#Susannah Foster

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Propaganda

Susannah Foster (The Phantom of the Opera)—christine daeeee

Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)— Moira Shearer is one of the most awe-inspiring dancers ever put to screen. Watching her performance in 'The Red Shoes' changed my fucking life. When I saw her in 'Peeping Tom' it was one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences I've ever had watching a film. Moira Shearer was not only an actress who can make you feel, she's an actress who can make you feel *desperately afraid* for her. An all-time favourite for horror, dance, and just her /presence/, man.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Moira Shearer:

Her performance in 'The Red Shoes' (if you ever have the opportunity to see this on the big screen, TAKE IT.)

[editor's note: if your TWs include death, dismemberment, or general freaky stuff, go forward with caution with these videos. Enjoy!]

Scottish flame-haired professional ballerina who made a successful move into films with ballet classic "The Red Shoes" and several other films. The best way to convey her beauty and grace is to see her in motion so gifsets are attached.

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Please check her out as Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, it's one of my favourite examples of automata ballet and she's so awesome in it

[hollywoodcomet]

Watching 1939: The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, that’s difficult. 1939 film: The Great Victor Herbert (1939) Release date: Dec. 6, 1939 Cast: Walter…

[sapphothetic]

david foster wallace, susannah irene, anne carson

[themightyacilius]

Tweets of the Week: 12 March 23

I don't want children's school lunches to be free. I think they should cost a lot and you, specifically, the person complaining about free lunches, should have to pay for them.— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) March 17, 2023 2. “Crazyism” in philosophy: (1) reminds me of Schwitzgebel’s “crazyism”: https://t.co/GsT3E6I6BI— Felipe Pereira (@fehloop) March 17, 2023 3. Sam Haselby on the good cop/…

[shirleyjacksonism]

"You love each other, you do, and there's the tragedy: it's not enough."

Claudia + Louis

"Deathless", Catherynne M. Valente / "On Fire", Beau Taplin / I Know, Fiona Apple / "Questions About the Father", Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers / "Initial Meeting", N.M. Sanchez / "The Pale King", David Foster Wallas / Die Your Daughter, Susannah Joffe

[grogusmum]

I don't want to be a wet blanket, I love Halloween in pretty much all its ways of being... but when the decorative merch, t-shirts, etc, come out each year with the "witch this," "salem that" all emblazoned with "est 1692"...

Well, it always sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth... because in the village in that year something really horrible happened.

Whether because of politics, land grabs, ageism/sexism, personal vendettas, economic competition, or ergot poisoned rye grain causing hallucinations and faulty thinking, it was all wrapped up in religious zeal and innocents were murdered.

So, every year at our Samhain program, I say their names and light a candle.

Bridget Bishop Age: 50s

George Burroughs Age: 42

Martha Carrier Age: 33

Martha Corey Age: 70s

Giles Corey Age: 70s

Lydia Dustin Age: 60s or 70s

Mary Easty Age: 56

Ann Foster Age: 70s

Sarah Good Age: 38

Elizabeth How Age: 50s

George Jacobs Sr. Age: 80s

Susannah Martin Age: 71

Rebecca Nurse Age: 71

Sarah Osborne Age: 40s

Alice Parker Age: not known

Mary Parker Age: 55

John Proctor Age: 60

Ann Pudeator Age: 70

Wilmott Redd Age: 50s

Margaret Scott Age: 77

Roger Toothaker Age: 58

Samuel Wardwell Age: 49

Sarah Wildes Age: 65

John Willard Age: 20s

I say your names and honor you today.

[scifipinups]

Doctor! Doctor!

When it comes to parts for women in sci-fi, I may be starting to pick up on a pattern here...

