#Mary Wellman

[antiqueanimals]

American Insects. Written by Vernon Kellogg. With illustrations from Mary Wellman. Second edition, revised. 1908.

Internet Archive

#bugs #insects #moths #sphinx moths #Mary Wellman

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#The Ox-Bow Incident #Henry Fonda #Dana Andrews #anthony quinn #jane darwell #mary beth hughes #William A. Wellman #1943

[from1837to1945]

Grant Withers' care-free personality is well served in this talkie with Mary Astor.

"Other Men's Women" is a triangle railway melodrama in which a young fireman falls in love with the wife of his friend the engine-driver. In a jealous fight, the engine-driver is injured and blinded, but realises in the ensuing weeks that he has misjudged his friend and his wife. Finally his melodramatic death leaves the two free to marry.

Grant Withers left the world of journalism to become a film extra. He is as successful in talkies as in silent pictures.

#other men's women 1930 #directed by #william a. wellman #my favorite film #at least most light-hearted story among w.a. wellman films #grant withers #mary astor #vintage cigarette card #from my collection

[thegardencharts]

February

Open Yellow Circle : New Meridian

Shimmerglisten : Sound Of Shadows

Ian Wellman : The Night The Stars Fell

Cowboy Sadness : Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1

Enofa : The House By The Sea

Mary Halvorson : Cloudward

Kelman Duran : Black Genesis Mixtape

Kirk Barley : Marionette

Kreidler : Twists (A Visitor Arrives)

Michal Turtle : Same Songs, Different Room

#Kreidler #Kirk Barley #Kelman Duran #Enofa #Cowboy Sadness #Ian Wellman #Shimmerglisten #Open Yellow Circle #Michal Turtle #mary halvorson

[fictional-library-tournament]

Polls masterlists

Prelims round 1

Four polls a day, each open for a day. This post will provide links to them and also give their status. If I've got my timings right, the last of these should end midnight GMT on the 9th December.

Poll 1 completed!

Winner: Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, Guardians of the Lost Library by Don Rosa

Poll 2 completed!

Winner: Endless Athenaeum, Critical Role – Campaign 1: Vox Machina

Poll 3 completed!

Winner: Noumenon, Final Fantasy XIV

Poll 4 completed!

Winner: Kiersau Abbey Library, Pentiment

Poll 5 completed!

Winner: Neo-Gotham Public Library, Batman Beyond

Poll 6 completed!

Winner: Downing Hill Public Library, Hello from the Hallowoods by William A Wellman

Poll 7 completed!

Winner: Mrs Phelps' library, Matilda by Roald Dahl

Poll 8 completed!

Winner: Sazed's Copperminds, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Poll 9 completed!

Winner: ART's archives, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Poll 10 completed!

Winner: Bag End library, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Poll 11 completed!

Winner: Sunai, The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Cando

Poll 12 completed!

Winner: Merlin's Library, The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

Poll 13 completed!

Winner: The Scholomance Library, A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Poll 14 completed!

Winner: The Thunderhead, Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Poll 15 completed!

Winner: The Black Archives, Doctor Who

Poll 16 completed!

Winner: Vault of Knowledge, Sky: Children of the Light

Poll 17 completed!

Winner: SCP-4001 "Alexandria Eternal", SCP Foundation

Poll 18 completed!

Winner: Death's library, The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Poll 19 completed!

Winner: The Lines Between, Dimension 20: Neverafter

Poll 20 completed!

Winner: Justice Strauss' library, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Poll 21 completed!

