#Phyllis Douglas

[rottingchapel]

Just one chance Phyllis I’d treat you so much better than that 5’2 blue eyed baby demon please

[glitterypin]

Lady Jane utters one single word in this whole scene and yet she communicates with it more than her mum husband and her bestie combined.

[gatutor]

Sterling Hayden-Phyllis Stanley-Ann Sheridan "Take me to town" 1953, de Douglas Sirk.

[itsmyfriendisaac]

The Inkwell: after accidentally starting a garage fire, Drew Tate spends his Summer away from home & with affluent relatives in Martha’s Vineyard! Initially hesitant to explore the island, he begins encountering several local ladies that teach him valuable lessons in both heartache & affection!

[citizenscreen]

Melvyn Douglas and Phyllis Calvert in Compton Bennett’s MY OWN TRUE LOVE (1949)

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Man Who Liked Lions (5.8, ITC, 1966)

"As an enemy, Mr. Templar, I trust you'll prove an exciting opponent."

"I generally do."

[oldshowbiz]

The Mike Douglas Show (1975)

[ghassanrassam]

1947..Spencer Tracy is dictatorial, Hepburn is not happy with that

[letterboxd-loggd]

Thunder on the Hill (1951) Douglas Sirk

July 17th 2024

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[rottingchapel]

[clancarruthers]

PHYLLIS CARROTHERS MBE - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

DOUGLAS “DOUGIE”  AND PHYLLIS CARROTHERS The Queen’s Birthday 2011 Honours List Northern Ireland relayed exciting news for three delighted Fermanagh recipients, who will receive MBEs (Members of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). Recognition goes to Fermanagh District Councillor,  Mrs. Phyllis Carrothers, Chairman of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross…

[gatutor]

James Cagney-Phyllis Thaxter "Veneno implacable" (Come fill the cup) 1951, de Gordon Douglas.

[barkingbonzo]

The Women 1939

The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play of the same name and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code for it to be released.

The film stars Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, and Virginia Grey. Marjorie Main and Phyllis Povah also appear, reprising their stage roles from the play. Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Butterfly McQueen, Theresa Harris, and Hedda Hopper also appear in smaller roles. Fontaine was the last surviving actress with a credited role in the film; she died in 2013.

The film continued the play's all-female tradition—the entire cast of more than 130 speaking roles was female. Set in the glamorous Manhattan apartments of high society evoked by Cedric Gibbons, and in Reno, Nevada, where they obtain their divorces, it presents an acidic commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various rich, bored wives and other women they come into contact with.

Filmed in black and white, it includes a six-minute fashion parade filmed in Technicolor, featuring Adrian's most outré designs; often cut in modern screenings, it has been restored by Turner Classic Movies. On DVD, the original black-and-white fashion show, which is a different take, is available for the first time.

Throughout The Women, not a single male character is seen or heard. The attention to detail was such that even in props such as portraits, only female figures are represented, and several animals which appeared as pets were also female. The only exceptions are a poster-drawing of a bull in the fashion show segment, a framed portrait of Stephen Haines as a boy, a figurine on Mary's night stand, and an advertisement on the back of the magazine Peggy reads at Mary's house before lunch that contains a photograph of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

In 2007, The Women was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

[eretzyisrael]

by Phyllis Chesler

Dear President Trump:

Please, please, oh pretty please--pull America out of the United Nations. Tell them to take their hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption, and Jew-hatred, to the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland or to the golden deserts of Qatar. Maybe they can house their headquarters more appropriately in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Let the anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-democracy tyrannies pay their own way. Perhaps Europe can either increase their funding for the UN--or pull out as well.

I can think of many better uses for the 17-18 acres in the luxe Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, right on the East River, that the UN headquarters currently occupies. I bet you can too.

I know that the UN is a colorful place that draws many good woman of many colors, who are often wearing colorful, native dress. Women come there because they hope to meet others good women like themselves, or in the hope of finding employment. These are the members of NGOs which have absolutely no power whatsoever. But coming to Manhattan and speaking there looks good on their resumes, and it is also a way for them to mix it up with glamorized folk, get invited to yet another conference, impress their families.

Oh, what a good idea the UN once was! Read Australian-American, Shirley Hazzard, on how it had already failed its mission by the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Read her excellent short stories, based on her time as a clerical employee at the UN ("People in Glass Houses), and her superb non-fiction titles about the UN: "Defeat of an Ideal" (1973) and "Countenance of Truth" (1990).

I once also worked at the UN and saw, with my own naked eyeball, the sexual harassment and rape that was rampant among some high-ranking employers; how they also treated their home country servants as slaves; how much they spent on perks for themselves; and, with some exceptions, how dreadfully pompous, arrogant, and conformist many of the diplomats really were, and how cowed their employees had to be. 

The United Nations has never stopped a genocide; how rarely they ever tried to bring the evil perpetrators to justice. They have just done one thing well, namely, legalize antisemitism, legalize antiZionism. They lack the power to enforce a Western view of woman's humanity, on non-Western or even on Western countries with a large Muslim and/or tribal population. 

The Internationa Criminal Court is a proxy of the UN. In issuing arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense only, but no such warrants for a single genocidal terrorist or for their paymaster, Iran, Douglas Murray explains what they've really done. He writes: "It is like a foreign judge at the end of World War II saying that since the Nazi leaders were all dead he really ought to issue arrests warrants for Harry Truman and Winston Churchill--the other guys being otherwise engaged. After all, didn't FDR, Truman, Churchill and others end up having to kill people in their pursuit of victory in a war started by their enemies?"

Mister President: Get rid of the UN on behalf of We, the People. 

[queer-ragnelle]

hello! i was wondering if you knew of any text specifically about mordred? but not texts where he’s a one dimensional evil guy into evilly affairs, but someone complex still?

Medieval Texts:

The Vulgate Cycle

The Alliterative Morte Arthure

The History of The Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Modern Retellings:

[Mordred as protagonist/his point of view]

The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart

The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein

I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer

Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg

The Book of Mordred by Peter Hanratty

The Queen's Knight by Marvin Borowsky

Arthurian Tales by Phyllis Ann Karr

[Mordred as deuteragonist/not his point of view]

Idylls of The Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr

The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf

The Queen of Summer Stars by Persia Woolley

The Legend in Autumn by Persia Woolley

Arthur, King of Time and Space by Paul Gadzikowski