'It was the best of times

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It was the worst of times' - Charles Dickens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Early 20th century and history blog. • A gone era of gentlemen, ladylike women, class in any class, respect, cosiness, romance, solidarity, personal succes, and beauty. • Any submits, questions? Just send me a telegram. I answer everything. Mobile blogger, I follow blogs I like.

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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Lady Macbeth, 1955

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Ella Fitzgerald signing autographs.

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Anne Chambers

A Spring Hat and the City of Bath

UK Vogue, February 1948

Photographer: Norman Parkinson

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citizenscreen

Hedy Lamarr arrives in Hollywood, October 1937

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1949.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Gene Lester at 20th Century Fox studios, 1954.

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Humphrey Bogart outside Rick’s Cafe Americain in “Casablanca”, 1942

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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) — dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Marilyn Monroe for VOGUE magazine in “The Last Sitting” California, June 1962. Photo by Bert Stern.

baroque-hashem

Another Jew on here commented that people were going onto Wikipedia and removing references to certain people's Jewishness, and I just saw for myself that this is true. As a Jew and a fan of old movies and history, I was looking up a list of Jewish actors on Wikipedia. I saw Tina Louise (you know, from Gilligan's Island) pop up. So I popped over to her actual page on Wikipedia. And there were zero references to her being Jewish. So I hopped on over to the Wayback Machine (bless you, Internet Archive) and put in the URL for her Wikipedia page. And wouldn't ya know it: before 10/7, there were at least 3 to 5 references to her Jewishness at any given time on her Wikipedia page. Wtf is happening.