New Photos Added: Hitchcock, Vintage Advertisements, Celebrity Endorsements, TAXI DRIVER, Orson Welles, Jayne Mansfield, Matt Dillon, Russ Meyer, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, etc.
February 22nd, 2009 by Scott Marks
Celebrity Endorsements:
Pat Boone vs. O.J. SImpson
George Carlin’s CLASS CLOWN
Jimmy Carter Toilet Paper
Cyd Charisse for Lustre Creme
Joan Crawford for Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Glenn Ford for Chesterfield Cigarettes
Ava Gardner for Bur-Mil Cameo Stockings
Coleen Gray for La Cross Manicure Instruments
Tippi’ Hedren for Chrysler
‘Tippi’ Hedren for Palmolive Soap
Florence Henderson has Wessonality!
Hitler for Bloomingdale’s
Bob Hope and Doris Day for Swan Soap
Little Richard & Jackie Gayle at Milton Prell’s Aladdin
Melissa Manchester and Ella Fitzgerald for Memorex
Mary Martin for Royal Crown Cola
Merle Oberon for Ry-Krisp
Saturday on CBS is the place for RICHARD PRYOR’S PLACE (1984)
Basil Rathbone for Fatima Cigarettes
Phil Silvers for Camel Cigarettes
Jessica Simpson for Fake Hair Extensions
Barbara Stanwyck for Lustre Creme
Spencer Tracy for Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney for Emerson TV
Christmas Crap - 3 Yuletide photos of Yogi Bear and the Hanna-Barbera gang.
George Cukor - 2 photos from Let’s Make Love (1960) added.
Matt Dillon - 4 photos added from The Outsiders
Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill! (1965) - New gallery with 6 posters added.
Alfred Hitchcock - 5 photos added from The Birds and 1 from Frenzy.
Jerry Lewis Cinemas - 5 photos added. (Thanks to Rob Martinez!)
Ad for Liberace and his brother George appearing at the Riviera.
Jayne Mansfield - 4 photos added.
Don Rickles - 1 photo added.
Ad for Frank Sinatra at the Mocambo.
Kate Smith - New gallery added with 5 tempting photos.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD / Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)- New gallery with 15 images added.
Insert your own Gacy…I mean gamy joke here.
Vintage Magazine Ads:
Prunes, Natural Regularity without harsh laxatives!
Lowe Brothers Paints not cost much wampum - UGH!
Dodge Polara = Gals ‘n Guns!
Kleenex Man-Size Tissues!
The Ronson Hood ‘n’ Comb Hair Dryer
Painting in Your Underpants!
UNISEX Clothes - For sheer nerve.!l
Medical Electricity!
Boys Love Staydry Panties!l
WOMEN MAKE GOOD MOTEL MANAGERS!
Chew gum and get caned! This is what I call a vacation paradise!
Diet Rite Cola
Smoke Philip Morris - They’re Pasturized!
Piggly Wiggly Ad
Kodak’s V-Mail
Jack Davis for Slim Jim, 1977
Get High, Not Hassled, 1977
Lady Doctors Smoke Camel Cigarettes, Too!
CRAFTSMEN GUILD 3-D SET
Lane Bryant Chubbies
Don’t Go Deaf on the Shooting Range!
How to Clean a Twink
These two met 10 minutes before this picture was taken.
Explore San Diego, 1938
Airplanes, landing soon at a movie theatre near you!
Velveeta
Flying Waitress School
Grace Downs Air Career School.
VIEW-MASTER
Tampon Personal Calendar Dial
Bathroom Luxury at a Budget Price!
New Kotex with Wondersoft Covering!
Stop Pain of Piles!
Become A Witch!
A gift to make a guy’s eyes pop out…and hopefully a gal’s, too!
Get Your Favorite Gal a .25 Caliber Colt!
The Ginza Japanese Review
Filed Under Image Blog
Have a PSYCHO Halloween!
October 31st, 2008 by Scott Marks
Here’s a 10 minute solo piece I did on horror films a couple of Halloweens ago for KPBS-Radio’s These Days. I was asked to come up with three bone chilling DVD rentals guaranteed to scare even Count Floyd. Admittedly, horror films are not my drug of choice mainly because it is the most recycled genre of all. For every Psycho or Rosemary’s Baby or The Hitcher there are literally dozens (hundreds?) of wretched knockoffs, sequels and remakes.
For me, it all peaks a few minutes in when I recount an abusive childhood memory: Dad taking me to see Hitchcock’s Psycho when I was five. What was he thinking? That it was hot out, we didn’t own an air conditioner and he wanted to cool off in a movie theatre for a couple of hours.
This year I spent Halloween eve revisiting Roger Corman’s X:The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963) and Jack Arnold’s Tarantula (1955). It’s hard to be horrified watching Ray Milland’s bad toupee and a Hawaiian-shirted Don Rickles as a carnival barker, but X remains a very well made, exceedingly entertaining horror film. (Rickles gives his best on-screen performance this side of Casino!) It’s an allegorical tale of a doctor who invents a miraculous serum that gives him a Superman-like power to see through everything. Instead of putting his invention to good use, Milland is kicked out of the hospital for malpractice and winds up as a sideshow clairvoyant. The film ends at a revival meeting, led by Corman regular John Dierkes, where the man who puts the “mentalist” in Christian Fundamentalist dutifully follows scripture and pulls the old “an eye for an eye” on himself. Columbia Pictures has announced a planned remake for 2010 and for once I’m not upset. In our soon-to-be post George Bush era, this parable is ripe for retelling. (It also makes a great double-bill with Jerry Lewis’ The Nutty Professor.)
Have not seen Tarantula in ages and frankly, the only reason I pulled it off the shelf is because I remembered Whit Bissell in it. (No one says “Halloween” more than the good Doctor Bissell.) No Whit, and even less wit, as John Agar, Leo G. Carroll and Gina Gershon lookalike Mara Corday are terrified by a giant, hairy arachnid. They should have quit with the impressive spider FX, but, no, Leo G. had to experiment on humans and subsequently get a dose himself. As in too many 50s horror films, the makeup draws howls…of laughter. Dan Blocker’s cosmetic makeover in the 3 Stooges Outer Space Jitters is unnerving by comparison.
Happy Halloween, everybody, and as Pee-Wee Herman said, “DON’T EAT ANY APPLES YOU CAN SHAVE WITH!!!”
Listen to the KPBS broadcast here.
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Don Rickles, Halloween, halloween movies, horror films, psycho, psycho movie, roger corman, rosemary's baby, tarantula, tarantula movie, THE HITCHER, the man with the x-ray eyes, x: the man with the x-ray eyesFiled Under DVD, Image Blog, Interviews, Reviews
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