One Foot in 1941

My name is Polly. I love film, especially classics from the Golden Era of Hollywood, all things vintage, books, nature, art and history. I love the life of the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's.and 60's. Especially the 1920's, 30’s & 40's.

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N.C. Wyeth, "The Stars and Stripes of Today", "Flags in America's History" Calendar, Dec. 1944

NC Wyeth Fan Club, Facebook

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Photo by Robert Frank

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Hoboken, New Jersey (in The Americans series), Photo by Robert Frank, 1955

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Illustration detail from a Gulfpride Oil ad - 1947.

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Happy Fourth of July, kids.

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The Saturday Evening Post magazine - July 1924.

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George Sanders, born on July 3, 1906 #botd, cad with a golden voice.

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Bette Davis, as bitchy theatre star Margo Channing, says "up yours!" to George Sanders, as equally bitchy theatre critic Addison DeWitt, in the 20th Century Fox/Joseph L. Mankiewicz drama All About Eve, 1950.

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“I prefer playing evil characters because I seldom feel very well in the morning and it’s easier to be nasty than it is to be nice.” - George Sanders

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George Sanders as Jack Favell in “Rebecca” (1940)

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George Sanders c. early 1940s

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Every age has its Madame Pompadour, its Lady Hamilton, its Queen of Sheba, its Cleopatra, and I wouldn’t be surprised if history singles out Zsa Zsa as the twentieth-century prototype of this exclusive coterie.

Zsa Zsa was like champagne, and I as her husband was hard put to keep up with her standard of effervescence.

After our divorce, Zsa Zsa and I enjoyed a much more harmonious relationship. We got along as friends infinitely better than we did as marriage partners. No one is a better date than Zsa Zsa. No one is a better companion on a trip even if it involves roughing it. Zsa Zsa is perhaps the most misunderstood woman of our times. She is misunderstood because she is guileless. She allows her vitality and instincts to spring from her without distortion. She doesn’t disguise her love of amorous entanglements or jewels or whatever else catches her fancy, because her character is pure.

          –George Sanders, from Memoirs of a Professional Cad

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In memory of George Henry Sanders, born on this day in 1906!

“Whereas on the screen I am a sonofabitch, in life I am a dear, dear boy.” — George Sanders

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All About Eve (1950)

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Happy Birthday George Henry Sanders (3rd July 1906 - 25 April 1972)

I am not one of those people who would rather act than eat. Quite the reverse. My own desire as a boy was to retire. That ambition has never changed.

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L’île d’Oléron