#1938 films

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What’s the matter? Anything wrong? 

WENDY HILLER and LESLIE HOWARD in BERNARD SHAW’S PYGMALION (1938) | dir. ANTHONY ASQUITH

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife / Claudette Colbert as Nicole de Loiselle

I haven't seen Bluebeard's Eighth Wife--one of Ernst Lubitsch's later efforts--but I happened across this photo of a costume and absolutely loved it. The film is from 1938, but we're really looking ahead to the 1940s in the shape of it. Travis Banton was the costume designer for this movie.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1938 | dir. Edwin L. Marin

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coffee. . .

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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Joan Bennett photographed by George Hurrell for The Texans, 1938.

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Blond Cheat, 1938

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Highlights and Shadows (1938)

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Director: Kenneth R. Edwards

Director of Photography: James Sibley Watson, Jr.

“This contrast between the standards of handicraft and those of machine products relates, of course, only to the two methods—not to the men or materials involved. The pinnacles of achievement in handicraft will always set an example—for the machine Industry will always require handicraft if only for the reason that the initial step in machine production is the creation of the original pattern.”

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Merle Oberon in The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

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BILLIE BURKE as MRS. EMILY KILBOURNE in MERRILY WE LIVE (1938) | dir. NORMAN Z. McLEOD

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Sweethearts / Jeanette MacDonald as Gwen Marlowe

Although this movie was actually shot in Technicolor, this is such a nice monochrome photo that I'm putting it in as a bonus for today! The gown is by Adrian.

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Actress Joan Bennett, 1938

Promo photos for Artists and Models Abroad

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i love how Bob Clampett evidently loved Snow White so much that he felt the need to reference it in multiple cartoons. this takes the cake for best Snow White parody ever, no contest

...well, some contest. but i’m just so endeared he was evidently amused enough by Dopey’s gallop in the Heigh Ho sequence to reference it in two cartoons some 24 years apart

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Joseph Cornell - The Midnight Party (1938)