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71 Beautiful Photos of Actress Claudia Cardinale from the 1960s
Claude Joséphine Rose “Claudia” Cardinale; (born 15 April 1938) is a Tunisian-born Italian film actress who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films.
Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the “Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia” competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy with roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962), The Leopard (1963), and Fellini’s 8½ (1963).[a] From 1963, Cardinale became known in the United States and Britain following her role in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. For several years, she appeared in Hollywood films such as Blindfold (1965), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don’t Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), and the Sergio Leone epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint US-Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Henry Fonda.
Jaded with the Hollywood film industry and not wanting to become a cliché, Cardinale returned to Italian and French cinema, and garnered the David di Donatello for Best Actress award for her roles in Il giorno della civetta (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971). In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner, and she frequently featured in his films, including I guappi (1974), Corleone (1978) and Claretta (1984), the last of which won her the Nastro d’Argento Award for Best Actress. In 1982, she starred in Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in Peru. In 2010, Cardinale received the Best Actress Award at the 47th Antalya “Golden Orange” International Film Festival for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica.
Outspoken on women’s rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women’s Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history. (Text by Wikipedia)
13 Amazing Colorized Photos of Mugshots of Children Sentenced For Crimes in the 1870s
For petty crimes such as stealing daily necessities such as food and clothing, they have faced hard labor and jail. And these haunting photographs show the stern and haggard faces of Victorian criminal children who were sentenced to tough punishments in the 1870s, with many looking remarkably older than their actual ages.
The children in the shots were all from poor backgrounds. The incredible pictures show a range of children who were sentenced to a range of punishments from ten days of hard labor to two months in prison. Other eye-opening images reveal the stern and haggard appearances of the convicted children – with many looking significantly older than their actual ages.
The photographs were colorized by expert Tom Marshall and provided by the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums.
“I colorize photos to bring faces, like that of these convicted children, to life and hopefully allow people to imagine their circumstances and how they must have felt at the time.” Marshall said. “This period shows the real people behind ‘official’ histories – people that are from the lowest levels of society, those really struggling to survive. The pictures were found when Newcastle jail in Carliol Square was demolished.”
(Colorized by Tom Marshall)
24 Incredible Photos of Clint Eastwood Posing With Motorcycles From the 1960s and 1970s
Clint Eastwood was well known for his love of cars and motorcycles in the 1960s and ’70s, he especially loved the British marques Jaguar, Austin Healey and motorcycle marques Norton, Triumph.
30 Vintage Pictures of Clementine Clatteaux Delait, the Famous Bearded Lady of Thaon-les-Vosges during the Early 20th Century
Clémentine Clattaux was born on 5 March 1865 in Chamousey near Charmes in Lorraine, Eastern France. During the late 19th and early 20th century she was one of the most famously celebrated “bearded ladies” in Europe.
In 2005 her private memoirs were discovered in a garage sale and were bought for “a very modest sum” by Roland Marchal, a second-hand dealer and collector from Bellefontaine in the Vosges. Written in violet ink in a school exercise book and decorated with spectacular photographs and press cuttings from the period, Clementine, who was believed not to have been able to write very well, dictated her memoirs to Pol Ramber, a reporter from the local newspaper, La Libert de l’Est, in the 1930s. The text is written in his hand and is signed by him.
The 50-page document provides a fascinating insight into the life of an extraordinary woman who, far from suffering from her generous abundance facial hair, took great delight in it and used it to her advantage.
55 Beautiful Photos of Actress Clara Bow in the 1920s
Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to “talkies” in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname “The It Girl”. Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office draw in 1927 and 1930. Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a “safe return”. At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929).
Two years after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada. Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. In September 1965, Bow died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
15 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show the Dangers of Constructing the Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is an iconic office building known as “the Most Famous Skyscraper in the World.” Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world’s tallest office building until 1967.
The design of the building changed 16 times during planning and construction, but 3,000 workers completed the building’s construction in record time: one year and 45 days, including Sundays and holidays.
The Empire State’s construction work and its workers were a magnet for press and magazine photographers, which is how many iconic images of the construction work were created, like these.
Diogo Alves: “The Aquaduct Murderer”
On February 19, 1841 one of Portugals most prolific serial killers was hanged for killing over seventy people. Diogo Alves, or, as he would infamously become known as, the “Aqueduct Murderer” would go on a 5 year crime spree (1836-1840) that would keep Lisbon, Portugal firmly in the grip of fear during that time.
Diogo Alves is considered by many to be Portugal’s first serial killer. He was born in Galicia in 1810 and traveled to Lisbon as nineteen year old to work as a servant in the affluent homes of the capital city. Yet it did not take long for young Diogo to learn that crime paid a higher dividend. He began to drink and gamble and he fell in with an innkeeper by the name of Maria “Parreirinha” Gertrudes. It is through this association that it is believed Alves began his crime spree.
By 1836 Alves had been working for an influential family in a home located on the Aqueduto das Águas Livres, the Aqueduct of the Free Waters. Less than a half a mile long, the waterway allowed city dwellers and rural farmers the ability to traverse the rural landscape from above, making their way into the city of Lisbon.
It would be along this route that many unsuspecting travellers would meet Diogo Alves.
Many travellers were rural farmers going to Lisbon to sell their harvests. It would be on their return trip along the Aquaduct, with pockets full of money, that Diogo Alves would strike. Afterwards, Alves would throw them over the edge of the 213-foot tall structure, sending them falling to their deaths. Between 1836 and 1839, he would repeat this process some 70 times.
By 1840 the deaths along the Aquaduct had ceased. In the beginning police blamed the deaths on copycat suicides, which led to a temporary closure of the bridge. During this time Alves switched focus, and with a gang of murderous felons, began a series of break and enters into wealthy homeowners dwellings. The group was finally caught while killing four people inside the home of a local doctor, and Alves and his group was arrested.
While the murders on the aqueduct remained unproven, the jury sentenced Alves and his gang for other crimes, in particular, murdering the four family members of a doctor. Maria’s 11-year-old daughter, Maria de Conceicao, testified in court against the gang. Her mother was eventually sent to a lifelong exile in African colonies. The group were sentenced to death by hanging.
Alves was hanged to death in February of 1841. He was among the last people to die as a result of capital punishment before Portugal abolished capital punishment in 1867, but he wasn’t the last: Around half a dozen people followed him.
Alves actions did not go unnoticed by the then Medical-Surgical School of Lisbon. After his hanging, in an attempt to study his brain, Alves’ head was cut off and studied. Phrenology,the belief that certain mental or character traits were determined by the shape of one’s skull, was just becoming popular. The results of that study have been lost to time so the results are not known. It seems that they were never able to figure out why he killed so many people.
To this day the head is still preserved in a glass vessel in the anatomical theater of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine, where a solution of formaldehyde has perpetuated the image of a calm man—quite contrary to what he really was.
55 Classic Photos of Clark Gable during the 1930s
