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Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934.
" ... and you´ve made me over... good as new."
Lucky Star (1929)
directed by Frank Borzage.
SAFETY LAST! (1923)
Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
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…”
PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Clara Bow, 1927
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:
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in 1918.
Speakeasy guard, 1927, Chicago.
Girls sent home from McKinley High School for wearing slacks and blue jeans, Chicago, 1946.
Netherlands 1921
James Dean visiting a barber shop in New York, 1955.
©️ Dennis Stock
LANA TURNER does her part, 1942 She was a pin-up girl of the first order. She was a soldier’s dream during World War II, officially “The Girl We’d Like to Be Stranded on a Deserted Island With,” “The Girl We’d Like to Find in Every Port,” and “The Most Gorgeous, Spectacular, and Pulse-stirring Thing on High Heels.” The 18th Bomb Squadron of the U.S. Air Force painted her on the nose of their B-17 and named the plane “Tempest Turner.” In 1942 she raised $50,000 selling war bonds with kisses and her efforts altogether brought in an estimated $5,000,000. Back home she was a regular at the Hollywood Canteen and on the studio lot she played hostess to large groups of soldiers. She also performed broadcats for Armed Forces Radio, where soldiers could have any wish come true, no matter how random, if it could be transmitted over the airwaves. They could hear Carole Landis sigh, Judy Garland sing “Over the Rainbow,” or Lana Turner cook a porterhouse steak smothered with onions. That’s the request that was made of her and she was happy to oblige. Visiting hospitals was the most difficult because she was easily affected by injuries and sad stories. The soldiers loved her. They were convinced she was the last pretty girl they would ever see. - LANA: THE MEMORIES, THE MYTHS, THE MOVIES
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961, dir. Elia Kazan)
the first film I saw Norma Shearer in was The Women and I think that negatively coloured my perception of her for years (decades?) because I thought she was the worst one in that (Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russel, and Joan Crawford outshine her completely and when I saw the film as a teen I found her matronly and submissive). Watching her pre-code films now is wild, she's so sexy and cool! This is a problem I've had with a lot of actresses who took up more "good woman" roles in the late 30s and 40s (eg Claudette Colbert or Myrna Loy) because when I first got into classic films as a teen, I could not relate to those women or their characters and found them old and stodgy. Similarly I always thought actors like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in the 1940s were so ancient and couldn't believe any woman would be attracted to a man that old
Basil Rathbone kissing Norma Shearer's hem in The Last of Mrs. Cheney
me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight
Norma Shearer preparing to bake Canadian Oatmeal Sticks
Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll in Paris Blues (1961), dir. Martin Ritt
James Dean rose to fame in the 1950s, most notably for his role in 𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒍 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑨 𝑪𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆, for which he became a cultural icon as the ultimate bad boy.
25 year old Orson Welles arriving at the New York premiere of 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆 (1941).
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Problems only writers understand
Having very chaotic notes on your phone
Having secret files that you will NEVER let anyone ever see
WHAT THAT WORD THAT MEANS THAT THING????
Why cant I think of a name?
Writing 10k words in a day then never again
The fact I’ll never be able to read all the books I want to read is crushing me
I got 37373 tabs open in my head rn
“There where it smells of shit it smells of being.”
— Antonin Artaud, To Have Done with the Judgement of God
Purple Moon by Steph Payne