Afterrainfish

Living in a glorified past, Love Oldhollywood, Love Gene kelly. I’m Korean, I started Tumblr to talk about Gene Kelly-it is so hard to find information about him and talk about him in Korea.

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“I must become a man that children fear and adults respect, or we shall all end up in the street!” Jason Isaacs as Mr. Darling in Peter Pan (2003), dir. P.J. Hogan

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Silver Screen magazine, February 1939

Merle Oberon is actually signalling that she is doing all right, having implemented method 3 (sob story), as recommended by her two maids/pals in the film (Patsy Kelly and Mabel Todd), on how to get Gary Cooper in a "romantic" mood.

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Fredric March and Gary Cooper on the Paramount lot during the filming of Design for Living (1933).

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Fredric March and Gary Cooper on the Paramount lot during the filming of Design for Living (1933).

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Old Hollywood stars on the bicycles

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BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (1938) — dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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Shirley Temple and Gary Cooper on the set of “Now and Forever” (1934)

I had never met Gary Cooper before the first day of rehearsal. We were standing side by side when someone asked what I thought of him.

“How do I know what I think,” I answered, peering up. Anyone three feet tall has a problem with people six feet tall…

Seeing the problem, Cooper squatted down to my eye level, smiled, and drawled, “Hi, Wiggle-Britches!” I liked him from then on, particularly because his jaw was square and he had laugh wrinkles at his eyes. Later producing his autograph book, he asked me to sign, which turned out a scrawl across the page from top to bottom. “Looks like an inscription copied from the pyramids,” he chuckled. Collecting autographs had always seemed silly to me, but in this case the principle of fair exchange controlled. I demanded his in return.

Several days later he brought in some beautiful toys, which he arranged in the center of our set before my arrival. A pure white, mechanical cat walked and meowed, curling its tail realistically, and a jack-in-the-box popped up and down. While I exclaimed over each one, Cooper sat nearby in a canvas chair, an unfolded newspaper partially hiding his face while he sneaked peeks around the edge to see my reaction. He really knew how to ensure my undying devotion.

On another day he produced some drawing paper and colored pencils and sketched a house with smoke coming out of its chimney. An art student at Grinnell College, he had originally come to Hollywood to draw caricatures. With a fistful of pencils stuck out between his fingers like multicolored porcupine quills, he demonstrated how to blend colors and stay inside the lines.

(From Child Star: An Autobiography by Shirley Temple Black, 1988)

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Gary Cooper and Tallulah Bankhead in Devil And The Deep (1932)

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) — dir. Frank Capra     

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Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert as Mr. and Mrs. Brandon in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) - dir. Ernst Lubistch

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Fredric March and Gary Cooper on the Paramount lot during the filming of Design for Living (1933).

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It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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i found this blog by accident (i think the tumblr recommendations code or whatever figured out i have a polls addiction) and have had zero interest and experience in this topic but now. now i am so here. but i was wondering where i could go to watch movies with all these actors?? like i’m sure prime video or smthg might have a few classics hanging around but is there a service/website (of any legality) that specialises in vintage films and stuff? or is it really just physical media to get a lot of them? sry if this throws off your askbox, i didn’t know where else to ask! tyia <3

Hi!! I love this ask. Thanks for being here!

I don't know of any service that specializes in old movies, though HBO had a deal with TCM for a while that meant they had several classics on Max—I don't know if that's still a thing. In the meantime, though, the following websites all have "classic" channels that will be filled with great vintage movies to try:

Tubi—free streaming service that includes:

The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra, James Edwards)

The Philadelphia Story (James Stewart, Cary Grant)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Dick Van Dyke)

On The Town (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra)

House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando)

The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart)

Hoopla—free through many libraries:

The Court Jester (Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone)

War and Peace (Jeremy Brett)

Barefoot in the Park (Robert Redford)

Cabin in the Sky (Rex Ingram)

Wings (Gary Cooper)

Kanopy—free through many libraries:

The General (Buster Keaton)

Flower Drum Song (James Shigeta)

Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck)

Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune)

His Girl Friday (Cary Grant)

Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier)

Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart)

Paris Blues (Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman)

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Conrad Veidt)

Youtube also has TONS of movies that have slipped through copyright or "accidentally" ended up there:

Charade (Cary Grant)

The Gay Divorcee (Fred Astaire)

Lying Lips (Carman Newsome, Robert Earl Jones, Oscar Micheaux)

Stormy Weather (Harold Nicholas)

Rebecca (Laurence Olivier)

The Cheat (Sessue Hayakawa)

The Lady Vanishes (Michael Redgrave)

Jungle Book (Sabu Dastagir)

To Sir, With Love (Sidney Poitier)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Peter Falk)

What a Way to Go! (Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman)

And of course there are methods of other legality if you want to go searching for titles by hand :)

I haven't seen all of the movies I list here—this is just a sampling of some famous ones, and a few of my secret faves—so be careful if you have trigger warnings and things. Hope you find some great movies!

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Frank Sinatra's 75th birthdays celebration with special guest Gene Kelly.

Gene and Frank reminisce about their friendship and the good old days. Glad Frank is on record dispatching rumors and saying Gene was "softly insistent" cause he knew what he wanted and what was right for the movie.

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Adrien Brody x Kith SS23 Lookbook

Not really much you can say when you’ve got someone as charismatic as Mr. Adrien Brody wearing your garments, but Kith managed to keep them on par with the talented actor.

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Translated by: Afterrainfish (Instagram:@back.to.oldhollywood)