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David Stuart

@basinhead.bsky.social

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Thistle and Scotland fan, music lover and avid collector of things such as football cards & magazines, pop postcards, film postcards and a whole bunch of cds.

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David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 16h

Final postcards of the day. Terence Morgan & Richard Burton. Despite his full name Terence Ivor Grant Morgan was an English actor. I was watching 'Mandy' (1952) yesterday and he plays the angry father.
Burton was of course, Welsh and one of the cinema's greats.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 16h

Back to vintage postcards. Hazel Court & Vincent Price appeared together in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death & the Raven. Court was also in Corman's The Premature Burial. Price was in 7 Corman films including The Pit and Pendulum, The House of Usher, Tales of Terror & the Haunted Palace.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 20h

Classic Western poster postcards.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 22h

Another from Harry Potter and a couple of old classics too.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

More from Maiden.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Day 206 of traipsing through my music and movie postcards as always we start with music. Some more Royal Mail Iron Maiden to start.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting to note label mates Poco covered the song Dallas on one of their albums.

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David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

One for #12inchTuesday. Does anyone have any of these, apparently there was 15 altogether in the set? Among the others were Ace, Rufus ft. Chaka Khan, Steppenwolf and the Pointer Sisters. I used to have a handful a long time ago . . .

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David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Final postcards of the day. On the right Douglas Fairbanks Jr & Joan Fontaine who appeared together in 1939's Gunga Din.
On the right Greta Garbo & Clark Gable who only made one film together Susan Lenox (Har Fall and Rise) in 1931. Released in the UK as the Rise of Helga.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Back to vintage postcards. Danish actor Carl Brisson and Madeline Carroll both appeared in the 1929 British film 'The American Prisoner'. Both also worked Hitchcock, Brisson in silent films The Ring (1927) & The Manxman (1929). Carroll's most famous role was in 1935's 'The 39 Steps'.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Some Harry Potter.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

Moving on to movies with more from Genesis Cinema postcards. These were printed with the weekly showings on the reverse.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 1d

From the Royal Mail PHQ Iron Maiden set.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Day 205 of traipsing through my music and movie postcards as always we start with music. More King Crimson from Prog magazine.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Was there a fallout with Althea?

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David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Final postcards of the day. Herbert Marshall & Edna Best were married from 1928 to 1940.
Marshall was best known for Hitchcock's Murder! & Foreign Correspondent as well as Trouble in Paradise.
Best played in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), the original Swiss Family Robinson.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Back to vintage postcards. Oh look, it's JR's mum & Larry Hagman's mum.
Barbara Bel Geddes played Miss Ellie in Dallas & was also known for I Remember Mama in 1948 & Vertigo.
Mary Martin was better known for her stage roles including South Pacific & the Sound of Music as opposed to films.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

More from Genesis cinema including Barbie.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Nice.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 2d

Moving on to movies with this fiercesome foursome.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 3d

King Crimson postcards from Prog magazine.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 3d

Day 204 (Had two 202s!) of traipsing through my music and movie postcards as always we start with music. You can't see but the Plastikman logo is embossed on the all black one.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 3d

Final postcards of the day. Warner Oland & Bonita Granville, are best known for playing famous detectives. Don't think you need too many clues for Swedish born Oland's top role as Charlie Chan in 16 films.
Bonita played Nancy Drew in a series of 4 films in the late 30s, she was also in Now, Voyager.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 3d

Back to vintage postcards. Sisters Priscilla & Rosemary Lane were 2 of 4 sisters who turned to acting in the 1930s (Leota and Lola being the other two).
Priscilla was the most succesful and appeared in the Roaring Twenties with Cagney, Hitchcock's Saboteur and with Cary Grant in Arsenic & Old Lace.

David Stuart @basinhead.bsky.social · 3d

Some action heroes in this lot.