Random Hollywood

 

Carole Lombard, by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1934.

Groucho Marx and Marlene Dietrich, circa 1932-33.

Gloria Swanson, publicity for "Music in the Air", photograph by Otto Dyar, 1934.

Mary Astor and Peter Lorre on the set of "The Maltese Falcon", 1941.

Passport for Roy Harold Fitzgerald, aka Rock Hudson, stamped 1952 and 1954.

Joan Crawford and Joan Crawford, circa early 1940s.

 Boris Karloff, ND.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, circa 1943.

Irene Dunne, by Roman Freulich, 1932.

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell at the Academy Awards ceremony, 1942. 

James Stewart and Judy Garland, circa 1941. (Spencer Tracy can be seen in the background, far right.)

Bette Davis, publicity for "The Letter", 1940.

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh rehearsing during the production of "Gone With The Wind", 1939.

Norma Shearer chez elle, 1948.

Jean Harlow, by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair, 1935.

Dick Powell, publicity for "Murder, My Sweet', photograph by Ernest Bachrach, 1944.

Rosalind Russell, publicity for "The Velvet Touch", 1948.

Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Shirley Temple, 1941.

Audrey Totter, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1944.

Passport for Katherine Hepburn, circa late 1930s. Note the exception to travel in Spain, which was in the midst of its Civil War.

Olivia de Havilland and Vivien Leigh (and stewardess?) en route to the Atlanta premiere of "Gone With the Wind", 1939.

Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, and Gary Cooper during the filming of "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer", 1934.

Dolores del Rio, publicity for "Madame Du Barry", 1934.

Joan Blondell and Bette Davis during the filming of "Three on a Match", 1932.

Adrienne Ames, circa early 1930s.

Freddie Bartholomew and Douglas Scott during the filming of "Lloyd's of London", 1936.

Kay Francis during the filming of "It's a Date", 1941. 

Mannequins who were featured in the "Lovely to Look At" fashion show in "Roberta", 1935.

Tallulah Bankhead and Dickie Moore, 1932.

Alice Faye, circa 1940.

Passport for Cary Grant, stamped 1946 and 1947.

Stars gathered at the Hollywood Bowl in 1943 to welcome Madame Chaing Kai-Shek who was on a tour of the United States. 
In the background at far left can be seen Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, and Barbara Stanwyck. While in the foreground, left to right
and front to back, are Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, and Loretta Young.

Lizabeth Scott and Raymond Burr, publicity for "Pitfall", 1948.

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor during the filming of "A Place in the Sun", photograph by Peter Stackpole, 1950.

Claire Trevor, publicity for "Murder, My Sweet", 1944.

Marion Davies, publicity for "Going Hollywood", 1933.

Clark Gable and his 1932 Packard Twin Six 905 Coupe Roadster.

Constance Bennett and Greta Garbo, "Two-Faced Woman", 1941.

Rooms intimate and lofty, personal and public - two paintings by Johan Vilhelm Gertner

 

A bedroom in Bernstorff Palace near Copenhagen, circa 1845.

Built in the middle of the eighteenth century for Danish foreign minister Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, by 1842 the building had fallen into neglect and was about to be demolished when King Christian VIII of Denmark purchased it and ordered a complete renovation. Gertner painted the king on several occasions, so one might assume that some degree of familiarity led to the artist being given the opportunity to portray such a private space.

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Thorvaldsen's Studio in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1836.

The studio in question was that of the celebrated Danish neo-classical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. He was considered one of the greatest sculptors of his time, regarded as the successor of Antonio Canova. Mainly resident in Italy - he maintained a large workshop in Rome - he made a final triumphant return to Denmark in 1838, only six years before his death at the age of seventy-three.