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Can I Have …….

Posted in Actresses, Movies, tagged 1955, Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch on October 27, 2014| 6 Comments »

…. one like that in my living room? Please. Oh ple-e-e-e-ease……

Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend Shipyard, ca 1955 – Bergensfjord

Posted in Facts, Maritime history, Norwegian, Photography, The fifties, Transportation, Traveling, tagged 1955, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, SS Bergensfjord, Swan, Wallsend Shipyard on June 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

From a Transport Age article on Tyneside a fine colour shot of the passenger steamship Bergensfjord, built for the Den Norske Amerikalinje A/S by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson and launched, by H R H Princess Astrid of Norway in July 1955.The ship was 577-feet long and was notable, the caption informs, for its all-welded aluminium-alloy superstructure.

Many fine and famous ships came out of the Swan Hunter Wallsend yard. The company, usually known just as Swan Hunter, was responsible for the construction of some of the world’s most famous ships including the Mauritania and Carpathia. Building finally ceased here in 2006.

Anyhow, it is a cracking view of a traditional shipyard on one of the world’s busiest shipbuilding rivers, the River Tyne.

Image ans text from Adventures of the Blackgang

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Routemasters To The Tune Of “Bridge of Song”

Posted in British, Movies, Music, The fifties, tagged 1955, Bridge of songs, London, Routmasters on May 14, 2014| 2 Comments »

Movie found at The British Film Industry’s YouTube pages

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It Isn’t Often You Wish You Were A Pekingese Dog

Posted in Actresses, Facts, Models & starlets, The fifties, tagged 1955, Look magazine, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene on March 10, 2014| 2 Comments »

March 1955. "Women posed in fashions influenced by the Orient”. Unpublished photograph shows Marilyn Monroe, wearing a black Chinese coat, posed with Pekingese dogs." Colour transparency by Milton Greene for the Look magazine assignment "Translations From the Orient."

Image found at shorpy

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Anita Ekberg In The Buff

Posted in Models & starlets, Nudes, Photography, The fifties, tagged 1955, Andre de Dienes, Anita Ekberg on February 26, 2014| 2 Comments »

Anita Ekberg, nude, photo taken by Andre De Dienes in 1955

Image found at LostFoundAndEnvied

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Philippe Halsman, Brigitte Bardot, 1955

Posted in Actresses, Facts, Models & starlets, The fifties, tagged 1955, Brigitte Bardot, Philippe Halsman on February 19, 2014| 2 Comments »

French actress Brigitte Bardot photographed at her villa at La Madrague
by Philippe Halsman, 1955

Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was born in Riga, Latvia, and began to take photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse in 1934, where he photographed André Gide, Marc Chagall, André Malraux, Le Corbusier and other writers and artists. Halsman began a thirty-seven-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual ‘photographs of ideas’, including ‘Dalí Atomicus’ and the ‘Dalí’s Mustache’ series. In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. These uniquely witty and energetic images have become an important part of his photographic legacy. Philippe Halsman died in New York City on June 25th, 1979.