Thursday, April 22, 2010

Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone



“In the studio commissary on Paramount lot Film Star Angela Lansbury, wearing prop coronet and ermine from her morning stint as the princess in Danny Kaye’s new movie Court Jester, munches plebian hamburger next to Basil Rathbone.”

[Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, from “The U.S. Goes Out to Lunch,” Life, January 3, 1955. Via the Life photo archive.]

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Chock full o’Nuts lunch hour (Another Eisenstaedt photograph)

comments: 4

Elaine Fine said...

Are they drinking the brew that is true?

Elaine Fine said...

Here's the clip that answers Michael's question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS75NtlH3gI

Michael Leddy said...

(My question was “Huh?”)

William V. Madison said...

Bliss.