I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. 🍉
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Westerns & the Old West
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Happy 57th Birthday to Peter Dinklage
Westerns & the Old West
Happy Birthday to the late Gene Wilder, born Jerome Silberman 93 years ago today
The earliest known use of sex in advertising was the 1871 packaging of Pearl brand rolling tobacco:
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Happy Birthday to Wesley Ruggles, born 137 years ago today
Gomez's charity work kept her in Mexico for over a decade, her last film credit being Barquero (1970) with Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates & Forrest Tucker. I don't think she minded & I'm certain the orphans didn't either.
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Marie Gomez (The Professionals) disliked Hollywood & her status as a sex symbol. She turned down big roles that required nudity & spearheaded a project with The Lord’s Lighthouse of Hollywood Presbyterian Church to deliver busloads of food, clothing & toys to Mexican orphans...
Watch a pre-Professionals Marie Gomez* in this 1960 episode of You Bet Your Life 👇
*you might be surprised by her accent
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For example, they used the actual covered wagons that were used to cross the West. I'd only say that a lot of the costumes are more late 19th century than the 1840s, but whatever. This is about as close as it gets:
Arizona (1940) was just uploaded to youtube for free & it's in my top 5 most authentic-looking Westerns of all time. Old Tucson was built for it & no film that's shot there since has looked 1/2 as good. Natives play Natives. Costumes & guns near perfect. Astounding detail:
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Wesley Ruggles' 1940 film Arizona has some of the best costumes, production design & sets of any Western.
