En Italie #346 (On the set #260)

Ava Gardner on the set of The Barefoot Contessa, Tivoli, Italy, 1954, by Robert Capa.

[Ava Gardner,  le 25 janvier 1990, Bella Ciao souvent clic-clic, Élie Kagan et Kenny Clarke.]

En Italie #344 (Ivresse des choses funèbres)

Filming Location Matching "San Remo, Imperia, Liguria, Italy" : La comtesse aux pieds nus (1954), Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring.

[Humphrey DeForest Bogart, un 14 janvier clic-clic, Lewis Carroll aussi, Kurt Gödel et Nina, la sainte.]

On s'en ira en Italie #100

American actress Ava Gardner wearing a polka-dotted dress and gloves, sitting in a car with actor Humphrey Bogart, Portofino, 1954. (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images).

[Ava Gardner,  le 25 janvier 1990, Bella Ciao souvent clic-clic, Élie Kagan et Kenny Clarke.]

Bumpy

All About Eve, 1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

[Bette Davis, † le 6 octobre 1989. Avant clic-clic des chansons et Vivre sa vie.]

Selfie #23

David Douglas Duncan, Photographing Ava Gardner on the set of “The Barefoot Contessa”, Rome, 1954.

[Mankiewicz, comme l'an dernier clic-clic. Colette Magny et Violeta Parra, Rampling, Sieff et Badiou aussi.]

A book that seems lonely

All About Eve.

A classic film. Dad’s high water mark. Among its many virtues was a wonderful supporting performance from a young Marilyn Monroe. Dad told me this story about her, which I’ve never forgotten: Right after the film had wrapped, dad was browsing at the magazine stand outside Martindale’s Book Store in Beverly Hills. Exiting the store came Marilyn, carrying a  paper bag with what she’d bought. He was surprised to see her leaving a bookstore, which he hardly thought would be her natural habitat. They hugged. Pointing at her bag, Dad said: “What’ve you got there, Marilyn?”

She pulled out the book. It was a volume of nineteenth-century poetry by Heinrich Heine.

Dad was shocked. “You’re a fan of Heine?”

“I don’t know who he is,” she said. “Sometimes I come in here to look around and I try to find a book that seems lonely, like no one’s ever going to buy it, and I take it home with me.”

[Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, † le 5 février 1993. Colette Magny et Violeta Parra, clic-clic, Rampling, Sieff et Badiou aussi.]