#shirley o'hara

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1961, criminals pulled off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they were going to be wanted men and the gold too hot fence, they had themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[circusrat13]

Clara Bow and Shirley O'Hara in “The Wild Party” (1929)

[hairtusk]

if nobody has got me at least I know my folk ladies have got me 😔✊

[bookwormchocaholic]

Okay, I sort of did this poll yesterday and I goofed - I set it for one day instead of one week. I am reposting it and have added a few other couples.

[dearggntlereader]

DRUNK WITH DRABBLES stage 1. :☆｡ﾟ. ─

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Today is my self-care day and I have made it my mission to write as much as possible with each cocktail I drink :)) This is stage one aka the first cocktail (very delicious btw) aka the fluffy stage

You have ca. 2h to submit the fluffy prompts (till 17:00) and then we move to the next stage... :))

STAGE 2

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PROMPTS . :☆｡ﾟ. ────────────────────────────────

PINK GIN💒Them staring at you from across the room and getting flustered when you meet their eye

COSMOPOLITAN🏩"Come here, sweetheart."

SEX ON THE BEACH🩱"you feel my heart? That's how much you affect me, my love"

STRAWBERRY MOJITO👚"stop being so pretty, it hurts!!"

BLUEBERRY MOJITO👛pulling you in by your hips and whispering something you can't quite hear into your ear, hot breath on your neck

WATERMELON PROSSECO🎀"I can't stand you!" "Weird way to propose, but yes"

BERRY DAIQUIRI💗tickling you from the back before actually hugging you

SHIRLEY TEMPLE🩰DRUNK DNACING!!!

PINK GIN SPRITZ💌"why haven't you worn this before? you look gorgeous"

PINK LADY👡custom prompt

CHARACTER LIST . :☆｡ﾟ. ───────────────────────────

───── HARRY POTTER

ﾟ☆ marauders *:･ﾟ James Potter *:･ﾟ Remus Lupin *:･ﾟ Peter Pettigrew *:･ﾟ Lily Evans *:･ﾟ Dorcas Meadowes *:･ﾟ Pandora Lovegood

ﾟ☆ slytherin boys *:･ﾟ Mattheo Riddle *:･ﾟ Blaise Zabini

───── OBX

ﾟ☆ pogues *:･ﾟ JJ Maybank *:･ﾟ Kiara

ﾟ☆ kooks None yet

───── GILMORE GIRLS

ﾟ☆ gilmore girls *:･ﾟ Jess *:･ﾟ Tristan

───── PERCY JACKSON

ﾟ☆ book *:･ﾟ Percy Jackson *:･ﾟ Annabeth Chase

ﾟ☆ show *:･ﾟ Luke Castellan

───── SPIDERMAN

ﾟ☆ tasm *:･ﾟ Peter Parker

ﾟ☆ ATSV/ ITSV *:･ﾟ Hobie Brown *:･ﾟ Miguel O'hara

If you wanna be added to the taglist for this event, comment or send a request!!

EVENT STAGE 1 CLOSED

let me drink my next cocktail real quick so that we can move on to some Angst and hurt/comfort :))

[scotianostra]

11th March 1932 saw the birth of Binkie Stuart, the child film actress, in Kilmarnock.

Born Elizabeth Alison Fraser in Kilmarnock, to a musician father and actress mother, the blonde youngster was named "London's Most Beautiful Baby" at the age of two. After she won first prize in a Daily Mail competition in 1935, her father became her full-time manager and arranged for her to audition for film director Monty Banks, who wanted a child for his next film, a George Formby vehicle, Keep Your Seats Please.

The child's character was called "Binkie" in the film, and the name was appropriated for the young star, who was billed as "Binkie Stuart" he surname coming from her Scottish ancestry.

The movie's musical highlight was Formby's rendition of his famous hit, "When I'm Cleaning Windows". Stuart did a short table-top version of "I'm on the Tip of my Toes" which was strained and tentative, and all her major lines of dialogue were filmed in isolated close-up. The producer Basil Dean had tried to dissuade Banks from using her, maintaining that she was too young but, despite her obvious inexperience, her winsome personality and cute smile endeared her to audiences. Other minor films followed, but none of note

Until Stuart's biggest role in My Irish Molly, the last film made by Maureen O'Hara before her departure to the United States. As an orphan mistreated (yet again) by a domineering aunt, Stuart stole the film, described by one critic as "a Shirley Temple flick without Temple", but the advent of war prevented a planned trip to Hollywood and her film career came to an abrupt halt. Later there was some friction with her father when she rejected his plans for her to become a variety performer on the music-hall stage, insisting instead that she would become a dramatic actress.

