#talmadge sisters

[justbusterkeaton]

Buster Keaton and wife Natalie Talmadge in Our Hospitality 1923

[utterlyvapid]

“The biggest names in the world didn’t so much fade – they were rubbed out completely.”

[mudwerks]

(via Film Noir Photos: The Eyes Have It: Constance Talmadge)

Her Sister From Paris (1924)

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…May 31, 1921

Buster Keaton marries Natalie Talmadge on the anniversary of his parents Joe and Myra's wedding at the home of Joseph Schenck, his boss & brother-in-law.  Although the marriage ended in divorce just over a decade later, there were happy times & their union led to two sons, Jimmy & Bobby.

[the1920sinpictures]

1920 Poster of Constance Talmadge starring in "The Love Expert". The screenplay was written by Anita Loos and the film was directed by her husband, John Emerson. The producer, Joe Schenck, was married to Constance's older sister, Norma Talmadge. So Joe kept his producing in the family at this time. From Silent Era and Pre Code Art, FB.

[silver-screen-divas]

Remembering silent film star, NORMA TALMADGE

One of the most popular stars of the 1920s, she was the oldest of the three Talmadge sisters, Constance and Natalie being the other two, who were also in the movies.

Talmadge first made films for Vitagraph Studios in NYC, making over 250 movies for them. She made movies for Triangle then formed her own company, the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation.

Moving to Hollywood in 1922, Talmadge became one of the highest paid actresses of the 1920s, earning $10,000 a week, almost $200,000 today.

When sound movies came on the scene, Talmadge made two of them - both Pre-Code films, in 1929 and 1930. Those were her last ones. She retired and distanced herself from the trappings of Hollywood.

Norma Talmadge died in 1957 at the age of 63.

PHOTOS, clockwise from left ~

* Norma Talmadge, long after her retirement, at the Sea Spray Beach Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Photo by Bert Morgan, c. 1950.

* Norma (L), with her sister Constance; photo by Albert Witzel, 1922.

* PR photo.

* Talmadge in “The Woman Disputed”, 1928.

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton, his wife, Natalie, and her sister, Constance Talmadge, arriving in New York where Buster is making his new film, "Snap Shots." [And Ed Sedgewick in the back]

[soulmusicsongs]

Funky Bass in 21 songs

I’ve compiled another very subjective list with the 21 best songs with an awesome funky basslines.

Africa Is Home - Joe Mensah (Joe Mensah, 1975)

Born Black - The 4 Sensations With The Moonlighters Band (Born Black / Only Love Up Ahead (Don't Be Afraid), 1969)

Cold Water - Julius Brockington ‎(Sophisticated Funk, 1972)

Come Out Smokin' - The Panic Buttons (Come Out Smokin' / Bad Karma, 1969)

Dolana Ay Dolana - Mustafa Özkent (Gençlik İle El Ele, 1973)

Esperar Prá Ver - Evinha (Cartão Postal, 1971)

Fonky Flute - James Rivers (Fonky Flute / Unchained Melody, 1969)

Funky Down Easy - Jerry McCain (Welfare Cadillac Blues / Funky Down Easy, 1970)

Funky Soul Train - Robert Parker (Funky Soul Train / Robert & W.Q's Train, 1967)

Give a Damn About Your Feller Man (2) - Benny Gordon & The Soul Brothers (Give a Damn About Your Feller Man (1) / Give A Damn About Your Feller Man (2), 1971)

Grave Yard Creep - James Duhon (Grave Yard Creep - James Duhon / Color Me Soul - Talmadge Armstrong, 1974)

I Wish (A Way Out Of No Way) - Frances Moore & the East St. Louis Gospelettes (A Way Out Of No Way, 1979)

The Jed Clampett - The Sister And Brothers (The Jed Clampett - Part 1 / The Jed Clampett - Part 2, 1970)

Lay-Out - R. Conrado, A. Scuderi, P. Montanari (Bass Modulations, 1973)

Lets Be Free - Aktion (Celebration, 1977)

Marabuena - Charly Antolini's Power Dozen (Atomic Drums, 1972)

Naku Penda - Mfalme (Naku Penda, 1976)

Soul Chills (Vocal) (Part I) - Dede Soul And The Spidells (Soul Chills (Vocal) (Part I) /Soul Chills (Instrumental) (Part II), 1967)

Studio In Chiave Di Basso - I Marc 4 (I Marc 4, 1971)

That's How I Feel - Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media (In The Groove, 1973)

You Stepped Into My Life - Melba Moore (This Is It, 1976)

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Funky Basslines in Soul Music, part 5

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Top 10 basslines in Soul and Funk Music, part 3

Top 10 basslines in Soul and Funk Music, part 2

Top 10 basslines in Soul and Funk Music, part 1

[citizenscreen]

The Talmadge sisters: Natalie, Constance and Norma

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Wasn't one of the Talmage sisters married to Buster Keaton and she took all his money and kids?

