70scorleone

film & whatever else i become deathly attached to ☾ ⋆*･ﾟ*⋆☆ﾟ*✧･ﾟ*･ﾟ⋆

[stanysleigh]

i have no one to talk to about them

[inadvertently-biblical]

TANGLED (2010) Dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard

[elesketchii]

the shootist (remastered)

[purr-in-ink]

🐾☀️

👉 My first calendar is now available 😸

[desk-drawerr]

By popular demand: He eat a Wawamelon

[zoirohs]

Vivien Leigh in SHIP OF FOOLS (1965) dir. Stanley Kramer

[brooke-cardinas]

Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) dir. Elia Kazan

[vivien-leigh]

GENE TIERNEY mentions VIVIEN LEIGH to an interviewer inquiring why she decided to write an autobiography.

Though movie memoirs clutter our bookshelves these days, Gene Tierney's self-portrait (Musson) deserves even the jaded fan's attention. Not because she is beautiful, not because she starred in hit pictures, but because of the personal and professional tribulations that virtually destroyed her career and almost her will to live. She survived, and for those who wonder why she vanished from the screen in the late Fifties and early Sixties the answer is here. Self-Portrait is just like that- an open, straightforward account of what it was like to be a Hollywood star when Hollywood was still the dream of everyone all over the world. There are also anecdotes about actors who made passes at her. Her husband was Oleg Cassini, haut couturier, an on-again-off-again romance that lasted a long time. But the two men she was most attracted to were beyond the marriage pale for her. One was John F. ("Jack") Kennedy, whom she seems to have adored, and later Prince Aly Khan, a playboy-potentate. The most important insight the book offers is into the mental breakdowns which overwhelmed Gene. In a deep depression she felt she was being poisoned in restaurants, could not read or learn her lines, feared she was the victim of Communist conspiracies- typical symptoms of paranoia. She was confined to mental institutions in Connecticut and Kansas. Her report on the electric shock treatments she received there make grim reading. Even now, fully healthy, she shudders at the recollection. "The horror of that experience I cannot fully recapture."

[summertimenoir]

Vivien Leigh as Mary Treadwell in Ship of Fools (1965)

[zoirohs]

Vivien Leigh in SHIP OF FOOLS (1965) dir. Stanley Kramer

[nikoriis]

I had a son once.

[70scorleone]

it's insane to me just how detailed john's stitches are; you can see the knots that tie each one

[70scorleone]

"face me to the west so i can watch the setting sun and remember all the fine times we had that way."

[70scorleone]

"we've lived a lot of lives."

[70scorleone]

"john, i love you. don't you forget that. not ever, now."

[vaudevillianveteran]

My darling Abigail, I hope you and Jack are doing well. I remain a fool, and I’m sure I shall die a fool. But I’m trying very hard to be something like the man you deserve. I’ve done something very silly in an effort to impress you and that is I purchased a home. The land you read about in the newspaper up in Beecher’s hope is now ours and we will try our hand at ranching. […] Together, we’ve built you a home. I hope soon to show it to you. 

I miss you and the boy more than I can express. Please, come back to me. 

Yours always,  John.

[arthursfuckinghat]

How many times are you going to walk away,

Knowing we never could?