modernism with soul

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Screenland, February 1935

[userarmand]

jacobanderson: Love you forever Mean-spirited Long Table Louis in Azalea era Raspberry Suit ❤️‍🔥

[toiich]

Night on the El Train - Edward Hopper, 1918

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Yellow summer dress with embroidered flowers. Pinterest.

[classicfilmsource]

You said, “Lend an ear, I implore you, this comes from my heart: I’ll always adore you, ‘til death do us part.” Remember? It was pretty swell… I mean, while it lasted. But all beautiful things must end, so I guess we might as well call it a day.

Irene Dunne & Cary Grant in The Awful Truth 1937 dir. Leo McCarey

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1931

Black velvet ankle-length with flared sleeves with linear burnout pattern, polychromatic beaded roundels at either side of collar, gathers at bust, bias-cut skirt, self-belt with matching clasp roundels.

Drexel University

[womansfilm]

thighs so big and round they haunt the ‘natural’ environment.. thighs gothic..

[womansfilm]

Michael Powell's 1988 commentary on Black Narcissus (1947)

[womansfilm]

ill blow everyone up

[leonmorinpretre]

[assyrianjalebi]

Indira Varma in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Setsuko Hara in Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1951)

[frostedmagnolias]

Floral Printed Garden Party Gown

mid 1930s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[frostedmagnolias]

Pale Grey Chiffon Evening Gown

c. 1937

Augusta Auctions

[expressions-of-nature]

Fukiage Poppy Field, Japan by Cheerfulness

[touchofpink]

Photoplay 1938-01 Vol. 52, No. 1

[somerandomrecluse]

BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

Dir. Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell

[leonmorinpretre]

turns out that rly was kathleen byron next to toni collette in emma 1996 😭😭😭 with one whole line too