Fay Wray in 1933

The lovely and talented Fay Wray was a busy actress in the 1930s.  Obviously, she is best known for her landmark role in King Kong.  But in 1933, the year that King Kong was released, she had starring roles in ten other films.  Let me list those films to prove it. 

Mystery of the Wax Museum

The Vampire Bat

Below the Sea

Ann Carver's Profession

The Woman I Stole

Shanghai Madness

The Big Brain

One Sunday Afternoon

The Bowery

Master of Men

Midjourney Cannot Understand a Slingshot

I wanted to create an image of a slingshot.  I envisioned either a Tom Sawyer-like scamp using a slingshot or a slingshot lying on a table or chair.  But I could not get Midjourney to understand what a slingshot was.  I described it in detail.  I provided illustrations and photos.  This is what I got.    

This looks like a S & M device.

Oh, yes, the magical slingshot!

I explained, "A Y-shape stick serves as the frame to the slingshot.  A rubber band is attached to the stick's prongs at one end while, at the other end, the rubber band is attached to a small pouch.  A stone is fitted inside the pouch.  The stone can be propelled forward by drawing back the rubber band and letting it snap loose, which causes the rubber band to spring forward and launch the stone at a target."  It's a convoluted description, I know, but it was the best that I could do.  This is what I got.  

  What the hell is that?!

Happy Fourth of July!

Tidbits for July, 2023

Gloria Graham

I hope that everyone will have time for a little sunbathing this month.

I have a few items to show you today.  I hope that you enjoy them.

Fred Astaire argues with his mirror image in Carefree (1938).

Frank McHugh drunkenly argues with his mirror image in One Way Passage (1932).

We have yet another fireplace shot.

Emlyn Williams and Dolly Haas in Broken Blossoms (1936)

Unexpected pie comedy broke the tension in the murder mystery Highway 13 (1948).

Let us, for a moment, imagine Oliver Hardy as Charles Foster Kane.

As it turns out, ChatGPT is a bro.

At one time, a filmmaker could create great drama with The Big Phone.

Joan Crawford in Autumn Leaves (1956)

A great trio, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, in Libeled Lady (1936).

Meet a dapper burlesque straight man from the 1940s.

Perhaps, this funnyman would be a good partner for him.

I think that you are not a true comedian unless you are willing to wear a red polka-dotted  sports coat.

This is certainly a fashionable wedding party in Little Women (1933).

Even a modern CGI-heavy science fiction film can get a few thrills out of a pool of quicksand.  The film is 65 (2023).

I used Midjourney to concoct this quicksand scene.

This was probably the most controversial band of the 1970s.  The trio defined the term "hard-living."

Clifton Webb walks through the city on a snowy night in Laura (1944).

One day, Scott Adams was talking about the possibility of aliens visiting us from outer space.  I promptly went to Midjourney to create this image.  

Oddly, the Italian poster for April Fools (1969) includes a rejiggered image of Jack Lemmon from The Odd Couple (1968).  The depiction of an alluringly dressed Catherine Deneuve kneeling at Lemmon's feet is evidently something out of the artist's imagination.  Nothing like this happens in the film.  I cannot find any film in which Deneuve wore this type of skimpy, form-fitting evening gown. 

      

I came across this interesting image from Midjourney.  It is Harold Lloyd on the moon.  It was created by Cinedelic.

Cinedelic also came up with this equally surreal image of Lloyd running for a train.

Another Midjourney member, polaris22, wondered what it would be like if photorealistic portrait painter Mary Jane Ansell created a portrait of Lloyd.

An updated version of the Boris Karloff Frankenstein monster came from imagine fly.

Here are a few random images that I created on my Midjourney account.

In closing, I want to make the fans of my blog aware that my new book is being released on July 10.  This was something that I quickly put together for the cover designer.  Of course, she turned out something better.  I will post the finished book cover next week.