Lang. From a contact sheet for a roll or two snapped on the set of Le Mepris at Letter to Jane.
Lang. From a contact sheet for a roll or two snapped on the set of Le Mepris at Letter to Jane.
Jim Knipfel at the Chiseler: “When 20th Century Fox acquired the rights shortly after the book’s publication, the initial question must have been ‘how do we present this material to a glum Depression-era audience?’ Well, the answer was simple. You hire Lee Tracy, toss the novel out the window, and rewrite it as a frothy screwball comedy.”
Stories of Great People (1960), one of 25 children’s book covers of the era from Korea at 50 Watts.
From Wendell Steavenson’s New Yorker gallery, “Tahrir Square: A Year in Graffiti.”
From the collection of ads designed by Ludwig Hohlwein at Flyer Goodness.