One Dress a Day Challenge
February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks
Go West, Young Man / Mae West as Mavis Arden
This movie is from after the Hays Code went into effect, so I'm not sure how they sneaked this negligee into the movie. At least, I think it's a negligee. It's hard to be sure with Mae West! But that concentration of flowers at her crotch is pretty daring.
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Gloria Holden in Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
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Vintage Pulp - Saucy Movie Tales (Mar1936)
Art by Norman Saunders
Movie Digest
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Hiroshi Shimizu’s “有りがたうさん” (Mr. Thank You) February 27, 1936.
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Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) - The Better Version
This movie - the earliest extant Jeeves adaptation - is overwhelmingly terrible and you shouldn't watch it. However, despite being completely out-of-character, about 25% of it is honestly still kind of fun. So as a collaborative effort between myself and @beetle-goth, we are happy to present you with a supercut of all of the scenes in this movie that are entertaining, with nearly all the rampant racism and sexism cut out. Will it make the movie good? Maybe not! But at least it will be... better.
This version has a few silly editorial comments inserted in by the both of us. If you want the version without our silly comments, you can find it here.
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One Dress a Day Challenge
June: Weddings
Swing Time / Ginger Rogers as Penny Carroll
This is definitely an unexpected wedding outfit! I'd love to know the colors of the individual items. The jacket is made of some shiny material, with a flared skirt, princess seams, and slight leg-of-mutton sleeves. Over this, she wears a fur with attached fresh flowers. The gloves are dark, but not as dark as the skirt, hat, and clutch purse. She does have a veil, but it's just dark netting attached to a round hat with a bow on top.
Another interesting feature of the jacket is the long row of small buttons down the front. I have started calling these "1936 buttons," as I've noticed them on dresses in other movies that came out that year. Ginger has a similar row of buttons on another of her dresses from the same movie, for the number "Waltz in Swing Time" (see below). You can also see them on Jean Harlow in Libeled Lady.
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sweeney just straight up bit Mrs. Lovett. He’s so me.
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Robert Taylor, photographed by Ted Allan, 1936
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