October Icon Assortment
I made no X-Men icons during the very busy month of October, but I did manage to eke out forty classic film icons. Coming from me, you can be sure there's plenty of leftover Halloween candy in this batch. *g*
Contents: [8] Mary Pickford; [3] Myrna Loy; [4] Deborah Kerr; [6] Tyrone Power; [9] Boris Karloff; [4] Frankenstein; [2] Bela Lugosi (Dracula); [1] The Wolf Man; [1] Humphrey Bogart (The Return of Doctor X); [1] Peter Cushing; [1] Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Description and Comments:
01-08: Silent film star Mary Pickford. In the silver_stills challenge they were created for, #1 tied for first place, and #4 won third place. I'm very proud of most of these; Pickford lent herself very well to my style.
09-11: Myrna Loy. I came very close to an award for #11, but not quite. :Þ Anyway, I'm pleased with them!
12-15: Deborah Kerr. Respectively, #12 and #13 won first and second place. (Mind you, they were only competing against three other icons--#14 being one of them. It was a bad week for classicicontest.)
16-21: Tyrone Power. Partly by request, and partly because a challenge featuring him just happened to come up.
22-30: Assorted Boris Karloff, featuring not only out-of-character stills but such movies as The Body Snatcher, The Black Cat, The Mummy, The Raven, and The Lost Patrol. #23 won a third-place award.
31-34: Basically more Karloff, from the scene in Frankenstein in which the Monster fatefully meets little Maria. The one of the child by herself must be about the most random icon I've ever made.
35-36: Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Same icon, different text.
37: Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in The Wolf Man. I like this one a lot.
38: Humphrey Bogart in his second most bizarre role--as the title character in the sublimely improbable The Return of Doctor X. (For my money, his atrocious portrayal of a Mexican bandito in Virginia City totally trumps the bloodless Dr. Quesne for weirdness.)
39: A masked Peter Cushing in The Evil of Frankenstein... Doubtless the most lighthearted entry in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
40: Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre, hatching sinister plots in Arsenic and Old Lace.
There should be more Tyrone Power and Deborah Kerr icons in the future. I still have several bases for each that I've been too busy to get to yet.
Contents: [8] Mary Pickford; [3] Myrna Loy; [4] Deborah Kerr; [6] Tyrone Power; [9] Boris Karloff; [4] Frankenstein; [2] Bela Lugosi (Dracula); [1] The Wolf Man; [1] Humphrey Bogart (The Return of Doctor X); [1] Peter Cushing; [1] Arsenic and Old Lace.
Please comment and credit. Do not edit without permission. Do not hotlink.
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Description and Comments:
01-08: Silent film star Mary Pickford. In the silver_stills challenge they were created for, #1 tied for first place, and #4 won third place. I'm very proud of most of these; Pickford lent herself very well to my style.
09-11: Myrna Loy. I came very close to an award for #11, but not quite. :Þ Anyway, I'm pleased with them!
12-15: Deborah Kerr. Respectively, #12 and #13 won first and second place. (Mind you, they were only competing against three other icons--#14 being one of them. It was a bad week for classicicontest.)
16-21: Tyrone Power. Partly by request, and partly because a challenge featuring him just happened to come up.
22-30: Assorted Boris Karloff, featuring not only out-of-character stills but such movies as The Body Snatcher, The Black Cat, The Mummy, The Raven, and The Lost Patrol. #23 won a third-place award.
31-34: Basically more Karloff, from the scene in Frankenstein in which the Monster fatefully meets little Maria. The one of the child by herself must be about the most random icon I've ever made.
35-36: Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Same icon, different text.
37: Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in The Wolf Man. I like this one a lot.
38: Humphrey Bogart in his second most bizarre role--as the title character in the sublimely improbable The Return of Doctor X. (For my money, his atrocious portrayal of a Mexican bandito in Virginia City totally trumps the bloodless Dr. Quesne for weirdness.)
39: A masked Peter Cushing in The Evil of Frankenstein... Doubtless the most lighthearted entry in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
40: Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre, hatching sinister plots in Arsenic and Old Lace.
There should be more Tyrone Power and Deborah Kerr icons in the future. I still have several bases for each that I've been too busy to get to yet.