LOL, had to look this one up.

Natalie Talmadge was his first wife. They had a tumultuous marriage, that became estranged when she stopped having sex with him for fear of getting pregnant again after she had two sons. So, she kicked him out of the bedroom and he started dating other women. In retaliation, she spent most of the money he made on her shopping addiction and lavish lifestyle. She finally got a divorce and legally changed their sons' last name to Talmadge.

Also, did everyone know that Buster Keaton started as a very young child actor in Vaudeville? Look at this cutie!

[justbusterkeaton]

The exterior shots of the houses in both The Electric House (1922) and Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) were Buster’s home at the time of filming.

The house in The Electric House was 59 Westmoreland Place.

Buster needed a big house because his in-laws practically lived with him, despite having even grander homes themselves. The top floor of the house was a ballroom, which his sister-in-law Constance Talmadge, would use to ride her bicycle in.

The Italian Villa was Buster’s second attempt at building a house that his wife Natalie and her mother and sisters would approve of. Built in the Mediterranean Revival style, it was codesigned by Buster and architect Gene Verge, Sr.

Their neighbours were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino.

[mabelstephennormand]

Who was the one love of her life ?

She didn’t have a love of her life sadly..her experience was only of disappointment…principally caused by selfish, greedy, wanting men whom tried to suffocate her independent spirit, fertile mind and whom were intellectually needy and unable to satisfy her needs/capacity in every way..especially emotionally and tempermentally. Based on diary enteries and handwritten personal correspondence with women friends, particularly the Talmadge sisters over a 16 year period.

[rockislandadultreads]

NoveList Combo: Haunting Literary Fiction

Did you know NoveList is a database you can access with your library card to find reading recommendations? Find your next favorite read with this fantastic readers tool! Check it out on our website here.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can - will she?

This is the first volume in the "Todd Family" series.

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

You belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.

At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, a solitary orchardist named Talmadge carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a century. A gentle, solitary man, he finds solace and purpose in the sweetness of the apples, apricots, and plums he grows, and in the quiet, beating heart of the land--the valley of yellow grass bordering a deep canyon that has been his home since he was nine years old. Everything he is and has known is tied to this patch of earth. It is where his widowed mother is buried, taken by illness when he was just thirteen, and where his only companion, his beloved teenaged sister Elsbeth, mysteriously disappeared. It is where the horse wranglers--native men, mostly Nez Perce--pass through each spring with their wild herds, setting up camp in the flowering meadows between the trees.

One day, while in town to sell his fruit at the market, two girls, barefoot and dirty, steal some apples. Later, they appear on his homestead, cautious yet curious about the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, Jane and her sister Della take up on Talmadage's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Yet just as the girls begin to trust him, brutal men with guns arrive in the orchard, and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect them, putting himself between the girls and the world, but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside.

Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…April 29, 1896 (or 1898 or 1900!) 

Natalie Talmadge is born.  The middle of three acting sisters, Norma & Constance were the more successful actresses.  But Natalie bagged Buster Keaton.  They remained married for almost a dozen years, having two sons together, Jimmy & Bobby.  Although their matrimony ended acrimoniously, Buster never spoke a bad word against his first wife.

[the1920sinpictures]

1930 Buster Keaton with his wife Natalie, her sister Norma Talmadge and Norma’s lover Gilbert Roland on a beach in Spain. From Silents, Please!, FB.

[cowperviolet]

‘Writers [in the first film magazines] automatically employed flowery descriptions, as in a full-page layout from Motion Picture of October 1918, in which famous actresses are described in poetic terms. Lillian Gish is “a potted lily in a lonesome window” … Norma Talmadge is “scarlet poppies in a white field, sable and ermine, a studio tea in Greenwich Village” … her sister Constance, on the other hand, is “April showers, a college campus, a ride in the rain, a kiss in the dark” … and Mary Pickford is “every little girl’s dream, white kid gloves and white tulle, a playground and children’s laughter.”’ (Jeannine Basinger, Silent Stars)

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