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18 September 2010

Hendrix died forty years ago …

The great guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix is a special favorite — an inspiration. His performance of “Wild Thing” at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 transcends a rock performance. [...]

31 August 2010

Cleopatra reclaims the Egyptian Theater

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On September 22, following a screening of DeMille’s naughty Claudette Colbert vehicle, “Cleopatra,” (1934), Leonard Maltin will ‘view author Scott Eyman about his new biography, “Emperor of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.” [...]

19 July 2010

Travis Banton undresses Miriam Hopkins

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Costume designer Travis Banton, perpetrator of slinky pre-code evening gowns at Paramount Studios, was a genius. His work on view in LACMA’s Lubitsch film series now.

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5 March 2009

The devilish Madam Satan

debra levine, james cromwell

Adrian designed the costume actress Kay Johnson wears in the zeppelin sequence of Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan. Ballets Russes dancer Theodore Kosloff is in the film. Kay Johnson was actor James Cromwell’s mother. [...]