During the filming of Gone with the Wind, Vivien Leigh was in make-up at seven in the morning and often stayed until midnight. Ann Rutherford, who played Scarlett’s sister Carreen, said of Leigh’s dedication: “She burned herself, she was such a hard worker. We watched her lose weight. In a break she’d take her costume off and the wardrobe girls would put more seams in what once had been a tightly fitted dress.”
Remember VIVIEN LEIGH, 1967.7.7~2015.7.7
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you’ll perish.
Happy 99th birthday Olivia de Havilland!
Happy Birthday Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916)
“I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.”
Happy 99th Birthday Olivia de Havilland (1st July, 1916)
“So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn’t trade it for anything!…I’m certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.” - Olivia de Havilland, 2015 (x)
Happy 99th birthday Olivia Mary de Havilland!!♥
(July 1, 1916)
Don’t pay any attention to age, it’s too much fun to live!
Joan Fontaine in Suspicion, 1941
10 Problems People in the Old Hollywood Fandom Understand
- Nearly all your faves are dead
- Say goodbye to finding that obscure Garbo movie from 1926 free online
- You never have time for those people who ask, ‘What’s your favourite film?’
- Dressing like your fave is expensive, and earns you odd looks
- 'Your crush is dead? Eww!’
- These people: 'But, old movies are boring!’
- And these people: 'Oh, I like old movies too! The 80s were so cool.’
- And these people: 'But, isn’t that in black and white?’
- You quote The Women to your friend, and all you get is a blank look
- You sometimes look in the mirror and wonder why you bother. You’ll never be Marlene Dietrich
But, hey! We get to watch some of the greatest films ever made, and stare at Vivien Leigh’s beautiful face.
“She was fabulous, fabulous.” -Olivia de Havilland
Old Hollywood actresses + cats
Carole Lombard
“How shall I sum up my life? I think I have been particularly lucky. does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, ‘Good things aren’t supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.’ so you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I’ve always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.” Audrey Hepburn ( May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993 )
grey’s anatomy meme; (1/7) favourite quotes ↳ “I believe you are a man who made a terrible mistake by marrying Callie. And I believe that because you’re my best friend, I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe even though you made this mistake, you will be okay .”
Still Alice (Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer, 2014)
Did you say it? I love you. I don’t ever want to live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? Make a plan, set a goal, work toward it. But every now and then look around, drink it in. ‘Cause this is it. It might all be g o n e tomorrow.