Just Old Hollywood

Love just about anything and everything from the Golden Age of Hollywood!

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Joan Crawford Memes.

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James Dean photographed by Roy Schatt, NYC, 1954.

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HAPPY 108th BIRTHDAY, KATHARINE HOUGHTON HEPBURN !!! 
( May 12th 1907 - ∞ )

❤️❤️❤️❤️

“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is to move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.” — Katharine Hepburn

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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[justoldhollywood]

“Audrey was the kind of person who, when she saw someone else suffering, tried to take the pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love.”

— Shirley MacLaine

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As we wandered with Garbo around those cemeteries in the Alps, I sometimes got a sense that what she needed was the feeling of reverence, of the devotional - that was where she could finally be at peace.

“Not that I’ve made any preparations for all this,” she once sighed in the little cemetery in Monstein. She went on, though, not talking directly to my wife or me, “But I want to be buried in Sweden. I want to go home to Sweden…”

Garbo was able to speak about the most sensitive matters in a cool and matter-of-fact way. It was as though she wanted to conjure up peace and quiet. “There’s nothing that gives you, such a feeling for the eternal as wandering around a churchyard. It’s not at all macabre. It is very peaceful.”–Conversations with Greta Garbo by Sven Broman.

Rest In Peace, Greta Lovisa Gustafsson aka Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905–April 15, 1990).

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Ava Gardner ~ Pandora and the Flying Dutchman by Virgil Apger, 1951

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Carole Lombard

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Happy birthday Ruth Elizabeth Davis aka Bette Davis!! ♥♥♥♥

(April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989)

I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life. But I think in business, sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment. No question about it. From the male side of business. We all work for men. They’re the people in charge and I think they find women easier who haven’t the ability to think for themselves or stand up for themselves. One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think. No question about that, among the opposite sex. But I don’t think in business it matters whether you’re a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

My first memory of Bette Davis is of a powerful image burning on a small screen. When I was a girl, in the sixties, I’d come home from school and I’d turn on the old movie channel and plunk down on the couch with my girlfriends and take lessons from Bette Davis on how to scare the hell out of a man! Some thirty years later when I received the first annual Bette Davis lifetime achievement award at Boston University, I was very very very honored. For me, Bette Davis stood out from other actresses because of her signal audacity. The audacity I’m talking about is the bravery of her work. Bette Davis seemed willing. She even had an appetite for parts that were conventionally unappealing. She changed the requirement that actresses in the movies invariably be likable or attractive. She lifted the veil of appropriate behavior in women to expose what was scary, unexpected or ugly. In other words, to do what was appropriate for the character. - Meryl Streep

Bette Davis was so important to me as a young actress. At the age of 17 starting out in Gaslight, she was my inspiration. Her performance as Mildred in Of Human Bondage was my reference point. In her home Bette has a pillow and with it the embroidery says ‘old age is not for sissies’. For Bette Davis youth, middle age, no time of life is a place for sissies. She is an original. There has never been anyone, before or since, who could touch her. - Angela Lansbury

The great lesson I learned from Bette was her absolute dedication to getting everything just right. She used to spend hours studying the character she was going to play, then hours in make-up ensuring that her physical appearance was right for the part. I have always tried to put the same amount of work into everything I’ve done. - Olivia de Havilland 

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Happy Birthday, Leslie Howard! (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943 ∞)

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Audrey Hepburn photographed by Cecil Beaton, c. 1954.

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Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse photographed for “Brigadoon”, 1954

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Katharine Hepburn in a 1935 portrait by Ernest Bachrach

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Ava Gardner, My Forbidden Past, 1951

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61 years ago today Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress at the 26th Academy Awards, for her performance in Roman Holiday. It was her first and only Oscar win.

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Joan Crawford, 1931