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An Orme Collection

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#Booksintomovies F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 The Great Gatsby. Romantic tale of an enigmatic tycoon, class, sex & desire. 1974 movie Robert Redford with Mia Farrow the subject of his yearning, awesome actor Bruce Dern (born #OTD 1936) as Tom her husband. It doesn’t end well.

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Born in London #OTD in 1738, the boy who would become King George lll, a cultured family man, with problems across the Atlantic and in Europe, lost his mind, his sight and his hearing during his long reign 1760 – 1820.
1999 Penguin “A personal history” by Christopher Hibbert.

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Legend

[Pocket Rocket’s TV 📺 Quiz @MsPocketRocket]

Raymond Baxter presented which science and technology programme for 12 years from 1965 to 1977?

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@ScottMcCreaWest Thunderball - mostly just the underwater fight scene with plodding music!

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Dude

[Mi𝕤𝕤 Mopp🟥 @poppymoppet]

And speaking of Memphis , Ian Hunter is still with us. Happy birthday 🥳 🎈 🎸

🔛https://t.co/hFN2XB2YpI🔛

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Goodbye Norma Jeane
Andy Warhol's iconic screenprint of Marilyn Monroe used as the poster for the 'Glamour' exhibition at the Barbican in London in 1998.
#marilyn #warhol

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Not Now, Darling - 1967 farce by English playwrights John Chapman & Ray Cooney, directed by Patrick Cargill (born #OTD 1918, d 1996) in Brighton prior to West End run. Donald Sinden, Bernard Cribbins, Jill Melford, Mary Kenton, Brian Wilde, Carmel McSharry, Ann Sidney. Hilarious!

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@govauctionnews 😆

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August 1977. Squillionth presentation of Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth at the Theatre Royal Windsor, with Patrick Cargill (born #OTD 1918, d 1996) and Tony Anholt, possibly not as good as Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier in the 1972 movie. But who knows?

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Tom Gauld

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Read a western! Or a thriller!

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Josephine Baker (born #OTD 1906, died 1975). Entertainer, personification of the jazz age. French Resistance in WWll, important civil rights activist in US. Most famous black entertainer in the world 1920s, most recognised for Danse Sauvage (+ minimalist costume) Folies Bergère.

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“Mistrustful of all modern inventions apart from the telephone”
Born #OTD in 1865, died 1936, George V, monarch through a period of great instability and change. Kenneth Rose’s award-winning biography, Macmillan 1983.

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#OTD 1967, “another sleepy dusty Delta day”
A suicide, a hidden romance and an emotionless family.
Ode to Billie Joe, Bobbie Gentry.

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1942 May 30 #OTD, some propaganda leaflets were dropped on Germany. One thousand bombers are on their way.
#ww2

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Souvenir to celebrate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 2nd June 1953 #OTD
Don't forget the merch!

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... and a Prince of Denmark!

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Somehow missed Robert Powell's 82nd 🎂birthday yesterday. What a varied acting career: from Mahler, Jesus and Richard Hannay, to Doomwatch, sitcom The Detectives and cold-blooded serial killers in Thriller and Zodiac. A wonderfully polished narrator too.

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, Born #OTD in 1904, died 1984, Johnny Weissmuller, a famous Tarzan, with his famous co-star Cheeta whose autobiography tells a few tales! “No animal has successfully been sued for libel”. 2008

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A souvenir advertisement from Fisons (!) to celebrate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 2nd June 1953. #OTD @countrylife #cricket

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A souvenir to celebrate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 2nd June 1953 #OTD

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A souvenir to celebrate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 2nd June 1953 #OTD
With an imagination from Edward Ardizzone!