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EdwardMO 🌻
@EdwardHMO
West Sussex, England
Joined August 2012
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    Ella Fitzgerald #botd “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the 1950s. She called the owner and told him if he'd book me, she'd take a front table every night. I never had to play a small jazz club again."
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    For decades, Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of quiet seclusion. Now, at the age of 92, she is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice International Film Festival...
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    Ella Fitzgerald #botd “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the 1950s. She called the owner and told him if he'd book me, she'd take a front table every night. I never had to play a small jazz club again."
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    Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78. She passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family... Photographed in 1964.
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    Café de Flore, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris 📷 Robert Capa, 1952
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    Sidney Poitier #botd “I accept this award in memory of all the African American actors and actresses who went before me in the difficult years, on whose shoulders I was privileged to stand to see where I might go.” Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009
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    Jimi Hendrix November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970 "Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be. There's not one minute of his career that feels like he's working hard at it – it feels like it's all flowing through him..." — Tom Morello 📷 Baron Wolman
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    Marianne Faithfull #botd 📷 Roger Kasparian | Paris, 1965
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    "Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick..." — Candice Bergen #botd
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    “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the 1950s. She called the owner and told him if he'd book me, she'd take a front table every night. I never had to play a small jazz club again." Ella Fitzgerald #botd
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    "I think I was born in the right year for my personality. Pants came in, low heels came in, the woman who spoke her mind came in. That’s the story of me – great timing." Katharine Hepburn #botd
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    “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the 1950s. She called the owner and told him if he'd book me, she'd take a front table every night. I never had to play a small jazz club again." Ella Fitzgerald #botd
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    “Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences...” Samuel Beckett #botd
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    "The big moment for me was making All the President's Men. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about — how do journalists get the story?" Robert Redford #botd