She worked as a dental receptionist and, after a further unsuccessful attempt to become an actress in her mid-twenties, she became an assistant in an electrical store, where she met her husband John Prentice. The couple had three children, and Prentice died in 1980, after which Alison Prentice, as she had become, worked as a telephonist and a nurse.

She died on 15th August 2001, aged 69, it’s a shame there are no pics of her when she was older, and had World War Two not got in the way, who knows how she would have got on in Hollywood?

[lazzarella]

Top 10 Things

For some reason, I've decided to compile lists of my various top ten things, a completely pointless venture because I highly doubt anyone will read it, and I already know what they are, but I'm doing it anyway! lol

(I've included: bands; solo artists; albums; books; poems; graphic novels/comics; tv shows; BL series; murder mystery shows; movies; actors; actresses; directors; musicals)

BANDS

The Beatles

ABBA

Belle and Sebastian

Led Zeppelin

The Raveonettes

The Decemberists

Ramones

Blondie

Sparks

Judas Priest

SOLO ARTISTS

John Grant

Rufus Wainwright

Connie Francis

Kylie Minogue

Angel Olsen

Prince

Sufjan Stevens

Kate Bush

David Bowie

Keaton Henson

ALBUMS

Queen of Denmark by John Grant

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Rubber Soul by The Beatles

Picaresque by The Decemberists

Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin

You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand

Purple Rain by Prince

Transformer by Lou Reed

If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian

BOOKS

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

POEMS

Having a Coke With You by Frank O'Hara

Every poem in Crush by Richard Siken

The Second Coming by WB Yeats (alternatively, The Mermaid)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Tired by Langston Hughes

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS

Paper Girls

Ghost World

Persepolis

Bandette series

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant + sequels

The Fade Out

The Case of the Missing Men

The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

Nimona

TV SHOWS (that are not BLs or murder mysteries XD)

Spaced

Supernatural

The Hour

Buffy

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes

This is England 86/88/90

I Love Lucy

Pushing Daisies

Dark

In the Flesh OR The Young Ones OR Xena (I was going to choose but meh)

(A full list of my favourite TV shows on Serializd)

BL SERIES (MASTERLIST HERE)

Moonlight Chicken

My Personal Weatherman

KinnPorsche

Cherry Magic (Thailand)

Century of Love

Wandee Goodday

Old Fashion Cupcake

A Tale of Thousand Stars

Only Friends

Jack O'Frost

(I have a feeling Kidnap is going to take the place of one of these though)

MURDER MYSTERY SHOWS

Poirot

Marple

Rosemary and Thyme

Twin Peaks (it counts XD)

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Endeavour

Beyond Evil

Murder, She Wrote

Jonathan Creek

George Gently

MOVIES

(if I do subcategories for this, we'd be here all day! But ftr my favourite genres are film noir, musicals, rom-coms, horror—mostly slashers and gialli, 50s/60s sci-fi...)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Clue

Strictly Ballroom

Charade

Velvet Goldmine

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Call Me By Your Name

God's Own Country

Secretary

That Thing You Do!

(A full list of my favourite films on Letterboxd)

ACTORS

Robert Redford

Colin Farrell

James Spader

Keanu Reeves

Danny Kaye

Humphrey Bogart

Dirk Bogarde

Frank Sinatra

Jack Lemmon

Ben Whishaw

ACTRESSES

(only separating by gender to get more in XD)

Doris Day

Audrey Hepburn

Amy Adams

Lucille Ball

Jane Fonda

Kirsten Dunst

Marilyn Monroe

Nicole Kidman

Michelle Williams

Cate Blanchett

DIRECTORS

Gregg Araki

Alfred Hitchcock

John Waters

Sofia Coppola

Agnès Varda

Wes Anderson

Billy Wilder

Pedro Almodóvar

Stanley Donen

Dario Argento

MUSICALS

(only counting ones I've seen productions of myself)

The Rocky Horror Show

Little Shop of Horrors

Aladdin

Matilda

Cats

Chicago

Hairspray

Wicked

Singin' in the Rain

9 to 5 tied with Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

[greenerteacups]

Miss 🍵 who are your best written female characters of all time?

