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kaijuno · 7 months

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In light of Fall Out Boy’s GARBAGE cover of the song. Let’s learn about the original. Notice how they’re actually in chronological order instead of just random references 😒😒😒😒

1949

Harry Truman was inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to his own term; previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively.

Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and It’s a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like “It’s Magic”; divorces her second husband.

Red China: The Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People’s Republic of China.

Johnnie Ray signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records, although he would not become popular for another two years.

South Pacific, the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7.

Walter Winchell is an aggressive radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column.

Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.

1950

Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.

Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.

Studebaker, a popular car company, begins its financial downfall.

Television is becoming widespread throughout Europe and North America.

North Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25.

Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio (mentioned in the previous verse).

1951

The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius, were convicted on March 29 for espionage.

H-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.

Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer.

Panmunjom, the border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.

Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The King and I, musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.

The Catcher in the Rye, a controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.

The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.

England’s got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne upon the death of her father, George VI, and is crowned the next year.

Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion.

Liberace has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.

Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.

1953

Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his death. Malenkov had presided over Stalin’s purges of party “enemies”, but would be spared a similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later in verse.

Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib’s minister of the interior.

Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin.

Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement.

Roy Campanella, an African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League’s Most Valuable Player award for the second time.

Communist bloc is a group of communist nations dominated by the Soviet Union at this time. Probably a reference to the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.

1954

Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier.

Juan Perón spends his last full year as President of Argentina before a September 1955 coup.

Arturo Toscanini is at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on national radio.

Dacron is an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.

Dien Bien Phu falls. A village in North Vietnam falls to Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap, leading to the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam as separate states.

“Rock Around the Clock” is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.

1955

Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.

James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and dies in a car accident on September 30 at the age of 24.

Brooklyn’s got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time before their move to Los Angeles.

Davy Crockett is a Disney television miniseries about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived “coonskin cap” craze.

Peter Pan is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an animated version the previous year.

Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career.

Disneyland opens on July 17, 1955 as Walt Disney’s first theme park.

1956

Brigitte Bardot appears in her first mainstream film And God Created Woman and establishes an international reputation as a French “sex kitten”.

Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently.

Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin’s “cult of personality” on February 25.

Princess Grace Kelly releases her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Peyton Place, the best-selling novel by Grace Metalious, is published. Though mild compared to today’s prime time, it shocked the reserved values of the 1950s.

Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis boils as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal on October 29.

1957

Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him.

Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his famous novel Doctor Zhivago.

Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.

Jack Kerouac publishes his first novel in seven years, On the Road.

Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, marking the start of the space race.

Chou En-Lai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.

Bridge on the River Kwai is released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

1958

Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.

Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.

California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.

Charles Starkweather Homicide captures the attention of Americans, in which he kills eleven people between January 25 and 29 before being caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas, Wyoming.

Children of Thalidomide: Mothers taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital birth defects caused by the sleeping aid and antiemetic, which was also used at times to treat morning sickness.

1959

Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature vocal hiccup: “Uh-huh, uh-huh.”

Ben-Hur, a film based around the New Testament starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.

The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.

Hula hoops reach 100 million in sales as the latest toy fad.

Fidel Castro comes to power after a revolution in Cuba and visits the United States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.

Edsel is a no-go: Production of this car marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.

1960

U-2: An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.

Syngman Rhee was rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of South Korea for allegedly fixing an election and embezzling more than US $20 million.

Payola, illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, was publicized due to Dick Clark’s testimony before Congress and Alan Freed’s public disgrace.

John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election.

Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his cover of the song of the same name.

Psycho: An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the background of the song are a trademark of the film’s soundtrack.

Belgians in the Congo: The Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) was declared independent of Belgium on June 30, with Joseph Kasavubu as President and Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister.

1961

Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression.

Adolf Eichmann, a “most wanted” Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents. He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanityin Germany during World War II, convicted, and hanged.

Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.

Bob Dylan is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton.

Berlin is separated into West Berlin and East Berlin, and from the rest of East Germany, when the Berlin Wall is erected on August 13 to prevent citizens escaping to the West.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion fails, an attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.

1962

Lawrence of Arabia: The Academy Award-winning film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence starring Peter O’Toole premieres in America on December 16.

British Beatlemania: The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as drummer and Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI’s Parlophone label. They soon become the world’s most famous rock band, with the word “Beatlemania” adopted by the press for their fans’ unprecedented enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the United States.

Ole’ Miss: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi

John Glenn: Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed “Friendship 7” on February 20.

Liston beats Patterson: Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fight for the world heavyweight championship on September 25, ending in a first-round knockout. This match marked the first time Patterson had ever been knocked out and one of only eight losses in his 20-year professional career.

1963

Pope Paul VI: Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the papal name of Paul VI.

Malcolm X makes his infamous statement “The chickens have come home to roost” about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him.

British politician sex: The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, has a relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it before the House of Commons. When the truth came out, it led to his own resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister.

JFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.

1965

Birth control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as “the pill”, first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.

