Movies About Spinsters! That Was A Thing. How Dare They?! But There Are Some Good Ones Though. The Heiress,

The Cook - 1918

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”

Father won't abuse you, he doesn't know you well enough. The Heiress (1949) dir. William Wyler

New York overwhelmed me. For the first few weeks I only strayed a couple of blocks from my hotel off Times Square. I would see three movies a day in an attempt to escape my loneliness and depression. I spent $150 of my limited funds just on seeing movies. - James Dean

Clara Bow

favorite female on pre-code

↳ ann dvorak: three on a match (1932)

Basil Rathbone kissing Norma Shearer's hem in The Last of Mrs. Cheney

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

The Women (1939) dir. George Cukor

“Teen-Age Girls: They Live in a Wonderful World of Their Own”

Nina Leen, Life, Dec 11, 1944