#OLD HOLLYWOOD

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Good News Everyday Update.

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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INGRID BERGMAN and GREGORY PECK as Dr. Constance Petersen and John Ballantyne in Spellbound (1945)

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Feel better?

Notorious (1946), directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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“Veronica Lake became one of the notable myth figures of 40s cinema because of her trademark hairstyle, long blonde hair constantly falling over one eye and constantly being brushed back … her look was so much imitated by factory girls that the government asked Paramount to change the style until after the war, as it was causing too many accidents. Lake had much more going for her than just her hair. She had a husky voice, sultry looks and an off-hand, casual manner that made her the sexiest star of the war years. She was teamed with Alan Ladd in five films, creating the kind of chemistry later generated by Bogart and Bacall … She didn’t make many good films – Paramount virtually discarded her after the war – but her best ones are dandies.”

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Great Movie Stars by Ken Wlaschin, 1979 /

Born on this day: impudent film noir bad girl and hard-drinking troublemaker Veronica Lake (née Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, 14 November 1922 – 7 July 1973). Dubbed “Moronica Lake” by Raymond Chandler, the pocket-sized Venus with the famous peekaboo ash blonde mane was 4’11” of pure badittude with an onscreen persona that set the template for later noir blondes like Lauren Bacall and Lizabeth Scott. I revisited Lake’s 1970 tell-all memoirs (Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake) a few years ago. It was considered explosive hot stuff at the time but read today it’s surprisingly dull (heavy on the show biz anecdotes and score-settling) and mainly notable for Lake’s eccentricity, her frankness about her post-Hollywood poverty and alcoholism and her casual indifference towards her four children. (She died aged 51 of acute hepatitis). Lake’s performances in Sullivan’s Travels (1941) and I Married a Witch (1942) are essential.

Portrait of Veronica Lake, 1942

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Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960)

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Elizabeth Taylor, London Airport, 1955.

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Nothing beats this dress 🖤

Audrey Hepburn wearing GIVENCHY – Sabrina (1954)

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Vincent Price circa 1938

colorized by me

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Good News Everyday!!

The Substance (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. Seriously. You’ve got to try this new product. It’s called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. It generates another you. A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you. And there’s only one rule: You share time. One week for you. One week for the new you. Seven days each. A perfect balance. Easy. Right? If you respect the balance… what could possibly go wrong?

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Joan Crawford

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Gary Cooper and Fay Wray in 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔, 1928.

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this is how it feels

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) dir. Blake Edwards

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Rarely a spirit so cheerful, was so cruelly silenced.

DONALD SPOTO

Marilyn Monroe . The Biography (1993)