o my God this is like asking a mother of thousands to name her favorite child. possible but extremely hard. okay. catherine earnshaw. ("I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”) power gap. lady macbeth. esther greenwood. anna karenina. sethe. joan didion's narrative voice. penelope. clarissa dalloway. fermina daza. stella kowalski (nee dubois). jo march. amy march. briony tallis. scarlett o'hara. emma woodhouse. lila cerullo (the neopolitan novels).

bonus "i like these characters very much but probably for reasons not related to literary merit, which is not to say they lack it, but that for them i am wearing heart-shaped rose-tinted glasses and always will be": marianne sheridan, anne shirley, lizzy bennet, sophie hatter, harrowhark nonagesimus, mina harker, cecilia tallis, and that one girl in the social network who gets to deliver this specific line to mark zuckerberg/jesse eisenburg: "You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."

[nicky35]

if they got together then, that means tobin was still with shirley technically because shirley reposted tobin's pic when usmnt lost to costa rica and tobin was wearing shirley's jersey and then tobin flew to paris to break up with her before coming back to be honored at unc and chill with kelley o'hara in California and meanwhile christen went to africa for grassroots soccer so they finally reunited in hawaii and bourbon st

i mean the thing about tobin and shirley is that we really know so little and its all speculation so i'm not gonna assume cheating or anything went on when there's even less known about their earlier relationships.

[dhaaruni]

I'm reading some literary criticism on heroines (not the Kate Zambreno book) so here are my top 10 literary heroines in no particular order:

Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind)

Cathy Ames (East of Eden)

Cordelia (King Lear)

Cathy Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights)

Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

Nancy Drew

Stacey McGill (The Babysitters' Club)

Amy Dunne (Gone Girl)

Becky Sharpe (Vanity Fair)

Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Bonus points for like, all the evil/complicated women in ancient Greek/Roman texts (Medea, Clytemnestra, Antigone, Cassandra etc.) as well as like, Guinevere and Nimue (the Lady of the Lake) from Arthurian legend

[old-hollywood-smash-or-pass]

Didn't see any request or expired poles for these so any and all of the following that haven't appeared or been queued:

Marion Davies, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Dick Van Dyke, Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, Ginger Rogers, Vivien Leigh, Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Judy Garland, and William Holden.

Thanks for the fun polls :)

None of them have been posted so far, but they've now been added, and will be posted through the next couple of months.

I'm so glad you enjoy them!

💖

[allmyfriendsareheathens]

If 4Kids got Love Live

μ's

Honoka Kousaka - Holly Kennedy

Eli Ayase - Ellie Andrews

Kotori Minami - Courtney Millard

Umi Sonoda - Amy Sanders

Rin Hoshizora - Lynn Harris

Maki Nishikino - Mackenzie Nicholas

Nozomi Tojo - Nora Thomas

Hanayo Koizumi - Hannah Carters

Nico Yazawa - Nikki Lee

Aqours

Chika Takami - Chelsea Tucker

Riko Sakurauchi - Rachel Scott

Kanan Matsuura - Katie Maddison

Dia Kurosawa - Diana King

You Watanabe - Louise Williams

Yoshiko "Yohane" Tsushima - Joanne Stewart

Hanamaru Kunikida - Hazel Curtis

Mari Ohara - Marie O'Hara

Ruby Kurosawa - Ruby King

Nijigasaki

Yuu Takasaki - Lori Thompson

Ayumu Uehara - Amaya Harrison

Kasumi Nakasu - Cassie Nathans

Shizuku Osaka - Zoey Owens

Karin Asaka - Karen Avery

Ai Miyashita - Ally Michaels

Kanata Konoe - Kayla Kelly

Setsuna Yuki/Nana Nakagawa - Stella York/Nella Norman

Emma Verde - Emma Green

Rina Tennoji - Lina Tenson

Shioriko Mifune - Stephanie Miller

Mia Taylor would stay the same

Lanzhu Zhong - Lindsay Zhong

Liella

Kanon Shibuya - Kaitlyn Stanford

Keke Tang - Coco Tang

Sumire Heanna - Samantha Hill

Chisato Arashi - Charlotte Alan

Ren Hazuki - Lena Harolds

Kinako Sakurakoji - Cindy Simons

Mei Yoneme - Mae Young

Shiki Wakana - Shirley Wilson

Natsumi Onitsuka - Natalie Oscar

[maudeboggins]

tagged by @clove-pinks, thank you!

Favourite colour: turquoise/teal or anything blue-green

Last song: i've been listening to this song on repeat

Last movie: Jamaica Inn, which is not great. Maureen O'hara is one of the great beauties of cinema though. And I love Charles Laughton.

