#Prince of Foxes 1949

[petermorwood]

There is just something so amusing about this, what with the cut-glass accent and the dainty "from this position I can dislocate..."

She can, too.

Elbows in particular DO NOT LIKE being forced The Wrong Way, and go "pop" with remarkable ease. Wrists need more effort, but the wrist-bone's connected to the elbow-bone, and if one is out of service, the other is not very happy.

After which you have the undivided attention of the wrist and elbow's owner.

Keeping a tight grip on a dislocated limb and twisting it for emphasis makes the owner of the limb much more amenable to doing what they're told.

*****

Also, kicking someone while they're down is the best time to do it, if they've brought it upon themselves.

Select the target with tactical awareness, remembering that a good one to the side of the kneecap with proper follow-through - so the patella doesn't stay here but goes Over There - will reduce any risk of pursuit.

This is why wearing Sturdy Sensible Shoes is always A Good Thing. Don't kick with the toe, hack with the edge of the heel and, as mentioned, follow through. Ladies wearing high or stiletto heels can also stamp.

*****

And then there's an upward slam up under the chin, fingers extended.

In this position the middle finger is on the nose while the index and ring fingers hook in, perfectly positioned for....

As the 1949 movie "Prince of Foxes" said, "it's like popping grapes".

Chin-up also exposes a target for the edge of the other hand brought across horizontally with the intention to shift everything it hits sideways, just like that patella.

*****

People, as was said at a recent con panel ("Writing Fight Scenes" at Bristolcon 2024), are both tougher than you think but also very squishy and fragile, and movies give a ridiculous misunderstanding of one side but not the other.

In real life, any hero beaten up by the villain (Big Bad) or more likely the villain's chief henchperson (The Dragon) won't recover after a great Theme Music Power Up and win the day, but will stay beaten up if not dead.

Far better to write this sort of scene so the hero gets nibbled in what, to the reader, is a worrying way but which isn't unrealistic and THEN surges back to win the day.

After which a fit of the shakes, and a "Not happy, I've been nibbled, bits of me Hurt A Lot" response is also realistic, shows the heroism of fighting on despite All That, and allows for all sorts of sympathetic or loving stuff afterwards.

Or even - as in the video - some repairs to makeup...

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This beautiful green and yellow coat was almost certainly created for the 1949 film Prince of Foxes, where Wanda Hendrix wore it as Camilla Verano. The costume was later seen in Lucrèce Borgia in 1953 on an extra, and in 1977, Maureen Kerwin wore the ensemble as Lucrèce Borgia in the second episode of Les Borgia ou le sang doré. In 2006, the costume still appeared in beautiful condition in Los Borgia on Maria Valverde as Lucrecia Borgia, and finally, in 2016, it was worn by Annabel Scholey as Contessina de’ Bardi in Medici: Masters of Florence. 

This costume has been used for 67 years and is likely still in use, which makes it the longest continual usage of a costume that Recycled Movie Costumes has been able to record.

Costume Credit: Lucia, Katie S.

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[schweizercomics]

SWASHTOBER 8: Andrea Orsini

From Samuel Shellabarger's PRINCE OF FOXES, Orsini is a cynical courtier who's tasked with assassinating a prince and taking his place as a Borgias puppet (jackpot)! Only the target is a genuinely good fella who gives Orsini purpose greater than his own ambition.

There's a movie version of this from 1949, with Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, I haven't seen it, though, only read the novel.

[graceandfamily]

The largest trove of personal Grace Kelly letters to come to market

An extensive and important archive of letters, ephemera and correspondence between Grace Kelly and her friend and personal secretary Prudence Wise. [Various places including Hollywood, New York, Cannes, Monaco, and elsewhere: 1949-1968]. A large archive including autograph and typed letters signed, various notes, postcards, photographs of Grace, Prince Rainier and their children (both official and personal), telegrams, royal invitations, and other ephemera all relating to the life of Grace Kelly and her relationship with Prudence "Prudy" Wise. Kelly generally does not date her letters but the postmarked envelopes provide a chronology. Some handling wear, usual folds, wear to envelopes, very well preserved overall and the letters individually sleeved.

Prudence "Prudy" Wise Kudner was raised in Jacksonville, Florida and attended Duke before moving to New York City and becoming roommates with Grace Kelly, Sally Parrish, and Carolyn Scott at the Barbizon Hotel for Women. The earliest items in this extensive archive include a photograph of Grace with two of the women, a phone message note on Barbizon stationery, and a note from Grace to Prudy in Jacksonville mentioning both Sally and Carolyn. The first substantial letter is postmarked April 1949, months before her Broadway debut that November, and is eight pages in pencil on a delicate stationery. The letter regales Prudy with the long tale of a dinner introducing a suitor named Don [Richardson] to Grace's parents which went disastrously resulting in the end of their relationship and an argument with her parents, but on the bright side Kelly makes note of the positive theater connections made through Don. Following some successful modeling work and her performance on Broadway in Strindberg's The Father, Grace had her first film role in Twentieth Century Fox's 1951 Fourteen Hours. In early 1952, Kelly answers questions for Prudy regarding her newest suitor Gene [Lyons] and mentions in a postcard that follows seeing a screening of Fred Zinneman's High Noon, her first major film role. High Noon was followed by the filming in Nairobi of John Ford's Mogambo, a role offered to Kelly after Gene Tierney was forced to drop out due to health issues, and two letters are written from Africa, one on fantastic Mogambo stationery. Kelly mentions "after leaving camp two weeks ago, Frank [Sinatra], Ava [Gardner], and Clark [Gable] & I went to Malindi on the coast for 5 wonderful days... there was a terrible champagne binge for about ten days over Christmas ... we all went on the wagon until Rome. Ava and I are now great pals..." before reporting that illness, injuries and deaths had plagued the production and "the old man [Sinatra] is very anxious to leave Africa." Into 1953, Kelly is at the Savoy Hotel in London while Mogambo is edited, she here reports that "Gable and Sam Zimbalist are cutting the picture to pieces which breaks my heart - I'm not speaking to Clark these days and neither is Ava - but don't tell anyone that." For her performance in Mogambo, Kelly won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for her first Academy Award.

