Tuesday, October 20, 2022, 2:02 pm — Perkins … I wonder what’s on that paper in the corner? …
3:00 pm … a shopping list … in Finnish! … notes from the Sorjonen Finnish tv series movie … Muraalimurhat, 2021 … English subtitles … Netflix … (shortened version of the Finnish series) …
Finnish shopping list … ostoslista = shopping list … laastari = Band-Aid … maitoa = milk … muroja = cereal … vessapaperi = toiletpaper … Sorjonen says at 42:40 minutes … “Can’t spell it correctly” …
[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]
Saturday, April 2, 2022, 12:39 am — Teeny Tuxedo … It’s After Midnight Movie Time! … Hey, Teeny … what’ll we watch? … Your tail’s pointing to All About Eve, 1950, Bette Davis … perfect choice! … On demand … on practically perfect Turner Classic Movies … the one channel I HAVE to have … since it first began in 1994 … uncut, commercial-free …
Teeny and I had the need to rewatch All About Eve … 1950 Best Picture Oscar … Poster on wall, Summertime, 1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, directed by David Lean, filmed in Venice, Italy.
March was “31 Days of Oscar” on Turner Classic Movies … every year a different theme … This year, every hour of every day was filled with Oscar-winning films … All About Eve had six 1950 wins … Best Picture … Director AND Writing, Joseph L. Mankiewicz … Supporting Actor, George Sanders … Costume Design … Sound … (and eight more nominations).
Ever so fortunate to have seen Bette Davis (twice) and Katharine Hepburn in person on stage … Two of my favorite actresses … All About Eve, 1950, and Summertime, 1955, are favorite films … Plus the extra fortune of staying a month alone at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, July, 2016.
Monday, March 7, 2022, 7:49 am — Teeny Tuxedo … learning about silent film actress, Barbara La Marr, 1896-1926 … born in Yakima, Washington!? [we’re in Vancouver, WA] … “In 1923 she secretly had a child. She “adopted” the little boy to save face … After her death in 1926, he was adopted by good friend ZaSu Pitts [1894-1963] and her husband Tom Gallery … and renamed Don Gallery.” – imdb … ZaSu Pitts, one of my favorite character actresses … Finnish calendar, Maaliskuu / March, upper left …
… Close-up reflection … Little Tux, 2020, and Little Perk, 2021 … Christmas gifts from Cousin L … spun cotton kittens … by VintagebyCrystal …
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 11:27 am — Perkins … multicultural cat … Finland and Sweden … newly arrived DVD set … Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years … she’s star of the month on Turner Classic Movies … The green and red are part of a table runner I wove on a loom at my cousin’s shop … Mikkeli, Finland … 1999 … a week’s visit between home exchanges in Kirkintilloch, Scotland and Durham, England … (Mom’s wingback chair) …
Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 9:20 pm — While the visitor from Minnesota has double remotes focus on the tv … Perkins has double eyes focus on his pizza … (leftovers from yesterday’s trip to Dirty Dave’s Pizza, Lacey, WA) …
… Back from late afternoon, evening drive around old family places … Hockinson, WA … Tonight’s pizza and a movie, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, 1953 … Tommy Rettig … with my favorite, Hans Conried’s Do-Mi-Do Duds (The Dressing Song) … (Russ in his Cinema Ballroom jacket) …
Sunday, August 15, 2021, 8:03 am — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … love dreaming about movies … If they could read, they’d love these books … Even better is the DVD, Lassie: Best of Jeff’s Collie, 1954-1957 … the original tv series, with Tommy Rettig as Jeff … really the BEST … before the cast changed and annoying little Timmy took over …
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 5:23 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … a perfect Saturday afternoon … lazing about … tv remote ready to check what’s on Turner Classic Movies …
[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]
Wednesday, June 9, 2021, 8:21 pm — Teeny Tuxedo says … “I’ve been practicing my dance moves … How ’bout it, West Side guys? … Can I join the gang??” …
History and movies, all in one … Nice to have a stash at hand … The switch this past year, with libraries closed to in-person browsing, led to these purchases …
Saturday, June 5, 2021, 9:04 am — Scotty dog … such “alive” eyes! … Since I don’t have a real Scottish terrier, here’s the next best thing … from my movie blog … If I Had a Dog … and … A Movie Road to Fala – FDR’s Scotty Dog …
… photo is also in My Photo a Day Adventure …
Friday, June 4, 2021, 8:18 am — Teeny Tuxedo … sitting next to Shirley Temple’s autobiography, Child Star (left corner) … If she could read it, she would! …
… a 1988 Christmas gift from Russ … who knows I’ve been a fan since Pluto was a pup … Must be fate, since Mom was outside the Los Angeles Wilshire Methodist Church where 17-year-old Shirley was marrying John Agar, Sept. 19, 1945 … details on my movie blog! ...
