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Tag Archives: Hollywood
Gary Cooper ~ Style Icon
Day 365 of Colourisation Project – May 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper Tryin’ hard to look like Gary Cooper, Super duper … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA
Tagged A Farewell to Arms (1932), Bruce Boyer, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944), Gary Cooper, High Noon, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Loredana Crupi, Love in the Afternoon (1957), Opus Loredana, President John F. Kennedy, Ralph Lauren, Sergeant York, Sergeant York (1941), The Fountainhead (1949), The Hanging Tree (1959), The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
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Mad-Hatter Hedda Hopper
Day 360 of Colourisation Project – May 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Let’s face it, Hollywood would be bland without its gossip columnists. There have been many; Perez … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women writers
Tagged Citizen Kane (1941), From Under My Hat, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Perez Hilton, Sheilah Graham, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Walter Winchell
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William Holden – Golden Boy
Day 345 of Colourisation Project – April 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Nicknamed the ‘Golden Boy’ and ‘Golden Holden’, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Opus Loredana, Photography, USA
Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Born Yesterday (1950); Sabrina (1954), Faye Dunaway, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Jennifer Jones, Judy Holliday, Loredana Crupi, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Network (1976), Opus Loredana, Picnic (1955), Sabrina, Stalag 17, Stalag 17 (1953), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Country Girl, The Towering Inferno (1974), The Wild Bunch (1969), William Holden
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Bette Davis – Larger Than Life
Day 333 of Colourisation Project – April 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Often referred to as The First Lady of the American Screen, she was placed second, behind … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV
Tagged All Above Eve and Dark Victory, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Little Foxes, Loredana Crupi, Now Voyager, Opus Loredana, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Before Marilyn there was Marilyn
Day 317 of Colourisation Project – March 20 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. She was once compared to Marilyn Monroe to which she replied, “Hey, I’m the blonde with … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV
Tagged Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Champion (1949), Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Lemon Drop Kid, Loredana Crupi, Lost in a Harem (1944), Marilyn Maxwell, Marilyn Monroe, Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, Opus Loredana, OpusLoredana, Rock Hudson, Rock-A-Bye Baby, Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
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J P McGowan ~ The Boy from Terowie
Day 293 of Colourisation Project – February 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, February 24, 1880, John Paterson (J.P.) McGowan, a boy from Terowie, a small railroad … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA
Tagged Hollywood, John Paterson McGowan, JP McGowan, Loredana Crupi
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Ramon Novarro Exposed
Day 275 of Colourisation Project – February 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Mexican born actor Ramón Novarro took over the mantle of Hollywood’s top ‘Latin Lover’ when Rudolph … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Mexico, Photography, USA
Tagged Ben-Hur (1925), Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, John Emery, Loredana Crupi, Mata Hari (1931), Natacha Rambova, Phyllis Gates, Ramón Novarro, Ramón Samaniego, Ricky Martin, Rock Hudson, Rudolph Valentino, Scaramouche (1923), Tallulah Bankhead, The Student Prince (1927)
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