#Gertrude Hoffman

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Frank C. Bangs

Gertrude Hoffman, by Frank Bangs, c.1917

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1923 Dancer Florence Kolinsky striking a pose from her Leopard Dance act which she performed as a member of Gertrude Hoffman's Troupe as they toured Europe and the United States. They even appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies from 1923-25. From The Glam of the 1920s, FB.

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 Museum’s ongoing exhibition Activist New York recently debuted a new case study that explores the battle over birth control and obscenity laws that raged in New York at the turn of the 19th century. A visitor to the new “Social Purity” case will notice a photograph of a scantily clad woman lounging in front of a lion skin. This is the dancer Gertrude Hoffman (sometimes spelled Hoffmann), and it was her portrayal of the princess Salome and her subsequent arrest that earned her a spot in the exhibition.

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PAKİSTANLI MÜSLÜMAN BİR BİLİM ADAMININ İLGİNÇ ARAŞTIRMASI..

Dünyada yalnızca 14 milyon Yahudi var;

~Amerika'da 7 milyon,

~Asya'da 5 milyon,

~Avrupa'da 2 milyon,

~Afrika'da 100 bin

Adet Musevi yaşıyor..

Soru: Pekiyi de kaç adet Müslüman İnsan var?

Cevap: 1,4 milyar Müslüman;

~1 milyar Asya,

~400 milyon Afrika,

~44 milyon Avrupa,

~6 milyon Amerika

Kıt'asında Yaşıyor.

👉Yâni Dünyada 1 Musevi’ye Karşın 100 Müslüman Var...

İyi ama Yahudiler Müslümanlardan niçin 100 kat daha güçlü ve daha zengin ve daha eğitimli ve daha mucitler?

Tarafsız ve Bilimsel Yollarla tespit edilmiş nedenlerini öğrenmek istiyorsanız lütfen okumayı sürdürün.

👉Tüm zamanların en etkin bilim adamı Albert EİNSTEİN bir Yahudiydi.

👉Psikanalizin babası Sigmund FREUD bir Yahudiydi.

👉Karl MARKS Yahudiydi.

Tüm İnsanlığa zenginlik ve sağlık katmış Yahudilere bakalım;

👉Benjamin Rubin insanlığa aşı iğnesini armağan etti.

👉Jonas Salk ilk çocuk felci aşısını geliştirdi.

👉Gertrude Elion lösemiye karşı ilaç buldu.

👉Baruch Blumberg Hepatit-B aşısını geliştirdi.

👉Paul Ehrlich frengiye karşı tedaviyi buldu.

👉Elie Metchnikoff bulaşıcı hastalıklarla ilgili buluşuyla Nobel ödülü kazandı.

👉Gregory Pincus ilk doğum kontrol hapını geliştirdi.

👉Bernard Katz nöromasküler iletişim kaslarla sinir sistemi arası iletişim alanında Nobel ödülü kazandı.

👉Andrew Schally endokrinoloji metabolik sistem rahatsızlıkları, diyabet, hipertiroid tedavilerinde kullanılan yöntemi geliştirdi.

👉Aaaron Beck Cognitive Terapi’yi akli bozuklukları, depresyon ve fobi tedavilerinde kullanılan psikoterapi yöntemini geliştirdi.

👉Gerald Wald insan gözü hakkındaki bilgilerimizi geliştirerek Nobel ödülü kazandı.

👉Stanley Cohen embriyoloji embriyon ve gelişimi çalışmaları dalında Nobel aldı.

👉Willem Kolff böbrek diyaliz makinesini yaptı.

👉Peter Schultz optik lif kabloyu, Charles Adler trafik ışıklarını,

👉Benno Strauss paslanmaz çeliği,

👉Isador Kisse sesli filmleri,

👉Emile Berliner telefon mikrofonunu,

👉Charles Ginsburg ilk bantlı video kayıt makinesini geliştirdi.

👉Stanley Mezor ilk mikro işlem çipini icat etti.

👉Leo Szilard ilk nükleer zincirleme reaktörünü geliştirdi.

