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CLASSIC LP OF THE DAY: Exquisite #Grammy winning 1968 tribute album to #composer & decades long #DukeEllington collaborator #BillyStrayhorn with late era Ellington orchestra in peak form #JohnnyHodges #ClarkTerry #Jazz #CootieWilliams #CatAnderson #PaulGonsalves #lp #1960s
FILM OF THE DAY: #JohnFord directed this engrossing if leisurely paced #film at the end of #WWII in 1945, looking at USA’s early days of battle in #ThePhilippines after Pearl Harbor. Fine large cast led by #RobertMontgomery #JohnWayne #DonnaReed beautifully shot by #JosephAugust
PAINTING OF THE DAY: THE WIFE OF HASDRUBAL & HER CHILDREN circa #1490s by #ErcoledeRoberti #painting #Italian #RenaissanceArt
PAINTING OF THE DAY: PAISAJE DE MATANZAS circa 1930 by #VictorManuel #painting #art #LatinAmericanArtist #1930s
ALTERNATE FILM OF THE DAY: Offbeat fun, nicely played new #indiefilm that’s part #quirkycomedy part #paranoidthriller about low level #Washington government employee who stumbles onto missing #Watergate tape #18AndAHalf @DanMirvish #WillaFitzgerald @laemmlemonica
BOOK OF THE DAY: Since the legendary American #moderndancer & free spirit #IsadoraDuncan was born on this day in 1877 here’s her fascinating 1927 #autobiography published shortly after her death #memoir #1920s
FILMS OF THE DAY: Beloved classic #French trio of #comedydramas from 1931-36, beautifully acted especially by #Raimu alternately warmly amusing & moving look at life love, dreams & family in all their dimensions from writer #MarcelPagnol #PierreFresnay #TheMarseilleTrilogy #1930s
FILM OF THE DAY: Yes of course it’s a granny/tea cozy #movie but it’s a smoothly entertaining one with writer #JulianFellowes expertly manipulating the huge talented cast as usual, amidst sumptuous settings #DowntonAbbeyANewEra #MichelleDockery #MaggieSmith #HughBonneville #film
PAINTINGS OF THE DAY: Recent works by great #German #ContemporaryArtist #GerhardRichter #paintings #abstractart
FILM OF THE DAY: Young #KatharineHepburn was at her most radiant in this wistful, bittersweet 1935 adaptation of #BoothTarkington novel about poor girl desperately trying to be part of upper class. Early triumph for director #GeorgeStevens & #FredMacMurray as her rich boyfriend