Norma Shearer As Florence Banning And Molly Helmer In Lady Of The Night (1925) Dir. Monta Bell

A worker uses a power drill on an A-31 "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Vultee factory in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit Alfred T. Palmer.

It is what it is *throws up*

I'm gonna need a Lesley Gore biopic. Lesley is and was such cool and interesting person. She's an icon and she would be the perfect person to have a biopic about.

the first film I saw Norma Shearer in was The Women and I think that negatively coloured my perception of her for years (decades?) because I thought she was the worst one in that (Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russel, and Joan Crawford outshine her completely and when I saw the film as a teen I found her matronly and submissive). Watching her pre-code films now is wild, she's so sexy and cool! This is a problem I've had with a lot of actresses who took up more "good woman" roles in the late 30s and 40s (eg Claudette Colbert or Myrna Loy) because when I first got into classic films as a teen, I could not relate to those women or their characters and found them old and stodgy. Similarly I always thought actors like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in the 1940s were so ancient and couldn't believe any woman would be attracted to a man that old

Norma Shearer photographed by George Hurrell, October 1929.

JEAN HARLOW in DINNER AT EIGHT — 1933, dir. George Cukor

They should invent a brain that lets you sleep

you’ve never even heard of the wikipedia pages i’ve been on

ROUND 1, MATCH 12

Norma Shearer & Irving Thalberg (1932)

Photograph by Edward Steichen for “Vanity Fair”