#gregory peck propaganda

[cardigan-jam]

I humbly present my magnum opus, Gregory Peck 10 out of 10

#gregory peck #gregory peck his first 10 years on film #he also happens to be a 10/10 #the stars aligned when i found this song #it goes roughly in chronological order though for editing purposes there is some move around #also can you guess what my favorite film is #old hollywood #gregory peck propaganda #my masterpiece #i cut this down i had so much footage

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I hope I'm doing this right but I have some Gregory Peck propaganda to submit

Gregory Peck vs Lex Barker

#you are doing it right! thank you! #gregory peck #propaganda

[beachboysnatural]

my thoughts about every john garfield movie available for me to watch

Four Daughters (1938) - started it all but is not that good, 8/10 Swingtime in the Movies (1938) (short) - cool to see him, interesting, 5/10 They Made Me a Criminal (1939) - bad but not that bad, he was hot, 5/10 Blackwell’s Island (1939) - thought it would be worse, he was so hot, 5/10 Juarez (1939) - boring in every way, whitewashed, good score, 3/10 Daughter’s Courageous (1939) - cheaper, worse Four Daughters, 7/10 Dust Be My Destiny (1939) - bad, great ending monologue, he was hot, 5/10 Four Wives (1939) - bawled, well-acted but not well-written, 6/10 Castle on the Hudson (1940) - exceeded expectations, Ann Sheridan, 7/10 Saturday’s Children (1940) - good I guess but so sad, he was really hot, 7/10 Flowing Gold (1940) - Forgettable, Frances Farmer was good, 5/10 East of the River (1940) - bad script, Marjorie Rambeau was great, 4/10 The Sea Wolf (1941) - spectacular on all levels, 10/10 Out of the Fog (1941) - good, he was evil :( but hot, enjoyable, 9/10 Dangerously They Live (1941) - good somehow, very enjoyable, 7/10 Tortilla Flat (1942) - whitewashed, stereotyped, made me cry, he was hot, 5/10 Show Business at War (1943) (short) - war propaganda but interesting, 4/10 Air Force (1943) - war propaganda but entertaining, kinda shallow, 7/10 The Fallen Sparrow (1943) - actually bad, he gave a great performance, 6/10 Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) - good musical numbers, really yikesy, 6/10 Destination Tokyo (1943) - different war propaganda, not as fun, 6/10 Between Two Worlds (1944) - bad pacing, he was so hot, made me cry, 8/10 Hollywood Canteen (1944) - too long, entertaining enough I guess, 6/10 Pride of the Marines (1945) - really good, some yikesy stuff, 8/10 The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) - great movie, Lana Turner, 9/10 Nobody Lives Forever (1946) - suspenseful, kinda predictable, fun, 8/10 Humoresque (1946) - great use of music, kind of bad, Joan Crawford, 6/10 Body and Soul (1947) - wonderful, great acting and cinematography, 10/10 Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) - good, Gregory Peck, 9/10 Daisy Kenyon (1947) - great acting, bad resolution, he was barely there, 7/10 Difficult Years (1948) - couldn’t find the version he narrated anywhere :((( Force of Evil (1948) - great cinematography, acting, story was confusing, 9/10 Jigsaw (1949) - actually horrible, did not like this movie at all, 2/10 We Were Strangers (1949) - boring but not that bad, 5/10 Under My Skin (1950) - made me so upset, boring, too much horse, 6/10 The Breaking Point (1950) - depressing, very well acted, 9/10 He Ran All The Way (1951) - very emotional for me, well directed, 8/10

#btw in late december i had only seen two of his movies #started this on jan 28 with 15 seen and am posting when i finish #like three of these are cameo roles and one is a documentary he narrated. but no matter #OKAY finally posting this on may 21

[likeabxrdinflight]

Do you ever reel like writers and readers often take for granted just how traumatic it is to kill someone? A lot of stories and viewers often discuss the moral dilemma of a character killing, but it seems like they don't commonly acknowledge just how traumatizing the act of killing someone would be.

