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by David Lee Guss
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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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The Thin Man is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.... more
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"The Thin Man is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles; Nick is a hard-drinking, retired private detective, and Nora is a wealthy heiress. Their wire-haired fox terrier Asta is played by canine actor Skippy."
Myrna Loy was FDR's favorite film actress.
"Thin Man's" cinematographer was James Wong Howe who also lensed several WW2 films - "Air Force" (1943], "Hangman Also Die" (1943), "The North Star," (1943), "Objective Burma" (1945) and "Counter-Attack" (1945).
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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David Lee Guss
Any credit due is owed to those unsung artisans who toiled in the Hollywood dream factory. DLG
Dileep Kumar
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Marian Voicu
Congrats on your recent sale! L/F
David Lee Guss replied:
The studio photographers rarely got credit for their artistry. In 1970 I met Eric Carpenter on a Frank Sinatra picture. Eric had worked at MGM from 1933 to the early 1940's and in the 1950's. He shot the lovely Kodachromes in "The Wizard of Oz" in 1938. DLG