Winners: The Library, Clue/Cluedo; The Incorruptible Republic of the Immortal Library of the Grand Architect (aka The Incorruptible Library), Girl Genius

#fictional libraries #tumblr tournament #archives #books & libraries #fictional archives #libraries #masterlist #masterpost

[offalhouse]

American Insects. Written by Vernon Kellogg. With illustrations from Mary Wellman. Second edition, revised. 1908. - via @antiqueanimals

#png #pngs #transparent #moodboard #polyvore #sticker #stickers #collage #moths #bugs #insects #my stuff

[saturniidaess]

I think about people made of people a lot, alright.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley / Hello From the Hallowoods (episode 26) - William A. Wellman / Like The Dawn - The Oh Hellos

#words #i wanna tag this as a web weave but i feel like its too short

[nowvoyagerit]

Richard Arlen and Mary Brian in The Man I Love (William A. Wellman, 1929)

#richard arlen #mary brian

[byneddiedingo]

Neil Hamilton and Constance Bennett in What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor, 1932)

Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict, Louise Beavers, Eddie Anderson. Screenplay: Jane Murfin, Ben Markson, Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, based on a story by Adela Rogers St. John. Cinematography: Charles Rosher. Art direction: Carroll Clark. Film editing: Del Andrews, Jack Kitchin. Music: Max Steiner. 

Bradley Cooper's 2018 film A Star Is Born is often called a remake of the films by that title starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor in 1937, James Mason and Judy Garland in 1954, and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand in 1976. But all four of them can trace their origin to What Price Hollywood?, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Cukor in 1932. The name is different but the plot's the same: A successful man in the entertainment business discovers a young woman whom he helps become a star, but as her career ascends, his personal problems send him into a tailspin. if there's any doubt about the link with What Price Hollywood? and at least the first A Star Is Born, both were produced by Selznick. RKO, which released What Price Hollywood?, threatened to sue Selznick over the similarities, but decided against it. Selznick also asked Cukor to direct the 1937 film, but Cukor declined, so William A. Wellman took it on. But then Cukor went on to direct the 1954 Star Is Born. I don't think there's any direct connection between What Price Hollywood? and the 1976 version, produced by Streisand and Jon Peters and directed by Frank Pierson, but the lineage by then was obvious. The idea for the original film is a natural in a Hollywood that had become increasingly conscious of its own myth, and many real-life rising-star-falling-mentor analogs can be found in the history of the industry. Selznick commissioned Adela Rogers St. Johns, a former reporter for Photoplay and the Hearst newspapers, to write the story for the film, and various other hands turned it into a screenplay, though St. Johns and Jane Murfin claimed most of the credit when they were nominated for an Oscar for best original story. The film begins with a touch of screwball comedy when Max Carey (Lowell Sherman), an alcoholic director, encounters Mary Evans (Constance Bennett), a waitress at the Brown Derby looking for her chance to break into the movies. After some funny scenes involving Max's drunkenness and Mary's initial ineptness as an actress, the movie unfortunately begins to get serious. Though it's clear Mary really loves Max, when she becomes a big star she marries a society polo player, Lonny Borden (Neil Hamilton), after a somewhat cutesy courtship. But Borden is unhappy being "Mr. Mary Evans," and eventually storms out, though she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Max's decline continues, and after Mary rescues him from the drunk tank and promises to rehabilitate him, he shoots himself, thereby embroiling her in a headline-making scandal. But then Borden returns to apologize and all is well again. What keeps the film alive despite its clichés are the performances. Bennett is quite charming, and Sherman clearly models Max on John Barrymore, whom he knew well: He was married to Helene Costello, whose sister, Dolores, was Barrymore's third wife. The supporting cast includes Gregory Ratoff as the producer of Mary's films, Louise Beavers as (of course) her maid, and Eddie Anderson as Max's chauffeur -- five years before he became famous as Jack Benny's chauffeur, Rochester, on radio.  

#What Price Hollywood? #George Cukor #Neil Hamilton #Constance Bennett

[ebookporn]

WHAT DEFINES A CLASSIC?

READING THE AVON FANTASY READER — ISSUE 1

by Erik Mona

Over its 18 volumes, the Avon Fantasy Reader put forth works by authors like Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, and other foundational writers of early 20th century fantasy fiction. While the magazine did feature contemporary tales in several of its issues, the bulk of its content focused on already “classic” (or at least well-loved by Wollheim) tales from the previous four decades of fantasy (and sometimes even earlier).

