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“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

Paul Henreid and Bette Davis - Now, Voyager 1942

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

i wish i were rich because that way i could comtinue being Insane & Useless and it would be fine like not even a problem

Buster Keaton ❥

Young girl taking a lunch break surrounded by barrels of herring in the small fishing town of Siglufjörður

Iceland - Siglufjörður, 1957

Sometimes I talk a lot and sometimes I don’t talk at all and somehow both are embarrassing

It is what it is *throws up*

oh we can't turn back time? that's cool, I'll spend the rest of my life wishing I could though

Norma Shearer photographed by George Hurrell, October 1929.

Maturity is when you stop trying to convince other people to treat you right. You just observe their choices, understand their character, and decide what you’re going to allow in your life.

George Brent was born on March 15, 1904 #botd

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

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) dir. Mark Robson ― Costume Design by William Travilla

Ramón Novarro in the 1920s.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.

every day i wake up and @hotvintagepoll has chosen violence

Clara Bow

Judy Garland as Alice Mayberry in The Clock, 1945

"What women are allowed into the club of geniuses anyway?" "The Brontes?" "Hm. That's it?" "Yes, I think so."

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

Propaganda

Hanka Ordonówna (Szpieg w masce)—no propaganda submitted

Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette, The Women)— First Jewish woman to win an Oscar for her acting!! She pioneered stronger, more independent and complicated roles for women onscreen. One film historian described her as "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen."

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Hanka Ordonówna:

Norma Shearer:

She got into showbiz on a technicality, there was a line of 60 girls to pick from, the studio needed 8 and she was second from last. She coughed loudly and then stood up and grinned when the casting director looked over at her, and he let her in because it made him laugh. After that there was several years of hard work before she landed her first movie. Where she had been repeatedly put down for her face in silent film, he was praised for her voice when the talkies first came about. She was most in her element in the pre-code era, when she played the strong, graceful, self-sufficient type of woman and she won the academy award for best actress in The Divorcee in 1930. She directly competed with greats like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford for the rest of the 30s.

She just epitomizes Old Hollywood to me and seems criminally underrated these days

Short-haired, modern woman, pre-code queen

someone call the fire department because this woman is H-O-T HOT!! Three chilis and a warning label hot!! Ever-burning passion HOT!!! But also glam and elegant and gorgeous (the side profile portrait is the most beautiful picture of any person ever)... she has the range

bette davis in ex-lady (1933)

Propaganda

Ann Dvorak (Scarface, Three on a Match, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain)—her freaky little dance in scarface i rest my case

Diana Wynyard (Gaslight, Kipps, An Ideal Husband)—maybe more of a theater lady then film. english actress, i like her in "kipps" a lot,very elegant

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.

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Diana Wynyard:

Ann Dvorark:

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ann singing a little tune

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Dear mind, stop thinking so much. I need sleep.”

— Unknown

Garbo got a kick out of sporting turtlenecks at a time when only jockeys and prizefighters wore them, and she was the first film star, followed by Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, to liberate women from skirts. Knowing observers slipped innuendo into their reports of Garbo and Dietrich’s preference for masculine styles. Vanity Fair pictured the Swede and the German, in 1932, under the headline “Both Members of the Same Club,” implying more than their mutual fondness for men’s suits and slouch hats.

Women who spurned skirts were not only violating taboos at the time, but breaking laws; in Paris in the twenties, a permis de travestissement was required of any female wearing a man’s suit. Mores were not much more relaxed on Hollywood Boulevard. “Garbo in Pants!” shouted a wire-photo caption.

“Innocent by standers gasped in amazement to see Mercedes de Acosta and Garbo in pants pretty much managed to go Where she pleased (and, perversely, she didn’t seem to mind the extra attention her fashion preferences brought her).

One night in 1928 Bill Frye slipped her into Chasen’s by rolling her trousers up beneath her overcoat, which she wore to the table. “We had already booked the reservation,” says Frye, “and when I saw what she was wearing I called the restaurant and told them I was bringing Miss Garbo to dinner and could she please come in slacks. They said no, she could not. I asked, ‘What if you put us to the right, just as we come in the door?’ They still said no, so we played our little trick.”

Greta Garbo striding swiftly along… dressed in men’s clothes.” A few days later, MGM sent out a story under Garbo’s name, in which she apologized for inflicting her “trousered attitude” on hostesses, escorts, and maitres d’.

Greta Garbo in The Single Standard (1929)

So many movies to watch but so little time.. (<- says the girl who could’ve easily watched two movies if she wasn’t posting on tumblr.com)