#lydecker

[loisfreakinglane]

[forthegothicheroine]

Every day I see more instances of the Fancy Sadist Problem (fictional man is cruel towards a woman but he's effeminate so people argue what he did to her can't have been sexual) and every day I wonder if I just have hetero blinders on or what. Because maybe? But I don't think always?

[dabiconcordia]

The Call

I try to be a patient son each time Ma rings me on the phone. This time I blurted, “Gotta run! I’ll call you back when I get home.” Barbara Lydecker Crane

[whoslaurapalmer]

laura (1944) / laura by vera caspary -- waldo and laura meet

bonus deleted scene from the movie script, with a third interpretation of their meeting --

[nickysfacts]

Happy hauntings, hope you enjoy your visit!🪦

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[bowling-with-skulls]

i really love this movie

[sweetfirebird]

The fun thing about reading books about old Hollywood and then watching old movies is knowing that Sheridan Whiteside from The Man Who Came to Dinner and Waldo Lydecker from Laura are based on the same guy: Alexander Woollcott, who was just that queer (ace, gay, homoromantic? who knows), and how Hollywood was scared that having Monty Woolly play him would possibly make him SO GAY that Middle America might twig to it and that was a legit concern.

Also it's knowing that one of the two writers of the play this is based on was mentioned in the diary of I think Mary Astor and that diary entry was *read aloud in court* in her husband's divorce proceedings against her because she describes sex with him and anyway, he made her come five times.

Is this knowledge useful in any way? NOPE. But it's in my brain. and useless because I can't remember if mr five times was kaufman or hart.

Anyway.

[astromechs]

oh it's that time again. obsessed with my own au.

[eleancrvances]

finally started reading "laura" by vera caspary, and never have i been more delighted to realize we'll be getting various first person narrations and that the first pov is waldo's, who says outright in the second chapter he's gonna be describing scenes he wasn't present for because he can. i love it when liars lie. and i love it when they're wrong. "mcpherson is the hero but not the interpreter, that is my omniscient role" you're not gonna like who narrates next buddy

[anintelligentoctopus]

Listening to the Lux radio version of Murder, My Sweet and suddenly realised the reason Amthor -who is not being played by Otto Kruger- sounded so familiar is because it’s none other than radio!Marlowe himself Gerald Mohr

[loisfreakinglane]

I saved his life. And here I thought I was special.

[bxrningblack]

⚠ Amanda Lydecker :3

Bad powerpoints - Still Accepting @arkhamcalamity

[batgovernor]

Using form: Couplets: Barbara Lydecker Crane, 'Secret Adages'

“Write nothing down in ink” is the secret’s first rule; “You promise not to tell?” said the secret’s first fool. A secret’s likely safe if entrusted to a stranger; one who knows no English will further lessen danger. Don’t hide a guilty secret no other person knows; like mold behind a ceiling, a spreading fester shows. Secrets may be sweet, too delicious not to share. To savor them together might…

[whoslaurapalmer]

laura (1944) / laura by vera caspary -- baseball games

bonus still from a deleted scene where mark makes it to the game (with company) --

[hauntjaunts]

Disney Haunted Mansions: Inspired by real haunted houses?

Haunted Mansions in Magic Kingdom (upper left) and Disneyland (lower right). Did real houses inspire each of the Haunted Mansions in U.S. Disney parks? What about the one in Tokyo Disneyland? Phantom Manor in Disneyland Paris or the Mystic Manor in Hong Kong Disneyland? Are they just reincarnations of either the Haunted Mansion in California or the one in Florida? Or are their designs conjured…

[mrmousetolliver]

Laura (1944) directed by Otto Preminger. Above NYC police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) questions newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) about the murder of advertising executive Laura Hunt. The character of Waldo Lydecker was originally written as being homosexual but due to the Hays Code all references to sexuality were removed. Preminger hired actor Clifton Webb to play the part. Webb had not been in a movie since 1930, but was well known on Broadway and in NYC. He was also Gay and while all written references to the characters sexuality were removed, countless articles have been written on the characters ambiguous sexuality.