Young couple playing records spread out on living room floor. Ohio, 1955.
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Her Majesty Queen Marie of Romania
1875 - 1938
There is a moment in “The Philadelphia Story” that was, according to Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, improvised. It’s the scene when Jimmy Stewart comes to Cary Grant’s house and he’s drunk. And Jimmy Stewart hiccups; that was thrown in. You can see that Jimmy’s amused and Cary looks down and he was amused that Jimmy was amused. They almost broke up!
Peter Bogdanovich
THE GREATEST SCENE OF ALL TIME.
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Mugshots of convicted criminals in the 1910s to the 1930s, Australia.
Top Left: Herbert Ellis, circa 1920; Ellis is found in numerous policy records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. His convictions, by 1934, include ‘goods in custody, indecent language, stealing, receiving and throwing a missile.
Top Right: Frederick Edward Davies, circa 1921; Convicted of stealing in picture shows and theatres. Police held sneak thieves in particularly low regard, which may account for the decision to photograph Davies in front of the police stations’ toilet stalls.
Bottom Left: Thomas Bede, circa 1928; Convictions unknown, but when photographed for his mugshot, he refused to open his eyes.
Bottom Right: Eugenia Falleni, alias Harry Crawford, circa 1920; When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder, he was revealed to be in fact Eugenia Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘some amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared.
This is a mugshot of convicted criminal William Stanley Moore, taken 1 May 1925. With a cigarette in hand, the caption describes Moore as “an opium dealer operating with large quantities of faked opium and cocaine. Also a wharf labourer and associates with water front thieves and drug traders”.
Wearing fedoras, top hats and waistcoats and staring fixedly back at the camera, these men could have been posing for a family snapshot. But these amazing images from the 1910s to the 1930s are actually police mugshots taken of convicted criminals arrested in Australia. The collection of pictures are a series of around 2,500 ‘special photographs’ taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers.
