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“The people think I’m odd. So, I know how it feels to be…different. And I know how lonely that can be.” Belle

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Francine Everett (Dirtie Girtie from Harlem U.S.A., Paradise in Harlem)— she wasn't known as 'the most beautiful women in harlem' for nothing. star of many an all-black film. not to mention one of her raised eyebrows eviscerates me

Toshia Mori (The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Blondie Johnson)—i think Toshia Mori is a great example of someone who clearly had the makings and charisma of a star & who its easy to imagine thriving in a less white supremacist system than 20s and 30s hollywood. she began acting in silent movies in the late 20s, and in 1932 was selected as a "WAMPAS Baby Star" which was an annual promotion of promising up-and-coming young actresses by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, becoming the first Asian woman to do so. previous baby stars included Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, and Joan Blondell, and another 1932 honoree was Ginger Rogers. this likely led to her most sizeable role in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (unfortunately a movie with a lot of orientalism going on and white actors in yellowface). she was well received but the studio seemed to lose interest in her career and she largely continued to get bit parts; her last appearance was in a Charlie Chan movie in 1937. she deserved better!!

This is round 3 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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Toshia Mori:

Francine Everett:

Harlem beauty with charisma out the wazoo, never had as big of a Hollywood career as she should have because she refused to take demeaning or stereotyped roles.

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Toshia Mori, actor in the mid-1920s-1930s. Mori was chosen a 1932 Wampas Baby Star, the only non-Caucasian actor to be chosen.

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Toshia Mori ❤️

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Toshia Mori

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Toshia San on Instagram

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WAMPAS Baby Star promo photo 1932: Eleanor Holm, Gloria Stewart, Lillian Bond, Ginger Rogers, Mary Carlisle and Toshia Mori.

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Toshia Mori (The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Blondie Johnson)—i think Toshia Mori is a great example of someone who clearly had the makings and charisma of a star & who its easy to imagine thriving in a less white supremacist system than 20s and 30s hollywood. she began acting in silent movies in the late 20s, and in 1932 was selected as a "WAMPAS Baby Star" which was an annual promotion of promising up-and-coming young actresses by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, becoming the first Asian woman to do so. previous baby stars included Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, and Joan Blondell, and another 1932 honoree was Ginger Rogers. this likely led to her most sizeable role in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (unfortunately a movie with a lot of orientalism going on and white actors in yellowface). she was well received but the studio seemed to lose interest in her career and she largely continued to get bit parts; her last appearance was in a Charlie Chan movie in 1937. she deserved better!!

Veronica Lake (I Married a Witch, Sullivan's Travels)—her look is so iconic they used her as a visual model for jessica rabbit in who framed roger rabbit and a bunch of other femme fatale types in cartoons and live action alike. i didnt think i liked women and then i saw her in sullivans travels and said gee i hope this doesnt awaken anything in me! every role ive seen her in she absolutely oozes an aura of "i know people would ask me to step on them" and her EYES bro every photo ive looked at for this submission its like shes piercing thru time and space to judge me <3

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Toshia Mori:

Veronica Lake:

Her HAIR, her FIGURE, her VOICE, the way she wore LEATHER AND SANG SONGS FOR NO REASON.

I don't believe there's a person on earth who can watch Veronica Lake in I Married A Witch and not be struck by how gorgeous she is. She had that youthful wonder about her that almost every Hollywood starlet was trying to achieve. Her hairstyle (peekaboo bangs) became an iconic Hollywood style after she popularized it, and made her signature look all the more suggestive. Also, witches are tumblrs favorite!

ICONIC hair sweep

The US government literally begged her to change her hairstyle because it was TOO HOT to handle and women who copied it were getting their hair caught in machinery

Her hairstyle was so iconic and popular that the war department had to come out with a PSA instructing lady ironworkers with ways they could pin their hair up to avoid it getting bound in machinery. [https://veteranlife.com/military-history/veronica-lake/]

She played a lot of femme fatale roles but my favorite is Sullivan’s Travels opposite Joel McRea, which is a comedy. She became famous for her hair style at the time—she wore it long and parted on one side so it would fall over half her face in a very sexy way. They called it a peek-a-boo I think. You’ve definitely seen Bugs Bunny dressed up like her, so I think if she’s being honored in such a way she’s very cool.

look at her

she's GORGEOUS in her little witch outfits that she wore for promos and also in the oversized coats and pajamas she wore throughout the movie...she's got RANGE

My Grandpa supposedly dated her in high school, he drove her to school in his car every day. This is legend in the family.

She has gorgeous hair, has got the smouldering look over the shoulder down PAT, and is just drop-dead gorgeous too!

Schizophrenic icon, popularized the peekaboo hairdo long before Jessica Rabbit

She’s just so prettyyyyy

So much hot in such a tiny package. She was no more than 5 feet tall, and some reports claim as small as 4'9"

If you picture a femme fatale in your head, almost certainly Veronica Lake had a hand in shaping the image you think of. She came to embody the look of the noir leading lady as well as the sound and the performance. Certified Noir Baddie.

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Toshia Mori, Wampas Baby Star of 1932 and who had a relatively short Hollywood career, is seen going to the Assistance League Luncheon in Hollywood, circa mid-1930s

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Faceclaims for Lyna. Just with her dyed hair.

Faceclaims are never exactly how I picture my characters, more just like people who have roughly similar features and vibes as the character.

Lyna's got narrow oblique eyes and cheekbones for days. Her eyebrows give her a sort of angry/ judgmental expression - at the very least she's not a super approachable looking person. Ordered from most to least similar to how I picture her.

Brigitte Lin

Greta Garbo

Toshia Mori

France Nuyen

Josette Day

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Tan Zhuo

Keiko Awaji

Reiko Sato

Laiba Zaid

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Chapter 3

They watched as Suyin looked around for the sub. Eventually she found it, sat down on the ocean floor.

