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vintage-old-hollywood · 2 days

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Elizabeth Montgomery

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kelpiegry-art · 3 months

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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

#not reblog bait btw i do not consider this a propaganda submission #no comment on who lost more badly because it might've been my guy 🤐#artists on tumblr #fred astaire #donald o'connor #danny kaye #tap dance #song and dance men #golden age hollywood #traditional art #hotvintagepoll #my art #kelpiegry-art #fanart #2023

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retro-only-darling · 5 months

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young Audrey Hepburn

#golden age hollywood #audrey hepburn #retro beauty #40s fashion #film photography

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vintage-queens2 · 5 months

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Ava Gardner

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iridessence · 1 year

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Black actress and activist Fredi Washington

#harlem renaissance #black actors #old hollywood #golden age hollywood #black old Hollywood #women of color #fredi washington

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luzzarm · 4 months

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SIDE BY SIDE ★

Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin on the set of Sailor Beware

1952

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#cuties #♡#martin and lewis #dean martin #jerry lewis #sailor beware #1952 #sailor beware 1952 #50s #old hollywood #comedy #golden age hollywood #vintage film #paramount pictures

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thecountrywaif · 6 months

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“I once thought if I were queen, I'd be so happy. To be applauded and adored and obeyed. I don't want it now. I just want to be free. To be with you. To love you. I cannot wear a crown upon my heart.”

Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette in MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938).

#˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚#norma shearer #old hollywood #classic hollywood #golden age hollywood #golden age #silver screen #marie antoinette #marie antoinette 1938 #1938 #1930s cinema #cinema #film stills #film #film gifs #movie #aesthetic #vintage

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bitter69uk · 2 months

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“Merle Oberon, the durable Anglo-Indian beauty born Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson in Tasmania (1911), made her film debut as an extra in a 1930 British B film, but soon her dramatic if one-dimensional beauty caught the eye of the Hungarian-born British producer Alexander Korda, who groomed her for stardom and was her husband for a time. In 1935 he sold a half-share in her contract to Samuel Goldwyn, another famous star spotter, who oversaw her transition from exotic to all-American. Never a top star but a popular actress in a number of prestigious films, Oberon continued to make periodic starring appearances until her death.”

/ From Hollywood Colour Portraits by John Kobal, 1981 /

Born on this day: exquisite golden age Hollywood leading lady Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 - 23 November 1979). Of course, we now know that Oberon was actually born in Bombay, India rather than Tasmania, but that wasn’t common knowledge when film historian Kobal wrote his book in the early eighties. In her lifetime Oberon took painful efforts to conceal her mixed-race heritage (when even an onscreen interracial kiss – then called “miscegenation” - was strictly forbidden by the Hays Code), including the use of toxic skin-lightening make-up containing mercury. (A few years ago, the reliably excellent and addictive You Must Remember This podcast devoted an instalment to Oberon – look it up!). In her romantic lead heyday Oberon specialized in period dramas (she’s probably best remembered for playing Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights (1939)), but I like her best in the movies that forced her out of her primarily decorative and ladylike comfort zone like the sordid Temptation (1946), the nymphomania-themed melodrama Of Love and Desire (1963) and especially the obscure 1956 film noir The Price of Fear, in which she plays a prim high society woman whose life unravels after a hit-and-run incident.

#merle oberon #cecil beaton #you must remember this podcast #lobotomy room #you must remember this #biracial #old hollywood #classic hollywood #golden age hollywood #golden age of hollywood #leading lady

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nigesakis · 2 months

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The Defiant Ones (1958) — 1/2

#the defiant ones #the defiant ones 1958 #john 'joker' jackson #noah cullen #sidney poitier #tony curtis #jocullen #my gif #gifs #50s cinema #b&w cinema #golden age hollywood #n

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eternalmarilynmonroe · 5 months

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Marilyn Monroe, 1949.

#marilyn monroe #old hollywood #classic hollywood #golden age hollywood #old hollywod glamour #vintage #retro #photography #history #1940s #1949

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nancydrewwouldnever · 4 months

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George Headley, Necklace of gold, platinum and diamonds, 1941

This necklace's first owner was actress Norma Shearer. Here she is wearing it in 1942 on her first public date with her second husband, Martin Arrouge.

The "Golden Age Hollywood" actresses of the '30s and '40s amassed amazing collections of original jewels. In the movie The Women, the four female stars had a minor "war" over who could wear the most amazing pieces of their own real jewelry in the movie. Shearer herself would later wear her amazing pieces in the 1950s classic Sunset Boulevard.

As part of an auction promotion in 2017, Sotheby's had the necklace and its matching bracelet modeled by actress Jennifer Tilly, who is also a fairly serious jewelry collector.