DanVotchka

A melting pot of musings on the Golden Age of Cinema, life and any random titbits that may meander through my mind.

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Harrod’s perfume department, 1910

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Merry Christmas!

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Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind; 1939.

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Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears

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Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia de Havilland (1st July, 1916)

“I’m certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.”

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HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND!

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Dietrich in Seven sinners; 1940.

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Gloria Swanson in Sunset boulevard; 1950.

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Bette Davis, ladies and gentleman.

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Alexander Vertinsky as “sad Pierrot,” Moscow, 1918. Photograph by A. Gorinstein.

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The blood of these whores is killing me.

Udo Kier, Blood for Dracula (1974)

Udo Kier lost 20 pounds in one week to play Count Dracula. On the first day of filming, he was so weak that he could not stand.

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Alison Goldfrapp Ooh La La (2005)

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Carolyn Jones as Morticia on The Addams Family.

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Marlon Brando, 1949

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King Kong  (Merian C. Cooper, 1933)

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Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950)

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Bergman as Duncan in a Macbeth production from the 1940s.