Film and TV stars and their bikes!
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Canuk
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It’s the battle of the two Marcels in a still from the 1947 French drama, Les jeux sont fais (English title: The Chips Are Down). Pagliero, the Italian actor/writer/director, also known as Marcello Pagliero, plays a Resistance leader in this afterlife fantasy set during something very much akin to Nazi occupation.
Mouloudji plays his best friend, who betrays — and slays– him. Both ride bikes. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the screenplay.
Mouloudji plays his best friend, who betrays — and slays– him. Both ride bikes. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the screenplay.
Canuk
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Marion Davies, star of 1930’s The Floradora Girl — “a story of the Gay Nineties,” per the poster’s tag-line — pedals a tandem along with character actor George Chandler. Davies stars as a chorus girl in the romance, released by MGM with a two-minute-long Technicolor musical sequence, “Tell Me Pretty Maiden,” at the finale
Canuk
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Terence Hill, playing an effete Brit with a new-fangled mode of transportation, shows off his bike to a trio of cowpokes: Gregory Walcott, Dominic Barto and Harry Carey. The spaghetti western in question is 'Man of the East' (original title: E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico), released in 1974 by United Artists.
Canuk
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Lukas Haas rides a bike, playing a kid who is dealing with poverty, hunger and his parents’ breakup in 1988’s NBC Family Special, 'A Place at the Table'.
Jenny Lewis, later of Rilo Kiley fame, co-stars as wide-eyed Haas’ character’s friend. Haas continues to ride, of course; in the mid-aughts paparazzi captured Haas and pal Leonardo DiCaprio cycling around New York on CitiBikes.
Jenny Lewis, later of Rilo Kiley fame, co-stars as wide-eyed Haas’ character’s friend. Haas continues to ride, of course; in the mid-aughts paparazzi captured Haas and pal Leonardo DiCaprio cycling around New York on CitiBikes.
