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This is an exceedingly rare image from 1936's The Gay Desperado set in front of San Xavier Mission in Tucson, Arizona. The structure on the far right... more
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This is an exceedingly rare image from 1936's "The Gay Desperado" set in front of San Xavier Mission in Tucson, Arizona. The structure on the far right of the frame was created for the film.
"Desperado" was directed by Rouben Mamoulian (1898-1987), an important innovator in the early days of the "talkies." He ended his days in poverty after having been fired from "Porgy and Bess" and "Cleopatra." Mamoulian did direct Fred Astaire in "Silk Stockings." The 1957 musical was the last production in which Astaire danced as a leading man, who ended up with the girl.
"The Gay Desperado" was produced by Mary Pickford, a few years after her retirement from the screen. Historians claim she was the most popular actress ever to grace movies. There is no record of Pickford ever having visited the Tucson set, or when it was world premiered at the Fox Tucson.
"Adding sound to motion pictures would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."...Mary Pickford (1892-1979)
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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