Male Flesh!

Rodney · Post by **Rodney** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:33 am

pathe16mm wrote:I've never actually seen it (it survives incomplete, I think), but I've seen a still from The Half-Breed (1918) with Douglas Fairbanks nude from behind. I believe it was in the book Pictoral History of the Silent Screen.

He's wearing a very, very small loincloth in that photo. I think The Half-Breed was shown at Cinecon a while back, though I wasn't there. The photo appeared in an early a.m.s. Silent Film Calendar.

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:02 am

Rodney wrote:
pathe16mm wrote:I've never actually seen it (it survives incomplete, I think), but I've seen a still from The Half-Breed (1918) with Douglas Fairbanks nude from behind. I believe it was in the book Pictoral History of the Silent Screen.
He's wearing a very, very small loincloth in that photo. I think The Half-Breed was shown at Cinecon a while back, though I wasn't there. The photo appeared in an early a.m.s. Silent Film Calendar.

It was (she said, with a big ole grin on her face).

coopsgirl · Post by **coopsgirl** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:15 pm

Yay this gives me an opportunity to post a couple of my favorite pics of Gary Cooper from Wolf Song (1929). He is about to bathe in the river just before going to a dance with Lupe Velez.

Yummy!!!

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:32 am

coopsgirl wrote:Yay this gives me an opportunity to post a couple of my favorite pics of Gary Cooper from Wolf Song (1929). He is about to bathe in the river just before going to a dance with Lupe Velez.

(snip)

Yummy!!!

Thank you very much. So very, very much.

greta de groat · Post by **greta de groat** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:40 am

Chris Snowden wrote:
greta de groat wrote:I liked the one that used to be on Chris Snowdon's blog with Veidt in his pajamas, presumably exercising.
1927: "Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Veidt arrive in America." (From a German postcard.)

That's just too funny! What's that thing on the ceiling?

greta

George O'Brien · Post by **George O'Brien** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:22 pm

Those Cooper shots are very remeniscent of Charkes Farrell's bathing scene in Borzages "The River" of the same year, 1929. I wonder which film came first?

"You said that irony was the shackles of youth."

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:45 pm

greta de groat wrote:
Chris Snowden wrote: 1927: "Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Veidt arrive in America." (From a German postcard.)

That's just too funny! What's that thing on the ceiling?

greta

I think it's one of those gawdawful fabric lampshades. My goodness, it certainly fits right in with the general weirdness of the photo, doesn't it?

silentmovies74 · Post by **silentmovies74** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:21 pm

coopsgirl wrote:Yay this gives me an opportunity to post a couple of my favorite pics of Gary Cooper from Wolf Song (1929). He is about to bathe in the river just before going to a dance with Lupe Velez.

Yummy!!!

that's me with a new desktop pic!

Harold Aherne · Post by **Harold Aherne** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:34 pm

George O'Brien wrote:Those Cooper shots are very reminiscent of Charles Farrell's bathing scene in Borzages "The River" of the same year, 1929. I wonder which film came first?

The River premiered first (New York, 22 December 1928), but it didn't go into general release for another 10 months so most people probably saw The Wolf Song first—it opened in February 1929 and was released on 30 March.

-Harold

Chris Snowden · Post by **Chris Snowden** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:50 pm

Frederica wrote: My goodness, it certainly fits right in with the general weirdness of the photo, doesn't it?

Dropping in again at the Veidt residence, we find:

FrankFay · Post by **FrankFay** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:06 am

Gwynplaine's Great-Great-Grandson!

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:32 am

Chris Snowden wrote: Dropping in again at the Veidt residence, we find:

Good lord.

Arndt · Post by **Arndt** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:34 am

What were they on?