Peki, ama;

~Son 100 Yıl içinde Yahudiler sadece Bilimsel alanda 104 Nobel Ödülü kazanırken,

~1.4 milyar Müslüman neden yalnızca 3 Nobel kazandı

Yahudiler niçin bu kadar yaratıcı ve neden bu kadar güçlüler? Yahudi inancına bağlı ve küresel çapta büyüyüp tanınmış şu yatırımcılara ve işadamlarına ve markalarına bakalım;

* Ralph Lauren (Polo),

* Levi Strauss (Levi's Jeans),

* Howard Schultz (Starbuck's),

* Sergei Brin (Google),

* Michael Dell (Dell Bilgisayarları),

* Larry Ellison (Oracle),

* Donna Karan (DKNY),

* Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins),

* Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Doughnuts)

* Richard Levin (Yale Üniversitesi'nin kurucu başkanı).

Yahudi inancına bağlı ve küresel çapta büyüyüp tanınmış şu sanatçılara bakalım:

* Michael Douglas,

* Dustin Hoffman,

* Harrison Ford,

* Woody Allen,

* Tony Curtis,

* Charles Bronson,

* Sandra Bullock,

* Billy Crystal,

* Paul Newman,

* Peter Sellers,

* George Burns,

* Goldie Hawn,

* Cary Grant,

* William Shatner,

* Jerry Lewis,* Peter Falk...

Yönetmenler ve Yapımcılar arasındaki Yahudiler:

* Steven Spielberg,

* Mel Brooks,

* Oliver Stone,

* Aaaron Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210),

* Neil Simon (The Odd Couple),

* Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1 /2 / 3),

* Michael Mann (Starzky and Hutch),

* Milos Forman (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus),

* Douglas Fairbanks (TheThief of Baghdat),

* Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) ,

* Kohen Kardeşler,

* William Wyler.

* William James Sidis

Sorun kendinize;

250’lik IQ derecesiyle Dünyaya gelmiş en parlak insan hangi dine mensuptur?

Sorun kendinize;

Neden Yahudiler bu kadar güçlüdür?

Cevabı şudur;

Her çocu��a ve her gence kaliteli eğitim verirler...

Bu eğitim türü sorgulayıcı (teslimiyetçi değil), araştırıcı (ezberci değil) ve yaratıcıdır (bilgi üretmek/bulmak içindir)

[honestlyboringperson]

Name: Elenore Hoffman/Lavigne

Age: 17

Wish: “Let me be free! Let me escape the Lavigne Manor!”

Magic: Flight

Weapon: Garden Shears

Likes: Roses, Truffle Oil

Dislikes: Confined Spaces, Betrayal

Element: Forest

Magia: Hexengarten

Teammates: None, but sometimes teams up with Amelia

Skill Level: Veteran

Witch/Doppel: Gertrud

A magical girl who hails from Berlin. Cold and standoffish, she can be hard to get along with and even harder to build a trust with. She adores roses and prides herself on her small rose garden she grew.

BACKSTORY

Elenore Lavigne was Born in a incredibly wealthy family in Germany and from a young age was raised to be the perfect young woman, with little to no freedom. Her only solace was a single red rose she grew in her bed room, and kept in a shoddy little pot. Kyubey approached her and she wished to be free.

That night, her butler approached her and stated that he was planning to run away, into another city in Germany. She accepted immediately, only taking her rose with her.

She was happy to live as Elenore “Hoffman” instead of Lavigne, and was hoping the world was as beautiful and happy like her rose. It was not, and she came face to face to the filth of humans and was bullied harshly. She even got some Magical Girl friends, only to have them betray her over and over again, making her cold and standoffish. She began to detest her own surroundings and became only fixated on her rose, and feeling like she was trapped once more.

When she and her butler were in poverty, the butler sold her rose to make money. Betrayed for the last time, she became a witch.

The last thing she saw was a vast rose garden and a pest trampling upon them.

Doppel Description

“Out of my sight.”

The doppel of distrust. It’s form is of a rose garden. Both the master and the doppel have mutual distrust of one and other, never completely relying on the other. When the doppel emerges, countless roses and brambles will grow under the doppel, blooming on whatever is in its way. The doppel treasures said roses and if one were to be unfortunate enough be be in the immediate area where the roses bloomed, the doppel will not hesitate to cut you to pieces using it’s giant garden shears and use the remains as a fertilizer, so in case the master is fighting with others, she must be careful to warn her teammates when the doppel emerges, but due to her more solitary nature, she almost never does.

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Gertrude Hoffman, 1917

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Albert Fish

March 30, 2023

***Trigger Warning: Lots of graphic nature and abuse of children***

Albert Fish was born Hamilton Howard Albert Fish on May 19, 1870 in Washington, D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. Randall was 43 years older than Albert’s mother Ellen, and was 75 years old when Albert was born. The pair had multiple children together, with Albert being the youngest. 

Albert began using the name Albert as a child, named after his dead brother so that his peers would stop calling him “Ham & Eggs” a childhood nickname he despised. 

Many of Albert’s family members suffered from different mental illnesses. Albert’s mother, Ellen, had what was known as “aural and/or visual hallucinations.” Albert’s father, Randall, had a heart attack and on October 16,1875 he died when Albert was only 5 years old. 

Ellen, being overwhelmed with her husband now gone placed Albert in the Saint John’s Orphanage where Albert was abused regularly. Albert would later begin to enjoy the pain he endured at the orphanage, the beginning of him experiencing sexual pleasure during pain or inflicting pain. 

In 1880, Ellen got a better paying job and was able to get her son back from the orphanage. In 1882, Albert had begun a relationship with a boy who introduced Albert to drinking urine and eating feces. Albert also began visiting public baths where he could watch young boys undress. 

Albert also began to write obscene letters to women who he would see their names in classified ads in the papers. 

In 1890, at the age of 20, Albert moved to New York City where he was a male sex worker and began to rape and molest boys, most of whom were under the age of 6. In 1898, Albert married a woman named Anna Mary Hoffman, who was 9 years younger than him. This was an arranged marriage Albert’s mother had set up. Albert and Anna had 6 children together: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry. 

In 1903 Albert was arrested for grand larceny and incarcerated in Sing Sing. Albert later said he had gone to a wax museum with a male lover once and became fascinated by the bisection of the human penis, which led to an obsession with sexual mutilation. 

In 1910, Albert met a man named Thomas Kedden. It was said that Thomas was intellectually disabled. The two began a sadomasochistic relationship, it is unclear whether Albert forced Thomas to do any of the acts. After 10 days, Albert took Thomas to an old farm house where he tortured him for two weeks, tying him up and cutting off half of his penis. 

Albert’s original plan was the kill Thomas and cut up his body. Albert feared he would be noticed if he tried to bring Thomas’ body back to his house, so he poured peroxide over the wound, wrapped it in a Vaseline-covered handkerchief, and left him $10. 

Albert never contacted or tried to contact Thomas again and does not know what happened to him after that. 

In January 1917, Albert’s wife left him for another man who had been boarding with them. Albert was then left to raise his children on his own, saying that his wife had taken almost everything they owned with her. 

Albert often began having auditory hallucinations, once wrapping himself in a carpet saying he was following instructions from John the Apostle. 

Albert began to self harm by embedding needles into his groin and abdomen areas. After he was arrested, the X-rays showed that Albert had at least 29 needles in his pelvic area. He would also hit himself with a nail studded paddle and would put wool covered in lighter fluid into his anus and light it up. 

It was never reported that Albert ever abused his own children physically, however it is said that Albert would encourage his children and their friends to hit him in the buttocks with the nail studded paddle. 

Around 1919, Albert had stabbed an intellectually disabled boy in Georgetown. Fish claimed he would go over intellectually disabled or African-American people because he did not think they would be missed. 

On July 11, 1924, Albert saw 8 year old Beatrice Kiel playing alone on her parent’s farm in Staten Island, New York. Albert offered the little girl money to come help him look for rhubarb. Beatrice was about to leave the farm when her mother chased Albert away. Albert later returned to the Kiel farm where he tried to sleep in their barn, but was discovered by Beatrice’s father. 

During 1924, Albert was suffering from psychosis and claimed God was commanding him to torture and sexually mutilate children. Three days after the Kiel’s, Albert murdered Francis McDonnell on Staten Island. 

Francis McDonnell

On July 14, 1924, 9 year old Francis McDonnell was reported missing when he did not return home from playing with friends. A search began and his body was found, hanging by a tree in a wooden area near his home. 

