Old Hollywood

Marilyn Monroe in a hair test for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, November 8th, 1952.

CAROLE LOMBARD in NOTHING SACRED (1937) dir. William A. Wellman

Joan Crawford photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1925

I’m here as your doctor only. It has nothing to do with love. Nothing at all. Nothing at all… Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen in Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Grace’s wedding dress was the crowning achievement of Helen Rose’s career, and the most expensive garment she ever designed. The dress, valued at more than $7,200 at the time, had been worked on feverishly in top secret for six week by a platoon of three dozen seamstresses. Suitably feminine and elegant, it was an ivory high-necked, long-sleeved gown with a fitted bodice with an overlay of 125-year-old rose point lace. The cut of the gown accentuated Grace’s tiny waist; its voluminous bell skirt of silk taffeta, peau de soie, tulle, and lace billowed with hundreds of yards of fabric. The circular veil added ninety more yards of tulle, highlighted with seed pearls and affixed to a small fitted headpiece.

What am I supposed to do? Walk around like a puppet or use my intelligence?

Stage Door (1937) dir. Gregory La Cava

Claudette Colbert, 1934

“It matters more what’s in a woman’s face than what’s on it.”

dolores del río, 1934 🎞

There’s a third way. I’ll kick your teeth out and tear your head off and beat some decency into you! Gary Cooper as George Curtis in Design for Living (1933) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

W. Heath Robinson

‘Twould be nice to have lips… lips to whisper lies… lips to kiss man and make him suffer. I Married A Witch (1942) dir. René Clair

“Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?“

Rear Window (1954) dir.  Alfred Hitchcock

Dial M for Murder (1954)