I'll Have an Old Fashioned

A heady cocktail of early- and mid-20th-century pop culture at its most glamorous, gritty, and gasp-inducing. Here's my ao3

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, ‘The New Year’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)

[Text ID: “There is a knock at the door. How disappointing… It is the New Year and not you.”]

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

#tooreal

[sirensofthesilverscreen]

carole lombard, date unknown 🎞

[ingridbergman]

Holiday (1938) dir. George Cukor

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

The couple that tumbles together... um... tumbles together. 

[cinemaspast]

Cinemaspast 1K Celebration: Favorite Movie Per Member: Airam (@magnusedom)

→ SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

Lauren Wilford on Twitter

“Kurosawa goes full Frank Capra in Scandal (1950), the forgotten Christmas classic that deserves to be a holiday tradition in your family: https://t.co/HOc0z2HkWG”

TIL that the Spirit of Christmas was a real person and his name was Toshiro Mifune.

A merry one to those who celebrate!

[hurricanenoelle]

[ayellowbirds]

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

[tharook]

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

[norashelley]

Happy Birthday Irene Dunne! Born Irene Marie Dunn, December 20th, 1898

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

She had the look of a martyr, a tragic heroine, which worked in melodrama but provided an even more satisfying counterpoint in comedies. 

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

#tooreal

[oldbaton]

Judy Holliday’s bio in the playbill for Bells are Ringing

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea in The More the Merrier (1943) dir. George Stevens

[katiebishop]

[texnessa]

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. ‘This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar’ she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?” ― Sandi Toksvig

[universitybookstore]

The career of African American artist Augusta Savage (February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was fostered by the climate of the Harlem Renaissance. During the 1930s, she was well known in Harlem as a sculptor, art teacher, and community art program director. Her work is now in the permanent collections of major museums across the world.

[cherubina]

Vaslav Nijinsky in different ballets ~ illustrations by George Barbier (1910-1912)

[fawnvelveteen]

Portrait of Ingrid Bergman by David Seymour, 1952

[illhaveanoldfashioned]

This song is anything but empty sentiment. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has created something and wondered if it was actually a worthless piece of dreck until, voila, another person says they like and believe in it. That moment can be world-changing. 

[laurapetrie]

“I didn’t look like a storybook princess. I wasn’t a lace paper valentine, I was the comic variety.” - Myrna Loy

[nobrashfestivity]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Letter written to his sister Ludmila, 1905