JEAN HARLOW & MARIE DRESSLER In DINNER AT EIGHT — 1933, Dir. George Cukor

my favourite button ever is "open link in new tab"..

"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

i just have to make it through the next few or tens or hundreds or thousands of weeks. until i'm dead

“Vivien has a body of swansdown and the constitution of a GI on leave.” -Noël Coward

VIVIEN LEIGH in WATERLOO BRIDGE — 1940

FILMS in 2024: 62 | City Lights (1931) — dir. Charles Chaplin     

Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958), dir. Richard Brooks

Propaganda

Lee Ya-Ching (A Poet From the Sea, Mulan Joins the Army)—actress and aviatrix! pioneer. legend. i see a vintage lady on a plane and brain goes brr

Bonita Granville (The Glass Key, Now, Voyager)—she started out playing Nancy Drew as a teenager (won't include any pics of that because she's underage in them, but look up the publicity pics—delightful), it's a shame she didn't become a bigger Star™™

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Lee Ya-Ching:

Bonita Granville:

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

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

on all levels except physical i am a spoiled house cat