soul kitchen

[oldhollywood-glamour]

Jean Harlow in China Seas. (1935)

[wehadfacesthen]

Kleig lights mark a premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 1938

[hollywoodlady]

Jayne Mansfield’s Pink Palace

In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles Much of the investment to buy the house came from the $81,340 ($685,318 in 2016 dollars) she inherited from her maternal grandfather Elmer Palmer. Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the “Pink Palace”. Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150,000 ($1,263,803 in 2016 dollars) in free merchandise, paying only $76,000 ($640,327 in 2016 dollars) for the mansion itself. It was still a large sum, when the average cost of a house at the time was under $7,500 ($63,190 in 2016 dollars). The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year. (x)

[oldhollywoodcinema]

Veronica Lake makes an appearance in a wartime newsreel regarding hair safety in the workplace (1940’s)

[oldhollywoodcinema]

Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946)

[oldhollywoodcinema]

Jean Harlow photographed by Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

Ava Gardner on set of The Bribe (1949)

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe in a costume test for The Misfits, July 8th, 1960.

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe in a costume test for The Misfits, July 8th, 1960.

[hardcockforhitchcock]

Green + To Catch a Thief (1955)

[larmoyante]

I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via larmoyante)

[aarongreenstories]

All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice…it will be interesting to know what most men are afraid of: taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via aarongreenstories)

[narnia]

“In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…” - Madeline (1998) (via weheartit)

[pen-pal-pictures]

If you know your mother tongue and then you widen out to learn all the languages of the world, that’s empowerment. If you know all the languages of the world and not your mother tongue, that is not empowerment: that is enslavement.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, at UMass Amherst, April 6, 2016 (via linguisten)

February 21st is International Mother Language Day.

(via allthingslinguistic)

[nemfrog]

Astronomy vignettes. Learning about our world. 1932.  

[moondarkwolf]

[rrachelinthewildd]