25 Year Old Orson Welles Arriving At The New York Premiere Of 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆

1920's Mineralava Beauty Products, the company that hired Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova to travel the United States giving dance exhibitions and promoting it's products. At each stop they chose a queen of beauty and needless to say, it was a sell-out at every venue! From His Fame Still Lives, FB.

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. I promise

a place in the sun — 1951

Montgomery Clift

Elizabeth Taylor

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

The fact I’ll never be able to read all the books I want to read is crushing me

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers. As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.

Girls sent home from McKinley High School for wearing slacks and blue jeans, Chicago, 1946.

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

Portrait of a beloved loaf. Ca. 1865 - 1880. Source.