Ho Chi Minh: A Vietnamese communist, who served as President of Vietnam from 1954–1969. March 2 Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line from North Vietnam to the Vietcong rebels in the south. On March 8, the first U.S. combat troops, 3,500 marines, land in South Vietnam.

1968

Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968.

1969

Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.

Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.

1974–75

Watergate: Political scandal that began when the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC was broken into. After the break-in, word began to spread that President Richard Nixon (a Republican) may have known about the break-in, and tried to cover it up. The scandal would ultimately result in the resignation of President Nixon, and to date, this remains the only time that anyone has ever resigned the United States Presidency.

Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era.

1976–77

(An item from 1977 comes before three items from 1976 to make the song scan.)

Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel in 1977 and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt’s president in 1978.

Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980, but he first attempted to run for the position in 1976.

Palestine: a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state and to end the Israeli occupation.

Terror on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings take place, specifically, the Palestinian hijack of Air France Flight 139 and the subsequent Operation Entebbe in Uganda.

1979

Ayatollah’s in Iran: During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the West-backed and secular Shah is overthrown as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gains power after years in exile and forces Islamic law.

Russians in Afghanistan: Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.

1983

Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV’s highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.

Sally Ride: In 1983 she becomes the first American woman in space. Ride’s quip from space “Better than an E-ticket”, harkens back to the opening of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides.

Heavy metal suicide: In the 1980s Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Judas Priest and Metallica were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians of hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music.

Foreign debts: Persistent U.S. trade deficits

Homeless vets: Veterans of the Vietnam War, including many disabled ex-military, are reported to be left homeless and impoverished.

AIDS: A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.

Crack cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s.

1984

Bernie Goetz: On December 22, Goetz shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

1988

Hypodermics on the shore: Medical waste was found washed up on beaches in New Jersey after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste dumped in the oceans was an “out of sight, out of mind” affair. This has been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on environmentalism.

1989

China’s under martial law: On May 20, China declares martial law, enabling them to use force of arms against protesting students to end the Tiananmen Square protests.

Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars to reach the teenage and young adult demographic.

Short summaries of all 119 references mentioned in the song, you’re welcome.

#look fall out boy is one of my fave bands but this is inexcusable #fall out boy #Billy Joel #music #Spotify

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teafourbirds · 3 months

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Just Ollie Queen, singing the classics no matter the situation.

Smashing medieval alien monarchies:

Green Lantern (1960) #92

Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters - Hoop-Dee-Doo (1950)

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Serving some time in jail:

World's Finest Comics #275

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - African-American spiritual dating back to the early 1800s, but here is Louis Armstrong in 1962:

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Burying the hatchet (at least temporarily) with an antagonistic teammate:

Justice League (1960) #145

The Happiness Boys - Show Me the Way to Go Home (1925ish)

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Stranded and making his way home via dogsled:

Green Arrow (1988) #8

Alaska's Hobo Jim - The Iditarod Trail Song (1982). This one would have been quite modern at the time!

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Overcome by the musical he and Dinah just saw together:

Green Arrow (1988) #57

Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain (1952)

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#one of my favorite bits of ollie characterization #just unabashedly breaking into song whenever the mood strikes #he is obviously all about the oldies but i maintain that the presence of hobo jim supports that he also likes folk protest #oliver queen #superhero musical tastes #i have spent so much time thinking about the various musical preferences of different dc characters #ollie queen #thematic complication #green arrow

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citizenscreen · 3 months

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Presenter Claire Trevor is thrilled for Humphrey Bogart and his Best Actor win for THE AFRICAN QUEEN at the 1952 #Oscars

Trevor had taken home the statuette for Best Supporting Actress for her unforgettable portrayal of Gaye Dawn in KEY LARGO three years earlier.

#humphrey bogart #claire trevor #oscars #old hollywood

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justforbooks · 3 months

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Iris Apfel was finally recognised as a great, original fashion stylist in her 80s, when the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum in New York had a sudden gap in its 2005 exhibition schedule. Many curators knew Apfel, who has died aged 102, as a collector stashing away clothes, especially costume jewellery, both couture-high and street-market-low, so the institute asked to borrow some of her thousands of pieces.

When Apfel wore them herself, dozens at a time in ensembles collaged fresh daily, they had zingy pzazz, so she was invited to set up the displays. There was no publicity budget, and her name was modestly known only in the interior decor trade, yet the show, Rara Avis: Selections from the Iris Apfel Collection, became a huge success after visitors promoted it online. It toured other American museums, changing exhibits en route because Apfel wanted her stuff back so she could wear it.

Apfel’s grandfather had been a master tailor in Russia; her father, Samuel Barrel, supplied mirrors to smart decorators; her chic mother, Sadye (nee Asofsky), had a fashion shop. They lived out in rural Astoria, in the Queens borough of New York, where Iris was born.

