The Immoralist : Andre Gide

The Catherine Gide Foundation

Off to the Races | 1947

Face in the Crowd | 1947

Dishonored Lady Lamarr | Hedy in 1947 for Grantly

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Rodeo Girls | 1947

Warm Trombone | Kai Winding, NY 1947

Trombonist Kai Christen Winding was one of the founding fathers of be-bop music and truly one of the finest-ever jazz trombonists.

Kai was born in Denmark and came to the U.S. with his family in 1934. In 1940, he made his professional debut as trombonist with Shorty Allen’s band, and played with the bands of Sonny Dunham and Alvino Rey before joining the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.

After becoming a civilian in 1945, he worked with Benny Goodman’s band and moved onto Stan Kenton’s orchestra, where he helped defined the brassy Kenton sound and became a featured soloist. Thereafter, he hooked himself up with a number of emerging stars of be-bop, the “new jazz,” and recorded prolifically “ most notably, as part of one of the nonets featured on the historic “The Birth of the Cool” (Capitol/1949).

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Nice Work If You Can Get It | MONK '47

Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse | NYC, 1947.
Photographed by William Gottlieb

George Handy | New York, 1947

Jazz Composer George Handy

Countess with Advanced Eyewear Style, 1947

Portrait of Countess Ludovica Gaetani d'Aragona wearing straw hat with veil outdoors at a Golf Club in Rome, 1947.

A countess is the wife of a nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor".

Goggles Week | These Are Really Weird, 1947

Super Weird Ski Goggles, 1947

Goggles Week | Visions of Future Past, 1947

Sci-fi looking ski goggles, 1947.

Goggles Week | Girl with Mittens, 1947

A well-knit woman with sun goggles for skiing, 1947.

Bette Davis Eyes | 1947 v.s. 1981

Bette Davis in Sunglasses, 1947

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

-Excerpt from Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes, 1981

Tokyo Joe | Fur Hat & Spectacles of '47

Japanese labor leader Komakichi Matsuoka wearing fur hat and glasses in Tokyo, Japan. Photographed by John Florea.

Bogart & Bacall vs. HUAC | Washington DC, 1947

Actors Humphrey Bogart and wife number 4, Lauren Bacall and Richard Conte during a hearing charging H.U.A.C. with violating civil rights. In 1947, the committee held nine days of hearings into alleged communist propaganda and influence in the Hollywood motion picture industry. After conviction on contempt of Congress charges for refusal to answer some questions posed by committee members, the "Hollywood Ten" were blacklisted by the industry.

Eventually, more than 300 artists—including directors, radio commentators, actors and particularly screenwriters—were boycotted by the studios. Some, like Charlie Chaplin, left the U.S. to find work. Others wrote under pseudonyms or the names of colleagues. Only about ten percent succeeded in rebuilding careers within the entertainment industry.

In 1947, Bogart & Bacall also starred in Dark Passage, where Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek illicit plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.