Kyra Zagorsky as Dr Julia Walker in Helix

Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shannon Kenny as Dr Claire Keeply in The Invisible Man (2000)

Kari Matchett as Dr Mariel Underlay in Invasion (2005)

Kim Cattrall as Dr Sheila Moran in Invasion (1997)

Deanna Russo as Dr Sarah Graiman in Knight Rider (2008)

Carla Gugino as Dr Molly Anne Caffrey in Threshold

Maria del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Gay Thomas Wilson as, respectively, Dr Haylen Breslauer, Dr Dru Breslauer and Dr Rema Cook in Mercy Point

Fiona Gaunt as Dr Helen Smith in Moonbase 3

Lee Meriwether as Dr Ann MacGregor in The Time Tunnel

Yvonne Craig as Dr Marjorie Bolan in Mars Needs Women

Diana Muldaur as Dr Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Susannah Harker as Dr Angela Marsh in Ultraviolet

Lynda Mason Green as Dr Suzanne McCullough in War of the Worlds (1988)

Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker

Jess Bush and Dr Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alison Pill as Dr Agnes Jurati in Star Trek: Picard

Carmen du Sautoy as Dr Gentian Foster in Astronauts

Debra Messing as Dr Sloan Parker in Prey

Helen Shaver as Dr Rachel Corrigan in Poltergeist: The Legacy

Denise Richards as Dr Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough

Hermione Norris as Dr Stella Isen in The Outcasts

Gretchen Corbett as Dr Maggie Sheridan in Jaws of Satan

Felicity Huffman as Dr Nancy Da Silva The X-Files 'Ice'

Louise Jameson as Dr Anne Reynolds in The Omega Factor

Vivian Wu as Dr Lu Wang in Away

Christina Wolf as Dr Cat Brandice in The Ark

Yvette Mimiuex as Dr Kate McCrae in The Black Hole

Saffron Burrows as Dr Susan McCallister in Deep Blue Sue

Kirstie Alley as Dr Susan Verner in Village of the Damned

And that's only the first 30! Stay tuned for the next installment!

[jknerd]

FOP AU OC: Timothea Turner

Full Name: Timothea Trinity Turner

Gender: Female

Occupation(s): Heiress of Turner’s Farm/Ranch, Owner of Foster Home

Residence: Turner’s Manor, Dimmsdale, California

Interests: Hearing her father’s public pronouncements, fairytales, outdoor gatherings

Family: Ebenezer Turner (father), Gerth Turner (mother; deceased), Unknown husband, Pappy Turner (Grandson), Gertrude (graddaughter), Darrick Turner (great grandson), Susannah Turner (great granddaughter-in-law), Timantha “Timmy” Turner (great-great-granddaughter)

Other relationships: Orville Buxaplenty (suitor), Valerian Star (friend, suitor), Charlie McBadbat (friend, suitor), Shelby Dinkleberg (suitor), Hank OxHorn (suitor), Taran V. D’Vil (friend, suitor), Alden Bitterroot (enemy), Dale Dimm (suitor, friend)

Character

Timothea Trinity Turner was a daughter of Ebenezer Turner, one of the founding members of Dimmsdale, bellman and a rich farmer. She is also Timmy’s ancestress. Unlike her occasionally unintelligent father, Timothea is fully aware of her position as rich farmer’s daughter and her beauty, she used her charm into good use; receiving money, jewels, and other valuables to use them on her Foster home for orphans, disabled, and former slaves as well as giving paycheck to her father’s workers. Her portrait has been kept in prime residence of Turner Ranch where Pappy Turner lives. Timothea bears a striking resemblance with her descendant.

Background

Timothea was a little girl when she and her father moved to California. With the dairy and farming business prospering, her father became a rich farmer. When she came of age, her father Ebenezer became one of founding members of Dimmsdale and was given a choice of what occupation he can have. When he chose to be a town crier, Orville Buxaplenty—the youngest member of founders—gained more wealth by becoming a railroad tycoon. She was seen comforting her father who regretted his choice by saying she enjoys his pronouncements, quickly cheering him up. She made official debutante, gaining mass population of suitors in Dimmsdale. Aware of what her charm and beauty can do, she decided to use them well to gain economical support from her suitors to feed the orphans, disabled and former slaves living in her recently built foster home.