As a child, her treat was a weekly subway trip to Manhattan to explore its shops, her favourites the junk emporia of Greenwich Village. She was short, plain and, until her teen years, plump, but she had style; and the owner of a Brooklyn department store picked her out of a crowd to tell her so. During the Depression all her family could sew, drape, glue, paint and otherwise create the look of a room, or a person, on a budget of cents – the best of educations.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women’s Wear Daily. Furniture and fabrics were in short supply during and after the second world war, and Iris began to earn by sourcing antiques and textiles; if she could not find it, she could make or fake it cheaply.

In 1948 she married Carl Apfel, and they became a decorating team: he had the head for business and she the eye. Unable to find cloth appropriate to a period decor, Iris adapted a design from an old piece and had it woven in a friend’s family mill; she and Carl then set up Old World Weavers in 1952, commissioning traditional makers around the globe.

Photographs and home-movie footage from the next four decades showed Apfel, adorned with elan, haggling for one-off items in souks, flea markets and bric-a-brac shops. She is the most decorative sight in each shot, her ensembles put together with complex cadenzas atop an underlying, tailored, structure– they are like jazz – not a statement, but a conversation.

Apfel was the last of those 20th-century fashion exotics who presented themselves as installations. Although she wore a priest’s warm tunic to the White House (President Richard Nixon underheated the place), plus armfuls of cheap African bracelets and thigh-high boots, she was not an exhibitionist like the Marchesa Casati, and, with her vaudevillian comic timing, was far funnier than the imperious Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.

Also, she never ever bought full-price: her many rails and under-the-bed suitcases of couture were sale-price samples, chosen for their cut, fabric, skilled craftwork and colour dazzle (“Colour can raise the dead”). She might wear them over thrift shop pyjamas, or under a Peking Opera costume, with hawsers of necklaces atop. Money could not buy personal style, she said, prettiness withered, beauty could corrode the soul. All that really mattered was “attitude, attitude, attitude”.

Old World Weavers discreetly refurbished the White House under nine presidents, as well as grand hotels and private houses, before the Apfels sold the company in 1992. They retired to a quiet life in their apartment on Park Avenue, New York, its decor an extension of Apfel’s outfits (bad garment choices were cut up for cushions), and in a Palm Beach holiday home where the Christmas decoration collection stayed up all year round, along with cuddly toys and museum-class folk art. Clothes shopping, and the improvisation of an outfit, became Apfel’s daily ritual, as cooking might be to a gourmet.

But after the Met show, and a book, Rare Bird of Fashion (2007), Apfel was back in as much full-time employment as she could manage in her 80s and 90s (she had a hip replacement because she fell after stepping on an Oscar de la Renta gown). She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant – superb on eye-glasses; she wore large, owl-like, frames to stylise her aged face into a witty, unchanging, cartoon.

She took seriously her responsibilities to fashion students on her course at the University of Texas, teaching them about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

Her career lasted – nothing was ever too late: in 2018, Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon, a book of memoir and sound style advice; in 2019, a contract with the model agency IMG; and last year, a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London. The documentarian Albert Maysles trailed her for Iris (2014), filming this “geriatric starlet” – her term – as she dealt drolly with new high-fashion friends, or laughed at an “Iris” Halloween costume (glasses, a ton of bangles).

She watched as a storage loft of her antique treasures was listed in lots for sale, and as white-gloved assistants from museums that had begged a bequest boxed up her garments; she still had, and wore, the shoes from her wedding. All things, she said, were only on loan in this world, even to collectors. The point was to enjoy them to the full before bidding them good-bye.

Carl died in 2015.

🔔 Iris Barrel Apfel, decorator and fashion stylist, born 29 August 1921; died 1 March 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #iris apfel #in memoriam

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handeaux · 4 months

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Wendell P. Dabney’s Lifelong Efforts To Preserve The History Of Black Cincinnati

Anyone who studies Cincinnati’s history owes a debt of gratitude to Wendell Phillips Dabney. Nearly one hundred years ago, Dabney published one of the most important books ever written about the Queen City.

“Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens” appeared in 1926 and is still essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the rich history of our city. At a time when Black people faced unrelenting persecution and segregation, Dabney compiled an exhaustive and almost encyclopedic record of African Americans in Cincinnati. His book highlights the accomplishments and points of pride of a thriving community derided and stereotyped by the majority power structure.

On page after page, Dabney documented hundreds of Black citizens raising respectable families, owning solid and profitable businesses and residing in homes better than those occupied by many of Cincinnati’s white residents. He demonstrated that Black professionals thrived in Cincinnati despite legal and societal prejudice, and he showcased charitable institutions created, constructed and funded by Black generosity, including an orphanage, social clubs, churches, schools and homes for the elderly. Almost a century later, Dabney’s book is the only available source for information about Black Cincinnatians before the civil rights era.

Dabney promoted his personal political agenda through his own newspapers. Dabney’s were Cincinnati’s first newspapers aimed at an African American audience. He published the inaugural issue of The Ohio Enterprise in 1902, changed the name of the paper in 1907 to The Union, and single-handedly published that paper until his death in 1952.

