When you have been obsessing over the same actor for ten years, you tend to end up with a lot of stuff about them, all over your house. At least, that's how it works if you're me :-D One of these days, I'll do a post with all my John Wayne artwork and signs and posters too. But today, it's Alan Ladd Day. I'll give you a bit of a tour of where he shows up in my house.
You can kind of see these posters when you first come in the front door, if you know to look up the staircase to the hallway wall upstairs. Guy Williams as Zorro, John Wayne on a horse, and Alan Ladd smiling at someone just off-screen. Oddly enough, all three guys in these posters seem to be looking at something over by my laundry room. Hmm.
Sorry about how glare-y these photos are. I snapped them quickly today, and it was pretty sunny.
In our master bedroom, I have a wall that has a couple of half-sized bookcases that contain my unread books (or try to, anyway), and I have a gallery wall above that. Five of the 11 pictures on it are Alan. I'll share some closeups down below.
Actually, it's seven out of thirteen, because I have a smaller photo stuck into the frame of each of the bigger photos. My best friend send me this swoony shot of a very young Alan Ladd. The smaller photo is just a postcard I bought on RedBubble.
This is a really bad photo because of the reflection -- so sorry! This is my favorite photo of Alan -- he's smiling his genuine smile in it, not his "I'm supposed to smile now" smile. I bought it on eBay, and it's a vintage print of a promo photo. The insert is a little photo of Alan with a horse that I think Eva-Joy sent me a while back.
This is a trio of postcards that were sent to Alan's fan club members at various stages in his career. They're not actually signed, they just have his signature printed on them, but they ARE authentic fan club cards, so that's pretty cool.
Along another wall in our bedroom, I have a small table that's a combination sewing and writing table. I have a few photos hung there, and for about ten years, I've been sticking postcards and inspirational writing quotations and such all around those photos. Kind of an inspiration board for all my writing in general.
It includes a trio of postcards there that I also got from RedBubble when I was writing my first draft of my Hamlet retelling, which I haven't published yet, but do hope to revise and release eventually. Anyway, I have Joseph Cotten, Alan Ladd, and Victoria Lake all done by the same artist because they're my Horatio, Hamlet, and Ophelia. It's set in the 1940s, and these are based on their looks from the 1940s, so they're basically perfect!
Of course, the living room also contains my collection of Alan Ladd DVDs and Blu-Rays, but those are scattered all over my movie shelves and I simply ran out of time to collect them all up for a photo.
Over in the kitchen, you'll find my two Alan Ladd mugs. One, you'll notice, has the same artwork as one of my postcards -- again, it's from RedBubble. The other has a promo image from This Gun for Hire (1942), and I got it on Etsy ten years ago. One of the first Alan Ladd-related things I bought!
Finally, in the library, you'll find a couple of movie-tie-in books for two of Alan's movies, Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and The Proud Rebel (1958). I'd love to have the movie tie-in for The Great Gatsby (1949), but those tend to run like $250 each, so... that's out of my league, heh. Maybe I'll find a deal on one some day.
This concludes our tour of the random Alan Ladd memorabilia that has collected around my house over the past ten years. I hope you enjoyed it :-) And, if not, well, the tickets didn't cost much, anyway...
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