Friday, April 30, 2021, 9:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … thinks she can hide behind the comforter on laundry day …
… found you! … in front of Italian movie poster … Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi … David Lean’s Summertime / Tempo d’estate, 1955 … filmed in Venice … Signorina Teena, sembri una star del cinema! …
Teeny could take an Italian movie actress lesson from Lucy Ricardo! … I Love Lucy … “Lucy’s Italian Movie” … season 5, 1956 …
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 12:57 pm — Perkins … reflected in the Hollywood Glamour framed print … welcomes the February sun …
2.5 years ago … clear view of Hollywood Glamour … Dreaming Cats, Sept. 21, 2018 … silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 … Buffalo Bill Museum poster from trip with Glynnis, Way Out West with Johnny Depp, August 2001 … it’s now back in Cody, Wyoming with Kitty M. … a happy library retirement gift when she moved, March 2019 …
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 11:00 am — Perkins … on Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … a good view of the humming bird feeder attached to the deck window …
… 7 years ago … a prime spot in front of the forced-air heater … and tv … Pristine Frankenstein Cat, Nov. 23, 2013 … until the ductless heating / cooling system was installed, Nov. 2019 …
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 3:12 pm — Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … winter afternoon sun, shadows …
… reflected in one of Mom’s 4 china cabinets …
Tuesday, January 5, 2021, 10:58 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … who’s this little tuxedo stranger? … Little Tux! …
… Are you my mom? …
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2:45 pm … Little Tux … encouraged by Glinda, Wizard of Oz, 1939 … “There’s no place like home” …
… “There’s no place like home” …
Little Tux … from Cousin L … spun cotton kitten … by VintagebyCrystal …
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Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:18 am — Perkins … and awaaaay she goes! … sorting junior high, high school papers … from old cardboard box to sturdier plastic container …
… wonderful movie re-discoveries … pages from Mad Magazine, Oct. 1967, no. 114 …
… Mad’s “Late Show” Cliché Movie Script: The “Society” Movie, p. 42 … stars bordering the script: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart …
Look closely … the swirls between the drawings are names of other movie stars … a galaxy of ’em! ...
Friday, June 26, 2020, 2:04 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … new kitchen floor … looks adoringly at the visitor from Minnesota …
… Russ and I had a FinnFilmFest … watched 2 of the 3 versions of Tuntematon sotilas / Unknown Soldier … 2017, 1955 … Finnish!
… 11:27 pm … showing off with Baby Kick Stix, catnip sox … in always-open kennel …
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 1:20 am — Teeny Tuxedo … rehearsing her stern Warren William as Perry Mason face … 1930s Warner Bros. movies collection … How about watching the very first? … The Case of the Howling Dog, 1934 …
… or how about the other DVD behind you? … Foxfire, 1955 … Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler … on location in Arizona … hot, hot, hot!
Thursday, March 19, 2020, 1:02 pm — Perkins … woke up to a magical visit from Glinda, Wizard of Oz, 1939 … Teeny Tuxedo lounged in the background …
Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 10:51 pm — Paw prints … but whose? … on top of vintage radio … dust from guest bathroom remodeling … door on right edge of photo … [red cardinals figurine, East Beaver Creek house, Tillamook, Oregon, before we moved to Olympia, 1963] …
... 1930 Majestic 90 radio … from antique shop, Lafayette, Oregon, 1993 (?) …
50th anniversary … Wizard of Oz, 1939 … Scarecrow musical Jack-in-the-box … from Tacoma Mall, 1989 …
Thursday, December 26, 2019, 3:26 pm — Day after Christmas sunshine … Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … Winner of 7 Academy Awards … FAVORITE movie! …
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 4:08 am — Perk’s version of Antiques Roadshow … appraising 1980-ish Trimline TouchTone phone …
… Grandpa Ahola’s coffee cup …
… beveled mirror dresser … retro wind up clock … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock …
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 12:29 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … disappointed that she couldn’t go see Fritz Lang’s silent film, Metropolis, 1927, at the Hollywood Theatre, across the river in Portland, OR … special screening by the Columbia River Theatre Organ Society, with organist, Dean Lemire …souvenir program, Nov. 30 … invited by Bob H …
Photo from Hollywood Theatre
Behind the Metropolis mask … Brigitte Helm … Maschinenmensch costume …
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10:51 am — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … investigate the new Finnish DVD from ebay … Joulutarina / Christmas Story, 2007 … how a little Finnish boy becomes Santa Claus … streaming on Amazon Prime, but dubbed in English (no!! … HAD to get the original in Finnish) … grateful for the region-free DVD player purchased a year ago …
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 6:31 pm — Sorting papers at the table … Teeny Tuxedo wanted to be the center of it all …
… on vintage Made in Finland … Didas Deken 100% Zuiver Wol (Dutch) … Didas blanket 100% pure wool … (2017 Christmas present from L) … In background, photo of Ramon Novarro, by Hurrell, Son of India, 1931 …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 