#thalberg

[ohchopin]

"To the question as to who is the foremost pianist in the world: Liszt or Thalberg, there is only one answer: Chopin."

— E. Legouvé in the Revue et Gazette Musicale, 1838

[emilia-chopin]

Galerie de la Gazette musicale N. 2. Celebres from 1842

The engraving shows:

(back row left to right): Jacob Rosenhain, Theodor Döhler, Fryderyk Chopin, Alexander Dreyschock, Zygmunt Thalberg,

(front row left to right): Edouard Wolff, Adolf von Henselt, Franz Liszt.

@chopinski-official @franzliszt-official

[lenreli]

[diana-andraste]

Private LIves with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, 1931

[citizenscreen]

Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer, Louis B. Mayer, and Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck at the premiere of THE GREAT ZIEGFELD today in 1936.

[vintageshearer]

Happy birthday to the lovely NORMA SHEARER💗✨ (August 10/11, 1903)

[hiemaldesirae]

sometimes i get really bored during classes and lectures and i end up going on wikipedia. today this happened again and i ended up looking on the kennedys wiki pages for some reason. and i just.. okay so this portrait is one of the works of Philip de László, a painting of William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, aka earl fitzwilliam (<- horrific name but he was british so what can you do), the man who was presumably romantically involved with kick/kathleen kennedy and was killed alongside her when their plane crashed. and . anyway i cant tell if im going insane or not but does this man sort of make anyone else think of vox??????? Maybe its just the eyes or the lighting but. i swear to GOD im not going crazy i think

[jeanharlowshair]

Movie Classic Magazine, November 1936.

[onefootin1941]

March 27th, 1899, #botd

Happy Birthday to Gloria Swanson.

Pictured here with Norma, Irving Thalberg and Herbert Marshall, the foursome were attending director Ernst Lubitsch house warming party in Beverly Hills.

[justbusterkeaton]

Buster with Lew Cody and director Edward Sutherland on the set of The Baby Cyclone 1928

-Keaton made a more conventional entrance to visit his pal Lew Cody on the set of The Baby Cyclone. Cody’s character was about to take a fall and they had two stuntmen present. One of the doubles tried the fall, but director Eddie Sutherland wasn’t getting what he wanted.

“Finally I said, ‘Sedgwick wouldn’t need me for a while. Give me Cody’s clothes.’ So, there was no stage dressing room in those days; I just went behind a piece of scenery and put on his full dress suit, that’s all. I come down [the stairs], step on the cake of soap, and…The trouble with the other stunt men doing it is that they each did good falls, but they weren’t funny. And he didn’t want a big, dramatic straight fall—it had to look funny or he couldn’t use the scene. So instead of hitting the piece of soap and both feet going out from under me that way, I did it the other way. I hit the soap and took my feet out that way so that it threw me onto my head. And as I came down, I threw a neck roll and lit with the tails of the coat over my head, and I was on my knees like that with the tail of the coat over here, which is an ideal cut with the camera right there. For a double, it hid me immediately when I hit, see. So all I had to do was to move Cody in there, into the exact same spot, move the camera camera up just a few feet, and he just rose up, got the coattails back off his head, shook his head like that, and went on with it. Now, they did it without putting a number board up on the camera or anything. So it was a continuous scene on the screen except for the one little quick blur moving the camera.

In the projection room, Thalberg was watching the dailies when the scene came up. “You must never let Cody do a thing like that,” he told Sutherland. “Do you realize the chance you took? Cody could be laid up for weeks!”All Sutherland could manage without breaking Keaton’s cover was a weak, “Well, he wanted to do it.”

Thalberg could only see dollar signs, unaware that someone far more valuable than Cody had actually done the trick. “Well, never let him do anything like that again!” he ordered. If word ever reached him that Keaton was issued a $7.50 stunt check for the fall, he never let on.

- Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life by James Curtis

[franzliszt-official]

Kiss marry kill:

1. Beethoven, Marie d'Agoult, Tsar Nicholas

2. Clara Schumann, Eduard Hanslick, Olga Janina

3. Wagner, Thalberg, Chopin

This is a no brainer. You are making this so easy for me.

I'd kiss Beethoven, marry Marie, and murder, maybe with a very royal stab in the stomach or throat, the Tsar.

I'd kiss Clara - I am sure she would not like to, though - then marry Olga, and, if I survive her follies in the meantime, torment and murder and slander that Hanslick parvenu.

I'd kiss Chopin - or did it already happen? -, marry Richard were it possible to - for kisses have happened already, sadly - and take Sigismund in a duel. I would not want to murder him, though. I would try to aim for curable blows. Although if it has to happen, it would...

[maudeboggins]

1931 - Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg's child is called a "victrola baby"

[lenreli]

FERDINAND KINGSLEY as IRVING THALBERG

Mank (2020)

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

The Today Show with Abbie Hoffman and Irving Thalberg’s biographer.

[citizenscreen]

Irving Thalberg with Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios in 1921.

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

Norma Shearer marries Irving Thalberg, 1927