin

16. Christmas Time is Here Again - The Weeklings

17. I Know Santa's Been Here - Michelle Wright

18. Fum, Fum, Fum - Hollywood Trombones

19. The Three Wise Stooges - Michael Saxson

20. Pimp My Sleigh - Houseman

21. Joy To The World - David Ian

22. It's One Day Closer To Christmas - Sammy Watkins

23. Auld Lang Syne - Husky Team

24. Let No Walls Divide - Doris Day

25. The Night Before Christmas (Excerpt) - John Cleese

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This year’s collection is more or less bookended by a pair of soundalike versions of famous popular songs.  I can pretty much guarantee that you’ve never heard “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” or “Auld Lang Syne” arranged like this.

Other highlights:

Joel Paterson, an interestingly retro guitar stylist who wears his Les Paul and Chet Atkins influences on his sleeve.  He’s done a couple of Beatles cover albums and a couple of Christmas albums as well.  His take on “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” is appropriately jaunty.

I was literally in the process of finalizing the mix for this year’s compilation when a new holiday album from Kate Rusby (Light Years, her seventh) appeared, so I had to stop everything and find a track to include.  I first discovered her lovely works, always impeccably arranged, produced and performed, a few years back and have made use of her recordings, both serious and silly, a number of times in these collections.

When Eartha Kitt had a huge success with the slinky “Santa Baby” in 1953, the powers that be at her label decided, as label execs tend to do, that what she needed was a follow-up that sounded just like it.  So in 1955 she recorded a version of the then-popular novelty song “Nuttin’ for Christmas”, retitled as “Nothin’ for Christmas”, with the lyrics completely re-written to sound saucy in the manner of “Santa Baby”: instead of the refrain, “Cause I ain’t been nothin’ but bad”, for example, “Cause I didn’t want to be bad” was substituted, with Eartha lyrically turning down offers of various “gifts” from would-be seducers. The song also makes use of almost the exact same arrangement as “Santa Baby”, right down to the “Boom, boom-boom, ba-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom” background chorus.  I don’t know whether it sold well or not, but it’s a lot of fun.

The Soulful Strings were what Mantovani and other purveyors of easy-listening might have sounded like had they worked for Motown or Stax: heavy strings, of course, but with soul-jazz funk as the engine.  This version of “Sleigh Ride” is way cool.

I often like to include one or more Beatles-related tracks in these compilations, and this year having seen the release of one more (and allegedly final) Beatles song, “Now and Then”, it seems only right to share the Weeklings’ version of “Christmas Time is Here Again”, originally from the Beatles’ 1967 fan club Christmas message of the same name.  This song has been covered by a number of artists (including Ringo Starr) despite the fact that it consists of nothing more than a chorus without any verses, and the Weeklings do a great job of padding it out with musical quotes from “Flying” and “Baby, You’re a Rich Man”.  This is preceded by a lovely, wistful arrangement of John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by a singer named Gabrielle Aplin.

And what holiday season is complete without a visit from the Three Wise Stooges, who can always be counted on to keep the crash in the créche.

The arrangement of “Let No Walls Divide”, recorded by Doris Day in 1961, is more than a little bombastic, not to say completely over the top, but the song’s sentiment is a nice way to close out this year’s collection…

Except, of course, for the coda: given the title of this compilation, it seemed absolutely necessary to include an excerpt from the mighty John Cleese’s unique interpretation of “The Night Before Christmas” (You can hear the whole thing at the link below).

Many thanks again to Ernie at https://ernienotbert.blogspot.com/ and B-Man of Radio Vickers for their bountiful holiday music shares.

The cover art was swiped and modified from a publicity shot for a personal appearance of some kind by Mr. Cleese.

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“The Night Before Christmas”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-uNQ2oQACk

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