Great smokers

marcelo
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Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:43 am

I had prepared this thread just before access to the LL had been interrupted last March:


The suggested title for this thread may strike some fellow members as an oxymoron. Yet, I think that the smoking stance in the images bellow adds a lot of panache to the gentlemen they depict.


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F. Sinatra


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Sartre (by Cartier Bresson)



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Nöel Coward



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Bond's Father



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Bond's Father, again



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Howard Carter



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Mr Wilde



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Churchill


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Ibid (1929)


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Ibid (1949)


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Thomas Mann


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Mr Hackett (by Scott Schumann)



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Edward Fox as Edward VIII
storeynicholas

Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:37 am

Some great pictures. The modern screen Bond can be seen gulping gargantuan measures of Bourbon 'down in one' and that's still OK, on health grounds - as it seems to be OK on general safety grounds to have Bond tearing around in the Aston Martin after a few Vesper martinis on top. The films are devoid of any smoke at all - even though smoking seems to have been important both to Bond and to his creator. Last night we saw a DVD of Casablanca - I think that the modern world should remake it and clean it up - not the illicit love affair; not Rick Blaine's drunkenness - but all that terrible smoke: they should bring the film up to date and take the smoke out of Casablanca. If they cannot delete the smoke from the scenes, they should remake it - who actually needs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sidney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson: let's have smokeless and go with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - and if they do detest each other all the better for the mood of the shots - but just cut all that disgusting smoke. As for Now Voyager - who needs the moon or the stars when you can't light-up two cigarettes at once?
NJS
marcelo
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Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:06 pm

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Fleming used to smoke about 70 cigarettes a day. After having been once told by his doctor to cut his daily amount of nicotine, he is reported to have said: “The proper function of life is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use the time”.
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Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:40 am

For those interested, I would highly recommend the wonderful book 'Churchill's Cigar', available here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Churchills-Ciga ... 0230528929. There is even a town in Australia named Churchill that has a giant cigar-like object in the town square!
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:35 pm

Bishop of Briggs:

Did you know that Rachmaninov refused to concertize on Sunday evenings in the United States? It had nothing to do with being superstitious; he was simply addicted to Jack Benny's comedy show on radio. There's a diehard fan for ya!

JMB
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:58 am

Not to be outdone by his neighbour in Jamaica and the fatty that denied him his knighthood the first time round... :lol:
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storeynicholas

Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:47 pm

I thought that he was denied the knighthood for so long because of some infraction of wartime currency restrictions - or do you think that was just an excuse?
NJS
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:24 pm

Michael Caine
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Gary Cooper
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storeynicholas

Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:54 pm

Here are some more. Anyone have to hand that great Tallulah Bankhead photograph of her smoking and narrowing her eyes in a plume of smoke?

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Clive Brook.

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Jack Buchanan.

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Terry-Thomas.

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Peter Finch.

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Lord Grade.


NJS.
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Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:36 am

Sir Arthur John Gielgud - notice the coat sleeves mit cuff.

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Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:07 am

storeynicholas wrote:Here are some more. Anyone have to hand that great Tallulah Bankhead photograph of her smoking and narrowing her eyes in a plume of smoke?
NJS.
I think I know which one you're thinking of but don't have it... Here's another one of TB that's not half bad either.
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Rudolph Valentino
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Garbo wouldn't be a bad addition to the thread?
marcelo
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Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:42 pm

shredder wrote:... Garbo wouldn't be a bad addition to the thread?
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storeynicholas

Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:23 pm

Bogart:

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Bacall:

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and Mitchum:

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Gloria Swanson:

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FDR:

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Charles Gray as Blofeld:

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Lucy:

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Steve:

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Ray Milland

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NJS
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:43 pm

Pablo Picasso
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Luchino Visconti
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Jean Cocteau
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Halston
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And his muse, Elsa Peretti
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Coco Chanel
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Balthus
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