It's a mystery. But then we all are, aren't we.

Louise, Bisexual. ~ My Heroine & Inspiration: Joan Hickson. ~ Other Loves: Penelope Keith, Ian Richardson, Lesley Manville, Gemma Jones etc. ~ Other Subjects/Things That I Love: Theatre, Film & Television, History, Old Hollywood, Literature, Music, Animals & More. ~ The title of the blog is a quote by Miss Marple.

[troublewithangels]

paul scofield in anna karenina (1985)

[no-where-new-hero]

Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Paul Scofield as "Hamlet" (plus Claire Bloom as Ophelia)

[gatutor]

Katharine Hepburn-Paul Scofield "Un equilibrio delicado" (A delicate balance) 1973, de Tony Richardson.

[onefootin1941]

Paul Scofield and Dame Maggie Smith

[citizenscreen]

Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield in Tony Richardson’s A DELICATE BALANCE (1973)

[womansfilm]

The Captain's Paradise (1953) / Staying On (1980)

[troublewithangels]

the holly and the ivy (1952)

[normasshearer]

l imagined him getting out at Churley... giving up his ticket, walking back through the streets... letting himself in his house with his latchkey. His wife, Madeleine... would probably be in the hall to meet him. Or perhaps upstairs, not feeling very well. "Small, dark, and rather delicate." l wondered if he'd say, "l met such a nice woman at the Kardomah... We had lunch and went to the pictures." But suddenly l knew he wouldn't. l knew he wouldn't say a word. Then the first awful feeling of danger swept over me.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 1945, dir. David Lean

[wyllzel]

ALEC HARVEY + QUESTIONS ↳ BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) dir. David Lean

[ilsefaust]

WOMEN OF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE VANESSA REDGRAVE as MAX in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) ↳ "I don't have to tell you what a comfort anonymity can be in my profession."

[troublewithangels]

peggyposting new-to-me pics i found from tatler archive!!!! 💗

[troublewithangels]

the world stoppedddddddddddddddd

[johnscastles]

scans from the programme for the 1967 RSC touring production of Ghosts

[troublewithangels]

[normasshearer]

CELIA JOHNSON as Alix Kinross in IN WHICH WE SERVE (1942) dir. David Lean

[normasshearer]

Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) dir. David Lean

[troublewithangels]

celia johnson as elizabeth bennet in helen jerome's adaptation of pride and prejudice at the st. james's theatre, 1936

📸 by john everard