Fernando J. Suárez

Loco por la Historia, los Libros, el Cine, las Series y los Cómics.
🖤#Noir 📽
Antes Friki que folklórico 👽
#KingOfWishfulFriki
#MalditoVeranoYElQueLoInventó

[Fernando J. Suárez @Ian_Talling]

Un honor presentar a @WayneJamison en la
#FeriaDelLibro de
#SanFernando y gracias incontables a @dheredialibros
por hacerlo posible.
#Esvásticas_en_elsur
#El_poeta_que_liberó_París

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

¡Buenos días y feliz jueves!
#art #IndianaJones

[Notorious Ediciones @Notorious_Ed]

Spencer Tracy se apea del precioso tren colorado de “Conspiración de silencio” (“Bad Day at Black Rock”, 1955), de John Sturges, y, nada más llegar, recibe la hostilidad de los vecinos.

#conspiraciondesilencio #baddayatblackrock #spencertracy #johnsturges

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

In 1933, a young and beautiful Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran naked through the woods and swam naked in a lake. While King Kong was the most popular movie that year, Hollywood was buzzing about this scandalous film starring the gorgeous Austrian woman.

Louis B. Mayer of the big MGM studio called her the most beautiful woman in the world. The movie, called Ecstasy, was banned in many countries, which made it even more famous and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.

The star of the film was Hedwig Kiesler. She joked that the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was far from stupid.

When she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of Austria’s richest men, Friedrich Mandl, the country’s leading arms manufacturer. His company later supplied weapons to the Nazis. Mandl showed off his beautiful wife at important dinners with Austrian, Italian, and German fascist leaders. At these meals—which included Hitler and Mussolini—Mandl often talked about the technology behind radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.

Kiesler, a Jew, hated the Nazis and strongly opposed her husband’s business. Mandl punished her by locking her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she escaped by drugging her maid, dressing as the maid, and selling her jewelry to pay for a trip to London. She escaped just in time: in 1938, Germany took over Austria, seized Mandl’s factory, and he, being half Jewish, fled to Brazil. Later, Mandl became an adviser to Argentina’s president, Juan Peron.

In London, Kiesler met Louis B. Mayer and signed a long-term contract with MGM, becoming one of their biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films, acting alongside Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a hit. Still, Kiesler cared more about fighting the Nazis than making movies.

In 1942, at the height of her fame, she developed a new communication system for sending coded messages that could not be “jammed.” The system could guide torpedoes and bombs to always hit their targets—a technology designed to fight Nazis. By the 1940s, both Nazis and Allied forces were using similar radio-controlled technology that her ex-husband had promoted.

Most people today may not know the name Hedwig Kiesler or Hedy Markey. But many will remember one of Hollywood’s most famous beauties of the golden age—Hedy Lamarr. That was the name Louis B. Mayer gave his star actress.

[𝒫𝓇ℴ𝒻. 𝒥ℴℯ 📼 @MrJoeGillis]

The underrated Robert Montgomery has top billing as Lieutenant John “Brick” Brickley who wants to demonstrate the potential of the PT boats he commands. Ryan made many fine pictures during his heyday , none better than THEY WERE EXPENDABLE.

[Notorious Ediciones @Notorious_Ed]

Impactantes estas imágenes de “El hombre que vendió su alma” (“All That Money Can Buy”, 1941), de William Dieterle, mostrando seres demoníacos transfigurados en gente normal pero muy inquietante.

#elhombrequevendiosualma #allthatmoneycanbuy #thedevilanddanielwebster

[𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙽𝙾𝚂 @fordianos]

70° ANIVERSARIO DE CENTAUROS DEL DESIERTO.

La película se estrenó el 16 de mayo de 1956 en Chicago (aunque en algunos lugares se menciona marzo), por lo que justo estos días estamos en su aniversario redondo. Es uno de los westerns más influyentes de la historia del cine, y para muchos, una de las mejores películas de todos los tiempos. Forma parte del National Film Registry de EE.UU. y encabeza listas del American Film Institute en su género.
Película de culto para cineastas como Spielberg, Lucas , Eastwood, Scorsese ò Coppola.
Sin duda una obra maestra.
RIDE AWAY!!! #fordianos

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

¡Buenos días y feliz martes! 🤟🕷️🕸️
#art #SpiderMan1977

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

Pues estoy empezando algo SUPER!!

[𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙽𝙾𝚂 @fordianos]

“Los anales del cine estadounidense, no hay nombre que brille con más luz que el de John Ford. Director y cineasta durante más de medio siglo, ocupa un lugar preeminente en su trabajo, no sólo como creador de películas de excelencia incomparable, sino como maestro entre todos aquellos que transformaron el cine de los primeros tiempos en una nueva forma de arte, creada en los Estados Unidos de América y extendida rápidamente por todo el mundo. Como intérprete del legado de la Nación, imprimió indeleblemente su buella personal en la conciencia de varias generaciones, tanto en nuestro país como en el
mytranjero. En su vida y en su obra, John Ford representa lo mejor del cine estadounidense y
lo mejor de los Estados Unidos.”
Elogio pronunciado con motivo de la entrega de la Medalla de la Libertad por parte del presidente de EEUU a John Ford en 1973.
#fordianos

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

🦇¡Buenos días y feliz jueves! 🦇
#art #Batgirl

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

Me llamo Chema y soy dibujante tradicional. Desde que llegó la IA casi no tengo encargos, pero yo seguiré dibujando mientras pueda.
¿Me ayudas a difundir mis obras? Por cada retuit ayudas a compartir el arte generado por las personas y Skynet pierde una batalla. ¡Gracias!

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇯🇴 Movie star Anthony Quinn converses with King Hussein of Jordan on the set of “Lawrence of Arabia”. (1962)

The King was a huge supporter of the production, loaning an entire brigade of his own troops to work as extras in the film.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Marcelo pasó la mayor parte de su carrera en el Real Madrid (2007–2022), donde ganó 5 títulos de la Liga de Campeones⚽️

Así jugaba:

[Fernando J. Suárez @Ian_Talling]

@cosechadel66 Y un grandísimo esgrimista como puede verse en El Capitán Blood o La Marca del Zorro, por citar sólo dos ejemplos.

[Adolfo Suárez @cosechadel66]

Uno de los mejores Sherlock Holmes de la historia, el de Basil Rathbone en sus 14 películas como el legendario detective. La primera, en 1939, "El perro de los Baskerville" #TalDíaComoHoy #ElActor

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

In the early morning hours of March 16, 1984, the CIA Chief of Station in Beirut, William F. Buckley, left his apartment for the short drive to the U.S. Embassy as he had many times before. This morning would be different. As the former Army Special Forces soldier, combat veteran of Korea and Vietnam, CIA Special Activities Division operative, historian, librarian, Silver Star recipient x 2, and Purple Heart recipient eased his 1983 Renault into the street, two black Mercedes sedans boxed him in, blocking any chance of escape. While the drivers remained at the wheels, two members of Hezbollah rushed his car with AK-47s, forcing their target out of his Renault and into one of the Mercedes before speeding away.

Three weeks later, President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 138, setting in motion what would later become known as Iran-Contra. William F. Buckley was brutally tortured at the hands of Hezbollah for fifteen months. In early June of 1985, he was buried in a shallow grave on the side of the road in the Shiite section of the city. His body would not be returned to the United States until December 1991.

He is memorialized with the 51st star on the Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and was buried with full military honors in Section 59, Lot 346 of Arlington National Cemetery. His headstone reads:

WILLIAM
FRANCIS
BUCKLEY
LT COL
US ARMY
KOREA
VIETNAM
MAY 30 1928
JUN 3 1985
LEBANON
SILVER STAR

For more information on William Buckley and America’s secret war with Hezbollah, read BEIRUT RULES by @fred_burton and @Samuel_M_Katz

[𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙽𝙾𝚂 @fordianos]

Podría ser tranquilamente una foto de la colección de Dorothea Lamge .
Esos rostros agotados, el polvo en el aire, la luz dura sin adornos… Ford y Gregg Toland lo capturan con una honestidad brutal que hace que la película se sienta como un testimonio directo de la época. No es solo una mera adaptación de Steinbeck.
#fordianos

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Nothing quite like the 1942 Academy Awards when a soon to be World War II legend gave an Oscar to the man playing the part of a World War I legend. 😎

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Wishing ALL of our troops in harm's way currently to think of what General Patton once eloquently said to his charges: "Your duty is not to die for your country...NO! Rather your duty is to see that the other bastard dies for his!"

Be vigilant, stay sharp, follow your training and come home safe.