an unholy mess of a girl

• skye terra • self proclaimed classic film sommelier • i didn't know they made champagne in idaho • never not screaming about my emotional support dead actresses •

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Ingrid Bergman as Lady Henrietta Flusky

Under Capricorn (1949)

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Lana Turner and John Garfield taking a swim in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) , directed by Tay Garnett .

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katharine hepburn’s oscars at the national portrait gallery in washington dc 😍

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn as Adam and Amanda Bonner in ADAM'S RIB (1949) dir. George Cukor

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen Ingrid Bergman as Anna Kalman and Cary Grant as Philip Adams

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GENE KELLY & JUDY GARLAND The Pirate (1948, dir. Vincente Minnelli)

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Judy Garland

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Lana Turner

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Silver Screen magazine, February 1939

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Errol Flynn as Sebastian Dubrok

Ida Lupino as Gemma Smith

Escape Me Never (1947)

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cinema firsts: a trip to the moon (1902) directed by george méliès

the first science fiction movie & was fourteen minutes long

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Norma Shearer in The Devil’s Circus (1926)

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VIVIEN LEIGH in SIDEWALKS OF LONDON — 1938, dir. Tim Whelan