Norma Shearer In Let Us Be Gay, 1930

please be patient with me im from the 1900s

"It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can't move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."" Horror Character Appreciation - Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Some interesting sandwiches from 1001 sandwiches

I also thought this was funny:

Silent star profiles.

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

FILMS IN 2023: → A Free Soul (1931) — dir. clarence brown

New Year's Resolution: utilize a wider variety of James Cagney-esque insults in my vocabulary. You smackoff. You chump. You penny-pinching pirate. You dirty, double-crossing, yellow-bellied sap of a stool pigeon, I oughta kick your teeth out one at a time now SCRAM, etc.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.

Ramón Novarro in the 1920s.

I disappear sometimes. It’s my thing.

Sidney Poitier photographed by Gordon Parks, 1959.