Lacrimosa

[outkidman]

Marlene Dietrich.

[rustedshutter]

Lana Turner | 1940s

[screengoddess]

Gloria Swanson

[quaintrellezz]

”Mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another. Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted. Yes, we even get back what we rejected. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.”

~ General Loewenheim in “Babette’s Feast” by Isak Dinesen ~

[summertimenoir]

Greta Garbo in Inspiration (1931)

[gatabella]

Hedy Lamarr, 1940s

[outkidman]

Marlene Dietrich and her daughter Maria Riva.

[littlehorrorshop]

Anna May Wong in Show Life (1928)

[peoniepoetals]

“She waits, she’s here. Faithful and close, deep and blue.”

— Jean-Michel Maulpoix, “For centuries, she’s been beating”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)

[precodesoul]

Carole Lombard photographed by William E. Thomas, 1929

[marilyn-and]

[catherineholly]

Audrey Hepburn on the set of The Nun’s Story (1958)

[oh-sewing-circle]

“According to Hollywood historians, actress Barbara Stanwyck wasn’t only a diva of gay culture, but a hero too—a real-life lesbian who also played one in the movies (Walk on the Wild Side) and probably had flings with Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich. Like many Cancers, Stanwyck fiercely gaurded her privacy and vulnerability. ‘She talks a tough game,’ said a family insider, 'but…she isn’t so cocksure like she always pretends. But it was a very hard shell she built.’ On TV she played the stereotypical Cancer-type of matriarch in The Big Valley.”

-Excerpt from Gay Stars The Ultimate Gay Guy’s Guide to Astrology by Matthew Abergel

[gilliandersons]

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) dir. George Cukor

[peoniepoetals]

“The hay in the loft misses the night sky, so the old roof leaks a few stars.”

— Jim Harrison, from “Braided Creek,” Complete Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021)

[gatabella]

Candid of Elizabeth Taylor, 1950s

[gatabella]

Ava Gardner in Africa on the set of Mogambo, 1953