Through The Backdoor

Hi! My name is Rose and I love old Hollywood and old movies.

[silverscreen-andfashion]

ANNE BAXTER as Eve Harrington

All About Eve (1950)

[summertimenoir]

Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928)

[normasshearer]

You touch me and you won't live till morning!

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in THE KILLERS (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak

[aaronstveit]

I loved you, Walter, and I hated him. But I wasn't going to do anything about it until I met you. You planned the whole thing. I only wanted him dead.

BARBARA STANWYCK as PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON Double Indemnity — 1944, dir. Billy Wilder

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS in 2025: 78 | The Lady Eve (1941) — dir. Preston Sturges     

[aaronstveit]

MARILYN MONROE & JANE RUSSELL as LORELEI LEE & DOROTHY SHAW GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)

[mary-philbin]

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

[summertimenoir]

Anna May Wong in Daughter Of The Dragon (1931)

[marypickfords]

Mary Pickford in Friends (D.W. Griffith, 1912)

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Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers Baby Face (1933), directed by Alfred E. Green

[filmgifs]

GENE TIERNEY as Ellen Harland in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN 1945 — dir. John M. Stahl

[ediths-shades]

AUDREY HEPBURN in Sabrina (1954)

Costume design by Hubert de Givenchy

[playboystudy]

Monroe’s bookshelf was exceedingly impressive. At the time of her death, she owned more than 400 volumes, including several first editions. Of the thousands of photographs taken of her, she was especially fond of ones that showed her reading. When a director once found her reading R.M. Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, he asked her how she chose it. “[On] nights when I’ve got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard,” she told him. “And I just open books at random—or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?”

[davisbette]

List of my favorite Bette Davis characters, in no particular order [3/?]

↳ Judith Traherne, Dark Victory (1939) dir. Edmund Goulding.

—You know, I used to be afraid. I've died a thousand times, when death really comes, it will come as an old friend. Gently and quietly.

[classicfilmsource]

Ava Gardner in ONE TOUCH OF VENUS 1948 | William A. Seiter

[stars-bean]

The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder

[wildhearts-cant-be-broken-deact]

Eleanor Parker in SCARAMOUCHE (1952)