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Rudolph Valentino ~ Archetypal Latin Lover
Day 364 of Colourisation Project – May 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. His birth name was Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla. Born this day, … Continue reading
Violet Jessop ~ Miss Unsinkable
Day 363 of Colourisation Project – May 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Lucky or unlucky? Either way she lived to tell the story through her compelling memoirs titled, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women writers, World War 1
Tagged HMHS Britannic, HMS Hawke, Loredana Crupi, Miss Unsinkable, OpusLoredana, Red Star Line, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, Titanic, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of a Stewardess, Violet Jessop, White Star Line
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Alice Liddell’s Age of Innocence
Day 362 of Colourisation Project – May 4 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. As popular today as it ever was, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography
Tagged Alfred, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Lord Tennyson, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Through the Looking Glass
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In Flanders Fields ~ We are the Dead
Day 361 of Colourisation Project – May 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Inspired by the death of his friend in combat, Canadian Officer, Major John McCrae composed one … Continue reading
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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Rockefeller Lunchbreak
Day 359 of Colourisation Project – May 1 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. If you suffer from vertigo, today’s photo will make your stomach churn. An iconic image of New … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, USA
Tagged Charles C. Ebbets, Charles Ebbets, Comcast Building, Empire State Building, Lewis HIne, Loredana Crupi, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, Men at Lunch, New York City, OpusLoredana, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center
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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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Forever Young ~ Patsy Cline
Day 302 of Colourisation Project – March 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, March 5, 1963 the world was robbed of one of the greatest musical … Continue reading
Anna May Wong – Reluctant Dragon Lady
Day 241 of Colourisation Project – January 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. A third-generation American, Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star. Starting out in … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Uncategorized, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV
Tagged Anna May Wong, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend., Loredana Crupi, Marlene Dietrich, OpusLoredana, Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961), Portrait in Black., Racism, Shanghai Express (1932), The Good Earth (1937), The Toll of the Sea (1922)
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