"Oh. There it is." She said and they all looked up at the camera seeing the red sub. 

"I've got visual on the Origin. I can see most of it." Suyin said

"Okay. They're alive." Jaxx smiled.

"I'm going to set up to tow." Suyin told them.

"Range to target. Six meters. Four meters. Target locked." They heard the computer.

"Firing magnetic hook. Three. Two." They heard her say before a bunch of commotion.

"Suyin? Are you okay? What's happening?" Heller asked

"There is something down here. Something just hit my ship." They heard her say then it was quite for a moment before they heard her yell.

"Suyin, What's happening?" Mac asked

"It's a huge squid. It's got the glider." 

"Warning: Capsule Presser."

"Mac, it's crushing me! It's crushing me!I don't think the glider can take it."

"It's not gonna hold." Jaxx spoke up.

"Suyin, engage, the pressure compensator." 

"Compensator will not engage."

"Capsule breach in 10 seconds."

"Capsule breach in 5 seconds."

Suddenly all warnings stopped going off. 

"My god! It's a shark. It's like 20, 25 meters." Suyin said 

"Its a megalodon." Jonas said.

"Impossible." Suyin said as Jonas looked up at the camera.

"I'm so glad I'm not crazy." Jonas said.

"Suyin, power down. It's drawn to the light. Shut everything down and stay dark." Harper said

"Shut down in 30 seconds."

"Shutting down everything but comms." Suyin said then a warning started going off.

"It's circling back. Here it comes, Suyin." Jonas said.

"Shutdown in 25 seconds."

"Suyin, there's not time. Turn off your lights." Jonas said

"Shutdown in 20 seconds." 

"Turn them off. Now." Jonas told her.

"Shutdown in 15 seconds."

"Mac, I have no control." Suyin tried pressing all the buttons.

"Hurry." Jonas said.

"Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One." 

They were waiting for anything, but nothing happen. Jonas started releasing flares distracting the shark. 

"Now's your chance. Blow your tanks." Jonas told her.

"No. I can help you save the crew." 

"Your glider's damaged. There's nothing you can do. Blow your tanks now."

"Damn it." Suyin said then blew her tanks.

"Doctor Zhang, your daughters clear. I'm heading for the origin now." Jonas told them 

(Everyone one at Mana One can not here or see anything that happens after this)

Jonas approached the Origin and connected their subs.

"Water extraction complete."

Jonas open his hatch to see the other hatch damaged. Jonas work to get it open. Jonas smile when they opened their hatch.

"Tell me this isn't the worlds best I told you so." Jonas said

"You came all the way here just to tell me that, didn't you?" Lori said.

"Pretty much. Give me your hand." Jonas reached out and grabbed her hand pulling her up as he pulled her up he saw a screwdriver in her stomach.

"Ah, that doesn't look good. Ready? One, two, three." Jonas pulled her the rest of the way in when he heard beepings.

"She's coming. Let's move." Jonas said

"If that thing hits us while were still attached..." Lori said.

"Then we're all gonna die." Jonas told her.

Come on, I've got you." Jonas reached out for the next person.

It's gonna be close. Come on, move, move!" Jonas yelled.

"Go!Go!Go!." The guy behind the girl yelled.

"We're not gonna make it." The guy yelled.

"Toshi, hury!" The guy yelled.

They heard the hatch close.

"Toshi, no! The guy yelled trying to get to him. The sub shot off. 

"Come in, Evolution. Jonas, come in. Are you all okay? Doctor has vitals on Lori and The Wall, but we don't have Toshi. Is Toshi okay? Jonas, is Toshia okay?" Mac kept asked until someone finally answered explaining what happen.

When the sub came back up they helped get everyone out. Harper walked out when they were bringing Lori out on a stretcher. The Wall came out and handed a piece of paper to Dr. Zhang. Jonas came out when Suyin walked over.

"You couldn't bring Toshi back?" Suyin asked and Jonas blew out a breath and shook his head.

"Why not?"

"He closed the hatch. He saved us." Jonas told her.

"You left him." Suyin said and Jonas just looked at her before turning to walk away.

"You left him because that's who you are. You are the guy who leaves people behind." Suyin followed him.

"You go that deep, you take your life in your hands. It was your choice to send them down." Jonas told her and she just stared at him as Jonas looked up at Mac.

"This is why I don't do this anymore, Mac." Jonas told him before looking at Suyin one more time before walking away.

Jonas walked past Harper who stood their looking at the ground with her hands in her sweatpants pockets. She followed her father to the medbay where Lori laid sleeping, Heller standing by her bed with a check list.

"How is she?" Jonas asked leaning against the doorway.

"Well, the picture just missed her liver. She lost a lot of blood. But she's stable." Heller said walking over and both men just stared at each other. Jonas turned and started to walk away.

"Jonas. I'm sorry. I was wrong." Heller told her.

"You save Lori, we call it even." Jonas told him and he nodded his head. Jonas turned and walked away and Heller walked back into the room.

"So, she's going to be okay?" Harper asked him and he turned to her.

"She's be good as new here soon." He told her and she nodded and stood from her chair and walked out.

Harper went to her room and showered. She stood there as the water poured on her head as thought poured into her head. Ever since her and Jonas left 5 years ago their strong bond slowly faded more and more. It was near extinction now. They're relationship just got worse and worse as she grew, but her father had never really yelled at her like he did on the sub. She just wanted to go with him. If he was going to go out and possible die she was going to do it. She doesn't think she'll live without him. Though all they gave each other the past few days was attitude and disrespect she obviously still cared for her father and if he wasn't in this world she doesn't know what she would do with herself. 

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