Fandom Fun

Just a place to have fun with fandom, with a touch of vintage, animals and some writing reference. I'm a writer/artist. Always a fan.

[midnightssea]

“you couldn’t make this movie today” not because of cancel culture but because big studios aren’t willing to take risks on cool fun new ideas instead of adaptation number 7,000

[hotvintagepoll]

jesus fucking christ i'm so sick of these broken search engines

not sure if you can see this image because it's tiny but I was using duckduckgo (the "no ai" version! apparently!) to search this actress from the 1920s called Rose Blossom. Cool, I think, I wonder if she would count for the bob tourney? so I go to see what she looks like and:

louise brooks

clara bow

not sure who this is but i don't think it's rose

clara bow again

jacqueline logan

jobyna ralston

not sure but the literal caption says "eloise stream" so? her?

someone who looks familiar but i can't place rn

gloria swanson

ruth wilcox

natalie barrache

claire windsor

virginia valli

myran loy

lillian fucking gish

why the fuck??? why the fuck?? three years ago i swear I would have found something approximately close to the actual actress I was looking up with my actual search terms instead of just a smattering of "eh close enough they're all ladies from the 20s." and i'm catching this because i know gloria fucking swanson when i see her! this is so confusing for people who don't recognize they're being handed 37 of the wrong people when you search for an image! and this is just one search, earlier i was looking up ethel moses and got dorothy dandridge. what the fuck.

i switched to google and finally found one picture of the real Rose Blossom (here she is) but every image under her was Shelley Winters, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, and Ann Harding. etc. shit is fucked. shoot the internet with a gun.

[hotvintagepoll]

Can we do a poll for best bobbed beauty?

sure we can do a mini! reply all your suggestions to this post ⬇️

i'm going to say that to count, all contestants must have been working in film from 1909-1930 and must have been wearing their hair during that time in what is identifiable as a bob.

[hotvintagepoll]

still taking submissions for the bob poll! if you're picky on which bob picture you want for your hottie, include it with your comment.

in the meantime, choose your fighter: clara bow bob pic

top left

top right

middle left

middle right

bottom left

bottom right

Voting ended onJun 26

[hotvintagepoll]

I was hanging out with a friend the other day (watching The Watermelon Woman) and she randomly asked me which old Hollywood stars I thought were hottest, I casually list a couple of big names off the top of my head, and she shows up to my birthday last night with THESE:

(+1 Gillian Anderson in the Creature from the Black Lagoon photoshoot button as a treat)

oh my god i love your friend

[hotvintagepoll]

would you like

one poll showing off some great bobs

a whole tournament of bobs

Voting ended onJun 26

[hotvintagepoll]

not bob as in bob hope. bob as in these things.

i've found some very cool silent film hotties (with bobs) i would like to show the world

[hotvintagepoll]

I was in LA last week and checked out Holy Cross cemetery. Warmed my heart to see people were still leaving mementos and flowers for some of the Old Hollywood icons buried there.

gone but still lusted after

[hotvintagepoll]

i've decided that since I just specified working in film on the bob post, I'm going to include some of the women who were working behind the scenes in pre-1930 film. if you have a favorite female director, producer, writer, editor, designer, scriptie, etc.—with a bob!—who was working in early film, now is the time to submit them.

[precodesoul]

Lupe Vélez photographed by Hal Phyfe for her film Hot Pepper (1933)

[hotvintagepoll]

I'm aware I'm behind on voice actor violence bc I totally missed this poll, but I was extremely surprised to see the results on the white rabbit poll (that's obviously not John Fiedler, why did that sweep???) before I remembered that most people did not repeatedly watch The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece featurette on their Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh VHS starting in toddlerhood, and therefore do not know these character actors by name and constantly point them out whenever they appear in anything ever

universal 12 angry men experience

[hotvintagepoll]

Here's some more voice actor violence for everyone! John Fielder played Jack the Ripper in an episode of "Star Trek", and popped up as a cheerful coroner on "Kolchak: The Night Stalker"...which made for a very strange childhood for yours truly, having heard him as Piglet from early on!

the range

[hotvintagepoll]

I’m so sad because I wanted to submit Kay Francis because that’s such an iconic bob but she didn’t really become a lead until post 1930 :( so just. special shout out to Kay Francis! I’m excited for the Bob Off!

shoutout to the bob girlies who are just outside the cutoff!

who has the best bob of the ladies who are outside the tournament limits?

