M.Harrington Woolf

Dandy proletario, agente provocador X-661, espía, detective psíquico, pintor, poeta, flaneur. Circa 1900

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[scruplesofapie]

BURT LANCASTER and ANNA MAGNANI on the set of THE ROSE TATTOO (1955) home movie footage filmed by DON BACHARDY featured in CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY (2007)

[toiich]

Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward shopping for books in New York

by Gordon Parks, 1959

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Toko Shinoda, 1956

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Prison, Kichijoji 吉祥寺

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La notte, 1961

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norma shearer kissing many women

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Saya Hnin-Mahla, the Burmese cobra priestess, shot by the documentary filmmaker Armand Denis (1939)

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[normasshearer]

Norma Shearer as Fay Cheyney in THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1929) dir. Sidney Franklin

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The Wonderful Norma Shearer

[intomore]

Park Avenue, NYC, 1955,

In 1955, Park Avenue—particularly around Midtown and the Upper East Side—was an incredibly wealthy, insular, and racially segregated area. Black Americans rarely lived in these specific high-rises during the mid-1950s.

Because of the social dynamics of the era, a Black man walking through this specific neighborhood carrying a delivery package or walking dogs was almost certainly employed there. Viewers and historians widely deduce that he was a worker—likely a butler, domestic employee, or courier—performing daily service rituals and errands for the area's affluent residents or businesses.

Mario de Biasi Photography

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[manderley]

HUD (1963) dir. Martin Ritt

[sesiondemadrugada]

Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto (Elizabeth Lennard, 1985).

[silverscreen-andfashion]

GRACE KELLY as Margot Wendice

Dial M for Murder (1954)

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Salammbô, (Detail), (1885), by Jean-Paul Sinibaldi (French, 1857 –1909), signed ‘Paul Sinibaldi’ bottom left; signed and dated at the bottom right ‘Paul Sinibaldi 85’, oil on canvas, 191 cm (75.1 in) x 343 cm (11.2 ft), Private Collection