🎞️Poppy🎞️

✨old Hollywood and horror podcasts✨ ~ and maybe a sliver of Tintin ~

[godlessondheimite]

he would have been a tumblr sexyman, i fear

[robertmitchum]

CLAUDE RAINS as THE PHANTOM in Phantom of the Opera dir. Arthur Lubin 

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

@kingoftheclaudes

[elinordash]

Ronald Colman in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1937)

[generalsolo]

—The Naval Treaty

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn, Jeremy Brett, and Lea Seidl on the set of War and Peace in 1955

[bythelightofthesilverymoon]

I’m SO stupid but literally just realised that my university campus is ON the site where the Strand Magazine illustrations took inspiration! Still standing strong to this day!!! I love you St. Mary le Strand!!

[veni-vici-vetinari]

He’s really trying to be nice

“We made a device that can collapse reality”

“Ah, well, how nice of you”

[abstractfrog]

watson and also another watson

[azultecnicolor]

sketch of this guy im obssesed with.......................

[carneliancorax]

I thought The Six Napoleons was a Sherlock Holmes story, not a Scooby-Doo episode...?

Lestrade has been waiting for Holmes for some time and is increasingly bored.

Holmes arrives, unnoticed.

Holmes and Watson retreat into the hall and approach the door again, coughing and shuffling their feet loudly, giving Lestrade time to stand and greet them with dignity.

"Lestraaaaade!"

(Tee hee.)

Later,

and

And then the episodes ends with Lestrade, with deep sincerity, telling Holmes, "We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir. We're proud of you."

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SCOOBY-DOO EPISODE JEREMY.

[cursemewithyourkiss]

April, 1929, Picturegoer.

Stabbed, you say? Whipped? Flogged, too? Give me the Ronald Colman torture scenes now.

[morning--haze]

[bythelightofthesilverymoon]

HATE Rex Harrison by all means but the bloody chemistry between him and Wilfrid Hyde White as Colonel Pickering and Henry Higgins was literally off the charts why are they so in love why are you serenading to Pickering about how you wish women were just men HE’S ON THE PHONE!!!

STOP RUNNING AFTER ELIZA AND LISTEN TO YOUR HEART HENRY HIGGINS!!! YOU AND PICKERING ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER, DAMNIT!!!

[worriedyourwingswouldmelt]

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

[bythelightofthesilverymoon]

✨Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman gracing the front cover of the Picture Show Annual for 1942✨

[cursemewithyourkiss]

John Martin Harvey in 1899 as Sydney Carton in the play The Only Way, based on Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.

[bythelightofthesilverymoon]

Here’s my thoughts on Holmes’ education!! I know a lot of people believe that Holmes was either an Oxford or Cambridge graduate in the ACD canon, but I entirely believe that Holmes was in fact a student of one of the London universities! (By no means a bias, I assure you.) If you think about Oxford and Cambridge education, few fictional names come to mind, one being Bertie Wooster- (I’m not joking.) The two universities were essentially unattainable unless you were quite wealthy, or very sporty. Wooster only being allowed to attend Magdalen College because he was incredibly good at rackets! Holmes probably wouldn’t have cared for the atmosphere at those colleges at that period- He just wants to be able to do his wonderful experiments 😭

Holmes is synonymous to London, and more specifically SCIENCE!!!! He meets Watson at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital which is, by the events of the novels, connected to London Hospital Medical College. Even if Holmes wasn’t a student at that time, he’d still probably have to be affiliated to it!

Sorry, ramble over.