A big fan of Dabney’s was Alfred Segal, the Cincinnati Post writer known by his byline as “Cincinnatus.” Segal often shared items from Dabney’s columns with his own readers. According to Segal [27 August 1950], The Union was less a news medium and more of a lectern for the irrepressible Dabney:

“It hasn’t been really a newspaper in the sense of handing out the latest news; it has been more of a reflection of Wendell P. Dabney himself and how he thinks and feels about everything. It is a paper for colored citizens but many white ones read it just to get the flash of Mr. Dabney’s mordant humor.”

While it is true that his newspaper published many wry examples of the editor’s humor, Dabney was an untiring opponent of segregation. For much of Dabney’s life, integration was a controversial position among Blacks as well as whites. Many in the Black community believed that segregated schools, hospitals and other institutions provided protective environments for African Americans. Dabney would have none of it. He wrote [30 December 1922]:

“This drawing of the color line in public institutions and establishment of ‘jim crowism’ is largely done by Negroes themselves, either through ignorance or desire for money. Civic rights legally belong to all citizens. Segregation of people is not necessary to fit them for civic duties. We have here and in other cities, colored people in nearly every profession and department of public life. ‘The Caste System’ has never done anything but degrade.”

Dabney’s health began to fail as he reached his eightieth birthday in 1945 and made noises that he would soon give up publishing The Union, but soldiered on. Soon after achieving that eight-decade milestone, Dabney hopped up from his sickbed and demonstrated that he was still capable of the old buck and wing as well as some clog dances. A celebration of Dabney’s 84th birthday in 1949 attracted more than 350 guests. The Union maintained its weekly publishing schedule until Dabney died in 1952. In an obituary of sorts, Al Segal of the Post [4 June 1952] observed:

“He never made any money out of being a publisher; it was pay-off enough for him to hear people laughing with him.”

Wendell Dabney was born in Richmond, Virginia just after the South surrendered in defeat to end the Civil War. His parents, John M. Dabney and Elizabeth Foster Dabney, had been enslaved but built a successful catering business after achieving freedom.

Dabney graduated high school in Richmond and began appearing on stage, sometimes with tap-dance legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a childhood companion. He later attended Oberlin College in Ohio and performed in that school’s orchestra.

After teaching for a couple of years in Virginia, Dabney relocated to Cincinnati to manage property inherited by his mother, including the Dumas House, the only Cincinnati hotel that accepted Black guests.

Intending to stay in Cincinnati only long enough to stabilize his mother’s properties, Dabney was introduced to a young widow with two children, Nellie Foster Jackson. They married in 1897 and Dabney credited Nellie with his later accomplishments. In Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, he wrote about her:

“The loyalty and courage of his wife through twenty-five years of storm and stress engendered that domestic harmony and inspiration to which whatever success he may have attained is indebted.”

Dabney integrated himself into Cincinnati’s social and political fabric and excelled at several endeavors. He was an accomplished musician who composed and published songs and melodies and offered lessons through Cincinnati’s Wurlitzer emporium. He published a biography of his friend, Maggie L. Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president. Dabney was the first president of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was, for many years, a stalwart in the local Republican organization. With the rise of the progressive Charter Committee in the 1920s, Dabney switched his allegiance to that organization.

For 26 years, he served as paymaster for the City of Cincinnati. Dabney noted dryly that, although he had been entrusted with dispersing a total of $80 million over the course of his career, his personal salary was only $150 a month. Such was the nature of political appointments under George Barnsdale “Boss” Cox. As founder and leader of the Douglass League of Negro Republicans, Dabney was an essential factor in getting out the Black vote. The Cox machine rewarded key influencers like Dabney with spots at City Hall.

#wendell dabney #wendell p. dabney #the union #black history #cincinnati's colored citizens

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70s80sandbeyond · 4 months

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The African Queen (1952)

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stephantom · 3 months

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Seeking more Katharine Hepburn, I watched The African Queen (1952). And man. It was so bad.

#it had a 3.7 average on letterboxd which just goes to show you can’t trust reviews lol #deleter later

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a-queer-seminarian · 2 years

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“We do not mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth”

[ID: logo of the EFF, Economic Freedom Fighters, which shows the continent of Africa overlaid with a fist holding a spear pointing downward, a rig on the wrist and a yellow star above the fist. / end ID]

The EFF’s Statement, posted on their Twitter on September 8, 2022, reads:

“The Economic Freedom Fighters notes the death of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the Queen of the United Kingdom, and the ceremonial head of state of several countries that were colonized by the United Kingdom. Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, reigning for 70 years as a head of an institution built up, sustained, and living off a brutal legacy of dehumanization of millions of people across the world.

We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa's history. Britain, under the leadership of the royal family, took over control of this territory that would become South Africa in 1795 from Batavian control, and took permanent control of the territory in 1806. From that moment onwards, native people of this land have never known peace, nor have they ever enjoyed the fruits of the riches of this land, riches which were and still are utilized for the enrichment of the British royal family and those who look like them.

