#1934 Maria

[tina-aumont]

Very interesting and beautiful undated photo of Maria. My guessing is that it was taken circa 1934, but I cannot be sure. It seems it comes from a book, but this photo is not printed in "María Montez: su Vida" by Margarita Vicens nor in "María Montez La Reina del Tecnicolor" by Antonio Pérez Arnay. This photo was posted at Listal two years ago.

Any information given on it (story, photographer, publication, year...) will be much welcomed and credited!!

Thank you very much!!

[weirdlookindog]

Bela Lugosi and Maria Alba in The Return of Chandu (1934)

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba and Clara Kimball Young in The Return Of Chandu 1934 (serial)

[postcard-from-the-past]

12th-century Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, Italy

Italian vintage postcard, mailed in 1934 to France

[lamarchesacasati]

1934 Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati. 

Lord Huntingdon's (Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon) first marriage was to Cristina Casati, daughter of Camillo, Marquis Casati Stampa di Soncino by his wife, the artistic muse Marchesa Luisa Casati, in 1925; they had one daughter Lady Moorea Hastings.  

There is a portrait of Luisa painted by Hastings in 1934. Definitely Cristina's idea to break the ice between mother and son-in-law. I wonder what kind of relationship Luisa had with her daughter. Aside from their tempered characters and lack of love, they had nothing in common. Family patterns are made to be reproduced. Luisa revived Cristina, and Cristina Moorea, the childhood of loneliness and abandonment from which they had suffered so much. I don't like Hastings' painting. She holds a crystal ball and, behind her veil, her gaze is that of a slightly stultified witch. As long as the painter has talent, a painting does not lie. If Luisa didn't love her son-in-law, he would return it to her. » lx)

[carbone14]

The Return of Chandu - Film fantastique américain en 12 épisodes réalisé par Ray Taylor - 1934

Personnages principaux :

Béla Lugosi as Frank Chandler, aka Chandu the Magician

Maria Alba as Princess Nadji

Clara Kimball Young as Dorothy Regent

[onenakedfarmer]

Current;y Playing

Dmitri Shostakovich LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK, Op. 29

Maria Ewing

Aage Haugland, Sergej Larin, Philip Langridge, Anatoly Kotcherga, Heinz Zednik, Kurt Moll, Elena Zaremba

Myung-Whun Chung Orchestre et Chœurs De L'Opéra Bastille

[asoftepiloguemylove]

sometimes i forget how much i didn't want to survive

Fariha Róisín How to Cute a Ghost / Ocean Vuong Prayer for the Newly Damned / @/litarnes (on instagram) / Anna Akhmatova The Last Toast / Mary Szybist Incarnadine: Poems / unknown / Anaïs Nin Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 / unknown / Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House / Langston Hughes Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social

[sgtpeppers]

Happy Birthday, Brian Epstein (b. 19th September, 1934)

"However much I socialise with the great and famous, I would prefer a quiet afternoon with George Martin and Judy, making a bob or two at Lingfield Park races. And best of all and far beyond anything money can buy, I love to lean on my elbows at the back of the stalls and watch the curtain rise on John, Paul, George and Ringo, Gerry, Billy, Tommy, Michael - or the wonderful songbird daughter of a Liverpool docker and christened Priscilla Maria Veronica White who will stun the world as Cilla Black. Tomorrow? I think the sun will shine tomorrow. " - A Cellarful of Noise, Brian Epstein.

[lovely-abeille]

can i request a web weave of never being loved before and not knowing what it would feel like, until you’re loved for the first time and then wanting more?

the diary of anaïs nin, vol 1: 1931-1934 // ? // when i go toward you, rainer maria rilke // these hands, if not gods, natalie diaz // poem for haruko, june jordan // @/heavensghost // a self-portait in letters, anne sexton // raw with love, charles bukowski // interim, edna st. vincent millay

[margotfonteyns]

Janet Newbold as Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, for a Louis XV era pageant at the second Metropolitan Opera Ball. Photo by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, June 1934.

[tina-aumont]

María África Gracia Vidal (on screen she will became Maria Montez) pictured with her younger sister Consuelo in Barahona, Dominican Republic in 1934.

This photo comes from Pinterest but it has been printed in Margarita Vicens book "María Montez, Su vida - edición especial del Centenario" (Dirección General de Cine de la República Dominicana, 2012.

