Thursday, April 14, 2016

My Bare Lady



He chiseled, and hammered and scraped
A vision of damsel undraped
The model's not shown,
But the body in stone
Is in sizzling, glamorous shape.



Cleverly finessing the censors, Brian Aherne sculpts Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs (Rouben Mamoulian; 1933).

2 comments:

Alibi Ike said...

And cold, too

surly hack said...

Gee, how can you tell? (Don't answer that.)