A View From The Director's Chair

A Look At Movies, Actors, Characters, Genre and Style

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Down To Earth (1947)

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Fred Astaire playing golf in Carefree, 1938

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I have faults, to be specific In a temper, oh, I’m terrific I throw chairs and tables and I never miss! No I’m as cold as any shellfish I tell lies, I’m mean, I’m selfish Think it over, my warning is this! I’ll be hard to handle ♫

Ginger Rogers (with Fred Astaire) performs ‘I’ll Be Hard To Handle’ in Roberta (1935)

[the-reclusive-cinephile]

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Classic Hollywood Bloopers

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And the greatest Hollywood blooper of all time:

[mermaidsandcats29]

These are WONDERFUL

[stagecoachjessi]

Two more of my favorites:

[absolutelyaddictedpoldarky]

These are great..made me smile😊💖

[darkseraphscorner]

The fact these exist are truly amazing.

In the olden days, if footage was not used in a film, it was either destroyed or erased so they could reuse the reel, because it was cheaper than storing unused film.

Google the BBC’s lost archives to find out more.

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Fred Astaire

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra The Chistmas Song ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[jeanne-crains]

Linda Darnell in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

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Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot

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Dorothy Dandridge, 1952

[filmnoirfemalefatales]

Paint the town red.

[theritahaywortharchive]

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in You’ll Never Get Rich, 1941

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[deforest]

Dorothy Dandridge, 1956

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THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940), dir. George Cukor

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Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor