What I Think, Movie-wise

Am I the only classic movie lover who isn't in high school?

[20th-century-man]

Jeanne Crain / photo by William Mortensen, 1942.

[notpulpcovers]

Bunny Yeager self portrait

[oldmovieactress]

[msmildred]

Eleanor Powell photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1936.

[wehadfacesthen]

Jean Arthur, 1936

“We play in pictures which cost thousands of dollars, sometimes more than a million dollars. Huge sums of money are spent to build up a star’s personality. The story, the production values, the camera, makeup, lights, dialogue, all contribute to make her a glamorous personality. We create an illusion when we are on the screen. We should sustain that illusion. We owe it to the studio. We owe it to the public. But we can’t be perfectly poised all of the time. Dear knows, I can’t….I just like to be comfortable when I’m not working, so I try to keep out of the public eye as much as possible.”  - 1939

[mattybing1025]

Lauren Bacall photographed by Ruth Orkin

[20th-century-man]

Veronica Lake / publicity photo for Paramount, 1942.

[mylovelydeadfriends]

Rita Hayworth, ca. 1940

[c86]

A ‘blimp’ flying over the Empire State Building, 29 September 1931

[oscarskirt]

Design for Living (1933) directed by Ernst Lubitsch

[oldhollywoodpage-deactivated202]

Loretta Young in The New Loretta Young Show (TV Series 1962–1963)

[deforest]

Gary Cooper, 1928

[summers-in-sunnydale]

Carole Lombard, c.1937

[rachelmygod]

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)

[norashelley]

Jean Arthur enjoying watermelon on the set of “Arizona” 1940

[gatabella]

Rita Hayworth, 1940

[20th-century-man]

Joan Bennett; publicity still for Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945)