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Tuesday, May 5, 2009 – Framing Hollywood

In the window of Florenz Fine Framing, 5728 Melrose Avenue, something very rare –

This is about a hundred yards west of the old RKO studios with its giant concrete globe – where they filmed all the old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, like "Flying Down to Rio."  But "An American in Paris" was filmed at MGM, down in Culver City – not on location in Paris.  And the two male stars, Gene Kelly and Oscar Levant, were born and raised in Pittsburgh, of all places. Out here they lived next door to each other on Roxbury, over in Beverly Hills, and in the early fifties they'd drive down to Culver City each day and pretend it was Paris. It worked. Make-believe became real and the film was a hit in France too.

But it doesn't matter. Take a red.

It is, after all, all in the framing –

And there's context. Florenz Fine Framing is next door to a defunct seafood place –

And across the street, this –

And above it all, eyes –

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