I have the hots for Gene Kelly at the best of times, but this publicity still for 1943’s Cross of Lorraine slays me.
Dorothy Dandridge, the Nicholas Brothers and Glenn Miller. They didn’t call it the Golden Age for no reason.
Wish I could go to this. A celebration of the intersection between costume and cinema in the work of Marcel L’Herbier, a major figure of French silent cinema and the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s.
The god-like genius that is Hoagy Carmichael, singing with Jane Russell in 1952’s The Las Vegas Story. Thanks to Ezekiel Bordello of the Shanghai Syncopators for introducing me to this lovely tune.
