#shepperton babylon

[sirbogarde]

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet!? With the GLORIOUS cover of dirk in leather from singer not the song. I own this book. @albertserra owns this book. this is so random.

(this is from Psychoville btw, british black comedy / horror)

[horsegirl]

brawgh

[boxcarwild]

Sons Of The Silent Age. Part One.

1) Ivy Duke (1896-1937) starred in the 1920 hit film The Lure of Crooning Water. She drank herself to death after her career took a downward turn.

2) Sybil Rhoda (1902-2005) starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Downhill opposite Ivor Novello. Interviewed at age 101, she said "I'm amazed I've existed so long. I'm surprised about the whole thing. I can't get over it,"

3) Maurice Elvey (1887-1967) was one of the most prolific film directors in history, making nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era, he directed as many as 20 films per year. His adaptations of Sherlock Holmes were praised by Arthur Conan Doyle. In order to film the sinking of a troop ship, Elvey built a water tank in his own back garden, spending two months to fill it up via his kitchen tap.

4) Victoria Hopper (1909–2007) was a British actress popular during the 1930s. From 1934 until 1939, she was married to film director Basil Dean, who grew interested in Hooper due to her resemblance to his former lover Meggie Albanesi (1899-1923). Dean cast her in several major films, which did badly at the box office.

5) Chrissie White (1895-1989) appeared in more than 180 films. White married director Henry Edwards, and they became one of the most newsworthy celebrity couples of the 1920s. They had two children, and remained together until his death in 1952.

6) Cora Goffin (1902-2004) was an actress on the London stage. She acted in two silent films, during which she leapt from a moving horse and threw herself beneath a moving car in Paris. There were reports that she had her legs insured for £20,000 with Lloyd's of London. Goffin married theatre manager Emile Littler in 1933. She became Lady Littler when Emile was knighted in 1974

[albertserra]

[zippocreed501]

Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet

Highly recommended for any film history fan.

[glendajackson]

Reading about the changes between the 1961 and filmed 1963 script of The Servant, I love how these make it more homoerotic and Barrett cattier:

Dirk Bogarde: Is this meant to be gay?

Losey and Pinter: silence

Big loss on cutting "crawling and whipping" though.

[lesbiancolumbo]

alsooo two books I bought earlier this year that I haven't read yet : Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet ( I mainly bought i because it has dirk bogarde from singer not the song on the cover djskdjfkdfj) and Typical Men by Andrew Spicer (again I was encouraged to bite the bullet and buy it because Stanley Baker is on the cover)

i'm loving the fact that you bought books based on the covers and also i would like very much to see the dirk bogarde cover

[idlesuperstar]

Dirk Bogarde for The Singer Not The Song 1960

Thanks to Matthew Sweet's delirious description in Shepperton Babylon I have seen this film (mainly for Dirk in ridiculously tight black leather trousers). It is awesome in a really bad way, and I think John Mills is in another film to Dirk. No disrespect to Johnny but my god if Brando or Clift (preferred choices) had played the priest what outrageous subtext would have occurred? 

[horsegirl]

okay Wednesday is my scary presentation day then I have to get my new student card and then I will take out books from the library and take a breath!!!

[horsegirl]

whats your fav book youve read recently?

Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet!!!! Really interesting and fun and look at the less remembered pasts of British film especially the traditionally less respectable sort of stuff. Have you been reading anything good lately you’ve had some good reads on hand

[boxcarwild]

Sons Of The Silent Age. Part Two.

1) Joan Morgan (1905-2004) was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan. She became a leading star of the 1920s after appearing in a number of her father’s films. Her acting career was ended by the arrival of sound film in 1929 and she switched to writing, working on a number of screenplays in the 1930s. She wrote novels under her own name and through using the pen-names Iris North and Joan Wentworth Wood.

2) Walter Summers (1892-1973) was known for his quasi-documentary WW1 epics, his vicious temper and his predeliction for persuading young hopefuls to strip naked during screen tests. His 1927 film The Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands was apparently so suspenseful that, during a screening at Balmoral Castle, it caused the Duchess Of York to wet herself.

3) Alma Taylor (1895-1974) appeared in more than 150 film roles, such as Shadow of Egypt which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. In 1915, she was voted the most popular British performer by readers of Pictures and the Picturegoers, comfortably beating Charlie Chaplin into second place. She acted only occasionally after 1932, appearing in films such as Blue Murder at St Trinian's and A Night to Remember during the 1950s.

4) Cora Goffin (1902-2004) was an actress on the London stage. She acted in two silent films, during which she leapt from a moving horse and threw herself beneath a moving car in Paris. There were reports that she had her legs insured for £20,000 with Lloyd's of London. Goffin married theatre manager Emile Littler in 1933. She became Lady Littler when Emile was knighted in 1974.

5) Henry Edwards (1882-1952) was an English actor and film director. He appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937. Edwards was married to actress Chrissie White, who appeared in 20 of his films. 

6) Sydney Fairbrother (1873-1941) came to the screen in 1915 in a film called Iron Justice, and chiefly appeared in comedy roles. Fairbrother had a pet white rat that would sit on her belt all day, quite motionless.

7) Ivy Duke (1896-1937) starred in the 1920 hit film The Lure of Crooning Water. She drank herself to death after her career took a downward turn.

8) Lady Tree (1863-1937) was the wife of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was most celebrated for her work in comedy, featuring in the original stage cast of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance.

[albertserra]

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I’m still in the shell and you haven’t cracked it yet, honey

[albertserra]

Christopher Lee trying to be pretentious about his career NDKANDKSNDOSNDKDMDLCMLDM

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