Francis had been sexually assaulted and then strangled with his suspenders. His left hamstring had been almost entirely stripped of flesh. Albert denied responsibility for this but did say he planned to castrate the boy but heard someone approaching so he ran off. 

Francis’ friends told police Francis had been taken by an elderly man with a grey moustache. A neighbour also claimed to have seen Francis with a similar looking man walking towards the woods. 

Anna McDonnell, Francis’ mother, said she also saw that man earlier in the day, claiming he had been coming up the street mumbling to himself and making motions with his hands. Anna said the man appeared faded and grey, this description eventually leading to “The Grey Man” nickname Albert was dubbed. 

Francis McDonnell’s murder went unsolved until Grace Budd. Albert denied the charges until March 1935, after the trial of Grace Budd’s murder, where he admitted to killing Francis and another boy, Billy Gaffney. 

Billy Gaffney

On February 11, 1927, 4 year old Billy Gaffney was playing in their apartment hallway with two other boys, ages 4 and 12. When the 12 year old left, the two smaller boys disappeared. 

The 4 year old, a boy named Billy Beaton was found on the roof of the apartments. Beaton said that the “bogeyman” had taken Billy Gaffney. Gaffney’s body was never recovered. A man named Joseph Meehan, a motorman on the Brooklyn trolley eventually recognized a picture of Albert, claiming that was the man he saw on the day Billy went missing. 

Meehan claimed the man had been trying to quiet a little boy on the trolley. The boy was not wearing a jacket and was crying for his mother. It was found that Albert had been working a few miles from the location Billy was taken at the time. 

Albert later confessed he had taken the boy, tied his hands and feet, and gagged him. He burned his clothes and left. The next day he went back with his tools and whipped Billy, cut off his ears, nose and slit his mouth from ear to ear. Albert also gouged out his eyes, and drank his blood. Albert cut off the head, arms, hands, legs and feet, and threw them in sacks with stones, throwing them into water. 

The rest of the boy Albert took home with him and ate. Billy’s mother travelled to Sing Sing to ask Albert about her son’s death but he refused to speak with her. Albert began to weep and asked to be left alone. After two hours of asking questions through his lawyer, Billy’s mother gave up and was not convinced he had killed her son. 

Grace Budd

On May 25, 1928, Albert saw an ad in the paper by a young man who wanted work. The young man was 18 year old Edward Budd, who lived at 406 West 15th Street. 

On May 28, Albert went to see the Budd family in Manhattan, claiming he wanted to hire Edward but was really planning to tie him up and mutilate him. Albert introduced himself as Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York. Albert told Edward he would take on him and his friend Willie, and would come back for them in a few days. 

Albert never showed up a few days later, sending a telegram that apologized to the family, setting up a new date for when he would return. 

When Albert came back, he met Edward’s little sister Grace, who was 10 years old at the time. Albert knew he immediately wanted to take Grace instead of Edward, so made up a story about going to his niece’s birthday party, asking Delia and Albert Budd if Grace could come along with him. 

Albert took Grace to an abandoned house, a house he had previously picked out for his next victim, before his plans changed and he took Grace instead. Albert murdered Grace Budd and claimed he ate her after as well.  

The police arrested a man named Charles Edward Pope on September 5, 1930 for the murder of Grace Budd after his estranged wife accused him. He spent months in jail and was his trial began on December 22, 1930. He was found not guilty. 

In November 1934, an anonymous letter was sent to the Budd family, claiming that whoever wrote the letter had murdered Grace and detailed how they had tortured her and then taken 9 days to eat her body. The letter did say that Grace had fought back, and that the writer, who was obviously “Frank Howard” had let Grace die a virgin. 

The letter eventually led police back to Albert Fish, who did not deny the murder of Grace Budd. He actually told police his original plan was to kill her brother, Edward. Albert claimed he had no intention of raping Grace, but when he was strangling her he had two involuntary ejaculations. 

This was used in trial to determine Grace’s kidnapping was sexually motivated, and it avoided the cannibalism. 

