This image from photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographic survey of the Russian Empire, using a special camera to capture three black and white images using red, green and blue filters. The images were later combined to be projected through lanterns, and now on the internet for Turban Tuesday!
It’s fantastic to see color imagery of what is always seen in black and white. The Library of Congress purchased the original plates in 1948.
The “Postman” costume was designed by Irene, who in 1962 slit her wrists (although that’s disputed) and jumped from the 14th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood (not disputed). She was reportedly distraught over the death of her true love, Gary Cooper, in 1961.
In 1948, legendary film director D.W. Griffith dropped dead in the hotel lobby of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73.
On March 3, 1966, William Frawley (best known as Fred Mertz) collapsed a half block away and was carried to the Knickerbocker lobby where they were unable to revive him.
He was 79.
Gay American poet Frank O’Hara wrote this lovely poem about Lana Turner.
O’Hara, 40, was killed when a dune buggy ran over him on Fire Island, July 24, 1966.
Look who’s back! It’s the glam goddess of the East, Sheikha Mozah! The Sheikha was photographed on Monday, wearing a spectacular turban with a woven gold headband (and that’s gotta be real gold), while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — wearing his own plain cotton turban — welcomed her to New Delhi.
That’s the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong, born in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles in 1905. By age 19, she was playing opposite superstar Douglas Fairbanks in “Thief of Baghdad.”
In 1926, she helped drive the first rivets into Grauman’s Chinese Theatre at the groundbreaking ceremony, although she was not asked for her hand and footprints.
