FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES

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edit: DO NOT VOTE BASED ON THE VIBES OF THE FLUIDS 😭

Man at snack stand, circa 1950s.

El Paso Herald, Texas, January 6, 1928

Norma Shearer, 1939

“What man is suitable, doctor? She’s never found one. What man would ever look at me and say, ‘I want you.’? I’m fat. My mother doesn’t approve of dieting. Look at my shoes. My mother approves of sensible shoes. Look at the books on my shelves. My mother approves of good solid books. I’m my mother’s well-loved daughter. I’m her companion. I am my mother’s servant. My mother says! My mother. My mother! MY MOTHER!” Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934.

“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

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

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