Idk if you ever saw that show, but FMA 2003 seems to be one of the few mainstream stories that actually acknowledges how much of a psychological toll murdering can take on someone, even if it's justified.

I would suspect, and hope, that most readers and writers do not have any lived experience with how traumatic it would be to kill someone. Most of the human population thinks about the act of taking another life in a hypothetical sense, thus making morality tales more emotionally accessible. We've all asked ourselves hypothetical questions about killing. Most of us haven't actually done it. Most never will. So really digging into that kind of trauma requires a level of imagination and empathy that's probably quite a bit more challenging to get to. I suspect actors are the best equipped to actually portray that kind of experience, as their skillset requires the ability to really get into someone's head and imagine what they're experiencing in a way writers don't always have to do. A written work can take on a more intellectualized, moralistic tone and still be good. Acting...not so much.

I know of FMA, it was popular back in the day, but I've never actually watched it. If I'm thinking of stories that handle that kind of thing from the lens of exploring the trauma of it I'd maybe explore war media (though you're gonna run into a lot of american military propaganda there so...take it with a grain of salt.) Honestly...the movie 12 O'clock High immediately came to mind. One of Gregory Peck's best performances.

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn featured in a Russian magazine ЧЕЛОВЕК-ЛЕГЕНДА (Legendary Person)

ROUGHLY TRANSLATED STORY (Originally published in Russian)

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 

Audrey Hepburn during the production of How to Steal a Million Studio de Boulogne, Paris Photography by Douglas Kirkland

THE INIMITABLE AUDREY

By Olga Shemetova

Her name during the '60s guarantees the commercial success of films, and her attractions were so popular that she was at the peak of woman's fashion for several seasons. It is not surprising that for more than half a century Audrey Hepburn has taken pride of her place as the most stylish and elegant actress in the world.

True Aristocrat

The full name of Audrey Hepburn immediately gives rise to associations with the Skalinavian sagas and the spirit of the Dutch Renaissance. Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston was born on May 4, 1929 in Belgium, in the town of Ixelles near Brussels.

On her mother's side, Audrey was a Dutch woman from the old Van Heemstra family. Ella van Heemstra, the mother of the future star, was born on the estate of Velpe near the city of Arnhem and bore the title of baroness. Ella has been married twice.

Irishman Joseph Victor Anthony Hepburn Ruston, the father of the future star, became her second husband. He was a mysterious person—it is still unclear whether he was born in 1889 in London or was older and originally from Australia. The only confirmed fact of his biography is the mention in the list of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 1923-1924, where he was an honorary consul in the island of Java. Exactly there, Ella met him. After returning to the continent, the family settled in the suburbs of Brussels.

Alas, a happy family life did not work out. In 1935, Joseph was forced to leave his wife and children after a scandal—Ella found her husband in bed with her children's nanny.

Before the divorce, Audrey's parents often attended Nazi meetings in Germany. They can be seen in photographs taken on the steps of the "brown house," headquarters of the National Socialist Party in Munich, among the supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union for the Nazis. Subsequently, Ella renounced her views, and Joseph became the director of a European press agency in London, dealing with Nazi propaganda in England and collecting classified information for the Reich.

On the basis of Regulation 18B in 1940, Audrey Hepburn's father was arrested and remained in custody until April 1945. After the release of Hepburn-Ruston, it was justified that he lived in Dublin, where he died in 1980. When the glory of his daughter swept all over the world, he did not find it possible to remind himself. If the journalists found out about the past of Audrey's father, she would not be in trouble.

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953)

Hungry Childhood

Audrey recalled that her mother would have been a very strict woman, while her father was impulsive, cheerful, and imposing, so the girl was drawn to him. Her earliest memory is of her father holding her arms in a large room, and she sees magical crystal pendants on a chandelier above her head. Her papa leans over her—kind, handsome, smiling.