Albert’s trial for the murder of Grace Budd started on March 11, 1935. The trial lasted 10 days, where Albert pleaded insanity, claiming he heard God telling him to kill children. It was said that Albert was a “psychiatric phenomenon” and that there was no other individual in medical records who had this many sexual abnormalities. 

The jurors all believed that Albert Fish was insane, but they believed he should be executed anyway. So they found him sane and guilty and he was sentenced to death by electrocution. 

Albert Fish was executed on January 16, 1936, in the electric chair in Sing Sing. It was said that Albert had actually helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body before he died. He last words were, “I don’t even know why I’m here.” 

According to a witness, it took two jolts before Albert died, and rumours circulated that it was due to the needles that he had inserted into his body for years. These rumours turned out to be untrue, as it was claimed that many individuals in the electric chair take more than just one jolt to die. 

After Albert’s execution, his lawyer, James Dempsey said he had Albert’s final statement, which was multiple pages of hand-written notes that Albert had written hours before his death. When journalists asked Dempsey to say what Albert had written, he replied, “I will never show it to anyone. It was the most filthy string of obscenities that I have ever read.” 

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The File on Thelma Jordon

Barbara Stanwyck is such a good actress that she never tips her character’s hand in Robert Siodmak’s last Hollywood film noir, THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON (1949, TCM, YouTube). Whenever she talks of her character’s past, it’s an acting lesson in how to personalize the most minute detail simply and effectively. Even more impressive, she manages to look at Wendell Corey with passion in her eyes. Corey had been playing supporting roles effectively for producer Hal Wallis since his film debut in 1947, so the producer promoted him to leading man as the assistant district attorney who risks his family and career when he falls for Stanwyck and tries to help her dodge a murder rap. Initially, she comes to his office to ask for police protection for her rich, elderly aunt (Gertrude Hoffman, who deserves more screen time), claiming there have been break-ins at the old woman’s mansion. He’s drunk when they meet and immediately comes on to her. That she seems to tumble for him suggests she’s up to no good since a) he’s not all that hot, and b) he plays the drunk scene all wrong, giving into the disorientation rather than fighting it. Later he has to play innocent in a scene with the D.A. (Barry Kelley), and his mock sincerity is so phony you expect the boss to laugh in his face. Corey only scores in one scene, in which he confronts Stanwyck with her checkered past. His gaunt face and height work well there. For the rest, I couldn’t help wishing Wallis had given the role to his main leading man at the time, Burt Lancaster. I appear to be in the minority on this. A lot of critics, even today, think it’s a solid performance. Well, that’s just the kind of hairpin I am. Anyway, it’s a pity, because Siodmak and cameraman George Barnes have created a terrific-looking film, and, except for some misguided “comic” music during Corey’s drunk scene, Victor Young creates a powerfully romantic score. I should have guessed he wrote the music when the first few bars of the title cue made me weak in the knees. There’s also a great supporting cast, with Paul Kelly as a homicide detective, Joan Tetzel as Corey’s long-suffering wife, Richard Rober as Stanwyck’s evil friend, Mary Gordon in an effective, silent bit as a cleaning woman and, best of all, Stanley Ridges as Stanwyck’s defense attorney. The veteran actor has a great, florid, barnstorming role and he seizes it with gusto. In his main scene with Stanwyck, they connect so well, you’ll wish they had more time together.

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Gertrude Hoffman 1917

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Found it!

"There's an exciting promise of an astonishing matrimonial team in vaudeville after Oct. 14 next. On or about that date, according to present announcements, "Saiome Dancer" Julian Eltinge is to become the husband of Boy-Impoersonativer Eva Tanguay. The prospective bridegroom, a graduate of Harvard, is famous for his skirted portrayals of female roles, his Saiome dance being as much like the real thing, it is said, as the best efforts of Gertrude Hoffman or Maud Allan. The prospective bride, arrayed in white tights and yacating(?) cap, which her hair tucked up until she looks like the cutest of lads, has made her biggest hit singing "I Don't Care!" It's a rollicking ditty, and women go fairly wild over Miss Tanguay as a boy-precisely as the Harvard undergraduates did over Mr. Eltinge as a girl, Saiome or otherwise."

