Almost 58 Pike Street
The Pike Street address is a crucial one in the noir Where the Sidewalk Ends (dir. Otto Preminger, 1950). And in the movie it looks so real. But it’s a set.
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More about the Cammareri Bakery.
Castorini and Cammareri
The house and bakery from Moonstruck.
116th and Park
What made me look up the corner of 116th Street and Park Avenue: The Pawnbroker (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1964).
Biddle = Weegee
From the movies: a photographer who looks a lot like Weegee.
From Jazz Dance
If Weegee were to have made a film at a jazz dance, I think it would look much like this one.
Mickey Rooney (1920–2014)
A 1939 photograph.
Bert Stern (1929–2013)
With Aram Avakian, he created the film Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959), a documentary about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. It makes 1958 look like the coolest year in history.
Bill Cunningham New York
”Don’t touch money: it’s the worst thing you can do”: quoted from the documentary Bill Cunningham New York.
Giant scissors, giant pencil
Props from The Incredible Shrinking Man
Diane Arbus meets the Platters
Two moments of extraordinary weirdness from The Girl Can't Help It