#Bro literally came out of the Renaissance era

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The Influence of Ruth Chatterton by Susan King

Ruth Chatterton was so much more than a two-time Oscar-nominated actress (MADAME X [‘29], SARAH AND SON [‘30]). She was a great friend.

Back in 1936, she supported her BFF and DODSWORTH (’36) co-star Mary Astor at a custody trial despite being told by executives and other friends not to attend the hearings. The scandalous hearings revolved around Astor trying to gain full custody of her daughter from her second husband, Franklyn Thorpe, proclaiming he was abusing their child. The problem was her ex-husband had Astor’s diary in which she wrote in detail of her love affair with playwright George S. Kaufman.

Chatterton was more than a supportive friend. She was also a mensch. A young Bette Davis was a huge fan of the actress and wrote in her autobiography The Lonely Life about working with her in the 1932 comedy-drama THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US, in which Chatterton played the richest “girl” in the world. Chatterton made Davis so nervous she “literally could not get a word out of my mouth. I’m so damned scared of you I’m speechless.”

The veteran put the young Davis quickly at ease.

“She was the most helpful in her scenes with me after that,” Davis recalled. “I never forgot that experience and in later years, when young actors were terrified of me, I would always help them get over it.”

Both of the women were enamored with co-star George Brent. It was Chatterton who married Brent after the film was completed. Two films and two years later they divorced. Years later, Davis and Brent had an affair.

Chatterton also took a young Christopher Plummer under her wing in New York in the early 1950s, where she introduced him to the right people. “She might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis,” he wrote in his autobiography In Spite of Myself.

At the height of her career, she took to the skies and became an accomplished aviatrix and good friends with the legendary Amelia Earhart. She flew across the U.S. several times, sponsored the Ruth Chatterton Air Derby and even opened the National Air Races in Los Angeles 83 years go. And this renaissance woman also wrote four novels including the 1950 best-seller Homeward Borne.

By the time she made her first silent movie in 1928, Chatterton, who was born in 1892, had been working in the theater since she was 14. She made her Broadway debut in 1911’s The Great Name and became star on Broadway in 1914 with Daddy Long Legs.

The first Oscar-winning actor Emil Jannings saw Chatterton on stage and helped her get a role in his film SINS OF THE FATHERS. In 1929, she began playing a string of fallen women roles with the melodrama MADAME X. She earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for the role and Lionel Barrymore received a nomination for his direction.

Though it’s a bit of a creak to watch, 80 years ago Mordunt Hall in The New York Times thought Chatterton was the greatest thing since sliced bread, writing: “…without a doubt the acting of Ruth Chatterton in the title role is the outstanding achievement of the picture. She portrays the emotional spells of the saddened woman with intelligence and artistry…Miss Chatterton lends to her part acting rarely beheld on the screen.”

Though some of her films are dated, Chatterton is still fascinating to watch. Because of her long history on the stage, she had a voice that was made for talkies and when a lot of actresses and actors had a hard time taming their over-the-top histrionics, Chatterton was very natural and engaging. And she was tailored made for the pre-Code era.

She left Paramount and moved to Warner Bros. in 1932, where she starred in several films beginning with THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US. She made two more films with her then-husband Brent. First 1932’s melodrama THE CRASH, which finds her and hubby Brent losing money in the 1929 stock market. She’s the best thing about the film and wears some fabulous clothes.

Second, and a year before they divorced in 1934, they teamed up for the fabulous gender-bender drama FEMALE, which even in the pre-Code era was considered pretty steamy. Chatterton played the CEO of an automobile company who has plenty of men in her life but no wedding ring. Enter handsome engineer Brent who initially rebuffs her advances but eventually falls for her charms. But considering it’s the 1930s, love wins out with Chatterton telling Brent she’s willing to risk even her company’s bankruptcy for the man she loves.

Her last film for Warner Bros. is the undistinguished crime drama from 1934, JOURNAL OF A CRIME. Two years before her film career came to an end, Chatterton gave her best performance in William Wyler’s 1936 film DODSWORTH, in which she plays the spoiled, social climbing wife of a retired midwestern auto manufacturer (Walter Huston) who decides to take her on a cruise to Europe. Because Chatterton’s Fran is over 40 and is trying to keep middle age at bay, she engages in several flirtatious encounters with younger men which leads to a deep chasm in the couple’s marriage. The film earned seven Oscar nominations including Best Film, Actor and Supporting Actress for Maria Ouspenskaya as the grim mother of Fran’s much younger fiancée who puts the yet-to-be divorced Fran in her place. Surprisingly, Chatterton received no nomination.

