Juliette Greco - Bonjour Tristesse (Bonjour Tristesse: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Greco’s performance of the song in the film can be seen here.
Various Transylvanians -Time Warp (The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir. Jim Sharman)
Still from Speedy (1928, dir. Ted Wilde) and a time when amusement parks were apparently less concerned about personal injury lawsuits.
“I’ve simply been brought up being knocked down. My pop’s idea of comedy was to kick me clean across the stage or throw me through every backdrop on the Keith circuit, and I’ll bet I’ve taken more punishment in the way of being used as a human mop than Bat Nelson, Ad Wolgast, and Jim Jeffries combined. The funny part is that I liked it. By the time I got up to around seven or eight years old, we were called ‘The Roughest Act That Was Ever in the History of the Stage.’
It was Sarah Bernhardt who said, ‘How can you do this to this poor boy?’ when they were throwing me around madly. Everybody said that. We used to get arrested every other week—that is, the old man would get arrested. Once they took me to the mayor of New York City, into his private office, with the city physicians & they stripped me to examine me for broken bones and bruises. Finding none, the mayor gave me permission to work. The next time it happened, the following year, they sent me to Albany, to the governor of the state. I got so used to it that I took my clothes off every time I saw an officer.”
-Buster Keaton, 1921
Buster Keaton & Florence Turner in College (1927, dir. James W. Horne)
This Good Friday public service announcement has been brought to you by Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
Peggy Lee - Fever
The 400 Blows (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut, scene online here)
“I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.”
-Francois Truffaut
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969, dir. Bill Melendez)
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask: ‘Why me?’ Then a voice answers: ‘Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.’”
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
-Tallulah Bankhead, Actress/Epic American Hedonist
Carly Simon - Nobody Does it Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) (via The Spy Who Loved Me: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Frankenstein (1931, dir. James Whale)
Charlie Chaplin (w/ Edna Purviance) is struck by an arrow & ribbon fired by Cupid in The Bond (1918, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
Julie London - Sway