Kay Francis

Joan Blondell

Elisabeth Welch

Ruan Lingyu

Voting ended onJun 29

[silver-screen-divas]

Josephine Baker

[hotvintagepoll]

does goncharov (1973) count as vintage or is it a little bit too youbg

said this many times before but I consider hot vintage era running from the start of film to 1970. this is based on a generous interpretation of the end of “old hollywood” and the death of the traditional studio system. Goncharov is extremely typical of a “new hollywood” film (more aggressive, more willing to embrace outré subjects, grungier filmmaking process divorced from the rigid demands of the studio), so no, for the purposes of my polls I would say Goncharov is Retro, but not Vintage.

Also for some reason whenever I try to grab screenshots my computer explodes. so there’s that

[isthereaduck]

There are no ducks in this post.

[hotvintagepoll]

now there are.

[hotvintagepoll]

Can Ronald Colman's bob in Romola (1924) get an honourable mention

he's in

[hotvintagepoll]

For the bobs, would Robin Hood-era Douglas Fairbanks count?

(more like Bob-in Hood amirite)

you know what? sure.

[elierlick]

Rare photos from trans history: Olympic runner and Zdeněk Koubek styles Cinda Glenn’s hair, 1936. Koubek was one of the first trans men to gain international fame after he transitioned in 1935.

[dailyhistoryposts]

ID: A photo of a newspaper snippet. A headline says “Here’s How I Used to Do It!” This is followed by a photo of a Zdeněk Koubek and Cinda Glenn. Both are smiling broadly as Cinda leans her head back to let Zdeněk style her hair. The photo is captioned: “An expert at women’s coiffures although not a hairdresser, Zdenek Koubek proves himself as he combs the locks of Cinda Glenn, New York night club beauty. Koubek knows all about coiffures from experience, since they were of concern to him when he was the foremost girl athlete of Czechoslovakia, prior to a sex-change.”

[hotvintagepoll]

let's play a mini game! (multipart madness)

Below is a clip of three different scenes from Singin' in the Rain, starring Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Rita Moreno. for those who haven't seen it, Debbie Reynolds plays a young actress named Kathy who dubs the voice of the much more famous movie star Lina Lamont, played by Jean Hagen.

Ironically for a movie about dubbing, one of its stars is being dubbed— but where? and when?

The clip below has three different parts of the movie—one with Kathy singing to dub Lena, one with Kathy speaking to dub Lena, and a confrontation between Lena, Zelda, and Kathy. without looking it up, let's try to figure out where the dub is!

(sorry about the frame and quality change, I pulled these from three different videos)

Singing, speaking, fighting: where is the dub?

Debbie is singing her own music but the speaking is dubbed by Rita Moreno

A ghost singer is dubbing Debbie, but the speaking is dubbed by Jean Hagen

Rita Moreno is dubbing Debbie's speaking AND singing

A ghost singer is dubbing Debbie's singing but the speaking is Debbie

Jean Hagen is doing Debbie's speaking AND singing

Debbie is doing everything herself, but Rita Moreno is dubbed in the fight scene

Debbie is doing her own singing, but a voice actor is doing the speaking

Rita is singing for Debbie, but Debbie is doing her own speaking

Gene Kelly is doing all of this in different wigs.

Voting ended onJul 1

happy guessing!

[hotvintagepoll]

I have a habit of posting these in the middle of the night (for me) so here this is for the people who see the sun

[hotvintagepoll]

this one closes today! and it looks like #genesweep right now