From 1811 when Sir John Cradock declared war against amaXhosa in the Zuurveld in what is now known as the Eastern Cape up until 1906 when the British crushed the Bambatha rebellion, our interaction with Britain under the leadership of the British royal family has been one of pain and suffering, of death and dispossession, and of dehumanization of African people. We remember how Nxele died in the aftermath of the fifth frontier war, how King Hintsa was killed like a dog on the 11th of May 1835 during the sixth frontier war, and had his body mutilated, and his head taken to Britain as a trophy.

It was also the British royal family that sanctioned the actions of Cecil John Rhodes, who plundered this country, Zimbabwe and Zambia. It was the British royal family that benefited from the brutal mutilation of people of Kenya whose valiant resistance to British colonialism invited vile responses from Britain. In Kenya, Britain built concentration camps and suppressed with such inhumane brutality the Mau Mau rebellion, killing Dedan Kimathi on the 18th of February 1957, while Elizabeth was already Queen.

This family plundered India via the East India Company, it took over control and oppressed the people of the Caribbean Islands. Their thirst for riches led to the famine that caused millions of people to die in Bengal, and their racism led to the genocide of aboriginal people in Australia.

Elizabeth Windsor, during her lifetime, never acknowledged these crimes that Britain and her family in particular perpetrated across the world. In fact, she was a proud flag bearer of these atrocities during her reign. When the people of Yemen rose to protest against British colonialism in 1963, Elizabeth ordered a brutal suppression of that uprising.

During her 70-year reign as Queen, she never once acknowledge the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that Britain invaded across the world. She willingly benefited from the wealth that was attained from the exploitation and murder of millions of people across the world. The British Royal family stands on the shoulders of millions of slaves who were shipped away from the continent to serve the interests of racist white capital accumulation, at the center of which lies the British royal family.

If there is really life and justice after death, may Elizabeth and her ancestors get what they deserve.”

#colonialism #british royal family #imperialism #history #economic freedom fighters

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The Best Movies

These are the movies that appealed to a large audience and had wide social impact to 1) inform, 2) educate, and 3) entertain. More movies may be added or any movie may be taken out of the list at anytime.

Intolerance (1916, Griffith)

The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)

The General (1926, Bruckman, Keaton)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)

City Lights (1931, Chaplin)*

Duck Soup (1933, McCarey)

King Kong (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934, Capra)*

A Night at the Opera (1935, Wood, Goulding)

Top Hat (1935, Sandrich)*

Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)

Swing Time (1936, Stevens)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Cottrell, Hand, Jackson, Morey, Pearce, Sharpsteen)

Bringing Up Baby (1938, Hawks)

Gone With the Wind (1939, Fleming, Cukor, Wood)*

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Capra)

Ninotchka (1939, Lubitsch)

The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)*

The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)*

Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford)

The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)*

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston)

Casablanca (1942, Curtiz)*

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Curtiz)

Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder)*

Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)*

Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks)

Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)

Red River (1948, Hawks, Rosson)

Rope (1948, Hitchcock)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Huston)

All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz)*

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder)*

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan)*

Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock)*

The African Queen (1951, Huston)*

High Noon (1952, Finnemann)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly)*

The Quiet Man (1952, Ford)

Roman Holiday (1953, Wyler)

Shane (1953, Stevens)

Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder)

Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)

Dial M for Murder (1954, Hitchcock)

On The Waterfront (1954, Kazan)*

Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)

The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton)

The Searchers (1956, Ford)*

12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet)

Funny Face (1957, Donen)*

Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Lean)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Wilder)

Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller)

Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)*

Ben-Hur (1959, Wyler)

North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)*

Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)*

La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)*

Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)*

Spartacus (1960, Kubrick)

The Apartment (1960, Wilder)

West Side Story (1961, Robbins, Wise)

Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)*

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)*

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Mulligan)*

8 1/2 (1963, Fellini)*

Hud (1963, Ritt)

The Great Escape (1963, Sturges)

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964, Kubrick)*

For a Few Dollars More (1965, Leone)

The Sound of Music (1965, Wise)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Nichols)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Penn)*

In The Heat of the Night (1967, Jewison)

The Graduate (1967, Nichols)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)*

Oliver! (1968, Reed)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Leone)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, Hill)

Easy Rider (1969, Hopper)

Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)

MASH (1970, Altman)

The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci)*

A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)

The French Connection (1971, Friedkin)

The Last Picture Show (1971, Bogdanovich)

Cabaret (1972, Fosse)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972, Pollack)

The Godfather (1972, Coppola)*

American Graffiti (1973, Lucas)

The Sting (1973, Hill)

Chinatown (1974, Polanski)*

The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)*

Jaws (1975, Spielberg)

Nashville (1975, Altman)*

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Forman)

All The President’s Men (1976, Pakula)

Network (1976, Lumet)

Rocky (1976, Avildsen)

Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)*

Annie Hall (1977, Allen)*

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977, Lucas)

The Deer Hunter (1978, Cimino)*

Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)*

Manhattan (1979, Allen)

