a dream that will need

elizabeth, usa. old hollywood is my cup of tea. gifs. main blog.

[gatabella]

Merle Oberon

[aaronstveit]

JAMES STEWART AS JEFFERSON SMITH MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

[gatabella]

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, 1950s

[littlehorrorshop]

Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

[lifejustgotawkward]

Humphrey Bogart and Ross Alexander in China Clipper (1936, dir. Ray Enright).

[rhettroblues]

SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) — dir. Billy Wilder

[villainesses]

It is a drama of steadily mounting tension and complication, shot through with intimations of repressed instincts and thwarted desires that keep a wild kind of terror barely held in leash hovering over the most ordinary comings and goings in that lonely house. It is much more than a melodrama, because everything that happens grows out of the inner natures of the people involved—the boy with his wiles and smiles and dimly glimpsed flashes of mania, the lonely old lady with her greed and selfishness and childless dependence, the girl with her surface hardness and inner sensitiveness, her unblossoming youth and her curiosity—half romantic, half cynical. – National Board of Review Magazine, June 1937

Night Must Fall (1937) dir. Richard Thorpe

[villainesses]

I hate to sound melodramatic, Mr. Nolan, but to save my wife any discomfort, I would cheerfully kill a dozen guys like you.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY and ROSALIND RUSSELL in FAST AND LOOSE (1939)

[clarksgables]

Clark Gable as Peter Warne IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) dir. Frank Capra

[pinewood-to-hollywood]

Clark Gable reading.

[classicfilmsource]

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) dir. Richard Boleslawski

[bygone-hollywood]

James Stewart and Lucille Ball

[ironmaidenhead]

RITA HAWORTH in Gilda (1946) — Dir. Charles Vidor

[gatabella]

Loretta Young by John Rawlings, US Vogue, 1940

Loretta Young, one of Hollywood's great beauties, is photographed by Vogue in one of the most beautiful new turbans, Large-As-Life pink tulips are thrust through black satin loops, to nod dreamily over the brow. The turban of cashmere fleece looks sculptured to the head. Lilly Daché. Jewels by Flato

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Gene Tierney, 1940s

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Greta Garbo and director George Cukor on the set of Two-Faced Woman, 1941

[filminghere]

When I first was exposed to Agnes Moorehead, I remember thinking that she was too hammy/overacted for my tastes. But the more I see of her, the more I really, really like her.

Just watched her in Caged and absolutely loved her in it. I also love her in Mrs. Parkington (even with the bad French accent lol).