#PAULETTE GODDARD

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Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard (Modern Times, The Great Dictator)—hollywood royalty and real life married, these two convey a real chumminess when they're onscreen together so you believe they're not just shippable, they're pals <3

Paul Newman and Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)—My god, their chemistry. It's iconic. And very very sexy. They're kind of canonically in a throuple in the first one, so that's kind of like playing an actual romance. But also, they're the central relationships of both films and their inexplicable devotion to each other is a key driving force in them. Those blue eyed bastards. I love them.

This is round 1 of a mini Christmas tournament. Each poll lasts for three days. If you'd like to send additional propaganda supporting your favorite hot couple, you can reblog this post with your propaganda added, send it to my asks, or tag me in it. To vote in all the polls, click here. Happy holidays!

[additional sexy propaganda under the cut]

no additional propaganda submitted for Chaplin and Goddard

Redford and Newman:

The following propanda was submitted by the anon who lives in my vents:

[drags self out of the vents reeking of stale gasoline] SO ABOUT THAT NEW MINI POLL.......may i suggest: ROBERT REDFORD and PAUL NEWMAN in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. MY REASONING:

thagt was some of tha gayest shit i've ever seen in my entire life and i'm only 23

but for realsies, that movie was literally a love story between butch n sundance. every single thing they did, they did together

THEY'RE EVEN PERFECT OPPOSITES IN PERSONALITY—butch is the optimistic guy who never shuts up and is less intimidating than he looks; sundance is the pessimistic brooder who looks harmless because he's pretty, but is the most dangerous guy you'll ever meet

AND THEN,,,,,, EVEN WHEN THEY (SPOILERS) HAD THAT THROUPLEY THING GOING ON WITH ETTA IN BOLIVIA, AND ETTA EVENTUALLY WANTED TO LEAVE, SUNDANCE STILL CHOSE TO STAY WITH BUTCH AND DIE RATHER THAN LIVE A SEMI-SAFE LIFE WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!! LIKE!!!!!! GIRL WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!

AND THE FINAL SCENE I—i need to stare at a WALL—

plus the fact that paul newman and robert redford were actually besties irl meant that their chemistry was OFF THE CHARTS. even when i was A VERY STUPID LITTLE KID and i watched that movie for the first time, i was like ".......so um... are they, like, in love with each other and that lady?"

PLUS THE FACT THAT THE MOVIE WAS DIRECTED BY THE SAME GUY WHO WOULD LATER DIRECT THE STING AND THAT MOVIE WAS JUST AS, IF NOT MORE GAY, I—

O-|-< (← me lying dead on the ground)

THE TRUST, THE INTIMACY, THE BANTER, THE LOYALTY, THE INHERENT HOMOEROTICISM OF DYING SIDE BY SIDE—

they're gay, your honour.

ergo, dear mod, i humbly ask that you consider two of my blorbos for the mini poll bracket <3 if you need more information, literally just dm me or tag me, i'll be hangin' out in the vents 😎🤙🏼 as usual (unless my house explodes into bats)

[summertimenoir]

Allow me to tell you that you're the most beautiful ghost that ever walked!

Paulette Goddard in The Ghost Breakers (1940)

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PAULETTE GODDARD & NORMA SHEARER in THE WOMEN (1939) dir. George Cukor

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Marion Levy - aka - Paulette Goddard

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Paulette Goddard

[hollywoodlady]

Actress + Lipstick

Jean Harlow, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball, Ann Sheridan, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, Paulette Goddard and Claudia Cardinale.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Paulette Goddard (c. 1940)

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Paulette Goddard, photo by Laszlo Willinger

[citizenscreen]

Paulette Goddard poses in front of a Diego Rivera painting he made of her.

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Paulette Goddard

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[humanoidhistory]

Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard in a publicity still for The Ghost Breakers, 1940.

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Paulette Goddard loves a good ol' storm in The Ghost Breakers (1940)

[normasshearer]

PAULETTE GODDARD & NORMA SHEARER in THE WOMEN (1939) dir. George Cukor

[hotvintagepoll]

Paulette Goddard (Modern Times, The Women)—One of the few Glamazons of the era who I feel like also walked the line of just being A Weird Little Fella. She balanced out Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp by being The Gamin (or as I think of her, The Gremlin). If you don't believe me please watch her stealing bananas.

Thomas Mitchell (It's a Wonderful Life, Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings)—One of those job'bing character actors who turn up in a lot of movies in bit parts. He is a very good actor, with a lot of pathos—you probably know him as the uncle from It's a Wonderful Life, or Jean Arthur's newspaper friend from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. A salt of the earth type who brings gravitas and pathos to every part. He scrungles gorgeously.

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

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Paulette Goddard:

Thomas Mitchell:

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Paulette Goddard, photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1944