4/1/2023 0 Comments Faith domergue![]() Among the earliest examples of this new approach are his 1922 photographs of the Armco steel mill in Middletown, Ohio. In the early 1920s, however, his work began to become more sharply focused, with a greater emphasis on form and composition. ![]() Initially, Weston made photographs in the soft-focus pictorial style. After attending the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, in 1911. Four years later he settled in California, supporting himself as a portrait photographer. ![]() Born in Highland Park, Illinois, he made his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak camera given to him by his father. “Gymnopedie No.Edward Weston American, 1886-1958 Edward Weston was one of the most influential proponents of straight photography in America. “Ain’t There Anyone Here For Love” performed by Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes “There’s Probably No Time” by Chris Zabriskie “All of the Lights (Interlude)” by Kanye West “Make a Wish (For Christmas) by Lee Rosevere Special thanks to Noah Segan, for reprising his role as Howard Hughes. ![]() Howard Hughes: The Untold Story continues to be the richest resource I can find when it comes to stories about his relationships with women/in Hollywood, although it seems like Russell’s book was the main source for its sections regarding her. This is also a great, late interview with Russell, by Lynda Lee-Potter, published in the Daily Mail in 2003. It was a valuable resource for me, as were a number of obituaries/articles published around the time of Russell’s 2011 death. Jane Russell’s autobiography My Path and My Detours is fun, funny, relatively frank - and out of print. I’m planning at least one more episode about Hughes after this, but I will probably not get to it for awhile, definitely not this season. This episode picks up in 1939, more or less where Chapter 3 ended. Chapter 3 outlined Hughes romance with Katharine Hepburn, the deterioration of which sent Hughes into the arms/beds of Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and basically every and any famous actress he could find. In Chapter Two, we talked about Ida Lupino, who dated Hughes when she was a teenage starlet in the 1930s, and then directed films for his RKO Studios nearly 20 years later. In Chapter One, we detailed the arranged marriage that got Hughes to Hollywood, the affair with the silent film star that broke that marriage up, Hughes’ discovery of Jean Harlow and the movie, Hell’s Angels, that transformed Hughes from a rich hick into a major Hollywood player. If you’re new to the podcast, here’s a brief guide to our previous Howard Hughes episodes. Also in this episode: Hughes’ tortured affair with 15 year-old Faith Domergue, on whom he cheated with Ava Gardner his aviation disappointments of the 1940s, exemplified by the Spruce Goose the undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder which would emerge during - and complicate - the extended production, post-production, censorship battles and delayed release of The Outlaw and the four page memo Hughes wrote and sent to Josef Von Sternberg in regards to Russell’s boobs. She was a fascinating bundle of contradictions - a born-again Christian conservative who cheerfully became the pre-sexual revolution’s icon of a fantasy of freedom through sex, if not exactly sexual freedom - and her relationship with Hughes was unlike any other in the billionaire’s increasingly troubled life. As the center of the ingenious five-year pre-release publicity campaign for The Outlaw - Hughes’ proto-exploitation Western, whose censorship struggles with the Hays Office would help to loosen the strictures of the Production Code - Jane Russell became mega-famous, one of the top pin-ups of World War II, through still photos alone, long before anyone ever saw her in a movie. Our long-running series on the women in the life of the infamous aviator/filmmaker continues with a look at Hughes’ professional and personal relationship with Jane Russell, which began in 1940 when Hughes randomly pulled a photograph of the 19 year-old out of a pile, and lasted for most of her film career. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. ![]()
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