"Will you permit it?"

Writer. Teacher. Activist. Fangirl. Record collector. Music fiend. Shakespeare nut. Desperately in love with Victor Hugo.

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, mid 1940′s.

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PATHS OF GLORY // Aesthetics

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Dean feeling amused that Jerry is painting his crotch on The Colgate Comedy Hour, February 10,1952.

[darlinghepburn]

A collection of all Montgomery Clift’s films with links to watch them online:

The Search (1948) Red River (1948) The Heiress (1949) The Big Lift (1950) A Place in the Sun (1951) I Confess (1953) Indiscretion Of An American Wife (1953) From Here to Eternity (1953) Raintree County (1957) Lonelyhearts (1958) The Young Lions (1958) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Wild River (1960) The Misfits (1961) Judgment at Nuremburg (1961) Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) The Defector (1966)

For my lovely anon

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When we were rehearsing it, I said I would like to imitate Tallulah Bankhead in this scene. I’ve seen Tallulah many times at big parties and she picks up a cigarette and five lights come in, men who light her cigarette. And we imitated that and it came off very well.

Joan Crawford on the cigarette lighting scene in Humoresque (1946)

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Burt Lancaster and Bill Fiore in The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968), based on the story by John Cheever.

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Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster, promo photo for The Killers

[melancholyofadeleh]

And Nick Cravat of Cravat & Lang? :)

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Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 - Director: Anatole Litvak

[jerrylevitch]

“We had been a team for four nights, and we were sleeping in the same bed so we could save nine bucks. I dream out loud and he says to me, ‘You’re dreaming out loud again! Let me know when you’re finished so I can go back to sleep (laughs).’ Then I say ‘Paul understand what I am going to tell you right now. In about six months. we’re going to have such money, we’re not going to be able to count it. He said, ‘From your lips, my friend.’ Just days after we teamed up, I make this prediction because I believed it.”

- Jerry Lewis

[grantcary]

Ava Gardner on What’s My Line?

[melancholyofadeleh]

This What's My Line episode was my first time watching Ava Gardner. I totally understand the hype now - she's hypnotic!

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis rehearsing with Burt Lancaster for an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, 1953.

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Happy Birthday Actor and Acrobat Burt Lancaster!

Burt, who would have turned 98 today,  was a circus performer before his Hollywood career. Here in 1950, he balances atop a pole held by Nick Cravat, and talks casually with the crowd and press before sliding down.

Footage by Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels/Getty Images

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Times Square, New York, 1938, photo by E.M. Bofinger

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Favourite classic movie kisses: The More The Merrier (1943)

Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur

Dir. George Stevens

POSSIBLY THE HOTTEST CLASSIC MOVIE KISS …EVER?

Connie (Jean) and Joe (Joel) are forced (uh oh!) to occupy the same cramped apartment in Washington DC. It’s cool though, she’s not interested in him(!) she’s just ‘doing her bit’ to be patriotic during the housing shortage. She fully retains her virtue and all that while regularly enjoying the sight of Joel McCrea in a state of undress – everybody wins! There’s also some old guy living with them, but he’s kind of a dick and reads her diary so we’ll just gloss over that. 

And now, finally, Connie and Joe are alone together – they’ve been out dining and dancing and he is walking her home. Naturally, it’s at this point that she tries to distract herself from Joe’s allure (and the ever-thickening haze of punch-drunk love) by babbling about her bewigged fiancé, Mr Pendergast. A total turn off, right? NOPE. Not to Joel ‘Handsy’ McCrea it isn’t. Seriously, just watch the film…

Build up: ♡♡♡♡♡ Romance: ♡♡♡♡ Chemistry: ♡♡♡♡♡ Beauty: ♡♡♡♡♡ Technique: ♡♡♡♡♡

Official CelluloidSnogs™ rating: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” – 24/25, cor lummy!

[grantcary]

-Daphne… -Hm? -You’re leading again. -Sorry.

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[melancholyofadeleh]

Well is now my new background-profile-everything picture.

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Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood with Dean and Jeanne Martin at the premiere of My Fair Lady, 1964