His departure from the family became an incredibly painful moment in her life. And yet, Audrey was lucky that she remained in the care of her mother. Ella van Heemstra believed in the exceptional role of willpower and was able to instill this in her daughter: never look back, do not suffer because of past failures, to believe is all that you need, anything you know can be achieved with hard work and self-discipline.

After the divorce of her parents, Audrey settled with her mother in the Netherlands, in the city of Arnhem, which was soon occupied by the Nazis. Audrey then loved to draw and even dreamed of becoming an artist. She took the pseudonym Edda van Heemstra (correcting the documents of her mother Ella van Heemstra). She signed her works with this pseudonym, but the reasons for its appearance lay deeper—the English prefix to the surname during the occupation was considered dangerous.

In the winter of 1944, an acute shortage of food, heat, and medicines began in Arnhem. The so-called “hungry winter” has come. Residents froze right on the streets of the city, which was half empty due to Allied bombing. The fascists shot her mother's uncle and cousin for participating in the resistance movement.

Audrey herself, by her own admission, not quite understanding the full horror of the disaster, performed ballet numbers for the public in order to raise funds for the underground. According to some reports, the girl also helped the Resistance movement by delivering secret messages.

One day, while on a mission, Audrey handed over a note with information to an English parachutist hiding in the forest. Coming out of the forest, she met a German patrol and handed the Germans a bouquet of forest flowers.

Due to malnutrition, Audrey developed anemia, respiratory diseases, and edema. Trying to forget about the hunger, she lay in bed for days and read. The star could not get rid of health problems that arose in that “hungry winter until the end of her life.

At the end of the war, the family was saved by the organization UNICEF. Subsequently, cooperation with this foundation became a way for the actress to repay the kindness shown to her.

After the liberation of the Netherlands, humanitarian aid began to flow into the country and Audrey got sick from overeating—she became sick from a small portion of oatmeal, which had too much sugar.

Audrey was an amazing combination of innate elegance and childish insecurity. Audrey Hepburn in a publicity photograph for Funny Face (1956)

Source: Sean Connery Fan Russia

#audrey hepburn #1950s #funny face #1960s #how to steal a million #magazines

[footballandfiasco]

8, 17, 31 💐

hey bestie <333

8) three tv shows you never get bored of: derry girls (back on my ever-lasting propaganda for everyone to watch this show, it's the best!!!), mord mit aussicht (the og one! not the new one!!!) & brooklyn nine nine

17) three tv couples you adore most: i think this is referring to fictional couples, right? in that case, inej & kaz from shadow & bone (six of crows), stiles & lydia in teen wolf and gregory peck & audrey hepburn in roman holiday (forgot their characters' names but you get it)

31) three types of flowers you love the most: sunflowers, tulips & crocus <3

ask me something <3

#hope you have a great day <333 #ask game #asks #chitchat #i really had to stop me from writing down all the couples i love there are so many

[stylecouncil]

them casting black haired, brown eyed, tall, deep voiced gregory peck as famously blonde, blue eyed, short, high pitched fitzgerald….anti-manlet propaganda? or inspired casting?

[keywestlou]

SUGAR AND ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED BEVERAGES ACCELERATE DEATH

Happy Sunday!

I decided to spend my Saturday night at home. My new thing remaining home. Read a little, watched TV a little. To bed and sleep at nine.

A certain topic caught my eyes during the reading portion. How soda and artificially sweetened beverages are bad stuff. I have been hearing for a couple of years to stop drinking soda. I go through about 6 bottles of Diet Pepsi a day.

I would like to say no more. However what do I substitute in its place? I already drink several bottles of water a day

Permit me to share what I read about soda being a killer.

I came across several articles. One right on carried an article titled Soda Consumption Reveals Mortality Rates. Title long way to say  sugar sweetened beverages will accelerate death in many instances.

When reference is made to “sweetened beverages,” it includes also “artificially flavored beverages.”

Circulation is a well respected scientific journal. Especially in the area of heart problems. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilks for the American Heart Association. A weekly publican.

Circulation ranks #1 among journals in the cardiac and cardiovascular systems category.

