#belita

[vintage-friday]

Belita

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[dozydawn]

[forthegothicheroine]

The injury brought [ice skater Belita] to America, her mother having learned of a back specialist in Los Angeles. The legit doctor was a bust- but Peter Lorre recommended a veterinarian who hung Belita heels-over-head from a meat hook, a remedy the vet used for animals. She was skating again weeks later.

Imagine you're injured and Peter Lorre suggests you hang upside down from a meat hook. And it works.

[electronicsquid]

Belita doing an underwater ballet in the Town House pool

(Walter Sanders. 1945)

[hellooldsmelly]

[citizenscreen]

Belita and Barry Sullivan in Gordon Wiles’s THE GANGSTER (1947).

[mudwerks]

(via Noir City: The Hunted)

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The Gangster (1947) Gordon Wiles

July 27th 2023