Their resurrection here along with the archival work being done in Mary Gnaedinger’s Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1939–1953), Fantastic Novels (1940–1951), and A. Merritt’s Fantasy Magazine (1949–1950) and by other pulp editors in “classic story” features of various magazines of the time, started to establish a sort of “fantasy canon” that held steady for decades, in many cases to the present day.

I first became familiar with the Avon Fantasy Reader while hunting down rare stories for Paizo Publishing’s Planet Stories classic fantasy imprint, which I edited and published a little over a decade ago. That line focused heavily (but not heavily enough, alas!) on the early decades of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of folks like Wollheim and Gnaedinger. Over 33 books, we published classic and lesser-known works by authors like Merritt, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, and others, many of whom appeared in the Avon Fantasy Reader. I’d deeply enjoyed my first foray into this material years ago, and the near-completion of the series at this year’s Windy City was all I needed to start where I always like to start — at the beginning.

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This is a great piece on an important piece in the popularization of the Fantasy genre in fiction. Well worth the time. ~ eP

#fantasy fiction #pulps #fantasy writing #short stories #Avon Fantasy Reader

[ledenews]

#belmontcounty #BrookeCounty #EricWellman #MarshallCounty #NewAgeAdenas #ohiocounty #UpperOhioValley #wheeling

[antiqueanimals]

American Insects. Written by Vernon Kellogg. With illustrations from Mary Wellman. Second edition, revised. 1908.

Internet Archive

#bugs #insects #moths #tbd #Mary Wellman

[angelariasdominguez]

§ 2.704. Incidente en Ox-Bow (William A Wellman, 1943)

He oido en alguna ocasión que es la película preferida de Clint Eastwood, que la ha visto muchas veces y que siempre que tiene que rodar se la lleva para verla de nuevo.En setenta y dos minutos cuenta una historia potentísima, llena de matices y claroscuros. Lo de Henry Fonda es de escándalo, borda el papel prácticamente sin proponérselo. Se mueve con una suavidad, mueve el cuerpo cimbreándose y ladea la cabeza como si fuera un pistolero.Desde luego la cuestión moral que plantea es de enjundia, de las que definen un país y construyen su fibra moral. El linchamiento tuvo que ser algo bastante común y hay muchas películas sobre con su temática, bien directa, bien indirecta, pero ésta es extraordinaria. El derecho a un juicio justo es, desde luego, un derecho humano fundamental y sus manifestaciones deben ser protegidas. Esa es el trasfondo de la película. Acompañan a Fonda un reparto magnífico: Dana Andrews algo exigido, le quedan mejor los trajes y los uniformes militares, Mary Beth Hughes, una actriz que no me suena de nada, Anthony Quinn, que en esa época estaba en todas, Harry Morgan como acompañante perfecto y Jane Darwell, una mujer muy propia para el western, como si se tratara de Wellman es uno de los más grandes. Cine de aventuras, histórico, de evasión. Un industrio del cine, con sesenta y muchas películas.Me ha gustado mucho ésta. Mucho de verdad. El tono es perfecto, el ritmo el adecuado, los extras en su papel, la música nada intrusiva. La caracterización de los personajes es brillante, cada uno con sus características, representando un modelo de comportamiento, de actuación.Es de esas cintas que se hacen demasiado cortas. 

[from1837to1945]

Other Men's Women (1930, William A. Wellman)

#other men's women 1930 #mary astor #and 25 year old #grant withers #directed by #william a. wellman

[kino51]

midnight mary  1933

#midnight mary #William A. Wellman #1933 #loretta young #ricardo cortez #franchot tone #fatalité ? #8/10

[gatutor]

Grant Withers-Mary Astor "Mujeres enamoradas" (Other men´s woman) 1931, de William A. Wellman.

#Mary Astor #Grant Withers #William A. Wellman