#1931 Maria

[tina-aumont]

Young and beautiful María África Gracia Vidal (future Maria Montez on screen) pictured in Barahona in 1931. She was between 18 and 19 years old when these pictures were taken.

Photos from “María Montez La Reina del Tecnicolor”, book written by Antonio Pérez Arnay, Filmoteca Canaria 1995; “De María África a María Montez, un mito en Technicolor” documentary directed by Jesús Reyes Mota, 2014 and "Santo Domingo Invita - María Montez, Su Vida"

[magauda]

Si ritrovavano due fratelli, future spie tedesche

Le circostanze della nascita del futuro capo dell’ODEUM Roma hanno dato luogo a una serie di ipotesi, non solo da parte degli storici, ma anche da parte dei suoi contemporanei. Giovanni Gehlen nacque il 15 marzo 1901 a Roma. Solo pochi giorni dopo sarebbe stato abbandonato dai propri genitori, Walther Gehlen e sua moglie Katharina, che lo avrebbero affidato alle cure di Friedrich e Anna Baum, una…

[botallo]

Si ritrovavano due fratelli, future spie tedesche

Le circostanze della nascita del futuro capo dell’ODEUM Roma hanno dato luogo a una serie di ipotesi, non solo da parte degli storici, ma anche da parte dei suoi contemporanei. Giovanni Gehlen nacque il 15 marzo 1901 a Roma. Solo pochi giorni dopo sarebbe stato abbandonato dai propri genitori, Walther Gehlen e sua moglie Katharina, che lo avrebbero affidato alle cure di Friedrich e Anna Baum, una…

[sapergo]

Si ritrovavano due fratelli, future spie tedesche

Le circostanze della nascita del futuro capo dell’ODEUM Roma hanno dato luogo a una serie di ipotesi, non solo da parte degli storici, ma anche da parte dei suoi contemporanei. Giovanni Gehlen nacque il 15 marzo 1901 a Roma. Solo pochi giorni dopo sarebbe stato abbandonato dai propri genitori, Walther Gehlen e sua moglie Katharina, che lo avrebbero affidato alle cure di Friedrich e Anna Baum, una…

[bagnabraghe]

Si ritrovavano due fratelli, future spie tedesche

Le circostanze della nascita del futuro capo dell’ODEUM Roma hanno dato luogo a una serie di ipotesi, non solo da parte degli storici, ma anche da parte dei suoi contemporanei. Giovanni Gehlen nacque il 15 marzo 1901 a Roma. Solo pochi giorni dopo sarebbe stato abbandonato dai propri genitori, Walther Gehlen e sua moglie Katharina, che lo avrebbero affidato alle cure di Friedrich e Anna Baum, una…

[bigarella]

Si ritrovavano due fratelli, future spie tedesche

Le circostanze della nascita del futuro capo dell’ODEUM Roma hanno dato luogo a una serie di ipotesi, non solo da parte degli storici, ma anche da parte dei suoi contemporanei. Giovanni Gehlen nacque il 15 marzo 1901 a Roma. Solo pochi giorni dopo sarebbe stato abbandonato dai propri genitori, Walther Gehlen e sua moglie Katharina, che lo avrebbero affidato alle cure di Friedrich e Anna Baum, una…

[antonio-m]

“Male nude”, 1974 by Carlo Maria Mariani (1931–2021). Italian painter. oil on canvas

[flanaganfilm]

Was there a deliberate homage to little Maria’s death in Frankenstein (1931) in the opening of Doctor Sleep?

Absolutely! We watched the Frankenstein sequence a few times while we were shot listing

[frank-enthusiast]

Thank you for your response, it was unexpected and really lovely to read!

It’s so nice to be able to obsessively talk about my interests on here, I’ve tried in the past to do this with my friends I know in real life, none of which had any idea what I was talking about 😅

I think the main reason the Elizabeth scene was put in, was to add extra drama, but also because there’s a similar scene in Mary Shelley’s novel, which definitely WAS a deliberate attack, so I would be interested to know exactly what the writers were implying here. I think the Monster just went for a stroll through the village and went for the biggest and richest looking house he could find 😅

Also, something I don’t understand, is why Maria’s father immediately jumped to the conclusion that Maria was murdered? He left her alone, by a lake knowing she couldn’t swim, so for all he knew, she could’ve just fallen in and drowned. I don’t know, maybe the Monster left large footprints by the lakeside and that led him to believing his daughter was deliberately killed.