Page 2 if you want to read the rest.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 18, 1908

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Birthdays 8.8

Beer Birthdays

Bob Smith; A.A. founder (1879)

Gretchen Schmidhausler

Jeff Barkley (1984)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author (1952)

Urbie Green; jazz trombonist (1926)

Robert Johnson; blues guitarist (1911)

Ernest Lawrence; physicist (1901)

Roger Penrose; British physicist (1931)

Famous Birthdays

Richard Anderson; actor (1926)

Jack Baldwin; English chemist (1938)

Martin Brest; director & screenwriter (1951)

Charles Bullfinch; architect (1763)

Terry Burnham; actress (1941)

Don Burrows, Australian woodwind player (1928)

Adolf Busch; German violinist & composer (1891)

Rory Calhoun; actor (1922)

Keith Carradine; actor (1949)

Benny Carter; jazz musician (1907)

Amalia Catharina; German poet & composer (1640)

Cécile Chaminade; French pianist & composer (1857)

Ben G. Davis; English chemist (1970)

Dino De Laurentis; film producer (1919)

Paul Dirac; English-American physicist (1902)

Dominic; founder of the Dominicans (1170)

David "The Edge" Evans; rock guitarist (1961)

Roger Federer; Swiss tennis player (1981)

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris; painter (1863)

Anton Fig; South African-American drummer (1952)

Chris Foreman; English rock guitarist (1956)

Arthur Goldberg; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908)

Matthew Henson; arctic explorer (1866)

Gertrude Himmelfarb; historian (1922)

Dustin Hoffman; actor (1937)

John Holmes; adult actor (1944)

Francis Hutcheson; Irish philosopher (1694)

Michael Johnson; pop guitarist, singer (1944)

André Jolivet; French composer (1905)

Godfrey Kneller; German-English painter (1646)

Drew Lachey; singer and actor (1976)

Katie Leung; Scottish actress (1987)

Shawn Mendes; Canadian singer-songwriter (1998)

Axel Merckx; Belgian cyclist (1972)

James Morgan; Welsh actor (1985)

Donny Most; actor (1953)

Terry Nation; Welsh-American author & screenwriter (930)

Deborah Norville; television host (1958)

Jan Pieńkowski; Polish-English author & illustrator (1938)

Webb Pierce; singer-songwriter (1921)

Robin Quivers; radio personality (1952)

Károly Reich; Hungarian illustrator (1922)

Jessie Rogers; adult actress (1993)

Sylvia Sidney, American actress (1910)

Bob Smith; physician and co-founder of AA (1879)

Connie Stevens; singer, actor (1938)

Charlotte Stokely; adult actress (1986)

Simon Taylor; English journalist & author (1944)

Sara Teasdale; poet (1884)

Joe Tex; singer (1933)

Mel Tillis; country singer (1932)

John Turteltaub; film director (1963)

Margaret Urban Walker; philosopher (1948)

Friedrich Georg Weitsch; German painter (1758)

Esther Williams; swimmer & actress (1921)

John David Wilson; English animator (1919)

Serena Wilson; belly dancer (1933)

Jimmy Witherspoon; jump blues singer (1923)

Faye Wong; Chinese pop singer (1969)

Emiliano Zapata; Mexican revolutionary (1879)

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1914 American dancer Gertrude Hoffman by Frank C. Bangs. From Karen Starr, FB.

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Wendell Corey and Barbara Stanwyck in The File on Thelma Jordon (Robert Siodmak, 1950)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Willis, Richard Rober, Minor Watson, Barry Kelley, Gertrude Hoffman. Screenplay: Ketti Frings, Marty Holland. Cinematography: George Barnes. Art direction: Hans Dreier, A. Earl Hedrick. Film editing: Warren Low. Music: Victor Young.

The chief problem with The File on Thelma Jordon is casting. Barbara Stanwyck's performance is terrific, of course, Robert Siodmak keeps a complex plot from snarling, and George Barnes's lights and shadows are eloquent. But Stanwyck is paired once again with Wendell Corey, who was her ineffective leading man in Anthony Mann's otherwise splendid The Furies, also made in 1950. Corey has no charisma and no depth. The screenplay may be at fault in not letting us see why Cleve Marshall's antagonism to his father-in-law is driving him to drink -- and into the arms of Stanwyck's scheming Thelma Jordon -- but Corey's hangdog manner doesn't help. Nor does he bring much visible intelligence to Marshall's scheming to undermine his own defense of Thelma when she's brought to trial for killing her aunt -- a murder he helped her cover up. The ending is also a bit of a muddle, largely because the Production Code meant that Thelma's crime had to be punished. What could have been a classic film noir ends up only a passable one.