[weirdlookindog]

The Return of Chandu (1934)

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi and Maria Alba (Spanish actress) in The Return Of Chandu 1934 (Serial)

[citizenscreen]

Marlene Dietrich and daughter Maria Riva at the Polo Matches, Hollywood, August 1934.

[gay-otlc]

"Trans people can be heterosexual, but they can't be straight" is a stupid fucking take because not only does it misgender transhets, it's also just not the way language works.

The argument tends to be that "straight" refers to having a "normative" or "socially acceptable" sexuality, which heterosexuality tends to be seen as, but isn't in the case of transhet people.

It's true that "straight" has historically been used that way. For example, Transgender Warriors (1996) includes the line "The trans population is a reminder that not everyone who is heterosexual is straight!" (page 92). At this point, straight had a meaning that was distinct from heterosexual, with straight meaning "not queer" and heterosexual meaning "attracted to the opposite gender."

However, straight (in reference to sexuality) and heterosexual have both had a lot of different meanings over time, and it's pretty stupid to pick one at random and go yes, this is the true correct meaning.

The terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" appear in a letter by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869. Homosexual refers to erotic acts between two men or two women, and heterosexual refers to erotic acts between women and men. But Kertbeny still considered heterosexuals to be degenerates, as they engaged in nonprocreative sexual acts. (The Invention of Heterosexuality, pg. 33)

In 1892, Dr. James G. Kiernan used the word "heterosexual" in a Chicago medical journal. In this case, heterosexual referred to people who felt "inclination to both sexes." The hetero- prefix didn't refer to being attracted to a different gender than one's own, but to being attracted to two different genders. (The Invention of Heterosexuality, pg. 21)

Then, in 1893, Richard von Krafft-Ebing published Psychopathia Sexualis, where he used the term "hetero-sexual" to refer to sexual desire or "sexual love" between men and women, and is used to mean a "normal" sexuality. (The Invention of Heterosexuality, pg. 22)

In 1901, a medical dictionary defined "heterosexuality" as "Abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex." (The American illustrated medical dictionary, pg. 300)

In 1923, Merriam Webster defined "heterosexuality" as "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." Then, in 1934, the definition was changed to "manifestation of sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." (Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, pg. xcii; Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition, pg. xcvi

For much of the early history of the term "heterosexual," it was used interchangeably with the term "normal-sexual." (Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, pg. 14)

The use of "straight" in reference to sexual orientation was defined in the 1941 book Sex Variants "To go ‘straight’ is to cease homosexual practices and to indulge--usually to re-indulge--in heterosexuality." It didn't refer to people whose innate sexual orientation was to be attracted to a different gender than their own, it referred to "ex-gays," or gay people who had recloseted themselves. (Origin of Everything, around 2:56)

From there, "straight" evolved to mean non-queer (as we saw in the Transgender Warriors quote), and now it's pretty much synonymous with heterosexual, being attracted to a different gender/the other binary gender from your own.*

*this isn't a perfect definition ofc because no sexuality can be defined perfectly, but it's better than "opposite gender"

So, over time, straight has meant "ex-gay," recloseted gay, non-queer, and heterosexual (as we know it today), and heterosexual has meant degenerate attraction between women and men, bisexuality as we know it today, abnormal/perverted attraction to the opposite sex, normal sexuality, and finally, attraction to a different gender/other binary gender.

And with all those meanings, it's kind of ridiculous to insist transhets are heterosexual but not straight based on just one of the many ways each word has been used. I could just as easily say that transhets who identified as gay before transitioning are straight because straight has been used to mean "ex-gay," and cishets who have never identified as gay aren't straight. Or that cis people attracted exclusively to the opposite binary gender aren't heterosexual, because heterosexual has been used to mean attraction to two different genders.

All that aside, both "heterosexual" and "straight" came into use with cis as the assumed default, without making the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation that we have today. Transhets have no obligation to adhere to the definitions of either of those terms that operate under the assumption that everyone is cis.

And again- saying that transhets aren't straight is misgendering us. That should be the only thing that matters, but since clearly it doesn't, maybe it'll matter that enforcing "normative (cis) sexuality" as a universal definition for straight is bullshit.