#OLD HOLLYWOOD

[anyataylorjoys]

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER 1940, dir. Ernst Lubitsch 

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe during hair tests for There's No Business Like Showbusiness, 1954.

[classic-hollywood-glam]

James Stewart and Donna Reed It's a Wonderful Life 1946

[hotvintagepoll]

I am going INSANE over some of this vintage couple photography. the women yanking the men’s heads up to look at them?? the ones where the man is cradled in her neck as they’re lying down. the ones where he is like worshipping her collarbones. holy fuuuuuckk what were they on

a few of my favorites

[bitter69uk]

“Death or the nunnery: in her most memorable roles Ava Gardner seemed predestined for one or the other. Her powerful appeal takes its resonance from western civilization’s unstated obsession with death, and the implicit understanding that certain people – the beautiful, the passionate, the headstrong or the too truthful – are chosen to be sacrificed for the rest of us. In this lies much of Garbo’s appeal as well, but what gave Gardner’s personality its own distinction is the wonderful gusto with which she lives life while it lasts, leaving it without regret when the time is up. In all her finest films she possesses this sense of destiny: Snows of Kilimanjaro, Pandora and The Flying Dutchman, The Barefoot Contessa, The Killers and Knights of the Round Table.” / From Hollywood Colour Portraits by John Kobal (1981) /

Born on this day 102 years ago: tempestuous screen goddess extraordinaire (publicized in the 1950s as “the World’s Most Beautiful Animal”) Ava Gardner (24 December 1922 – 25 January 1990). For anyone interested: the definitive biography is Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing (2006) by the late, great Lee Server (who also wrote the definitive biography of Gardner’s erstwhile lover Robert Mitchum).

“You want a friend? You can’t do better than Ava Gardner. Good Lord, do not ask her a question, any question, unless you want the unvarnished, peppery truth. She will level you with honesty, kindness, appreciation, open and pure love. If you deserve it, of course. Do not get on her bad side. It takes a lot to get there, but don’t get there. In the name of God - or anything.”

- playwright Tennessee Williams

[bettie-forever]

[forthegothicheroine]

The three types of World War II movies actually made in the 40s:

Circa 1945: Hey America, we're battered and bruised, but by god, if we stop fighting now, the world will end.

Circa 1941: Chins up, America, we'll have this all done in a jiffy, those foreigners don't know what they're up against!

Circa 1940: Hello America, British director here, JOIN THE FUCKING WAR!

[summertimenoir]

Vertigo (1958) - dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[hollywoodnoire]

Hedy had the beauty of a Goddess 💖✨💎🌙🌷🌸

When beauty meets brilliance the result is Hedy Lamarr.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[theglitterdome]

Merry Xmas from Yvonne De Carlo - 1947

[smokeprettyeve]

Jayne Mansfield decorating her Christmas tree (1960) ♡

[emmieswildside]

Sexy...

Joan Crawford

[twixnmix]

Marlon Brando photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1946.

Vogue (August 15, 1946):  

Found two seasons ago on Broadway, Marlon Brando is twenty-one, and very good indeed. His first big part was in "I Remember Mama"; last winter, he gave a superb performance as a war-shocked murderer in "Truckline Cafe"—the Maxwell Anderson play that ended up with Anderson calling the New York critics "the Jukes." In the spring, Brando was a stormy Marchbanks to Katharine Cornell's Candida. He was born in Bangkok, grew up here; has a chaos of hair, a wilful theatrical talent.

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Loretta Young