Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Dir. Mike Nichols)

Would you like to rot in bed with me?

"I decided I was not going to be one of these people. I wasn't going to mind if I gained weight or got wrinkles, because I could use my brain. And as long as I could use my head, it wouldn't matter how I looked." - Thelma Todd

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FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES

Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in NOW, VOYAGER (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

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

“Her emotions were close to the surface. She could cry on demand, opening the floodgate of tears almost as soon as I asked her to weep. She was dynamite, full of nervous energy and vitality and pitifully eager to please everyone”.

Frank Tuttle about Clara Bow

“The very best screenplay I was ever sent was `Double Indemnity.’ It’s brilliant, but what’s amazing is that not one word was changed while we were shooting. Billy had it all there, and I mean all - everything you see on the screen was in the script. The moves, the business, the atmosphere, all written. When I mention `atmosphere’ in `Double Indemnity’ - that gloomy, horrible house the Dietrichsons lived in, the slit of sunlight slicing through those heavy drapes - you could smell that death was in the air, you understood why she wanted to get out of there, away, no matter how. And for an actress, let me say that the way those sets were lit, the house, Walter’s apartment, those dark shadows, those slices of harsh light at strange angles -all that helped my performance.” — Barbara Stanwyck

Orson Welles.

A Family portrait during the Spanish Flu, 1918 ♡