I don’t have as many thoughts on the Bride as this film, but hopefully I’ll make a post soon about my theories on that film. I can tag you if you’d like (and then you can ignore it if you want of course 🙂)

[cabin13cappuccino]

coming out of my well to shame the fandom re: treating Nico like he's from 1840 rather than 1940 in terms of living with medical innovations

Vaccines for the following diseases were available during this time:

Smallpox- first generation vaccines were available and work on second generation vaccines occured in the 1930s with production of an egg-based vaccine begun by the Texas Department of Health in 1939. DC schools required smallpox vaccination for children to be allowed to attend by 1930, so Nico would have gotten immunized for this even if he didn't get anything else.

Diphtheria- first vaccine was developed in 1913, then a cheaper version in 1924. Yep, it's the "antitoxin" they call for in Balto (1995)- it can be used to either treat active infection or immunize.

Pertussis (whooping cough)- first vaccine was licensed in the US in 1914, then another in 1931, and another that became the basis for the modern vaccine in 1932.

BCG vaccine for Tuberculosis (TB)- first available in 1921, but neither the US nor Italy mandated it. This vaccine is still given around the world today.

Tetanus ("lockjaw") - first vaccine was produced in 1924, then a more effective version in 1938. The combo DTP (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) vaccine was first released in 1948 and was used all the way up to 1996 when a new, safer version was released.

Anthrax- the veterinary vaccine in use today is based on the one developed in 1935 in South Africa. The Soviet Union developed a human vaccine that was available beginning in 1940.

Yellow fever- the vaccine still in use today (17D strain) debuted in 1939.

The first rabies vaccine was developed in 1885, for crying out loud!

Penicillin was used to cure infections as early as 1930, though it didn't hit mass-production until 1945. Other antibiotics (Salvarsan and Prontosil) were in use in the early 1900s (by 1910 and 1935, respectively).

Thyroxin (1914) and insulin (1923) were known quantities for treating endocrine disorders.

Medical radiography (x-rays) was a thing before 1900. There were portable ECG/EKG machines as early as 1927.

Cocaine was taken out of Coke in 1903. Like, not even Maria di Angelo would remember that.

Yes, a whole bunch of things changed in medical science between 1942 and the mid-2000s- plenty of fodder for "Will blows Nico's mind with modern medicine." I will even provide suggestions!

Vaccines for major childhood illnesses: polio (1952), measles (1962), mumps (1967), rubella (1969). IMO the polio thing is way slept on given how big the March of Dimes got in the public consciousness.

Closed-chest defibrillation (1950s) and CPR (1970s for the public)

Organ transplants (1953)

Ultrasound (1949/1961)

Not giving aspirin to anyone under 16 due to Reye's Syndrome risk (1980s) and the advent of other OTC painkillers (ibuprofen, 1969; paracetamol/acetaminophen, 1952; naproxen, 1976)

Insulin that comes from genetically engineered E. coli instead of purified animal pancreases (1978) so as to keep allergic reactions from happening

Rapid strep or flu tests (1980s/1990s) rather than waiting days to culture stuff

If y'all want a "they took the cocaine out of Coke" moment, might I suggest "what do you mean cigarettes/asbestos give you cancer" and/or "they took the lead out of the gasoline"?

But yeah...we've made a lot of progress since 1942 but it wasn't "you got ghosts in your blood and bad air do some drugs about it" back then- not by a long shot.

Wah wahwah wah wah back in my day we scoured Wikipedia and the rest of the internet to do background research on fandom-related minutiae and we liked it

[aussiehorrific]

Boris Karloff as the Monster and Marilyn Harris as Little Maria in Frankenstein, ca. 1931.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"YOU WERE MY LIFE." // BORA AND WOONHO

PROJECT 7 Time After Time // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // wave to earth bad // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // Anaïs Nin Henry And June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // Foo Fighters Aurora // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // Dulce Maria Loynaz Poema LVII (tr. James O'Connor) // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // Silas Denver Melvin pitiful origin // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri // boygenius We're In Love // 20세기 소녀 20th Century Girl (2022) dir. Bang Woo-ri

[warningsine]

Good post op.

