Old Movies and Tea.

'As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing'-T.S. Eliot.

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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) dir. Howard Hawks

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Lauren Bacall sitting outside her dressing room, ca, 1944

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Judy Garland and Jack Benny going over a script before a radio program. circa. 1943

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Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock behind the scenes of “North by Northwest”, 1959.

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Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

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“I only saw Vivien Leigh once in my life in person. That was at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston. I got into the elevator and she was there. And I got goose pimples. I got off on the third floor, like a fool. The goose pimples remained for ten minutes, which I am told, is a medical phenomenon.“ —Walter Matthau

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Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies They Talk About, 1933

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[classichollywoodstuff]

Greta Garbo - The Kiss 1929

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

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Esther Williams, 1945

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You’re Margo. Just Margo.   All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

[alwaysmarilynmonroe]

Marilyn at a press conference in The Savoy Hotel in July 1956.

[classichollywoodstuff]

Greta Garbo - Love 1927

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♪ A fine romance, with no kisses A fine romance, my friend this is. ♪