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#BotD
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John Gavin born April 8, in 1931.
Over 40 roles incl Psycho, Spartacus, Midnight Lace, Imitation of Life, Thoroughly Modern Millie - & yes former US Ambassador to Mexico!
Did You Know? He was the President of the Screen Actors Guild (1971-1973)
#botd http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/john-gavin/
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"The sexiest people are thinkers.
Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain
with a hole in their head talking about the latest thing.
There is no latest thing. It's all rubbish."
-Vivienne Westwood #BOTD
Dame Vivienne Westwood reading from her
Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto
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"I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing"
Sonja Henie born April 8, in 1912.
14 roles including Sun Valley Serenade, Second Fiddle, One in a Million, Thin Ice - & of course 3x Olympic Champ Figure Skater. #botd
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/sonja-henie/
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#HBD #BOTD
From True Romance to John Carter to The Princess Bride, this group deserves its A list status.
What are your favorite performances from this group?
#bestperformances #showmewhatyougot #sassawards #moviesky #filmsky #actorsky 🎥🎬
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#BOTD horror writer James Herbert. His first book The Rats was an instant bestseller, and set a template of visceral, uncompromising violence and social commentary that would recur in future works. He wrote a number of ghost stories, including The Survivor and The Secret of Crickley Hall. #books
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Poster for “One Rainy Afternoon” (1936) from Pickford-Lasky Productions. Starring Francis Lederer with Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young. Poster features romantic image of Lederer and Lupino.
Poster for “The Gay Desperado” (1936) from Pickford-Lasky Productions. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Starring Nino Martini with Ida Lupino and Leo Carrillo. Poster features the faces of all three stars.
Mary Pickford, #BOTD 1892, left the screen in the early 1930s and moved behind the camera, teaming up with Jesse Lasky in a production venture. Their company only produced two films—both released in 1936 and both featuring an aspiring female lead on loan from Paramount named Ida Lupino.
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Photo of jazz singer Carmen McCrae at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1980. Photo by Michael Wilderman, jazzvisionsphotos.com
“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread — without it, it's flat.”
#CarmenMcRae #botd
April 8, 1920 –
November 10, 1994
American jazz singer.One of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century.
#Jazz #musicsky
#BlackWomensHistory
#WomensHistory
#SheShed
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tranches de foie gras hidden between large potato crisps, salad of green beans and microgreens
do the thing you fear and fear will vanish
#robertacowell #botd
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“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.”
-Mary Pickford #BOTD
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A white sleeveless T-Shirt on which is written in black pen the following: Open T shirt to Derek Jarman from Vivienne Westwood JUBILEE I had been to see it once and thought it the most boring and therefore disgusting film I had ever seen. I went to see it again for afterall, hadn’t you pointed your nose in the right direction? Rather than I deal with spectacular crap as other film makers do, you had looked at something here & now of absolute relevance to anybody in England with a brain still left let’s call it soul. I first tried very hard to listen to every word spoken in the flashbacks to Eliz. I. What were you saying? Eliz: ‘This vision exceedeth by far all expectation. Such an abstract never before I spied.’ And so she went on – fal de ray la lu lullay the day! And John Dee spoke ‘poetry’ according to Time Out (those old left overs from a radio programme, involving a panel of precocious Sixth formers, called “Cabbages & Kings”, whose maturity concerns being rather left from a position of safety) though even now I can remember no distinguishing phrase from amongst the drone, only the words, ‘Down down down’ (Right on)! And Ariel who flashed the sun in a mirror, & considered a diamond & had great contact lenses: ‘Consider the world’s diversity & worship it. By denying its multiplicity you deny your own true nature. Equality prevails not for god but for man’s sake.’ Consider that! What an insult to my VIRILITY! I am punk man! And as you use the valves you give to punks as a warning, am I supposed to see old Elizabeth’s england as some state of grace? Well, I’d rather consider that all this grand stuff and looking at diamonds is something to do with a gay (which you are) boy’s love of dressing up & playing at charades. (Does he have a cock between his legs or doesn’t he? Kinda thing)…
Vivienne Westwood, #botd 1941.