For those interested, here are some such films to know herstory:

"Mädchen in Uniform" (1931)

"Anna and Elizabeth" (1933)

"All about Eve" (1950)

"Olivia" (1951)

"Mädchen in Uniform" (1951), dir. Géza von Radványi

"Girls in Uniform" (1951), dir. Alfredo B. Crevenna

"No Exit" (1954)

"The Girl with the Golden Eyes" (1961)

"Walk on the Wild Side" (1962)

"The Nun" (1966)

"Persona" (1966) (yes, I'm including it)

"Belle de Jour" (1967)

"Les Biches" (1968)

"The Killing of Sister George" (1968)

"Baby Love" (1969)"

"The Exquisite Cadaver" (1969)

"The Vampire Lovers" (1970)

"Daughters of Darkness" (1971)

"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (1972)

"The Beguines" (1972)

"Successive Slidings of Pleasure" (1974)

"Twice a Woman" (1979)

"Desert Hearts" (1985)

"I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing" (1987)

"Betty" (1992)

"Les Voleurs" (1996)

"8 Women" (2002)

"Nathalie…" (2003)

"Night Fangs" (2005)

"Backstage" (2005)

"Pretty Persuasion" (2005)

"Loving Annabelle" (2006)

"The Page Turner" (2006)

"Notes on a Scandal" (2006)

"Bandaged" (2009)

"Chloe" (2009), American remake of "Nathalie…"

"Cracks" (2009)

"Gigola" (2010)

"Bloomington" (2010)

"A Perfect Ending" (2012)

"Concussion" (2013)

"Nymphomaniac: Vol. II" (2013) (going controversial with this one)

"Tru Love" (2013)

"Clouds of Sils Maria" (2014)

"Sand Dollars" (2014)

"The Duke of Burgundy" (2014)

"Unexpected" (2014)

"4.48" (2014)

"Carol" (2015)

"Freeheld" (2015)

"Summertime" (2015)

"AWOL" (2016), dir. Deb Shoval

"Bird of Prey" (2016)

"Foreign Body" (2016)

"Allure" (2017)

"Atomic Blonde" (2017)

"Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca’s Footsteps" (2017)

"The Party" (2017)

"You, Me and Him" (2017)

"Lizzie" (2018)

"The Favourite" (2018)

"Suspiria" (2018)

"The Bisexual" (2018)

"Clementine" (2019)

"Greta" (2019) (anon's* choice ❤️)

"Saint Maud" (2019)

"Ammonite" (2020)

"I Care a Lot" (2020)

"T11 Incomplete" (2020)

"Take Me Home" (2020)

"Parallel Mothers" (2021)

"Vigil" (2021)

"Benedetta" (2021)

"Anaïs in love" (2021)

"Eileen" (2023)

"May December" (2023)

Some of them are subtextual, some of them explicit, some--to use Tumblr's favorite word--problematique, some do not revolve around romance, some are cinematic masterpieces, some utter trash.

*Edit:

Ok, I laughed out loud, but on second thought? #valid

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[angelap3]

“Quando mi chiedono: Cosa farà? Non lo so, è come chiedermi: Quanto vivrà? Non lo so, cosa ne so io, non dipende mica da me.

– E da che cosa dipende, a suo avviso, la durevolezza del successo?

Da voi, da loro… soltanto da loro”.

Monica Vitti

"L'amore è un atto di fede. In amore è bello anche esagerare...fino a trovare un'armonia e a volte un'amicizia".

Monica Vitti

"In fondo che ne so io cos'è la felicità...A me mi sa che siccome abbiamo dei colpi continui, uno appresso all'altro, il momento in cui riesci a schivarne uno...beh sono momenti di felicità sublime".

Monica Vitti

«Sono fatta non solo di contraddizioni, ma di caratteri opposti. Sono una persona estremamente angosciata, triste, e nello stesso tempo allegra, trascinante, vitale. E tutto questo in modo molto estremo».

Monica Vitti

Sono passati 3 anni da quando la nostra Monica ci ha lasciato, dopo una lunga malattia degenerativa.

Era il 2 febbraio del 2022, aveva 90 anni e dal 2002 non appariva in pubblico.

Era nata il 3 novembre del 1931 con il nome di Maria Luisa Ceciarelli, ma tutto il mondo la ricorda, e sempre la ricorderà, come Monica Vitti. Un'attrice strepitosa, meravigliosamente capace di incarnare sia le nevrosi dell'uomo contemporaneo di Antonioni che di dimostrarsi eccelsa mattatrice della commedia all'italiana. Interprete bellissima, seducente e ironica – incarnò donne complesse e affascinanti, malinconiche e divertenti, riuscendo sempre a comprenderle e dare forma alle loro mille sfaccettature e inquietudini, al loro coraggio. "

Monica Vitti è stata una tra le attrici italiane più amate. È riuscita a farsi strada nel cinema italiano, grazie alla sua intelligenza e a un grandissimo senso dell’umorismo. Non era facile, nella stagione d’oro delle maggiorate, imporsi nel mondo dello spettacolo. La concorrenza delle varie Lollobrigida, Loren, Pampanini e Allasio era fortissima e Maria Luisa Ceciarelli - bella e dal volto illuminato e sensibile, senza essere procacemente provocante - dovette crearsi, partendo dalla gavetta, il proprio posto al sole. Il suo talento e l’espressività cinematografica le hanno permesso, durante la sua carriera, di ottenere molti riconoscimenti: il Leone d’oro alla carriera al Festival di Venezia nel 1995, l’Orso d’oro a Berlino 1984 per Flirt e tre Nastri d’Argento.

