Before and after painting tribute to His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks). This is the lid of a box that I am recycling!
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Celebrating Saint George’s Day, the patron saint of Catalonia. On this day, we celebrate love and it is our most romantic day of the year. Also the love for books and literature is a huge part of today’s celebration. We give each other books and red roses, as a symbol of the legend of Saint George.
As a classic cinema admirer, I couldn’t resist to show some red roses varieties I found, named after Old Hollywood stars:
Happy Saint George’s Day!
Feliç Sant Jordi!
Images via HGtv and Weeks Roses
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A group photograph of MGM’s stars and starlets under contract, taken for the studio’s 20th anniversary in 1943.
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz; Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper, Henry O’Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland.
No wonder MGM claimed that they had “more stars than there are in heaven”!
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