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by David Lee Guss
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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Lash LaRue and Charles King Law of the Lash publicity photo 1947" by David Lee Guss. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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The first man in black in show business was Lash LaRue (1921-1996), not Johnny Cash. The oft married (12 times) LaRue had a burst of B-movie cowboy... more
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The first "man in black" in show business was Lash LaRue (1921-1996), not Johnny Cash. The oft married (12 times) LaRue had a burst of B-movie cowboy fame in the late 1940's which crashed soon, after as his cheaply made films had no place to go, as the movie houses in rural towns which showed them closed because of the explosive growth of TV.
Peter Bogdanovich's nostalgic masterpiece "The Last Picture Show" (1971) ends with a small town movie theater closing after screening the Hawks/Wayne "Red River."
The actor in the middle is Charles King (1895-1957) who was staple of 1930's Westerns shown on the tube in the 1950's. That was when I first became aware of him. Like LaRue his career tanked about 1950.
Charlie plays a sheriff in PRC's "Law of the Lash" (1947).
King appeared in three Duke pictures: "The Hurricane Express" (1932), "The Lawless Nineties" (1936) and "The Lonely Trail" (1936).
"Blackie," as he was called, appeared uncredited i...
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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