Web

RIP💐❤️🎶

[thorntopieces]

assorted pjo/hoo headcanons pt 2

part 1 - part 2

A popular one, but Percy grew up speaking Spanish with Sally. Once Gabe came into the picture it became something shameful and something to be hidden. In the same vein as him never talking about Gabe, he never gives any indication that he knows any Spanish, not even when people speak it around him

Annabeth and Percy 'adopt' Will. Annabeth the winter session following TLT, Percy and Annabeth together following the Battle of Manhattan. They don't properly parent him or anything, but they check in on him and help him come to terms with being Head Counsellor. At first Will thinks they do it only because he saved Annabeth's life, but no, they really just care about him that much

Something I will elaborate on in a different post: both Jason and Nico have DID (dissociative identity disorder), presenting in very different ways. Nico's alters are all him at varying ages, except for one introject of Bianca and one of Percy (that never fully front, they work internally or influence passively). It could very easily be confused for just very severe mood changes and PTSD. He's not really aware of it and considers himself to just be moody. Jason has a more 'typical' presentation in that the different alters have different names, genders, ages, roles. He becomes aware of it around the time of the Battle of the West Front/Mt Tam, and again learns about it following TLH. It is the only way to cope, caused by both of them being exposed to continuous and repeated trauma at a young age. Nico is aware that Jason has a thing, while Percy knows something is up with Nico. They both just lack the terminology to explain it well. This is one of the reasons why Nico and Jason quickly get along at Camp Jupiter before the kidnapping and then again following the encounter with Cupid

After starting to recover from dissolving into darkness, Nico slowly starts going back to school. He's too busy, too ill and too behind to go full-time, so instead he goes two days a week for core subjects at Goode. To do this he spends two nights a week at Sally and Paul's place. It helps give him some of the normalcy he so desperately needs. The rest of the week he spends at CHB doing various things (teach classes, infirmary work, head counsellor duties, therapy). Will goes to a different school in NYC during the week but they make plans for him to transfer after Christmas break

Will doesn't like crying because it literally hurts him. Whenever he cries it's like his eyes are on fire so instead of trying to figure out why that is, he will do anything in his power to not cry at all

Healing and medicine are two separate traits for Apollo kids to inherit. Lee could heal, but Michael was the one with the field medic skills and thus the one to mostly train Will. When Lee died, the infirmary went to Will because divine healing is prioritised above mortal medicine. Will's not special because he can heal, he's special because he can heal and has an innate talent for medicine. Combine that with the photo- and nosokinesis and he's technically inherited four separate skills, whereas most Apollo kids would only get two (basic good aim/vitals reading/minor powers of prophecy does not count, those are universal). He really is all of Apollo's best and none of his worst

In the Last Olympian it's mentioned that Hades met Maria di Angelo in Washington D.C, but in House of Hades that Nico and Bianca grew up in Venice. Headcanon that Bianca was born in Washington D.C in 1930 but shortly after being born Maria di Angelo moved back to Venice in hopes of escaping the worst of the Great Depression. This didn't work (the Great Depression hit Italy in 1931 and peaked in 1932), but by the time it got bad it was harder than ever to leave fascist Italy, especially through official channels - which they would have to do considering Nico's nonno was an Italian diplomat and fleeing would put him in danger. Nico was born in Venice and in 1939, less than a year after visiting Diocletian's Palace they were cleared to reunite with his grandparents in the States, avoiding the outbreak of WWII.

The reason why the conversation with Venus horrified her so much wasn't because she was upset about not being destined to be with Jason, it was because she interpreted 'no demigod shall heal your broken heart' as having to date someone fitting the criteria (not a demigod, powerful because she has power) and the only person she can think of is Octavian. She absolutely thought Venus told her she was doomed to date Octavian

Percy who is the demigod most similar to Jason in terms of wolf traits developed because they had the same amount of 'established identity' when arriving at the wolf house (young age vs amnesia). Percy who learns to be entirely certain of initiating physical affection without fear after being at the wolf house because he learns that even dangerous beings can be gentle. Percy who is scared of initiating physical contact because he saw how Gabe was and how demigods used to react to him knowing he was a son of the Big Three