Jean Seberg by Philippe Halsman via
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The Black Cat Audition in Hollywood (1961)
Hollywood, 1961. Following a newspaper casting call, black cats are waiting for audition for a low budget horror movie adaption of ‘Tales of Terror’ by Edgar Allan Poe. The film was released as a double feature with Panic in Year Zero!
In the film Montresor Herringbone (Peter Lorre) hates his wife Annabelle (Joyce Jameson) and her black cat. One night on a ramble about town, he happens upon a wine tasting event and challenges the world’s foremost wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi (Vincent Price), to a contest. Herringbone becomes drunk.Luchresi escorts him home and meets his wife.
Time passes, and Annabelle and Luchresi become intimate. The cuckolded Herringbone then entombs them alive in an alcove in the basement. The authorities become suspicious and two policemen (John Hackett and Lennie Weinrib) visit the house to investigate.
Hearing screeching behind a basement wall, they knock the wall down to discover the dead lovers — and Annabelle’s black cat, which Herringbone had accidentally walled up with the lovers.
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive via
Julie Andrews by Cecil Beaton (1960s)
Audrey Hepburn in Amazing Valentino Dresses for Vogue (1969)
Cristobal Balenciaga Wedding Dress and Hat (1967)
Edie Sedgwick by Fred Eberstadt for Life (1965)
Warhol Girl Tiger Morse in the Studio by Mark Shaw (1961)
Françoise Hardy by by Luc Fournol (1960s)
A Collection of Vintage photos of the Biba London Fashion Store
Iconic clothes store Biba was founded by Polish born fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki OBE (b. 1936). She opened her Biba shop in the Kensington district of London in 1864 with the help of her late husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon.
The shop soon became known for its stylishly decadent atmosphere and lavish decor inspired by Art Nouveau and Art Deco. It became a hangout for artists, film stars and rock musicians, including Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull.
In the shop, a young clientele bought affordable mini-skirts, floppy felt hats, feather boas, velvet trouser suits and unisex T-shirts dyed in rich, muted colors. Incidentally, Anna Wintour started in fashion as a Biba employee.
After the shop’s 1975 demise, Hulanicki continued to work in the fashion industry, designing for labels such as Fiorucci and Cacharel and, from 1980 to 1992, designed a line of children’s wear, Minirock, licensed to the Japanese market.
The London Biba store via
Queue for the Biba store via
Inside the Biba store via
The food department was sectioned into separate units that each contained one type of item. There was a section modelled after Hulanicki’s great dane Othello in which you’d find only dog food via
Shopping at Biba, 1960s via
Some Biba sales-girls via
- Barbara Hulanicki, designer and founder of Biba, in her first boutique in Abingdon Road, Kensington, London, mid 1960s. (Photo by Charles Edridge/Getty Images) via
Mary Quant (1960s)
Mary Quant adjusting a miniskirt on a model, 1967 via
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