Fuck Movies About Elvis. Hollywood, Where Is My Million Dollar Biopic About Lesley Gore???

James Dean as Youth at Soda Fountain (uncredited) Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) dir. Douglas Sirk

Problems only writers understand

Having very chaotic notes on your phone

Having secret files that you will NEVER let anyone ever see

WHAT THAT WORD THAT MEANS THAT THING????

Why cant I think of a name?

Writing 10k words in a day then never again

Ann Dvorak in Scarface (dir. Howard Hawks, 1932)

Lana Turner in JOHNNY EAGER (1941) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

basically a lot of my problems boil down to me being really bad at waking up. and also really bad at going to sleep

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.

"But how can you compare Harlow and Garbo, Swanson and Shearer, or Gable and Tracy with any luminary today? Maybe it's just an old timer's sentiment. But today's faces lack depth of feeling. Two world wars and many minor ones have almost changed the face of the globe itself. Why not our actors? As I watch on television many of the stars I once photographed, I look at them as one might old paintings. Some can't stand up to today's demanding audience; others will be as magnetic a hundred years from now. I am sure the Mona Lisa and the face of Greta Garbo will inspire and puzzle for all time." —Clarence Sinclair Bull, photographer

(From Hollywood in Kodachrome: 1940–1949 by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt, 2013)

William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) opening credits

Norma Shearer & Irving Thalberg (1932)

Photograph by Edward Steichen for “Vanity Fair”