Hollywoodland

Pre-code forever.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Greta Garbo at 5th Ave. and 72nd St., no date. She left her cab at the corner and walked 20 steps. When she saw the photographer, she hailed another cab and fled.

Photo: NY Daily News via Getty Images

[retrovintageimages]

Gene Tierney, 1947

[sandushengshou]

Wang Zhuocheng | The Journey of Chong Zi

[sandushengshou]

Wang Zhuocheng | The Journey of Chong Zi

[ladybegood]

Bette Davis, 1941

[jamesdeaner]

He was much more beautiful to me, and much more interesting, and much more complicated than any of the parts that he played, or any of the performances that you saw.

- Dennis Hopper

[jamesdeaner]

James Byron Dean (Feb. 8, 1931 - Sept. 30, 1955)

[summers-in-hollywood]

Jean Arthur applying her makeup, late 1920s

[maudeboggins]

kay francis in girls about town (1931)

[sandushengshou]

Wang Zhuocheng | The Journey of Chongzi

[thatsbelievable]

[netherworldpost]

Everyone is always “don’t go into the haunted forest” and “don’t go off the path, there are Things out in the sticks, yonder where it gets darker than it ought”

But how am I to die?

At the hands of an economic system that grinds me into a broken husk mourning lost years and untested adventures?

Or at the claws of something very neat to look at?

“There is no choice,” I laugh, “for me anyway.” I say and hand you my wallet. Tomorrow morning, I’ll meet you at the diner, or I won’t, and either way breakfast is on me.

And if I’m there, I’ll have changed, some way or another, but definitely for the better.

[bustrkeaton]

JEAN HARLOW in HELL’S ANGELS (1930), dir. Howard Hughes.

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Carole Lombard

[cherubina]

“I don’t want to be a bad woman in too many pictures in succession. Too much glamour, too much sin, repeated often, become monotonously dull. I’m speaking now about the screen, of course.”

Happy Birthday, Kay Francis! (January 13, 1905 - August 26, 1968)

[sparklejamesysparkle]

From The Judy Garland Show, originally aired by CBS on January 12th, 1964.

[silentdivasblog]

Happy New Year Glamour Fans! 🎉 🍾🥂

[diioonysus]

new years in the 1920s

[cinematicfinatic]