The Classic Films

Old time movies

[eternamenteaudreyhepburn]

Hair and wardrobe tests for Green Mansions, MGM Studios, 1958.

[anneclaudemay]

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly & Cat

[jamesdeaniseverything]

James Dean.

[rather-impertinent]

an endless list of favourite movies

↳ The Sound of Music (1965)

Well, you can’t marry someone when you’re in love with someone else, can you?

[oldhollywoodmylovegr]

William Holden as Jim Dawkins

Streets of Laredo (1949)

[nitratediva]

Bess Flowers, “queen of the dress extras,” in a risqué scene from A Woman of Paris (1923).

[goldenageestate]

Sophia Loren ~ The River Girl, 1954 

[ltcst]

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1931)

[pale-hands-i-love]

Rudolph Valentino & Alla Nazimova in the silent drama film ‘Camille’ 1921.

[vampsandflappers]

A wonderful early, haunting photo of Greta Garbo in Berlin in 1925. Photograph by Alexander Binder.

“[I am] always so alone, so alone. Oh God, it is so awful. This ugly, ugly America, all just machinery, it is soul destroying. I never go out, only home to my boring little hotel… The only thing that gives me pleasure is to go to the bank and send some money to my family… I don’t want to meet people from the films and drink and talk about things I don’t wish to talk about… People are very curious about me in the studio. Everyone stares at me and asks questions… I am sure they think I am a bit strange… the glamour with which we surround the American film world hardly exists here. There is nothing elegant or beautiful here.”

–Greta Garbo, letter in 1925 to Mimi Pollak

[marcelanunes]

Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964)

[ninetiesdarling]

[covergirlsanddancingcavaliers]

“Just looking at him could make me tremble. When he took my hand in his, the feeling caught me in the pit of my stomach — his hand was warm, protecting, and full of love. When he saw me at the beginning of the day and when he called me on the telephone, his first words were always, ‘Hello, Baby.’ I was a complete virgin when I met him. He was my mentor, my teacher and the love of my life. I remember every word he ever said to me”.

[wehadfacesthen]

Judy Garland in the “Get Happy” number from Summer Stock (Charles Walters, 1950)

[theoriginaldolly]

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1952.

[wehadfacesthen]

Remembering “The Master” Alfred Hitchcock on his birthday (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”