body fever @sergegainsbourgs - Tumblr Blog

look I love tumblr but I'm getting tired of it because I can't even enjoy it anymore. everything has to be political nowadays like, I'm just here to reblog things I like. if you want to talk about freaking politics then go to twitter

#this is also why im thinking of cancelling my netflix subscription because its the same #im so sick of it

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Brenda Sykes (1971)

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La señora Muerte, 1969

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#leonard cohen

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Angel Cake, 1953 (via zaza23)

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𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

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MGM Grand Air airline interior, plane and lounge (1987)

A totally excessive 1980’s airline, worth a read into its bizarre history

Aircraft interior by Reese Design, lounge by Steve Chase

Scanned from a 1987-88 issue of Designer’s West magazine

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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.

- Ava Gardner

Some would say Ava Gardner was the most beautiful creature God had ever created. Even as a teenager, so sophisticated were her looks that in film, she would portray duchesses, baronesses, and gentry opposite the greatest leading men of the day: as Guinevere in Knights of the Round Table (1953) opposite Robert Taylor; Venus, the Goddess of Love, in One Touch of Venus (1948) opposite Robert Walker; Pandora in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) opposite James Mason; and as Maria Vargas in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) opposite Humphrey Bogart.

Even legendary director John Ford, who she considered “the meanest man on earth and thoroughly evil,” who directed her in Mogambo was smitten by her beauty. It was Ford, she acknowledged, who brought out the best in her as an actress and she came to adore him.

Countless men adored Ava, and Ava adored men. Her greatest friendships were with men. As for female friends, she had few and took only two into her confidence - her sister, Bappie, and her longtime maid and companion, Mearene Jordan, a black woman who Ava loved like a sister.

Despite her thick Southern accent and utter lack of experience as an actress, Ava, at 17, was signed by MGM as a Hollywood contract player in 1941 on the merit of her incomparable beauty alone.

She became a movie queen, was heralded as one of the most beautiful women in the world, inundated with priceless gifts from her three husbands and a multitude of lovers, and swarmed by adulating crowds. Yet the loneliness that pervaded throughout her childhood, and ripened with her hourglass figure, haunted Ava until she died on January 25, 1990, at the age of 67.

#ava gardner