In the few years from mid-1953 through her marriage to Prince Rainier in 1956, Grace Kelly starred in some of the best and most stylish films of the period and became a bonafide movie star. The archive is rich in long letters from this period, including several on the stationery of the legendary Chateau Marmont in Hollywood starting in July 1953. It is here that Kelly first mentions that she "met Hitchcock" at the time she was filming Dial M for Murder, the first film in their important collaboration. In the first letter, Kelly mentions her arm is sore from playing tennis - her character is the wife of a professional player - and that "Tomorrow I test my wardrobe and see how it will all turn out in 3D," the medium for which the film was intended although most theaters showed the film in 2D. She also notes in the next letter that "They are still debating the colour of my hair. It comes out bright red in Warnercolour and Hitchcock is having a fit." In the next letter, Kelly reports "Sat. night I had dinner with the Hitchcocks. We went to Perino's which was lovely... there are really so few nice places to have dinner here - most of them are flashy eating joints." She closes noting how on the one-year anniversary of the Grace Kelly fan club she took time to speak all 15 girls who attended a party and called her on the phone.

Early the next year, Kelly is preparing to move into her new apartment in New York in the Manhattan House but tells Prudy she is first moving to the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. One short letter is written on Paramount Pictures stationery, possibly during the filming of The Country Girl as in the next letter on Hotel Bel Air stationery Kelly mentions seeing a screening of the film and having spent a day swimming in the pool of the famous costume designer Edith Head. It is in this letter that Grace Kelly first mentions a new suitor, Oleg Cassini, and describes how he procured the typewriter she uses ("the only one in Beverly Hills") and their spectacular outings together, writing "last Saturday we went to a big part at Jack Warners... and the weekend before we went up to Hitch's ranch in Santa Cruz... We had dinner with Bing one night... My father isn't very happy over the prospect of Oleg as a son-in-law ... but the plan now is to be married the first part of October..." This excellent letter closes with a manuscript mention of tickets for Rear Window. 1954 was the most significant year thus far in Grace Kelly's career, having won the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl and starred in two Hitchcock features: Dial M for Murder and Rear Window.

We catch up with Grace in early April 1956, just days before her royal wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco who she had met in May 1955. Kelly tells Prudy "it is alright with me if you want to write an account of the wedding as long as it is not on the spot reporting and written afterwards as I am not supposed to have any press on my list of invitations." From the period of the wedding are invitations and printed materials, picture postcards, and envelopes with stamps bearing images of the new couple, all vestiges of Grace's new life as the Princess of Monaco. Many of Grace's letters from here on are written on royal stationery. In August 1956, Kelly asks Prudy "Can you believe that I am pregnant?" and mentions buying maternity clothes in Paris before heading to the U.S. About a week before the arrival of Princess Caroline in January 1957, Kelly expresses anxiety that "I still can't get used to being a wife let alone a mother... it has been so long since I led a normal life that I imagine it will take a while to become completely domesticated..." A very fine item is a picture postcard depicting Prince Rainier standing in uniform next to a gowned Princess Grace holding baby Caroline. In early 1958, Prince Albert was born and Grace glowingly reports "Our little boy is really too sweet for words. He is gaining weight rapidly and will soon be a big fatty. Caroline loves him but gets very upset when he cries. It is really wonderful having two such beautiful babies and one of each!" Grace has included several pictures of her with the children in these letters. Later that year, Grace is stateside and describes a trip to California to meet with Metro Pictures, a trip to Jamaica with Colliers, and her and Rainier's new apartment on Fifth Ave which she will decorate with a "clock from one of the To Catch a Thief sets" gifted to her by Cary Grant.

While the final years of the correspondence is voluminous, most topics include Grace's travels and instructions for when Prudy visits her, news of her children, and her efforts with orphans, the Red Cross, and other organizations. This group of letters offers insight to Grace's day-to-day in a relatively private time in her very public life. In 1958, Prudy married (with Grace as her matron of honor) and settled on a farm in Maryland where the letters continued to reach her from Monaco, Switzerland, Spain and elsewhere. The correspondence in this archive concludes in 1968, this being about the time Prudy began to suffer the leukemia that ended her life at just 42 in 1973. Grace Kelly died in 1982 at just 52 years old from injuries sustained when a cerebral hemmorhrage caused an automobile accident.

This is a remarkable archive that we believe to be unpublished and unknown to biographers. Grace Kelly's rise from her first days as an actress in New York to becoming the Princess of Monaco is a real-life fairy tale. Worthy of collector, institutional, and scholarly interest, we trace no other archive that tracks the career and personal life of Grace Kelly in her own words in such depth.