Ordinary People (1980, Redford)

Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)*

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)

Blade Runner (1982, Scott)*

Diner (1982, Levinson)*

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Spielberg)

Sophie’s Choice (1982, Pakula)

Tootsie (1982, Pollack)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)

Platoon (1986, Stone)

Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)

Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee)

Glory (1989, Zwick)

Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)*

Beauty and the Beast (1991, Trousdale, Wise)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Demme)

A River Runs Through It (1992, Redford)

Unforgiven (1992, Eastwood)

Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen)

Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg)*

Forrest Gump (1994, Zemeckis)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)

The Lion King (1994, Allers, Minkoff)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Darabont)

Heat (1995, Mann)

Toy Story (1995, Lasseter)

Life Is Beautiful (1997, Benigni)

L.A. Confidential (1997, Hanson)

Titanic (1997, Cameron)

Saving Private Ryan (1998, Howard)*

The Sixth Sense (1999, Shyamalan)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Lee)

Gladiator (2000, Scott)

A Beautiful Mind (2001, Howard)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Jackson)

City of God (2002, Meirelles

The Pianist (2002, Polanski)

Finding Nemo (2003, Stanton, Unkrich)

Mystic River (2003, Eastwood)

The Incredibles (2004, Bird)

Million Dollar Baby (2004, Eastwood)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2005, del Torro)*

The Lives of Others (2006, Donnersmarck)*

No Country For Old Men (2007, Coen, Coen)

Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle, Tandan)

The Hurt Locker (2008, Bigelow)

The King’s Speech (2010, Hooper)

The Artist (2011, Hazanavicius)

* Disclaimer: Strong sexual and/or violent content not recommended below age 16. Personal discretion or parental guidance advised.+

#films #movies #favorite #list #videbi.tumblr.com #lists #favorites #movies list #films list #best movies

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The artist formerly known as Prince

Inevitably, they are rich. Extremely rich. Very, very rich. There are the things you can see: the castles, the country estates and the top-of-the-range cars with which to drive between them. There are enough horses to stable an entire stud. There are the exquisite jewels and enormous gems glittering at state banquets.

There are the things you can’t see, too: the sprawling tax-free hereditary property firms and the share portfolio acquired with their annual dividends. There are the works of art in the family’s private collections, rarely, if ever, publicly exhibited. So if we already know all this, why, on the eve of the coronation of King Charles III, investigate the wealth of the British royal family?

The first and simplest answer is that we simply ought to know. From 10 Downing Street to your local district council, the private finances of public servants are fair game for scrutiny where they are derived from public funds. If anything, the need for clarity here is greater: Rishi Sunak and the mayor take money from the public purse only temporarily. The life of the king is funded at taxpayer expense from birth to death.

The second answer is that, to be blunt, the Windsors act as if they have something to hide. The finances are murky as hell, and structured according to a formula that means their annual handouts can only go up, never down. For several decades their shareholdings were owned through a secret shell company at the Bank of England that was immune from national transparency law. The judiciary has sealed their wills from public scrutiny in secret hearings for the past century. This is not the behaviour of a family relaxed about the prospect of an informed citizenry.

The question is not merely how wealthy he is, the question is: how much of the king’s private wealth is derived from his public role? Only once Britain has an answer to that can it discuss the most important question of all: is this really a good way to spend public money?

Just how rich is he?

The first problem with valuing King Charles III’s private wealth is that nobody knows precisely how rich he is, probably including him. Centuries of dynastic marriages with the British aristocracy and the royal houses of Europe have produced a family whose personal history is intertwined with Britain’s national story, and whose personal wealth is inextricable from their public position.

Take the Cullinan III and IV diamonds: two gems cleaved from the largest diamond ever discovered and presented as a gift from the South African government to the king’s great-grandmother Queen Mary in 1910. She wore them in her coronation crown and later as a pair in a brooch, which was left to the queen and then, presumably, the king (the family pays no inheritance tax as long as assets are bequeathed monarch-to-monarch). Elizabeth inherited the brooch in 1953 when Mary died, rather than in 1952 when she became queen. That indicates that the jewels are private. But by modern standards, they were clearly official gifts, so shouldn’t they be national heritage?

The second problem is the culture of extreme deference and secrecy that surrounds the royal family. This is partly a result of a media environment that covers the Windsors as dysfunctional celebrity aristocrats, rather than figures of serious political or constitutional significance. It has created a culture in which the royal institution itself is above normal standards of scrutiny, and where any remotely uncomfortable or probing question, no matter how valid, is ignored or dismissed by default.

Palace responses to questions about the king’s wealth ranged from “we’re too busy, perhaps we’ll respond next week” to “that’s really none of your business”. Questions about which jewels were owned by the state went unanswered. At one point the press office announced it was too busy to respond to further questions until after the coronation. Issued the same day as a palace statement about a celebratory quiche, this did not feel especially convincing. When pushed, the king’s spokesperson said: “Your figures are a highly creative mix of speculation, assumption and inaccuracy.”

