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Michael Warburton

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Actor (The Strays, All About Eve, Coronation Street etc) Cinephile. Posting stuff I like, no pandering. @TheMonologist on Twitter/‘X’.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1h

31yrs ago these 3 Movies were playing in Cinemas at the same time.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1h

SAMUEL BECKETT at the Royal Court Theatre - London in 1973.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2h

If I had to choose one Actor in the world I’d most like to work with and/or have a coffee with - it’d be this guy.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2h

John Marley as Hollywood Studio Owner ‘Jack Woltz’ in

THE GODFATHER (1972)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2h

Brando during rehearsals for

THE MEN (1950)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2h

Yousuf Karsh took the first picture of a 20yr old ANGELA LANSBURY — who left us 3yrs ago today, aged 96 — in 1946 and the second of her 45yrs later aged 65 in 1991.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4h

The late great GEORGE CARLIN hosting the first ever SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - which aired 50yrs ago today.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 5h

Margaret Bourke-White, takes a photo from one of the eagles on the 61st floor of the CHRYSLER BUILDING - NEW YORK in 1934.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 5h

That iconic photo (colourised) of SOPHIA LOREN and JAYNE MANSFIELD at Romanoff's - Beverly Hills in 1957.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 5h

It’s 1961 and 152 black Cats line up on a Hollywood sidewalk to audition for a part in the new movie ‘Tales Of Terror’ - starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

The Boys

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

JIM BROADBENT

“I don’t like the idea of Actors being part of the Establishment. We’re vagabonds and rogues… we’re not part of the authorities and Establishment really. If you mix the two together, things get blurry.”

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

The lost art of ‘80s cassette design.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

“Girls In The Windows” - New York (1960)

📷 by Ormond Gigli

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

One of my life-long crushes - Jean Simmons - in 1954

📷 by Dennis Stock

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22h

One of my favourite Westerns, WILLIAM WYLER’s epic

THE BIG COUNTRY (1958)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

BRUCE DAVIDSON’s photos of Jimmy ‘The Dwarf Clown’ Armstrong taken in 1958 are a profoundly moving record of life in and out of a Circus for someone like Jimmy back then.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering HAROLD PINTER - born 95yrs ago today - one of the greatest, most important & influential Playwrights in the history of Theatre, Screenwriter, Poet & Nobel Prize Winner.

I was lucky enough to meet & talk with him a few times & play for his Cricket team (Gaieties CC).