[ybcpatrick]

i want to tell you about my nana.

her first name was mary, but she never ever went by it, that was just a catholic thing her mum did. she went by one of her middle names, nadine.

she was born on prince edward island on december 1st, 1949, the last of seven children. she moved to ontario in 1969, met my grandfather, got married on june 26th, 1971, then had their first child, my dad, a year to the very day. she had my aunt three years later. she loved them more than anything else on earth, and did everything in her power to make sure they were happy, safe, and cared for, even into their adult years. that extended to her grandchildren tenfold, and she adored being nana. to this day, she was the owner of the biggest heart i have ever encountered.

she always had carnations on the dining room table, and planted sunflowers along the fence that grew taller than her every single year. she went to clown college. she worked in the women's section at giant tiger. she was absurdly good at golf, and drew smiley faces on all of her balls so she knew they were hers from far away. she went to church every sunday her whole life. she took her coffee black, and i still have all of her mugs. she loved star trek: the next generation (data was her favourite), charlie chaplin, red skelton, the littlest hobo, touched by an angel, and m*a*s*h. she drove a blue oldsmobile with a wooden dolphin necklace hanging from the rearview mirror. her halloween costumes were always expertly crafted. her mother-son dance with my dad at my parents' wedding was to coat of many colours by dolly parton. she hung pictures of wolves and foxes around her house. she rocked a turtleneck with golden jewelry on the daily. all of her left shoes had a sole riser on them, because one leg was shorter than the other. she made sure she always kept nesquik syrup and double-crème cookies in her cupboards. she loved crafts, especially collages, and painting on woodwork that papa had started. the coffee and side-tables in her living room looked like gigantic books, and i can still smell the inside of the coffee table drawer where she kept my art supplies. her christmas village took up a solid third of the living room every year, glittering like magic.

she was strong-willed. she was driven. she was creative. she was faithful. she was compassionate. she was patient. she was the type to hear a baby babble and respond in kind, taking the nonsense sounds and treating them like they were articulate and valuable. to her, they were. everything a child said or did was the most important thing she'd heard all day, and she made sure that child knew it. everything i ever said to her was met with an unbelievable understanding and encouragement that i haven't experienced since.

she called me, and only me, pumpkin. she let me bring pooh bear with us everywhere, and even got him a high chair that hooked to the edge of the table so he could eat meals with us. she could sharpen my pencil crayons with her pinky nail. she kept everything i ever drew, and is the reason why i still do. she never made me feel silly, or embarrassed, or like i was too young or foolish to understand something. she never made me feel weird, because she was weird, too. she made sure we knew, while we had her and long after we didn't, that she loved us more than words. the eleven years i got to have her were like warm sunlight through the trees. she was comfort and quiet understanding wrapped up in a single person. she was my everything. she still is.

she died on tuesday, july 24th, 2012 around 4am. she was sixty-two years old. it was lung cancer, the kind that non-smokers and children get (and ironically, she had smoked at one point, but managed to kick the habit a few years before i was born). a year after she passed, her ashes were scattered over her brother's oyster bay on the island. my way by frank sinatra was the last song on the playlist for her celebration of life, and because of that, i can't listen to it more than once a year. but i can't deny that it was the perfect song choice for her. she was unyielding in her pursuit of her own happiness, and she was gonna take everyone she loved up with her, like it or not. she never compromised who she was. my nana was unapologetically herself, right to the end. and where she stopped, i decided i had to carry it on myself.

if you're still reading this, i'm glad to have gotten to share her memory with you. it's been twelve years since she had to go, and i was only eleven at the time; i will have to grieve her for longer than i ever knew her. but she's still alive every time i think of her, or i tell someone about her. and now i've told you about her.

thank you for letting her live again with you, even for just a moment or two. nana would've loved you, too.

[arte-rock]

TELLUS #21 - Audio by Visual Artists (Full Album)

The two faces of this tape document different approaches to audio recording - sound and phonetic poetry, music concrete, storytelling, electronics, artists' bands and the sequential repetition of a sound, noise or word(s). - Claudia Gould

00:00 - Joseph Beuys - "Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne", 1970 02:04 - Maurice LemaÓtre - "Lettre Rock", 1958 04:00 - Fillippo Tomasso Marinetti - "La Battaglia di Adrianopoli", 1926 07:01 - Raoul Hausmann - "PoÈmes Phonetiques" (1919-1943) 10:32 - Antonio Russolo - "Corale", "Serenata", 1924 13:09 - Marcel Duchamp - Some texts from "A l'infinitif" (1912-20) 17:13 - Kurt Schwitters - "Die Sonate in Urlauten" (1919-32) 19:19 - Lawrence Weiner - "Having Been Done At / Having Been Done To, Essendo Stato Fatto A", 1973 21:50 - George Brecht - "Comb Music (Comb Event)" 1959-62 21:53 - Patrick Ireland - "Vowel Drawing", 1967 23:04 - Richard Huelsenbeck - "Four Poems from Phantastiche Gebete". 1916 24:37 - Arrigo Lora-Totino and Fogliati - "Poesia Totale", 1968 26:14 - Jean Dubuffet - "Musical Experiences", 1963 28:35 - Mimmo Rotella - "Poemi Fonetici", 1949-75 29:24 - Joan Jonas - "The Anchor Stone", 1988 31:55 - Christian Boltanski - "Reconstruction de Chansons Qui Ont Et Chant", (1944-46)" 34:19 - Ian Murray - "Keeping On Top of the Top Song", 1970 37:40 - Terry Fox - "The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Different Cats", 1976 40:39 - Jonathan Borofsky - "The Standard Chant Pt. 2", 1983 42:14 - Magdalena Abakanowicz - "Cough", 1986 42:55 - Richard Prince with Bob Gober - "Tell Me Everything", 1988 45:03 - Martin Kippenberger - "Bang, Bang", 1987 48:16 - Jack Goldstein - "The Weep", 1978 50:41 - John Armleder - "16 Great Turn-Ons". 1988 51:55 - Terry Allen - "Home On The Range", 1988 55:12 - Gretchen Bender - "Artificial Treatment" 1988 57:59 - Y Pants - "Magnetic Attraction", 1980 01:01:14 - Ed Tomney - "Aquatic Chronicle", 1988 01:04:27 - Susan Hiller - "Magic Lantern", 1987 01:09:28 - Ian Murray - "Keeping on Top of the Top Songs", 1970

[jedivoodoochile]

Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe 1926 - 1962. (Scroll down for 1926 - 1962)💋

1926

June 1: Birth at Los Angeles General Hospital.