It is further revealed that when she was a child, her father hired the Bitterroot family who are family of witch/wizards from Salem, Massachusetts. Their son, Alden—being same age as her—were her only companion and a friend as she knew he was a warlock, but kept a secret to protect their friendship. However, she felt concern witnessing his ambition for social power and his immense hatred for fairies. When she found a magic wand, she decided to use its magic to prosper Dimmsdale but Alden wanted it either destroyed or use it to eradicate all fairies. When he started to accuse god-children as witches, she confronts him with a help of Dale Dimm and had him sealed away as she can’t bear to see him burned alive. She then made a wish that the town doesn’t know about fairies and their existence to keep the fairies safe from Alden’s wrath. According to history, she married a man who came from poor background as he received her family name “Turner” and was known for having a buckteeth.

[nitrateglow]

Listening to the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1943 Phantom of the Opera. Susannah Foster and Nelson Eddy are in it, but Basil Rathbone is playing Erique instead of Claude Rains.

I haven't listened to much old time radio, but it's fun so far!

[hellhoundmaggie]

I'm feeling starved of Wayne content and I really like your opinions, do you have any random Wayne headcanons to share with us in these trying times?

I'm working on a big Wayne effortpost, but here's something to tide you over:

So you know how he's the Prisoner stuck in the Scarlet Estate we can see during the haunting in Ep 3? That's what the smart money's on, anyway. Anyway he knows everything the Scarlets have done. Well, I figure the old-timey Scarlets loved to play that big old piano in the Estate, and I bet they loved the music of Stephen Foster. Stephen Foster was a prolific Victorian composer of parlour and minstrel music, and many of his songs -- "Camptown Races," "Oh! Susannah," "Beautiful Dreamer," and more -- are still well-known today.

Wayne hates Stephen Foster songs. He thinks they're treacly, sentimental garbage for people with no taste, and listening to the Scarlets play them over and over and over again did nothing to change his opinion. Fastest way to get him to go ballistic is to play the opening bars of "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair." If MC tries it he'll smash that piano to splinters before he lets them play another note. Other than punching him that's the fastest way to lock yourself out of his romance arc.

[heretoreadmyfics]

🧸🎊❓️

Hey anon! Thanks for the ask!! Here’s some of my basic overview headcanons of the missing children!!

🧸 = Full Names, 🎊 = Personality,❓= Ages

Susannah “Susie” Anderson / Age 8 / Susie was regarded as a very confident and happy girl! She always had positivity to her, and she always had a smile to give others. She walked her dog and made sure to wave, she encouraged her brother to go ahead instead of staying behind her, but in the end, did all of that really matter? Yes. It did. In death, Susie doesn’t regret a thing she did in life, except for her last day…

Jeremy Anderson / Age 9 / Jeremy was very reserved, and preferred to stay in the shadows behind his sister Susie. Jeremy was very smart, and often liked to share facts along with Gabriel (his best friend of the 5, if he’s honest [and not counting Susie]). In death, Jeremy is very traumatized from the circumstances surrounding his death, but has improved in self-worth skills, as being Bonnie, to him, is being the cool guitarist bunny, and he has to keep it cool, for his favorite.

Gabriel Foster / Age 9 / Gabriel, while not being the oldest, definitely acted like it. Always having facts, bandaids, and general “mom friend” (dad friend?) energy. When Gabriel died, he couldn’t exactly always carry bandaids and such with him, but as Freddy, Gabriel makes sure that the rest of the gang always feel at the very least comfortable. Of course, this doesn’t stop him from mourning a lot.

Francis “Fritz” Rose / Age 7 / Fritz was the youngest victim, and as such, was very rowdy and energetic. In death, Fritz still keeps a childlike whimsy in him, confusing even Cassidy and Charlie, who don’t understand how even after all the horrible stuff that’s happened to him, how he still keeps that energy up. Fritz doesn’t understand it. In his mind, he just became his favorite, Foxy the Pirate Fox!

