Norma Shearer (1930s)

Wish Tumblr existed in the late 1920s because I'm sure the silent vs sound film discourse would've been glorious

“She’d have ice cream for breakfast, while reading Freud.” —Mack Sennett on Mabel Normand

(From Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933 by Stuart Oderman, 1994)

BUtterfield 8 (1960)

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written in October 1920, featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol.2, 1920-1924

Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961

What if one day those in the depths rise up against you?

METROPOLIS (1927) dir. Fritz Lang

MYSPACE 2006.

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”

— Vincent Van Gogh