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wasn't gonna drink tonight but i miss pangea

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Left without her special friend and protector (George Schlee), Garbo has taken up with some of her companions of earlier years, including Gayelord Hauser. Thanks, apparently, to his continued intake of blackstrap molasses, yoghurt and other “living” foods, Hauser, at 75, still a bachelor, remains full of bounce, and is noticeably pleased to resume the role of occasional escort. Garbo spent part of the summer following Schlee's death cruising among the Greek islands with two other old friends, Cecil Beaton, the fashionable British photographer and man about the arts, and Baroness Cecile de Rothschild, on the latter's yacht.

The Baroness, a daughter of a French banker is a white-haired, self-assured, cosmopolitan woman, who has made a reputation as connoisseur of objets d'art and people. Being the kind of person who is accustomed to taking command, she was the one to whom Garbo turned when Schlee was stricken, and it was to her Paris residence that Garbo repaired.

The Baroness is among the select few who visit Garbo in her apartment and are entrusted with her private telephone number. Possession of the number does not, however, guarantee getting through to its owner. As often as not, Garbo will answer the phone, and even if the caller's voice is as instantly recognizable as, for example, Cecil Beaton's, she will reply in the impersonal tone of a maid, “Miss Garbo isn't in. Is there a message?” Not all of her friends find this little conceit amusing.

Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932) directed by Edmund Goulding.

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Judy Garland at 12..signing her first contract with MGM studios in 1935. 🥰

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Jack Davenport as Peter Smith-Kingsley THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella

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You see, I’d rather go merrily to Hell with you than alone. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) dir. Dorothy Arzner

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Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) dir. Martin Scorsese

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Merle Oberon. Publicity for “Dark Waters” (1944)

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VICTIM dir. Basil Dearden

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Adrian and Janet Gaynor at home

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My Followers’ Top 10 Favorite Characters: #5 — Dana Scully (The X Files)

“Time passes in moments…moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed?”

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Joseph Jasgur, 1946.

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After I’ve telephoned Junius, I’m going to do plenty. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor

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Carole Lombard, 1930s

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So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn’t it be the other way around?

YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) dir. Nora Ephron

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Ruby Keeler photographed in the Encino home she shared with husband Al Jolson, 1930s

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JOAN CRAWFORD in GRAND HOTEL 1932 │ dir. Edmund Goulding

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Grace Kelly, hair test for the murder scene in Dial M For Murder, 1954