Currently watching: Lately, I've been watching horror movies on Tubi. Almost all are bad! I like the saw movies but found footage is maybe my favourite genre yet I've seen very few this year that are actually good!

Other stuff I watched this year: According to letterboxd I've watch 356 movies this years -_-

Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: dont drag me for this... but ... the terror amc. sorry i just can't get into it! i want to so badly but it doesn't grab me 😫

Currently reading: groucho and me (groucho marx's autobiography) and the family upstairs (lisa jewell). I usually have different books going at once as one will be for during daytime and one will be for before bed. Daytime books are always trashy lol

Currently listening to: i have a playlist of music that i always go to! it has: joanna newsom, shirley collins, and vashti bunyan (nothing else). I am big on listening to the same song on repeat until the sounds lose meaning

Currently working on: Knitting hats. I finished a beret yesterday and doing a turban today. Also working on a pattern for fingerless gloves but I've already knit 1.75 pairs (or 3¾ gloves) and I am BORED. I need to finish them as they are going to be gifts for people (so I need one pair for myself, one for my partner, and two pairs for my in-laws) but I hate knitting the same thing over and over

Current obsession: The Marx Brothers 🥺

Tagging: @c0ldbrains, @norashelley, @shelveddoll ummm anyone else who wants to do this too! (i am so bad of keeping track of who to tag)

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Black and White, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Prince and the Pauper, aka Crossed Swords (1977) / Raquel Welch as Lady Edith

Scandal / Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope

"This seems to be the character's signature color combo; this is my favorite of the outfits I found but there are more."

Myra Breckenridge (1970) / Mae West as Leticia Van Allen

License to Drive (1988) / Heather Graham as Mercedes Lane

Rear Window (1954) / Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont

Blake's 7 ("Redemption," s2 e1) / Sally Knyvette as Jenna

Star Trek ("Shore Leave," s1 e15) / Shirley Bonne as Ruth

"Perhaps more multi- than B&W, but the biggest areas are black and white."

Easy Virtue (2008) / Jessica Biel as Larita Whittaker

Sleepy Hollow (1999) / Christina Ricci as Katrina van Tassel

Titanic (1997) / Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater

"I swear this looks black and white in at least some shots. But maybe it's navy and white?"

Schitt's Creek (left: s6 e14, right: s4 e13) / Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose

"The character wears black or black-and-white almost exclusively and has many striking outfits."

The Favourite (2018) / Emma Stone as Abigail and Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah

[byneddiedingo]

Dennis Weaver in Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)

Cast: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Fierstone, Lou Frizzell, Gene Dynarski, Lucille Benson, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglas, Cary Loftin. Screenplay: Richard Matheson. Cinematography: Jack A. Marta. Art direction: Robert A. Smith. Film editing: Frank Morriss. Music: Billy Goldenberg.

Of course the protagonist of Steven Spielberg's Duel is named David Mann. David vs. Goliath, man vs. machine, get it? This entertaining mashup of a road rage fable with a monster movie launched one of the greatest careers in movie history, and it began in that once-maligned medium, the TV movie. After its modest success as an ABC Movie of the Week -- it was only 18th in the rankings of TV movies for 1971, but got good reviews and, more importantly, attracted industry notice -- it was expanded into a theatrical feature that played internationally and had a limited release in the United States. Spielberg added the opening sequence of the car leaving the garage and hitting the road, wittily filmed from the point of view of the car, establishing it as much a character in the film as its driver (Dennis Weaver). Mann's phone call home to his wife (Jacqueline Scott) was added, their unresolved quarrel making his nervousness and irritability more credible. Adding the sequence with the stalled school bus gave Spielberg a chance to heighten the suspense by showing the tanker truck as a malevolent, lurking monster with a single-minded focus on Mann -- after he escapes, the truck gives the bus the push it needed. But even in the original version, the scenes at the gas station and in the diner are enough to establish Mann's isolation and helplessness. Spielberg's insistence on location shooting in rural Los Angeles County and along the Sierra Highway -- the producers wanted to control the budget by faking a lot of the movie in the studio -- adds immeasurably to the sense of Mann's solitary plight. Spielberg often has trouble ending his movies -- viz., the cemetery coda to Saving Private Ryan (1998) and the extended epilogue to Schindler's List (1993), both of which have stirred critical debate -- but he found the right one for Duel, with his victorious David tossing pebbles into the wreckage of the vanquished Goliath.