FILMS IN 2023: → A Free Soul (1931) — Dir. Clarence Brown

Maturity is when you stop trying to convince other people to treat you right. You just observe their choices, understand their character, and decide what you’re going to allow in your life.

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

Norma Shearer as Florence Banning and Molly Helmer in Lady of the Night (1925) dir. Monta Bell

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

“What man is suitable, doctor? She’s never found one. What man would ever look at me and say, ‘I want you.’? I’m fat. My mother doesn’t approve of dieting. Look at my shoes. My mother approves of sensible shoes. Look at the books on my shelves. My mother approves of good solid books. I’m my mother’s well-loved daughter. I’m her companion. I am my mother’s servant. My mother says! My mother. My mother! MY MOTHER!” Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Silent star profiles.

Top left - bottom right: Ivor Novello, Ramon Novarro, Sessue Hayakawa, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Farrell, John Barrymore, Lars Hanson, Buster Keaton.

they need to let me make movies

Some interesting sandwiches from 1001 sandwiches

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