June 13: Taken to live with the foster family, the Bolenders.

1933💋

Fall: Mother Gladys Baker takes Norma Jeane to live with her.

1934💋

February: Gladys Baker taken to an institution.

1935💋

June 1: Grace McKee becomes legal guardian.

September 13: Norma Jeane is left at the orphanage.

1937💋

June 26: Grace McKee takes her away from the orphanage.

1938💋

November: Goes to live with 'Aunt' Ana Lower.

1942💋

June 19: Marries James E. Dougherty.

1944💋

April: Norma Jeane starts work at the Radio Plane Munitions Factory.

1946💋

April: First National Magazine cover, in 'Family Circle'.

June 26: Photographed by David Conover for 'Yank' magazine.

July 19: First Screen-Test, for 20th Century Fox.

July 23: First Six Months studio contract, renewed in January.

July 29: First mention in a Hollywood gossip Column (Hedda Hopper).

August 2: Norma Jeane Dougherty applies to join the 'Blue Book Modeling Agency'.

September 13: Divorce granted from James E. Dougherty.

1947💋

August 25: Fox Contract not renewed for a second time.

1948💋

February: Marilyn befriends mogul Joseph M. Schenck.

March 9: Contract with Columbia Pictures.

September 8: Dropped by Columbia.

December 31: Meets agent Johnny Hyde, who indicates himself to promote her.

1949💋

May 27: Poses for photographer Tom Kelley - the nude Calendar shots.

July 24: First interview with Earl Wilson.

August 15: Starts shooting 'A Ticket To Tomahawk'.

October: Sings contract with MGM for the breakthrough role in 'The Asphalt Jungle'.

1950💋

January 5: Starts shooting 'The Fireball'.

April: Lands small but perfectly formed part in 'All About Eve'.

December 18: Johnny Hyde dies.

1951💋

March 29: Presents an Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony.

April 18: Shooting starts on 'Love Nest'.

May 11: Latest six months contract and Fox converted to seven-year deal.

September 8: First full length national magazine feature in 'Colliers'.

1952💋

March: Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio go out on a first date.

March 13: Nude calendar story broken to public.

April 7: First 'Life' cover snapped by Phillipe Halsman.

June 1: On her birthday leans she is to be Lorelei Lee in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.

August 31: Live radio debut.

September 2: Grand marshal at the Miss America pageant.

1953💋

January, 21: She becomes a star when 'Niagara' is released.

January, 26: Marilyn and Jane Russell put their hand and feet prints in wet cement. At Graumann's Chinese Theater.

September, 13: TV debut at the 'Jack Benny Show'.

November, 4: Premier of 'How To Marry a Millionaire'.

December 15: Doesn't appear for shooting of 'The Girl in Pink Tights'.

1954💋

January, 4: Suspended by Fox.

January, 14: Marriage with Joe Dimaggio in San Francisco.

February, 2: They arrive at Tokyo Airport.

February, 16: Marilyn gives 10 concert's for the American soldiers in Korea.

September, 15: The shooting for the blowing skirt scene, included in the movie 'The Seven Year Itch'.

October, 5: Marilyn divorces Joe DiMaggio.

November, 6: Hollywood party in honor of Marilyn.

1955💋

January, 7: Press conference for 'Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc.'.

January, 15: Marilyn moves to the East coast, she is also suspended by Fox.

February: She met Lee Strasberg, and joins 'The Actor Studio'.

March, 31: She appears on a pink elephant on a benefit evening in 'Madison Square Garden'.

April, 8: Live in TV program of 'Person2Person' with Edward R. Murrow.

June, 1: Premier of 'The Seven Year Itch'.

1956💋

January, 4: A new contract between Fox and MM Productions.

February, 9: Marilyn and Sir Laurence Olivier announce that they will work together in 'The Sleeping Prince'.

June, 29: She marries Arthur Miller.

July, 14: She travels to London to begin with the shooting of 'The Prince And The Showgirl'.

August: Her first miscarriage.

October, 29: She meets Queen Elizabeth.

1957💋

June, 13: Premier of 'TPATS'.

August, 1: Another miscarriage.

1958💋

August, 4: The shooting of 'Some Like It Hot' begins, until November.

December, 17: Another miscarriage.

1959💋

March, 29: Premier of 'Some Like It Hot'.

1960💋

March, 8: Golden Globe award for 'Best Actress in a Comedy', in 'Some Like It Hot'.

June, 18: The shooting of 'The Misfits' begins.

August, 26: Marilyn is admitted in the hospital, some say in was a suicide attempt.

November, 11: Marilyn announce she divorces Arthur Miller.

November, 16: Clark Gable (who worked with in 'The Misfits') died of an heart attack.

1961💋

January, 20: Divorce of Arthur Miller.

January, 31: Premier 'The Misfits'.

February, 7: She is admitted to the 'Payne Whitney Clinic' in New York.

February, 11: She is admitted to 'Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center'.

October: Meets Robert Kennedy.

November: Meets John. F. Kennedy.

1962💋

February: Moves back to Los Angeles, in Brentwood.

March, 5: She get's a Gold Globe Award for 'World Film Favorite'.

April, 23: Shooting begins for 'Something's Got To Give'.

May, 19: Sings 'Happy Birthday' to JFK in 'Madison Square Garden'.

June, 1: Last workday at Fox.

June, 7: fired by Fox.

June, 23: Rehired by Fox.

July, 20: Admitted to the 'Cedars of Lebanon Hospital'.

August, 3: She appears on the cover of 'Life'.

August, 4: The last day Marilyn Monroe was alive.

August, 5: Marilyn Monroe is found dead in bed, autopsy reveals suicide. (possible)

August, 8: Funeral in 'Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery' 🙏💐🌸⚘️💐🌸⚘️

[favoriteanimatedtheatricalfilm]

2023 Disney Film Tournament

All films that count under my criteria are under the cut, as well as my poll posting schedule. If you feel like a film should or should not be included, feel free to send an ask!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the automatic winner of the 1930s section because it’s the only one.

Positive propaganda is allowed, I just may not publish it all if there is heavy volume.

Winners of the year have a sun emoji and are italicized, winners of the decade have a moon emoji and are bolded, the final winner will be blue and have a star emoji.

1930s

☀️🌙1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1940s - Week 1, 11 July 2023

1940

Pinocchio

☀️🌙Fantasia

1941 - Dumbo

1942 - Bambi

1943 - Saludos Amigos

1945 - The Three Caballeros

1946 - Make Mine Music

1947 - Fun and Fancy Free

1948 - Melody Time

1949 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1950s - Week 2, July 18 2023

1950 - Cinderella

☀️🌙1951 - Alice in Wonderland

1953 - Peter Pan

1955 - Lady and the Tramp

1959 - Sleeping Beauty

1960s - Week 3, July 25 2023

☀️🌙1961 - One Hundred and One Dalmatians

1963 - The Sword in the Stone

1967 - The Jungle Book

1970s - Week 4, Aug 1 2023

☀️🌙1970 - The Aristocats

1973 - Robin Hood

1977

☀️The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

1980s - Week 5, Aug 8 2023

1981 - The Fox and the Hound

1985 - The Black Cauldron

☀️🌙1986 - The Great Mouse Detective

1988 - Oliver & Company

1989 - The Little Mermaid

1990s - Week 6-7, Aug 15 & Aug 22 2023

1990 - The Rescuers Down Under

1991 - Beauty and the Beast

1992 - Aladdin

1994 - The Lion King

1995

A Goofy Movie

Pocahontas

☀️Toy Story

1996 (because there is no 1993 movie, I will fit both of these in the decade poll)

James and the Giant Peach

☀️The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1997 - Hercules

1998

☀️🌙✨Mulan

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride

A Bug’s Life

1999

Doug’s 1st Movie

☀️Tarzan

Toy Story 2

Fantasia 2000

2000s - Week 8-9, Aug 29 & Sept 5 2023

2000

The Tigger Movie

Dinosaur

☀️🌙The Emperor’s New Groove

2001

Recess: School’s Out

☀️Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Monsters, Inc.

2002

Return to Never Land

☀️Lilo & Stitch

Spirited Away

Treasure Planet

The Jungle Book 2

2003

Piglet’s Big Movie

☀️Finding Nemo

Brother Bear

2004

Teacher’s Pet

Home on the Range

☀️The Incredibles

2005

Pooh’s Heffalump Movie

☀️Howl’s Moving Castle

Valiant

Chicken Little

2006

Bambi II

The Wild

Cars

☀️The Nightmare Before Christmas

2007

Meet The Robinsons

☀️Ratatouille

2008

☀️WALL•E

Roadside Romeo

Tinker Bell

Bolt

2009

Up

Ponyo

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Disney’s A Christmas Carol

☀️The Princess and the Frog

2010s - Week 10-11, Sept 12 & Sept 19 2023

2010

Toy Story 3

Tales from Earthsea

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

☀️🌙Tangled

2011

Mars Needs Moms

Cars 2

☀️Winnie the Pooh

2012

The Secret World of Arietty

Arjun: The Warrior Prince

☀️Brave

Secret of the Wings

Wreck-It Ralph

2013

Monsters University

Planes

☀️Frozen

2014

The Pirate Fairy

Planes: Fire & Rescue

☀️Big Hero 6

2015

Tinker Bell & the Legend of the Never Beast

☀️Inside Out

The Good Dinosaur

2016

Zootopia

Finding Dory

☀️Moana

2017

Cars 3

☀️Coco

2018

☀️Incredibles 2

Ralph Breaks the Internet

2019

Toy Story 4

☀️Frozen II

2020s - Week 12, Sept 26 2023 (They JUST all fit!)

2020

☀️Onward

Soul

2021

Raya and the Last Dragon

Luca

☀️🌙Encanto

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2022

☀️Turning Red

Lightyear

Strange World

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Favorite Over All the Decades - Week 13, Oct 3 2023

The list of contenders for this poll will update as the results roll in.

1930s - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

1940s - Fantasia (1940)

1950s - Alice in Wonderland (1951)

1960s - One Hundred and one Dalmatians (1961)

1970s - The Aristocats (1970)

1980s - The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

1990s - Mulan (1998)

2000s - The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

2010s - Tangled (2010)

2020-2022 - Encanto (2021)

Overall Winner: Mulan (1998)

The NEW 2020s poll, with the winners from 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 as the contenders, will start January 1, 2024.

If the overall 2020s movie winner changes, I will then hold a new decades poll on January 8, 2024.

The 2020s poll from 2024 and onward (lol) will just have the top movie from each year go against the new ones. If we run out of slots available for all the new movies with the previous winners, I will hold a poll with just the new movies, get a winner, and then run it against the old year winners of the 2020s.

If I remember to run this tournament into the 2030s, I will do an Over the Centuries poll comparing the favorite of one century of Disney animation to another :).

My main blog is @deathsmallcaps and my art blog is @patheticbatman if curiosity strikes you.

I’m pretty sure there is another poll going on like this, I’m just running this one for my own amusement, and because I like to think about these in terms of decades.

[whitewaterpaper]

Med en nyrehabbad dator så är listan tillbaka till det vanliga formatet. Har bestämt mig för att inte efter-editera dec/jan för mycket jobb.

