Parasols in Mandalay, 1934

I haven’t posted a parasol picture for a while – in the past we’ve had parasols in the silent movies, parasols on the French Riviera, down at Bournemouth, at the Folie Bergere, in the lovely hands of Adele Astaire, covering Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald from the French sun and ion a saucy French postcard from the nineteenth century (the search box to your right will offer up any of those goodies).

Today I thought a shot of Kay Francis from the 1934 movie directed by Michael Curtiz, Mandalay – it’s got just about everything you could want in a story – a nightclub, an abandoned White Russian beauty Francis), a steamer to the tropics and a villain. It looks great (and is on Youtube here) but was sadly not Rangoon and Mandalay but the Warner Bros lot in Burbank and the San Jaoquin River for the steamer shots.