Here’s her ‘Open T-Shirt’ to Jarman after she watched ‘Jubilee’.
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Mary Pickford, #botd, and Douglas Fairbanks placing their footprints in the forecourt at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
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Sonja Henie #BOTD was on all the major airline's blacklist, and not allowed to travel with any of them. Henie once had a tantrum, and threw hot coffee in the face of a hostess because she was denied another alcoholic beverage on a TWA flight.
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“When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension.”
-Jacques Brel #BOTD
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‘La Doña’ María Félix nació en este día en el 1914. #botd #MariaBonita
"I don't think I'm the Queen Bee... I am the Queen Bee."
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Headline Act: Premier Jester
Blending everything from nu-metal and deathcore to techno and EDM check out more about Premiere Jester in our feature!
moshville.co.uk/feature/botd...
#metal #heavymetal #EDM #crossover #HeadlineAct #BotD #BandOfTheDay #MoshvilleTimes
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Celebrating Walter Connolly, born April 8, in 1887
Over 45 roles incl Libeled Lady, Nothing Sacred, Broadway Bill, Twentieth Century, Too Hot to Handle, Fifth Avenue Girl, The Good Earth - & of course Ellie's father in It Happened One Night!
#botd http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/walter-connolly
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BTS on the set of Hot Ones, posing with Sean at the table.
Yoongi 😂
#방탄소년단 #BTS #DailyBTS #DailyBangtan #BOTD #BangtanOfTheDay
Src: x.com/firstwefeast...
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Take the Day Off! Today is the International Holiday in Honor of María Félix. Octavio Paz said she was "free like the wind, she disperses the clouds, or illuminates them with the lightning flash of her gaze." All Hail the Mexican Screen Goddess.
#botd #MaríaFélix #FilmSky #MovieSky #CinemaSky
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#BOTD 1914
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña: Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.
www.theguardian.com/news/2002/ap...
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"This thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Celebrating Mary Pickford born April 8, in 1892 - Movie Star & Film Pioneer.
Over 245 roles, produced over 30 films, and co-founded United Artists.
#botd
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/mary-pickford/
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A movie industry pioneer, a talented actor. Here’s to Mary Pickford, born on April 8, 1892. #botd “The girl with the curls”
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8 Classic Movie Birthdays Today 4/8 incl Mary Pickford, Sonja Henie, John Gavin, Walter Connolly (pictured in that order), plus Marion Mack and more. #botd
Full List: www.classicmoviehub.com/database/births/month/ap...
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Morning #bird
A Black Phoebe perching on his favorite Acacia tree; early morning at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.
#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #BlackHeads
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Kingsolver’s widely read books formed a literary landscape from the 1990s to the present day. It’s a place readers know they’ll find eloquent descriptions of the things they value: like ethical com- passion, empathetic perspectives, and paths toward something that feels like home. Several literary committees have praised Kingsolver’s writing. In 2000, The Poisonwood Bible received the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction. Her mixture of memoir and journalism, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle earned the 2008 James Beard Award for Literary Writing. And in 2023, Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Photo of author Barbara Kingsolver, circa 2023 Image source: Orion Magazine
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place."
-American storyteller Barbara Kingsolver, born on this day in 1955
#WriterSky #BookSky #BeanTrees #AnimalDreams #ThePoisonwoodBible #DemonCopperhead #BOTD
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Film still from 2001: A Space Odyssey showing of a closeup of Keir Dullea in a space helmet staring out in wonder, with streaks of light falling across his face. The headline is "Douglas Trumbull showed us the future."
As visual effects supervisor, Trumbull, #botd in 1942, gave us a visceral look at the future in films such as 2001, Close Encounters, Star Trek and Blade Runner. As a director, he also focused on sci-fi with Silent Running and his last film, the tragic production of Brainstorm.
#filmsky #moviesky
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