Annihilation (2018) [👍🔄️]

De tusen farornas land / At the Earth's Core (1976) [👍🆓]

Det Är från Polisen / An Inspector Calls (1954) [👍]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) [👍] Mitt omdöme i sin helhet: »Den här filmen är en sådan där upplevelse man bara kan se en gång. Den är som slutet på År 2000: Ett Rymdäventyr men med en intressant underliggande story, den är som Alice i Underlandet på LSD och den är kaotisk som en tågkrasch man inte kan slita ögonen från. Det är en välförtjänt Oscarsnominering för Jamie Lee Curtis (faktum är att de känns välförtjänta allihop).«

Gyllene Kondorens Skatt / Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) [🆓]

Jung_E (2023) [__] Bra koncept, snygg anime-inspirerad design men berättandet når inte riktigt ända fram.

Jungle Cruise (2021) [👍🔄️]

Love Bound / Murder on the High Seas (1932) [🆓]

Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, the (2019) [__] Mina instinkter sade att jag skulle hoppa över den här filmen ... och det var helt riktigt.

Med Djävulen i Katedern / Satan's School for Girls (1973) [👍] Oj. Vilken trevlig överraskning. (Kan en skräckfilm vara det?)

Mr Boogedy (1986) [__]

Robin Hoods Son / Bandit of Sherwood Forest, the (1946) [🆓]

She Demons (1958) [__] En av de intressantare filmerna på H.G. Welles ”Doktor Moreaus ö”, och det är väl kanske det enda positiva som finns att säga om den.

Skälmarnas furste / Prince of Foxes (1949) [__]

Syskondetektiverna / Casebusters (1986) [👍] Den här kändes som om den var en pilot för något större som aldrig blev av.

Så vilka filmer skall man hyperklicka in i "att se listan" denna månad? Svårt att säga – men har man aldrig sett den så kan man kika in "Satan's School for Girls".

[gracie-bird]

The largest trove of personal Grace Kelly letters to come to market

Estate / Collection: From a Las Vegas Collection. Sold for + 126K dollars.

Prudence "Prudy" Wise Kudner was raised in Jacksonville, Florida and attended Duke before moving to New York City and becoming roommates with Grace Kelly, Sally Parrish, and Carolyn Scott at the Barbizon Hotel for Women. The earliest items in this extensive archive include a photograph of Grace with two of the women, a phone message note on Barbizon stationery, and a note from Grace to Prudy in Jacksonville mentioning both Sally and Carolyn. The first substantial letter is postmarked April 1949, months before her Broadway debut that November, and is eight pages in pencil on a delicate stationery. The letter regales Prudy with the long tale of a dinner introducing a suitor named Don [Richardson] to Grace's parents which went disastrously resulting in the end of their relationship and an argument with her parents, but on the bright side Kelly makes note of the positive theater connections made through Don. Following some successful modeling work and her performance on Broadway in Strindberg's The Father, Grace had her first film role in Twentieth Century Fox's 1951 Fourteen Hours. In early 1952, Kelly answers questions for Prudy regarding her newest suitor Gene [Lyons] and mentions in a postcard that follows seeing a screening of Fred Zinneman's High Noon, her first major film role. High Noon was followed by the filming in Nairobi of John Ford's Mogambo, a role offered to Kelly after Gene Tierney was forced to drop out due to health issues, and two letters are written from Africa, one on fantastic Mogambo stationery. Kelly mentions "after leaving camp two weeks ago, Frank [Sinatra], Ava [Gardner], and Clark [Gable] & I went to Malindi on the coast for 5 wonderful days... there was a terrible champagne binge for about ten days over Christmas ... we all went on the wagon until Rome. Ava and I are now great pals..." before reporting that illness, injuries and deaths had plagued the production and "the old man [Sinatra] is very anxious to leave Africa." Into 1953, Kelly is at the Savoy Hotel in London while Mogambo is edited, she here reports that "Gable and Sam Zimbalist are cutting the picture to pieces which breaks my heart - I'm not speaking to Clark these days and neither is Ava - but don't tell anyone that." For her performance in Mogambo, Kelly won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for her first Academy Award.

In the few years from mid-1953 through her marriage to Prince Rainier in 1956, Grace Kelly starred in some of the best and most stylish films of the period and became a bonafide movie star. The archive is rich in long letters from this period, including several on the stationery of the legendary Chateau Marmont in Hollywood starting in July 1953. It is here that Kelly first mentions that she "met Hitchcock" at the time she was filming Dial M for Murder, the first film in their important collaboration. In the first letter, Kelly mentions her arm is sore from playing tennis - her character is the wife of a professional player - and that "Tomorrow I test my wardrobe and see how it will all turn out in 3D," the medium for which the film was intended although most theaters showed the film in 2D. She also notes in the next letter that "They are still debating the colour of my hair. It comes out bright red in Watener colour and Hitchcock is having a fit." In the next letter, Kelly reports "Sat. night I had dinner with the Hitchcocks. We went to Perino's which was lovely... there are really so few nice places to have dinner here - most of them are flashy eating joints." She closes by noting how on the first anniversary of the Grace Kelly fan club she took time to speak to all 15 girls who attended a party and called her on the phone.

Early the next year, Kelly is preparing to move into her new apartment in New York in the Manhattan House but tells Prudy she is first moving to the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. One short letter is written on Paramount Pictures stationery, possibly during the filming of The Country Girl as in the next letter on Hotel Bel Air stationery Kelly mentions seeing a screening of the film and having spent a day swimming in the pool of the famous costume designer Edith Head. It is in this letter that Grace Kelly first mentions a new suitor, Oleg Cassini, and describes how he procured the typewriter she uses ("the only one in Beverly Hills") and their spectacular outings together, writing "last Saturday we went to a big part at Jack Warners... and the weekend before we went up to Hitch's ranch in Santa Cruz... We had dinner with Bing one night... My father isn't very happy over the prospect of Oleg as a son-in-law ... but the plan now is to be married the first part of October..." This excellent letter closes with a manuscript mention of tickets for Rear Window. 1954 was the most significant year thus far in Grace Kelly's career, having won the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl and starred in two Hitchcock features: Dial M for Murder and Rear Window.

