Charlie Chaplin this, Buster Keaton that, Harold Lloyd blah blah blah. They’re all amazing comedians who contributed a lot to motion pictures and it’s not a competition.
Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney enjoying some ice cream
Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper
Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that’s a mother’s love, I want no part of it.
"What women are allowed into the club of geniuses anyway?" "The Brontes?" "Hm. That's it?" "Yes, I think so."
Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig
A FREE SOUL (1931) Dir. Clarence Brown
“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)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Genevieve Naylor, Reading with chocolates, Redbook, 1957
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, Hollywood, 1950
Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Man at snack stand, circa 1950s.