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such an unholy mess of a girl

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— Let's talk movies Lacan Frames Scorsese’s Paintings in The Age of Innocence

Scorsese shows Ellen Olenska’s freedom and different taste with a contrast to May. The van der Luydens’ dinner in honor of Countess Olenska ends with a close-up on May’s face and Louisa’s words: “I think I’ve never seen May looking lovelier. The Duke thinks her the handsomest woman in the room” (The Age of Innocence).

From the closeup on May’s stereotypical Victorian beauty, the camera moves on the painting with a faceless woman with a parasol, where the absence of physical beauty and even traits, alludes to a world different from May’s.

#the age of innocence#film
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Her almost childlike enjoyment of little pleasures, her heart-warming gratitude for her recent big breaks come naturally to a girl for whom life itself was for a long time in jeopardy: “It’s fun to unlock my little gate, and find the new record that the music shop down the street has delivered during the afternoon. I get into old, soft comfy clothes, and then I play the new music while I cook. I love to cook. Steaks. Oh, your American steaks!" - Audrey Hepburn, "Knee-Deep in Stadust" (Photoplay, 1954)

#audrey hepburn#sabrina#film
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Some years later, I heard of her being swung for hours at a late night garden party, and asking to be swung higher and higher. I reproached her for this, perhaps with too much gravity, and she said: 'Why, it was fun and I probably looked like the girl in The Swing by Fragonard in the Wallace Collection, or hope I did!' - Alan Dent, Vivien Leigh: A Bouquet
#the most stunning MY GOD#vivien leigh
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GENEVIEVE BUJOLD in ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969) She was a tiny, seemingly fragile woman made of steel — willful, passionate, intense. She was exactly the actress I wanted to play Anne Boleyn. Even her French accent was perfect. I hired the girl without meeting her or testing her. Her name was Genevieve Bujold. She was a very special personality, perfect for Anne. But when we needed Genevieve to be at her best, we were faced with the unwelcome visit of Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth swept onto the set with her entourage and settled down into her seat. Genevieve was fighting mad. She turned to Charles Jarrott and me and said, “I’m going to give that bitch an acting lesson she’ll never forget!” She took her position in front of the camera. What seemed a misfortune suddenly turned into an advantage. Genevieve flung herself into the scene with a display of acting skill I have seldom seen equaled in my career. Then she stormed off the set. Soon after, she was nominated for Best Actress and hailed by critics as the new Hepburn. - Hal Wallis, producer of Anne of the Thousand Days

#anne boleyn#anne of the thousand days
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NATALIE WOOD and WARREN BEATTY on the set of SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) “It was so easy for me to forget that she was Natalie, and believe that she was just this high school kid called Deanie. In my mind right now, when I think of her, the picture comes to me is of this teenage girl in bobby socks. I don’t think that she could possibly have had any kind of a background like that, but she was very believable as a small-town girl. And to my mind, that’s acting.” - Pat Hingle

#natalie wood#warren beatty#splendor in the grass
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