We catch up with Grace in early April 1956, just days before her royal wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco who she had met in May 1955. Kelly tells Prudy "it is alright with me if you want to write an account of the wedding as long as it is not on the spot reporting and written afterwards as I am not supposed to have any press on my list of invitations." From the period of the wedding are invitations and printed materials, picture postcards, and envelopes with stamps bearing images of the new couple, all vestiges of Grace's new life as the Princess of Monaco. Many of Grace's letters from here on are written on royal stationery. In August 1956, Kelly asks Prudy "Can you believe that I am pregnant?" and mentions buying maternity clothes in Paris before heading to the U.S. About a week before the arrival of Princess Caroline in January 1957, Kelly expresses anxiety that "I still can't get used to being a wife let alone a mother... it has been so long since I led a normal life that I imagine it will take a while to become completely domesticated..." A very fine item is a picture postcard depicting Prince Rainier standing in uniform next to a gowned Princess Grace holding baby Caroline. In early 1958, Prince Albert was born and Grace glowingly reports "Our little boy is really too sweet for words. He is gaining weight rapidly and will soon be a big fatty. Caroline loves him but gets very upset when he cries. It is really wonderful having two such beautiful babies and one of each!" Grace has included several pictures of her with the children in these letters. Later that year, Grace is stateside and describes a trip to California to meet with Metro Pictures, a trip to Jamaica with Colliers, and her and Rainier's new apartment on Fifth Ave which she will decorate with a "clock from one of the To Catch a Thief sets" gifted to her by Cary Grant.

While the final years of the correspondence is voluminous, most topics include Grace's travels and instructions for when Prudy visits her, news of her children, and her efforts with orphans, the Red Cross, and other organizations. This group of letters offers insight to Grace's day-to-day in a relatively private time in her very public life. In 1958, Prudy married (with Grace as her matron of honor) and settled on a farm in Maryland where the letters continued to reach her from Monaco, Switzerland, Spain and elsewhere. The correspondence in this archive concludes in 1968, this being about the time Prudy began to suffer the leukemia that ended her life at just 42 in 1973. Grace Kelly died in 1982 at just 52 years old from injuries sustained when a cerebral hemmorhrage caused an automobile accident.

This is a remarkable archive that we believe to be unpublished and unknown to biographers. Grace Kelly's rise from her first days as an actress in New York to becoming the Princess of Monaco is a real-life fairy tale. Worthy of collector, institutional, and scholarly interest, we trace no other archive that tracks the career and personal life of Grace Kelly in her own words in such depth

-DOYLE AUCTIONS.

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This fantastic costume was used in Prince of Foxes in 1949 by Leslie Bradley as Don Esteban. It was used later (and seen in color!) in the 1953 film Lucrèce Borgia. Due to translation issues, it is not entirely clear who wore the costume, but it was likely Pietro Capanna, who is uncredited but appeared to film the role of a friend or advisor to Alphonse d’Aragon.

Costume Credit: Lucia

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Prince of Foxes (1949).

"El príncipe de los zorros" o en su idioma original “Prince of foxes” no sitúa en la Italia del renacimiento a mediados de agosto de 1500, y no abre en un escenario de un velorio, el velorio de Alfonso de Aragón Príncipe de Salerno y esposo de Lucrezia Borgia es aquí donde nos muestran a los personajes principales de la trama, entre ellos al protagonista de la obra Andrea Orsini, un noble y aficionado al arte, el cual igual de habilidoso que es con el pincel lo es con las palabras y lleno de ambiciones, sirve como soldado al maquiavélico príncipe César Borgia el cual en la historia real es hijo del polémico Papa Alejandro VI y por ello ostenta tal poder. Durante esta primera escena vemos el buen trabajo hecho con la escenografía, la arquitectura representada siguiendo los cánones clásicos y tipologías propias de las iglesias del renacimiento sumándole la vestimenta de los actores ayudan a crea una experiencia inmersiva, intente encontrar información sobre el nombre de la misma iglesia, pero difícilmente pude encontrar nada más allá de la mención de que se la cinta se rodó en Italia y los las estructuras vistas en la misma son auténticas.

Dicho lo anterior proseguimos con la narrativa donde en poco tiempo nos muestran el objetivo principal Cesar Borgia donde selecciona a Andrea para llevar a cabo una intriga, esta misión consiste en arreglar el matrimonio de su hermana viuda, Lucrezia y a Alfonso d’Este, hijo del duque Ercole d'Este de Ferrara, dando a entender que la muerte de su cuñado fue ordenada por este mismo para sacarle provecho diplomático. Bajo esta escena nos muestran parte de la actitud del que posteriormente se nos presenta como protagonista de la obra, pero cuyas acciones y forma de pensar ya nos intuía este desenlace, gracias a ello Borgia eliminará a Ferrara como un impedimento para la conquista del centro de Italia y la posterior unificación de la península italiana.

Andrea viaja a Venecia para vender algunos de sus cuadros y así recaudar dinero para los gastos de su misión, cabe resaltar que las imágenes que vemos son la real Venecia, tanto que se aprecia como existen la Campanile de San Marcos, Palacio Ducal de Venecia y el Palazzo della Librería (este último construido de entre 30 a 50 años después de la época donde nos situamos). Allí es donde conoce a otro personaje importante de la trama la cual señorita Camilla di Baglione, joven esposa del anciano conde Marc Antonio Varano de Citta del Monte. Durante su travesía a ferrara se nos muestra parte de la actitud de Andrea, un hombre confiado, carismático y bueno con el uso de las palabras tanto que convence a un asesino de contratarlo a pesar de que el mismo intento asesinarlo, además de mostrar dotes con el manejo de la espada. En ese mismo trayecto se detiene para visitar la granja de la viuda de un herrero. Ella es en realidad su madre, es aquí donde se nos muestra que el protagonista no es en realidad un noble si no un campesino y su nombre real es Andrea Zoppo y no el noble Orsini que pretende ser.

