“Her Emotions Were Close To The Surface. She Could Cry On Demand, Opening The Floodgate Of Tears Almost

James Dean and cousin Marcus Winslow, 1955.

Photoplay Magazine, August 1928.

Alcatraz Island

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg aboard a ship traveling to Europe, circa 1930.

CLUELESS (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling

editing your own writing is like woah you really like commas........ maybe ease up on those commas there, pal........ maybe Fewer commas would be nice

the first film I saw Norma Shearer in was The Women and I think that negatively coloured my perception of her for years (decades?) because I thought she was the worst one in that (Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russel, and Joan Crawford outshine her completely and when I saw the film as a teen I found her matronly and submissive). Watching her pre-code films now is wild, she's so sexy and cool! This is a problem I've had with a lot of actresses who took up more "good woman" roles in the late 30s and 40s (eg Claudette Colbert or Myrna Loy) because when I first got into classic films as a teen, I could not relate to those women or their characters and found them old and stodgy. Similarly I always thought actors like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in the 1940s were so ancient and couldn't believe any woman would be attracted to a man that old

25 year old Orson Welles arriving at the New York premiere of 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆 (1941).

fuck movies about elvis. hollywood, where is my million dollar biopic about Lesley Gore???

Harlow was an actress who got along with everyone-with one exception: Wallace Beery. She had worked with Beery before in The Secret Six (1931) and the two had developed a dislike for each other that carried over into Dinner at Eight. Beery thought that Harlow wasn’t experienced enough as an actress and treated her rudely. Harlow found Beery gruff and boorish. Since the two were playing a husband and wife that can’t stand each other, the real-life feelings worked to the comic benefit of the characters. (x)