Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Young woman with a pencil



She's Jean Arthur, as Clarissa Saunders, in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Her pencil appears to be an Eagle Mikado. (How can one tell? By the distinctive band on the ferrule, not quite visible in this soft-focus shot.) After Pearl Harbor, the Mikado was renamed Mirado.

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By Michael Leddy at 2:21 PM

3 comments:

  1. Tom the Piper's SonMarch 11, 2008 5:26 PM

    Who's lookin at the pencil?!

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  2. Michael LeddyMarch 11, 2008 6:57 PM

    Oh yeah, the pencil. Beautiful women and stationery supplies, competing for one's attention!

    Here's another, Tom. I added the link in the post too:

    Red-headed woman with reporter's notebook

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  3. AnonymousMarch 12, 2008 7:56 AM

    With two allusions to her in recent posts, I thought you might enjoy a sample from Robbie Fulk's homage to Jean Arthur:

    "Her talent was not the kind
    Learned at some school for actors
    Her beauty might stump the minds
    Of all the experts at Max Factor"

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Play fair. Keep it clean. No potshots and no derailing. Thanks.

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