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Lucianella Cafagna

Nobuyoshi Araki: 'Chiro, My Love' (1994)

house on haunted hill

The Bite - Edvard Munch (1914)

Anto Carte (Belgian, 1886-1954), Pieta, 1921. Monotype and watercolour on paper, 47 x 38 cm.

Romy Schneider

sophia loren in la donna del fiume, 1954

Ornella Muti, 1976

Michael Friedel • Hanna Schygulla, Munich Theatre cloackroom | 1973

Valère Bernard (1860-1936) - Esprit des ténèbres (Spirit of Darkness), c. 1920

To commemorate international cat day (8 August), let’s celebrate the memory of Orangey (1950 - 1967). The late, great trained showbiz cat / animal actor boasted a prestigious and prolific résumé on film and TV that any thespian would envy. (And according to IMdB, Orangey was “the only feline double-winner of the Patsy Award, the animal kingdom's equivalent of the Oscar”). Orangey’s best-known work includes The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Diary of Ann Frank (1959) and the scene-stealing role of “Cat” ("the poor slob without a name”) opposite Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)! Best of all, Orangey’s final television credit (aged 17) is appearing as the feline companion of Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman in two consecutive episodes of TV’s Batman in 1967 (pictured). Appropriately for a celebrity of his stature, he is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood.

“White Heat” (1949), dir. Raoul Walsh

Cat Chasing Bird

White Cat I. 1919. Source.

Leon Spilliaert - Three figures