https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqfd5xZZ30Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Dyxq2kw-c In 1969 Serge Gainsbourg starred in a French film called ‘Slogan’. It was the story of a film director played by Gainsbourg named Serge Fabergé who leaves his pregnant wife Françoise to attend an advertising award festival in Venice. There, he meets Evelyne, a young British woman played by Jane
Here is a remarkably cool musical short from 1964 featuring Serge Gainsbourg in his first iteration as suave, well-dressed, cool and disaffected young Parisian. (As the week continues we’ll get to the later loutish, unshaven, drunken and darkly funny Serge). This appears to have been made as a television featurette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gjzNm6dA0 Yesterday I read an article about Serge Gainsbourg’s long shuttered house in Paris. Apparently the singer’s daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, has decided to let the public in and see the delightfully eclectic, memorabilia-filled digs, which have been preserved–Gitane cluttered ashtrays and all– just as the great French pop icon left
To finish our mini-tribute to David McCallum who died earlier this week, lets briefly (very very briefly) explore the floperoo spin-off to ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’, which of course was the inevitable ‘The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.’ So unsuccessful was this attempt at gender/diversity/spymaking that, along with being cancelled after one
Here’s the explanatory season one opener for ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E’. Crisply shot, tightly scripted–this is all you need to know to launch your voyage into the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. RIP Leo G. Carroll (October 25, 1886 – October 16, 1972), aged 85 RIP Robert Vaughn
In September of 1965 the newly internationally famous David McCallum (who died earlier this week at age 90) made an appearance on singer Andy Williams network variety program. The above will show you A) that McCullum was low-key, charming and game for anything and B) that Williams, though popular in
The recently deceased actor David McCallum was born into a serious musical family–his father was an accomplished enough violinist to be named first chair (and thus technical leader) of the London Philharmonic. McCallum himself was trained as as Oboe player before stumbling (so it seems) into his career as an
Here is a most peculiar piece of footage (and short–only 28 seconds) showing a garden party at Francis Ford Coppola’s Napa Vally home sometime in the mid 1970s. We see Francis quaffing white wine in a plastic cup, George Lucas picking his teeth, Dennis Hopper bedecked in cowboy duds and
‘Vagabond Loafers’ (1949) is the 118th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, January 25 through Friday, January 28 1949 and was released on Thursday, October 6th of that year (the 279th day in the Gregorian calendar). It’s a remake of one
To finish off this weeks Marilyn M. expedition, let’s view this very short but very interesting clip of film from the abortive ‘Somethings Got To Give’ shoot. It’s a brief moment just after the shot’s been slated but before Cukor has said ‘action’ (or ‘camera’ as was his habit) in