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by David Lee Guss
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Our ceramic coffee mugs are available in two sizes: 11 oz. and 15 oz. Each mug is dishwasher and microwave safe.
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The Santa Rita Hotel looked like this in 1969, 14 years after the lobby was used for the filming of the film noir thriller A Kiss Before Dying.... more
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11 oz.
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The Santa Rita Hotel looked like this in 1969, 14 years after the lobby was used for the filming of the film noir thriller "A Kiss Before Dying."
Duke last stayed at the hotel in 1958 during the shooting of "Rio Bravo." In the early/mid 1960's the 60 year old hotel began looking shabby.
The second floor mezzanine wall had an enormous blowup hanging of a line of wagons from 1940's "Arizona."
I often sat on the balcony to gaze at the photo. I wonder what happened to it?
@2012 David Lee Guss Film homage, JW, Santa Rita Hotel, Tucson, AZ, 1969-2012
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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