Vintage Boys

A blog dedicated to the classic men of the past. I don't own any of the pictures. Run by Serene and Cal. Best way to search? Add "/tagged/firstname+lastname" to the end of the blog's url.

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Take It Easy In Your Suit.

Sean Connery, 1963.

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Happy Birthday Gregory Peck!!!  |  April 5th 1916—June 12th, 2003 

I don’t think that I had an unbroken record of artistic triumph. But there were enough good pictures. And I think the thing that is gratifying is when they still have some kind of a life, 25 years or more after you made them. And I have a few like that. When they’re seen people still enjoy them, and get something from them. Entertainment, information, a little bit of illumination of human condition. They still find something in value. In a way, it’s an actor’s vanity to imagine that he’ll be remembered or his work will be appreciated in years to come. But in another way, it’s not a bad ambition, to try do to some work that will stand the test of time. 

[voxsart]

1951.

Clark Gable.

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Alain Delon photographed by Walter Carone, 1963.

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Robert Redford, c. early ’70s.

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Gregory Peck

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Al Pacino Filmography | 1970s

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Louis Robert Gendre aka Louis Jourdan  19 June 1921 ~ 14 February 2015

"I never see my movies. When they’re on television I click them away. Hollywood created an image and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliché…I watch no television now. I read no papers. I am au courant of nothing. I don’t look at America. I look at myself." - Louis Jourdan, People Magazine, 1985

Louis Jourdan is more than the movies wanted him to be. Typecast to always be to handsome foreign other, he languished in roles that limited his talent and range. Despite this, Jourdan excelled on the screen, the stage and on television, never letting his personal gripes detract from his performances.

In reality, Jourdan is the polar opposite of the playboy roles he so often played. He is a deeply intellectual thinker, with a thirst for knowledge that continues unabated. His interests are wide and varied, ranging from philosophy to cooking to music to athletics. Jourdan attempts nothing half-heartedly. His wife of over 60 years says that she married Jourdan for his mind and soul (although she admits Jourdan has always been more handsome in real life than he ever appeared to be on the screen).

Jourdan’s life has been long and accomplished, with acting being almost secondary to his personal development. Beginning his career in 1940s France, his filmography was interrupted by the onset of the Second World War, and Nazi occupation of France. Jourdan joined the French Resistance, and while he downplays his contribution, he was awarded a Legion d’honneur for his work.

Ever gracious and humble, and, despite his musical credits, choosing to refer to himself as a “bathroom baritone,” Louis Jourdan remains a star. Perhaps not the star he wanted to be, and certainly not the star he could and should have been, but a star all the same. 

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[fuckyeahvintageboys]

Steve McQueen by John Hamilton, 1966.

[jamesdeaner]

I don’t just want to be a good actor. I don’t even want to be just the best. I want to grow and grow, grow so tall that nobody can reach me. Not to prove anything, just to go where you ought to go when you devote your whole life and all you are to one thing.

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Happy Birthday James Dean (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ (Feb. 8th, 1931 - Sept. 30th, 1955)

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Marlon Brando on set of The Men. Photographed by Edward Clark, 1949

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Elvis Presley during a screen test at Paramount Studios, April 1, 1956.

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James Dean at Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles, 1955.

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RIP Cary Grant |  January 18th, 1904 - November 29th, 1986

"Cary Grant was my idol.  There was nobody in the movies like him.  He was the personification of everything a man should be.  Cary could be funny, sure, but he could also be smart, or tough.  In Gunga Din he played a hard man who didn’t take crap from anybody.  He was like that in a lot of his movies.  But Cary had manners, too.  He would light a woman’s cigarette for her, and his clothes were always impeccable.  He wore double-breasted jackets, and I noticed how high his shirt collars were.  I must have gone to see every movie Cary Grant ever made." — Tony Curtis

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Robert Redford. 

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Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968