Though her film career was over by the late 1930s, Chatterton returned to the stage and even did some live TV including a 1950 production of DODSWORTH with Walter Abel in the title role. Chatterton was married for 19 years to actor Barry Thomson, who died in 1960. And she died a year later of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 67.

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librarian! jaemin

summary: jaemin decides to work at his local library causing everyone to swoon for him but he actually only had eyes for you

genre: fluff, just pure softness

note: ah yes a cute librarian boyfriend written all in one go @jaaebear remember that one time i said i was gonna do this? well finally i did also jesus christ i haven’t written in so long it’s 2 am and soft hours hit

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ofcourse jaemin is probably one of the biggest NERDS when it comes to books

but besides that, over summer vacation he didn’t have anything to do

so he decided to get a part time job at his local library

LET ME tell yOu about the library,, it’s just so?? aesthetically pleasing??? like it kinda looks like it came out of the renaissance era?? like siGN me TF UP

ok ok anyways he got the job and he was hYpEd

he would usually have those outfits that just match whatever book he was reading? like omg fashion icon

and like jAEMIN WITH GLASSES?? like jesus he looked so good how does he do it?

everyone would be lying if they weren’t drooling over him instead of trying to study or finish their work

so working as the librarian wasn’t that easy because for once,, he’s handsome and OfCOURSE heS POPULAR

like usually the library would be empty but once he was hired everyone suddenly liked going to the library

don’t get me wrong the library wasn’t that unpopular it’s just,,, younger people were hardly ever seen

and i guess jaemin brought in some kids his age?? lol

and ofcourse he WOULD GET HIT ON NONSTOP like omg sometimes people would pretend not to know where a specific book would be even though the signs WERE RIGHT THERE just to be able to make eye contact with him and talk to him

he would sometimes lowkey flirt back and that made the person go all like “omg DOIHAVEACHANCEWITHYOU”

hahahaha sorry n o

anyways before he started working at the library he noticed you would usually be there everyday and you’d be reading a few books he’s been wanting to read or already read

he knew you also went to his school so he wasn’t that unfamiliar with you

and his heart went a little beep boop because hello?? you guys have something in common??

and after he started working there he’d see you more often because your friend dragged you over there to see the “cute librarian”

and like he hoped you would also pretend you didn’t know where a specific genre or book was in order for him to finally talk to you

but you knew where everything was from the back of your mind so like you didn’t bother trying to talk to him

bUt yoUR FRIEND DID!1!1!

so one time she dragged you over to him and would be like “uh hi! do you know where the kid books are? i need to buy one for my little brother” and you would squint your eyes at her in disbelief

“you don’t,,,even,, have a,,little,,bro-“

“oh yeah, here let me tell you where they are” jaemin said giving both of you his iconic smile

your friend? already dead BECAUSE OF HOW CUTE HIS SMILE IS

you on the other hand walked to the other section where the fiction books were

jaemin noticed this and was like “oh have you read this one, i recommend it” he said grabbing the book

your eyes LITERALLY SPARKLED “omg that’s one of my current favorites”

and he was like gASP “rEALLy?? then you must have read this one too?”

and you nodded and smiled saying that it was such an interesting book and that you cried like 5 times

and basically both of you kept talking about your favorite books and recommended eachother different books that you wouldn’t normally read

and your friend was like “i,,wow,,i cant believe i’m third wheeling” and she just read a children’s book trying to wait for you to finish talking to jaemin because she wanted to get some bubble tea

but lowkey she was proud that you were getting along with someone that made you happy and she shipped it

and jaemin successfully exchanged numbers with you

and you would always wave at him when you would arrive and would check-out a book he would recommend once in a while

sometimes you’d help him out if you didn’t have anything to do

and everyone was like “the cute librarian has a cute s/o?? YES LIBRARY COUPLE!1!1!”

and you guys weren’t a thing yet but it sure did seemed like it

jaemin finally asked you out by writing in a letter and putting it in a book you were going to read it and it was so cheesy but you loved it

you’d bring him lunch once in a while and would read to him when the library wasn’t busy

sometimes you guys would match outfits and looked so aesthetic like y’all belonged in the library

you’d love it when he was helping out someone because you’d see how professional he’d look guiding them to something or explaining something

when he would wear glasses to the library you’d take like 100 pictures because wow an angel

all in all a pretty cute librarian and a pretty cute boyfriend