The short answer is that, all told, we think Charles is worth at least £1.8bn. But it’s the longer answer, about how the king came to be worth so much, that is more interesting. Excursions to the parliamentary archives to dig out accounts for their hereditary estates unearthed cash payments to the king and his late mother dating back to 1952. That the king and his mother together pocketed more than £1.2bn in annual dividends from the estates (adjusted for inflation) was just as breathtaking as the discovery that they were paying themselves about 10 times more by the end of her reign than they were at the start.

Then you find the gifts. There are the mint-condition stamps from the governments of Cambodia and Laos that have, it appears, been subsumed into the family’s private stamp collection (estimated value: £100m). There are the works of art: an illustrated Bible from the modernist master Marc Chagall, or an etching from Salvador Dalí, both presented to Prince Philip during official visits overseas and both subsequently exhibited as being part of his “personal collection”. The monarchy’s own policy says that gifts from other monarchs “as a general rule” enter the national collection of state heritage, but two diamond necklaces given to the late queen by Saudi kings are mysteriously absent.

You also find lingering traces of the dark moments in Britain’s history. A 100-year-old memo in the British Library records the looting of the city of Lahore in 1849 and the theatrical presentation of plundered diamonds, rubies, pearls and emeralds to an ecstatic Queen Victoria. Once the pride of the British empire, the Koh-i-noor diamond now sits in a vault in some strange, disgraced hinterland: to wear it would be too offensive, to return it to its rightful owners too humiliating.

The historian Brooke Newman discovered a page in a 17th-century share register documenting the transfer of £1,000 of shares in the Royal African Company from the slaver Edward Colston to William III, the first of 14 monarchs to either cultivate the slave trade or harvest its profits. Perhaps revealingly, this was the one dimension of our inquiries to startle the palace into issuing an extended public statement describing how “profoundly seriously” Charles considered the matter.

Does the king need a state grant?

The immediate political question flowing from the king’s wealth is obvious. If the family is this rich, why does it need an annual sovereign grant (currently £86m a year) from parliament? Why are the multimillion-pound payments from the hereditary estates not paid to the Treasury, or at least taken into consideration when setting their annual stipend? Alternatively, if the estates are genuinely private assets, why don’t they pay corporation tax?

After that come much more difficult questions about how a constitutional monarchy behaves in a modern society. Behind the pomp, the wealth and the opulence is a lurking sense of a monarchy designed for the more deferential age of the 19th century, when its purpose was fuzzy but simple: unite and represent the nation.

This, however, is a 21st-century coronation. Whether multimillion-pound salaries and disdain for difficult questions can really unite and represent the values of a modern democracy remains to be seen.

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Birthdays 3.18

Beer Birthdays

John Smith (1824)

William Ebling (1828)

James Toohey (1850)

Jason Chavez (1968)

Alexandra Nowell (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Luc Besson; film director, writer (1959)

Will Durst; comedian (1952)

Edward Everett Horton; actor, narrator (1886)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; composer (1844)

John Updike; writer (1932)

Famous Birthdays

Bonnie Blair; speed skater (1964)

Irene Cara; pop singer (1959)

Edgar Cayce; psychic (1877)

Neville Chamberlain; British PM (1869)

Grover Cleveland; 22nd & 24th U.S. President (1837)

Richard Condon; writer (1915)

Dane Cook; comedian (1972)

Frederik Willem de Klerk; South African politician (1936)

Robert Donat; actor (1905)

Joy Fielding; writer (1945)

Bill Frisell; jazz musician (1951)

Jim Funk; pop singer, songwriter (1969)

Ernest Gallo; winemaker (1909)

Peter Graves; actor (1926)

Manly Hall; writer (1901)

William H. Johnson; artist (1901)

Queen Latifah; musician, actor (1970)

Stéphane Mallarmé; French poet (1842)

James McMurtry; rock guitarist, singer, actor (1962)

Wilson Pickett; pop singer (1941)

Pillsbury Dough Boy; advertising character (1965)

George Plimpton; actor, writer (1901)

Charley Pride; country singer (1938)

Raphael; artist (1483)

Michael Rapaport; actor (1970)

Joseph Schmitt; composer (1734)

Vanessa Williams; pop singer, actor (1963)

Kai Winding; jazz trombonist (1929)

#Birthdays

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Hello Cat and Mouse! If it's possible can I get some alts for Hel*n Mi**en? I had her as a proud matriarch of a family of druids but now I need someone else that can give off the same vibes. Not Susan Sarandon, she's a queen but I'm already using her. Thanks in advance!

Judi Dench (1934)

Vanessa Redgrave (1937) - is pro Palestine!

Lily Tomlin (1939) - is a lesbian.

Blythe Danner (1943)

Youn Yuh Jung (1947) Chinese.

Glenn Close (1947)

Jacki Weaver (1947)

Kathy Bates (1948)

Phylicia Rashad (1948) African-American.

Loretta Devine (1949) African-American.

