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[aimmyarrowshigh]

@hotvintagepoll my mom's new hobby is pairing pictures of our dog with publicity shots of vintage stars

[astonishinglysane]

Here’s the thing, y’all: for the INTEGRITY OF HOTVINTAGEPOLLS Peter Lorre has to win Scrungliest Little Guy. This electorate has made really good choices so far. If you told someone the Hottest Old Movie Man was Toshiro Mifune, they’d say, “Ah. Makes sense.” If you told them Eartha Kitt was the Hottest Old Movie Woman, they’d say, “Oh yeah, I can definitely see that.” If you told them any of the other semifinalists was the Scrungliest Little Guy, they’d say, “Okay, they are definitely scrungly. But did someone forget to nominate Peter Lorre?”

I think some people feel like Peter Lorre is too obvious of a choice. But that’s why he is the rightful winner. When you hear “Scrungly Little Guy” Peter Lorre is the first name that pops in your head (other than maybe Dwight Frye RIP). If you look up “scrungly” in the dictionary, there’s just a picture of Peter Lorre, looking pathetic and vaguely damp. He bestrides both sides of scrungly — lovable scrungly and repellant scrungly — like a Colossus.

I beg you, let’s restore sanity to these polls and vote for this big-eyed boy.

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[kelpiegry-art]

I made little portraits of me and my best friends' favourite song and dance funny men as christmas presents!

I also made these little prize ribbons to go along with them:

...If I made them now I’d have given them all a prize for losing round 2 of @hotvintagepoll

[scottyfitzceo]

HELL YEAHHHHHH

[gluecookie]

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If Eartha goes out this round or the next this is how she exits into the shadow realm

[ouatihell]

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propaganda for the masses because I NEED these two to win

[cleolinda]

The most random compliment I have ever received was when a coworker of my mom’s saw my high school senior picture on her desk: “Oh, she has the brow of Ingrid Bergman!”

25+ years later, I still have no idea why she would say this. But the woman had a brow.

[indy829]

Some propaganda for Audrey. I do think that Eartha will take the whole cake (and if she does, she deserves it), but I do always appreciate an opportunity to share Two for the Road Audrey.

The first image many have of Hepburn is what I call "Dorm Room Wall Audrey," where she's decked out in one of her resplendent Givenchy gowns or vanishing under a large exquisite Cecil Beaton hat.

However, my favorite brand of Audrey is "'60s Mod Audrey on a Roadtrip through the South of France":

Two for the Road (1967) was her second to last film in her 1953-1967 hot streak before entering semi-retirement to raise her son Sean and to recover from being married to Mel Ferrer for too long.

It was her third time being directed by Stanley Donen after Funny Face (1957) and Charade (1963) and tells the story of couple Mark and Joanna Wallace (Albert Finney and Hepburn respectively) navigating the ups and downs of their tumultuous yet passionate relationship over the course of 12 years. It's experimental in its nonsequential storytelling, transitioning frequently between different years of their relationship. Essentially, Two for the Road backpacked so Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind could run. It's also very telling that screenwriter Frederic Raphael would go on to write the screenplay for Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Donen said of directing Hepburn that of all of their collaborations, Road saw Hepburn at her most relaxed. And watching her as Joanna, one does get the sense that she hadn't been so unguarded and comfortable in her own skin since Roman Holiday (1953).

Joanna may have also been the most complex role she ever had the chance to play. The 12-year timeline allows us to see how her naive ingenue persona slowly evolves into the world weary women she played in her later films that were getting sick and tired of men's shit.

Her fashions in the film also gave us a unique off-the-rack Audrey. Her Givenchy wardrobe was often like a suit of armor for her and alleviated her of some of the insecurities she struggled with. In Road, she allowed herself to dispose of that crutch and gave us what I feel is her best performance. The woman got to wear a skintight PVC suit and even jeans and a pair of Converse!

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