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L’Officiel, 1984.

Photographed by Angus McBean.

Model: Patty McHugh.

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Angus McBean (Welsh, 1904-1990)

Marika Rivera, Surrealist Montage 1948

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♫⋆｡ The Beatles were photographed for the cover of their debut album Please Please me, on 16 February 1963. Angus McBean photographed the Beatles looking down from a balcony. It was McBean’s second shoot with the band, taken at EMI House in Manchester Square, London.

“As I went into the door [of EMI House] I was in the staircase well. Someone looked over the banister – I asked if the boys were in the building, and the answer was yes. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘get them to look over, and I will take them from here.’”

“I only had my ordinary portrait lens, so to get the picture, I had to lie flat on my back in the entrance. I took some shots and I said, ‘That’ll do.’” - Angus McBean

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GLYNIS JOHNS (1923-2024)

"Why Miss Johns is ever off the British screen is one of the unintelligible idiocies of our film industry. A young Athene Seyler or Marie Tempest, this delicious actress has an impudent wit, a croaking mockery and an imperturbable matter-of-factness which makes anything from mermaids (Miranda) to Anglo-Vosnian misses (State Secret) real and funny." — Freda Bruce Lockhart, 1950

"I became a professional at 12, so it's always been my life. Later on, I wanted to lead what I thought of as a 'normal' existence, but I soon found I wasn't as normal away from the theater as in it. Acting is my highest form of intelligence, the time when I use the best part of my brain. I was always told, by my married friends, for example, that I could apply that intelligence to something else, some other aspect of living, but I can't."

"I like being a woman, and it may be small-minded of me, but I also like being given flowers, having the door opened for me, being cherished by a man. I'm a complete romantic - and very happy to be one."

"I throw away a lot of lines, but as someone once said to me, 'At least you know where you're throwing them.'"

"I don't believe in age. I don't believe in death."

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Quentin Crisp (1941) by Angus McBean

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Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1952-53 “Jolie Madame” Collection. Katharine Hepburn, in a model evening dress worn in the play "The Millionaires" by George Bernard Shaw.

Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1952-53 Collection "Jolie Madame". Katharine Hepburn, dans un modèle de robe du soir porté dans la pièce de théâtre "The Millionaires" (Les Millionaires) de George Bernard Shaw.

Photo Angus McBean

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1. Photo by Astrid Kirchherr, November 1962

2. Photo by Angus McBean, February 1963

[lokh]

not me randomly experiencing nostalgia for australian childrens tv...

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Peter O'Toole

Hamlet National Theatre, 1963 directed by Laurence Olivier

Peter O'Toole as Hamlet

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Lena Kathleen McBean

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Another archival of some old sketchbook art of mine. Pretty sure she’s meant to be an older Tracey McBean, she was at least clearly inspired by her

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The St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City was consecrated on October 30, 1766.  

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the old name for grumpus bean was beanjamin mctimpaws

Yeah, I did look it up after posting, and I am gonna change their last name, since it doesn't quite follow the Grumpus naming scheme (not that it needs to, but I want it to)

But still, thank you for taking the time to check and remind me!

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David Dulak | Angus McBean | The Guardian

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Jardin aux lilas, a ballet by Antony Tudor for his short-lived Dance Theatre company, 1938. Photo by Angus McBean.

"It was Antony Tudor who first put his women in long dresses, the Edwardian dresses his mother wore. The effect was startling and a real shock to the imagination. The audience was called upon to accept the balletic gesture as a form of simple dramatic communication. It was also asked to watch women who looked like their mothers and aunts kicking over their heads or wrapping their legs around men’s bodies." — Agnes de Mille