Al finalizar esta misión con éxito, se le encarga otra, esta vez una de asesinato donde su objetivo es la de embajador en la ciudad montañera de Citta del Monte (esta última existiendo solo en el universo de la cinta y cuya ubicación seria la actual San Marino), con órdenes de ayudar a Borgia a conquistar la ciudad en la cima de la montaña antes de la primavera, utilizando una conquista romántica de Camilla para facilitar el asesinato del anciano conde. Durante su estancia ocurren una serie de eventos que cambian la visión del protagonista mientras el amor hacia Camilla no hace más que aumentar y al mismo tiempo se ve cautivado por la sabiduría del hombre mayor y el amor por su pueblo.

El tiempo se agota y es donde llega Don Esteban, capitán de los ejércitos de Borgia para imponer sus condiciones a la ciudad. Es aquí donde Andrea Orsini despeja las dudas que durante meses se han ido acumulando en su cabeza y decide ayudar al Conde ante el ataque de las tropas de Borgia.

Durante un cruento asedio, el cual se sitúa en la actual Monte Titano en San Marino, el conde es herido de muerte en una emboscada, a partir de ahora el protagonista toma la defensa de la ciudad.

Después de tres meses de repeler los ataques, la ciudad se encuentra en sus últimas, aquí Orsini decide entregarse para que aceptar las condiciones de rendición y que la ciudad sobreviva, este es sentenciado a quedar ciego Belli, el asesino que se había vuelto su amigo es quien lo deja ciego con sus propias manos, pero es todo un truco para lograr salvar Andrea y finge la desfiguración, posteriormente juntos planean el rescate de Camila y junto a un levantamiento en la ciudad de  Citta del monte logran liberarla, causando una resistencia en contra de la casa Borgia que culminaría con su caída. Finalizando esta obra con el casamiento del campesino Andrea Zoppo y Camilla di Baglione.

A lo largo de esta obra nos deja muy en claro lo complicado de los tiempos del renacimiento, una época llena de intriga, conspiraciones y guerras, el príncipe de los zorros nos trata de narrar desde un punto de vista algo fantasioso estos hechos, ya que, aunque en base se representa en sucesos reales, a partir de cierto punto de la trama sigue con la narrativa de la novela en la que se inspira originalmente la obra, siento que narra demuestra bien lo que podría ser a nuestros ojos el día a día de ese entonces, la presencia de obras de arte y frescos además de la utilería y las ropas te hace sentir que estas en la época a pesar de ciertas incongruencias históricas y las limitaciones de la misma época en la que se produjo. A pesar de la calidad de la cinta y el blanco y negro aun se logra preciar el paisaje de los montes italianos e incluso acompaña la narrativa de impresionantes coreografías de batallas donde combinan ese paso histórico entre lo medieval y la proliferación de la pólvora. La arquitectura también se lleva una porción del pastel a pesar de mostrar planos interiores la mayoría de las veces, la cinta nos muestra lugres emblemáticos Roma, San Gimignano, San Marino, Venecia y del Véneto.

[holymovies]

Wanda Hendrix

PRINCE OF FOXES, 1949

[ddafne]

Ensayo

Lutero (2003) / Prince of foxes (1949) /Agonía y éxtasis (1965)

En este ensayo, se analiza la vida y obra de Martín Lutero, un monje alemán que desafió las enseñanzas de la Iglesia Católica en el siglo XVI y abogó por una reforma en la doctrina y práctica religiosa.

Lutero fue una figura clave en el movimiento reformista que surgió en Europa en el siglo XVI, y sus ideas tuvieron un gran impacto en la forma en que se entendía la religión y la fe. En particular, Lutero defendió la idea de que la salvación no se podía obtener a través de las buenas obras y el cumplimiento de los sacramentos, sino que era un regalo divino que se recibía por fe en Jesucristo.

Además, Lutero también luchó contra las prácticas corruptas de la Iglesia Católica de su tiempo, como la venta de indulgencias, que prometían perdón de los pecados a cambio de dinero. En su lugar, Lutero defendió una iglesia más humilde y centrada en la Biblia como fuente principal de autoridad.

En resumen, sobre Lutero (2003) es una excelente introducción a la vida y obra de este importante reformador religioso. A través de su análisis detallado, podemos entender mejor cómo su legado ha influido en la religión y la cultura occidental hasta nuestros días.

Prince of Foxes (1949) es una novela histórica escrita por Samuel Shellabarger que se desarrolla en Italia durante el Renacimiento. El libro cuenta la historia de un aventurero llamado Andrea Orsini, que se ve envuelto en un complot político para derrocar al gobernante de Florencia.

Agonía y éxtasis (1965) es una película dirigida por Carol Reed que narra la historia de Michelangelo Buonarroti, uno de los artistas más influyentes del Renacimiento italiano. La película sigue su vida y obra, incluyendo la creación de la Capilla Sixtina en el Vaticano.

[elcinelateleymickyandonie]

''EL PRÍNCIPE DE LOS ZORROS''

(Prince of Foxes)

Año: 1949

Dirección: Henry King

Para ver el tráiler ingresa al enlace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxf4upvzC4

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I don’t know if this will fall under ur interests or not, but there’s a film called Prince of Foxes 1949 that has beautiful costuming, set in 1500 it looks like, that you might enjoy :0

oooh that looks sexy !! Also Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia omg ... I have to check it out !