Cassidy Ha / Age 10 [turned 10 on her death day] / Cassidy. Cassidy was always regarded as “mature”, but she was really just a kid at heart. Which is why in death, she cannot let go of anything. She’s stubborn, impatient, and quick to anger. All is just a resentment. She shares Golden Freddy with Evan, the Afton boy, and is the determined leader between the both of them.

Send me an ask about my missing children!

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THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

[netherfeildren]

https://www.tumblr.com/sapphothetic/735001502886838272/david-foster-wallace-susannah-irene-anne-carson

my favorite little sith coded 🥺

ohhhhhh my best girl!! my poor girl !!!!!!!!! “i am someone who did not die when i should have died” i’m crying

[passing-through-tull]

my The Dark Tower fancast* that nobody asked for

*Disclaimer: I'm not going for actual castable people here. It's more about an approximation of what those characters are like in my head. We're talking baselines here. I chose pictures of the stage in those actors lives/careers that come close enough to my vision. I'm not only considering looks, but also their craft and if I think there is the right spark there somewhere in their work. (Also minor details like eye color and changeable things like haircuts don't matter much to me and my imagination.)

anyway:

of course we're starting with the man, the myth, old long tall and ugly:

Justin Theroux as Roland Deschain of Gilead, bitch. (give him some salt in that pepper hair, blue eyes, steal his moisturizer for a month and sandblast him: bam. Roland.)

Ka-Tet of 19

Naomi Harris as Susannah Dean (and you know, Detta/Odetta)

River Phoenix as John "Jake" Chambers. Love you, Bama.

...

And what about... Eddie Dean? So far I have not come across an actor (or anybody, really) who matched what Eddie looks like in my head. Big fucking shoes to fill, he's my favorite after all...

But I'm interested in other peoples ideas about that.

bonus

Mads Mikkelsen as Father Donald Callahan

Mejis Ka-Tet

Jake Gyllenhaal as Cuthbert Allgood

Sean Astin as Alain Johns

Anya Taylor Joy as Susan Delgado

bonus

Meg Foster as Rhea of the Cöos

[beckleysbooks]

Stephen Foster

Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated our anniversary over the the July 4th holiday in Bardstown, Kentucky. We had previously toured through the 19th century mansion, which Stephen Foster had called home as a child. The majestic mansion, which stood proudly over 1300 acres of plantation and was owned by Foster's uncle, John Rowan, looks very much today as it did yesteryear. However, during our recent visit, we took in an amphitheater production of Foster's life and music, one that has been performed every year since 1958!

I was surprised to learn that Stephen Foster was actually born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania and spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, but visited Bardstown and fell in love with the appeals of Southern life. He was also exposed to the cruelties exhibited during this time period to the slave population, which translated into and influenced his song writing. The biggest influence, though, was his besotted affection for the young lass, Jane McDowell, who hailed from Pittsburgh. So much of Foster's creativity was driven by his passion to win "Jeanie's" hand, as was the main point of the amphitheater production. Their story also reinforced to me the old adage, "Artisans" - those who create art - always can be found on the bottom of society's financial ladder. This message was the main theme of the show.

What I didn't know was that Stephen Foster had encounters with a young Andrew Carnegie, who became a driving force during the "Gilded Age"; a time period I feature in my upcoming sequel.

There was a full three hours of Stephen Foster's compositions within the production, which featured his claim to fame songs - "Camptown Races", Swanee River", "My Old Kentucky Home", and "Oh! Susannah", a song I used as my debut novel and historical fiction depicting my third great grandmother's life - Susannah Reigle. www.beckleysbooks.com

I couldn't help smiling as the actors belted out the lyrics to "Oh! Susannah" and everyone danced about on stage. Here I was in Kentucky and they were shamelessly playing this song, , the song which became the reason for the state of Kentucky banning my book last year. You see, I am driven by authenticity and when my publisher questioned me, not once, but three times as to the validity of the lyrics I used at the beginning of my book, I stated quite confidently that these were the exact words that Stephen Foster had penned. What I learned from the amphitheater event was that Foster used his experiences in black minstrels and parlours as inspiration for his compositions and at one point, exclusively wrote "Plantation Songs".