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A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller | Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty | A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien | Not Your Sidekick Series by C.B. Lee

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Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood

P

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood | Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan | Pet by Akwaeke Emezi | Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth | The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde | A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Q

R

The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson | Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood | Ruination by Anthony Reynolds

S

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket | The Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo | Sherlock Holmes by Sir Conan Doyle | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares | Starters by Lissa Price | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk | A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

T

The Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman | These Ruthless Deeds by Kelly Zekas & Tarun Shanker | These Vicious Masks by Kelly Zekas & Tarun Shanker | To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers | Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Elizabeth May | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

U

Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld | Until I Find You by John Irving

V

W

The Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers | Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire | When Christmas Comes Again: The World War One Diary of Simone Spencer by Beth Seidel Levine | The Wicker King by K. Ancrum | William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope | A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L'Engle | The Witcher Series by Andrzej Sapkowski | The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell | The World According to Garp by John Irving | A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

X

Y

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Young Elites Series by Marie Lu

Z

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O'Brien

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THE PUELLA MAGI CHRONICLES

Yes I am redoing this series, while I could just repost my old designs and call it a day, those designs are cringe and I developed a slightly new artstyle, so I will be drawing up new designs and will actually put their backstory in the profile, but I will be dropping some details nd will be using a new format.

If you want to see the older designs, go to @witchmagia as they reblogged most if not all my old designs, and the font used in the new format are by @inochi-pms-things

Once again, This series is about the witches of Madoka Magica when they were magical girls. Their wishes, downfall, weapons and magic powers will be listed along with likes and dislikes as well as how experienced they are. This list will be semi regularly updated.

Note: I sometimes completely redo the magical girls to better fit the witch. The newer magical girl will be listed with the old magical girl.

MAIN SERIES/PORTABLE GAME

Gertrud - Elenore Hoffman

Suleika - Jong Seoyeon/Pak Myung-Hee

H.N. Elly (Kirsten) - Angelica Atchikita

Albertine - Sienna White

Gisela - Amelia Santos

Elsa Maria - Maria Köhler

Uhrmann- Inui Itsumi

Izabel - Isabella White

Patricia - Qin Yangin

Roberta - Myrtle Vermouth

Quitterie- Ichika Kinomoto

Walpurgisnacht - Saint Walpurga

MOBAGE

Witch of Sewing (Marisol) - Josephina De Leon

Witch of Springtime (Mimosa Pudica) - Sakura Hanabusa

Cell Witch (Ideonella Sakaiensis) - Talia Alagona

Witch of Frogs (Hausmärchen) - Matsui Masuyo

Witch Who Wants to Be a Bird (Quelea) - Hao Bùi

Giraffe Witch (Dolores) - Stephanie Garcia

Witch of Dreams (Pleasance) - Lei Chuntao

Diva Witch (Jezebel) - Ryoko Akamatsu

MOBILE GAMES

Zenobia - Yuriko Shinomura

Candy - Candice Myoga

Stacey - Ariadne Whitlock

Rebecca - Alora Tremblay

Teresa - Agnes Clifton

Lucy - Yuuka Uchihara/Luciana Korhonen

Shin - Michiko Matsubara

Durbar - Umemoto Yoko

Paola - Seo Kameko

Box Wood - Hanzaki Agawa

Oshiti - Megumi Yasukuni

Raspberry - Yosselyn Novikoff

Mapycᴙ - Sakiko Wakabayashi

Slave of Anima - Jessica Pottinger

10^-43 - Phoebe/Grace Diamanté

Made in 168 - Chiki Tamaki

MANGA

Rosasharn - Nanako Ito

Stacy - Caitlyn Rosenberg

Cecil - Otsuyu Kazue

Virginia - Zhang Tung-Mei

Hungrige Pumpe - Sylvana Lorenzo & Milana Donini

Prologue - Jane D. Goodman