Jessica Lange (1949)

Sigourney Weaver (1949)

Julie Walters (1950)

Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Shabana Azmi (1950) Indian.

Lillias White (1951) African-American.

Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952) Iranian.

Annie Lennox (1954) - is pro Palestine!

Hope this helps!

#fc help #rph #rpc #olderfcs #Helen Mirren alts

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The 100 Best Films of The 1950s

1. Sunset Blvd. (1950) ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. North by Northwest (1959) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. The Night of the Hunter (1955) ★★★★★★★★★★ 4. Singin' in the Rain (1952) ★★★★★★★★★★ 5. The Seventh Seal (1957) ★★★★★★★★★★ 6. The Ladykillers (1955) ★★★★★★★★★★ 7. Vertigo (1958) ★★★★★★★★★★ 8. The Searchers (1956) ★★★★★★★★★★ 9. La Ronde (1950) ★★★★★★★★★★ 10. Le Plaisir (1952) ★★★★★★★★★★ 11. Calamity Jane (1953) ★★★★★★★★★½ 12. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ★★★★★★★★★½ 13. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) ★★★★★★★★★½ 14. Hobson's Choice (1954) ★★★★★★★★★½ 15. Guys and Dolls (1955) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 16. Lust for Life (1956) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 17. The Court Jester (1955) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 18. To Catch a Thief (1955) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 19. Some Like It Hot (1959) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 20. A Man Escaped (1956) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 21. Strangers on a Train (1951) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 22. Forbidden Games (1952) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 23. Rashomon (1950) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 24. The Cranes are Flying (1957) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 25. The Gold of Naples (1954) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 26. Wild Strawberries (1957) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 27. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 28. Ballad of A Soldier (1959) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 29. Dial M for Murder (1954) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 30. Ace in the Hole (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 31. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 32. All About Eve (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 33. The Man in the White Suit (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 34. 12 Angry Men (1957) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 35. Roman Holiday (1953) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 36. The Red Inn (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 37. On the Waterfront (1954) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 38. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 39. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 40. Limelight (1952) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 41. Rear Window (1954) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 42. Gigi (1958) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 43. The Crimson Pirate (1952) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 44. Rio Bravo (1959) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 45. Pickpocket (1959) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 46. A Face in the Crowd (1957) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 47. The Flame and the Arrow (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 48. The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 49. La Poison (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 50. The Trouble with Harry (1955) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 51. The Magician (1958) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 52. Scrooge (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 53. Madame de... (1953) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 54. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 55. The Beauty of The Devil (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 56. Harvey (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 57. Ice Cold in Alex (1958) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 58. Lady and the Tramp (1955) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 59. The Wooden Horse (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 60. Our Man in Havana (1959) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 61. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 62. On Dangerous Ground (1951) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 63. The Last Bridge (1954) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 64. Orpheus (1950) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 65. The Captain's Paradise (1953) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 66. The Bridge (1959) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 67. Umberto D. (1952) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 68. Night of The Demon (1957) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 69. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 70. Les Diaboliques (1955) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 71. So Long At The Fair (1950) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 72. Alice in Wonderland (1951) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 73. Peter Pan (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 74. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 75. The African Queen (1951) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 76. The King and I (1956) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 77. Lift to the Scaffold (1958) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 78. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 79. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 80. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 81. The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 82. The Maggie (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 83. Nights of Cabiria (1957) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 84. Barnacle Bill (1957) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 85. La Strada (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 86. Rififi (1955) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 87. Love in the Afternoon (1957) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 88. The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 89. From Here to Eternity (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 90. Sabrina (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 91. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 92. Seven Samurai (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 93. Johnny Guitar (1954) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 94. 1984 (1956) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 95. Night and the City (1950) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 96. Narrow Margin (1952) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 97. Paths of Glory (1957) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 98. In a Lonely Place (1950) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 99. The Wages of Fear (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 100. Touch of Evil (1958) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

#film recommendations #classic movies #1950s

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Olivia de Havilland and Humphrey Bogart at the 1952 Picturegoer Film Awards at the Savoy Hotel. Bogart won for his performance in THE AFRICAN QUEEN and de Havilland received the award on behalf of Susan Hayward for WITH A SONG IN MY HEART.

#olivia de havilland #humphrey bogart #old hollywood

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Just how rich is he? The first problem with valuing King Charles III’s private wealth is that nobody knows precisely how rich he is, probably including him. Centuries of dynastic marriages with the British aristocracy and the royal houses of Europe have produced a family whose personal history is intertwined with Britain’s national story, and whose personal wealth is inextricable from their public position.

Does the king need a state grant? The immediate political question flowing from the king’s wealth is obvious. If the family is this rich, why does it need an annual sovereign grant (currently £86m a year) from parliament? Why are the multimillion-pound payments from the hereditary estates not paid to the Treasury, or at least taken into consideration when setting their annual stipend? Alternatively, if the estates are genuinely private assets, why don’t they pay corporation tax?

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #King Charles III

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