Stephen Foster was born in 1826 and died in 1864, and during this time period, especially in the South, it was common to use the "N" word throughout your daily life. So, that horrible word shows up in "Oh! Susannah" within Foster's lyrics, and thus, my literary work was banned! And, when I made my appeal, I was informed that the State of Kentucky is so serious about this issue, they took their official State song, "My Old Kentucky Home", and sanitized the lyrics of the offensive word to comply with today's etiquette. Ok, I pled guilty, and none of my books, which have several chapters embedded with life in Kentucky, will ever be distributed.

Moving on, Stephen Foster's life's story and his success as "The Father of American Music", would never have been known or retold today if not for his infatuation with Jane McDowell. Long story short, with his emotive appeals, he won Janie's hand, she forfeiting what might have been a comfortable life as the wife of the mayor of Pittsburgh. She reluctantly turned her back away from this lifestyle to take a punt on a struggling artist/composer. Perhaps Foster's direct emotional appeal via his popular song, "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair", made an heartfelt difference to his amour? Without doubt, Foster's strong point was his undoubted musicality, having taught himself to play the clarinet, guitar, flute, and piano, but his business acumen was not so good. Regardless, Jane McDowell followed her heart and chose Foster to marry in 1850. Sadly, due to overwhelming debts, the couple divorced four years later, and as depicted in the play, Foster's alcoholic demons took reign over his life.

Stephen Foster and Janie McDowell only had one child and there is no other reference of Foster having any family involvement after 1854. Stephen Collins Foster died on January 13, 1864, at the age of 37 and under suspicious circumstances. He was found in a pool of blood by his publicist in a hotel (flop house). Did Foster die three day's later from a serious neck injury due to a fall or was his death from a failed suicide attempt? His obituary mentions Foster having died of dissipation and drink.

I was amazed to learn that one of Foster's most famous songs, "Beautiful Dreamer", which was supposedly written to woo his mistress, Jane McDowell, wasn't actually published until after his death - 10 years after the marriage had ended. Notwithstanding, the emotive lyrics of Beautiful Dreamer gives one an impression of his mindset at the time of writing; "its only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away." Even more amazingly how a down and out composer could keep a song so personal and moving under wraps, it only surfacing posthumously.

Here are the lyrics, and if you are familiar with the the tune, don't be shy, sing it out loud, if no other place, then in the shower.

Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful Dreamer, wake unto me.

Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.

Sounds of the rude world heard in the day.

Lull'd by the moonlight have all passed away!

Beautiful Dreamer, queen of my song

List while I woo thee with soft melody;

Gone are the cares of life's busy throng.

Beautiful Dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful Dreamer, awake unto me!

[embracing-the-ineffable]

The cottage was built (by J Foster Construction, who did build sets for GO) for a 2013 show called The Mill! But it's fun to dream of our ineffables enjoying it as well. (Source: the entry dated Friday 28th February 2014 at https://vinchad.blogspot.com/2014/02/ )

"A notice on the barriers around the set give some information about the cottage. It reads:

Set construction

This construction site is a set build which will be used in filming the second series of The Mill' for Channel 4.

When complete the structure will be used as the exterior of 'Daniel and Susannah's Cottage'

The set is being built due to the logistics of the storyline. In the second series there will be more interaction between the characters that live in the village and at times, the storyline requires them all to be communicating with each other from their doorsteps. This would have been very difficult to achieve with the linear layout of the cottages in the village, however by adding an extra dimension with a set build the scenes can work.

The interior scenes for this location will be filmed in the studio set.

The second series of The Mill' will be filmed periodically in and around Quarry Bank Mill & Styal Village from February until May 2014.

National Trust

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Registered Charity 205846"

Thanks to the IDA's data squirrel for finding the details! 🤩

Feeling very normal about the construction company responsible for the Good Omens sets including this cottage under the “Prop and speciality builds” section in its portfolio.