Circulation recently reported on a 25 year study. Participants 117,000. The study revealed a 21 percent increase in all cause mortality, as well as cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality.

GThe article an interesting introduction into the heart of the sugar sweetened issue. My problem a simple one. Not deep. I went years ago from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi. What do I drink now that is totally devoid of sugar or sugar sweetener?

It’s almost humorous. As one gets older, he has to give up smoking, drinking and involuntarily sex. Now diet soda!

Audrey Hepburn. One of the finest movie actresses of all time. As well as one of the most beautiful.

World War II was all over Europe. Initially, Holland advised it would remain neutral. Hitler failed to recognize Holland’s neutrality, conquered and occupied Holland during the war years.

Hepburn’s mother and father had separated early in the war. It was only Audrey and her mother Ella living in Holland.

Hepburn literally starved. There was little food available.  Doctors attribute her slender appearance to being malnourished during her adolescence.

As a youngster, Hepburn worked with the Resistance. She acted as a courier delivering papers and money from one group of Resistance fighters to another. The Resistance used children because the Nazis were unlikely to search them.

When Hepburn hit Hollywood and almost instantaneous stardom, her studio found her Resistance background attractive for publicity purposes. However, the matter had to be handled with delicacy.

Hepburn’s parents were Nazi sympathizers and supporters.

Early on, her parents were members of the British Union of Fascists.

Hepburn lived with her mother Ella throughout the war. Her father Joseph had deserted his family early in the war.

Ella returned to Germany early on to attend the Nuremberg Rallies. Following which she wrote an enthusiastic account for the fascist magazine The Blacklist.

Joseph was more deeply involved. He was investigated by the British House of Commons for receiving seed money to start a newspaper from Germans with ties to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Joseph was imprisoned as an enemy of the State for the duration of the war.

Neither parent was aware of Audrey’s Resistance involvement. Audrey was aware of her parent’s Nazi activities.

During the 1950’s, it would have been disastrous for Hepburn’s squeaky clean image if it were known her parent were Nazi sympathizers. Ergo, the movie studio worked hard to keep that facet of her life secret.

Hepburn’s first film was Roman Holiday in which she starred with Gregory Peck. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress. At some point, she left Hollywood and worked for causes world wide. Especially those involving starving peoples. Much of her work was through the United Nations.

While reading about Audrey Hepburn, Harry Truman came to mind. I recalled having read a statement he made about the work he wanted to do. I had marked it in one of my Truman books.

Truman was a plain speaker easily understood. He once said, “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly a difference.”

The G7 seems to be going well. I like Biden’s statement: “The United States is back!”

The trip an obvious success for the nations participating. However the problem is in the details. Hopefully everything can be worked out in a kumbaya fashion as time moves on.

Terri White sings 3-5 this afternoon at Marylin’s. Drop in. Terri’s singing will make you feel good.

Enjoy your Sunday!

SUGAR AND ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED BEVERAGES ACCELERATE DEATH was originally published on Key West Lou

[gardanotizie]

La Vespa Piaggio, lo scooter entrato nella leggenda e per la sua origine aeronautica e per aver battuto le strade di tutti i continenti, presenta la sua storia attraverso un formidabile palmares, frutto della passione di chi ha rappresentato questo marchio sin dalla nascita in perfetta sintonia con la Casa madre.

Al Museo Nicolis, in collaborazione con il Vespa Club d’Italia e la celebre Collezione “Vite da Vespa” di  Marco Romiti, una straordinaria rassegna dove saranno fruibili a tutti gli appassionati, per la prima volta fuori dalla Sede istituzionale, i Trofei conquistati dai vespisti nelle attività sociali divenute pietre miliari del mitico sodalizio, tenute fra l’Italia e l’Europa.

Le suggestioni e le emozioni si succedono lungo il percorso di visita, in un’alternanza di momenti che ci ricollegano agli anni del boom economico, del jazz, dell’entusiasmo di stare insieme, della beat generation, del rock and roll, della libertà di muoversi e di viaggiare, della nouvelle vogue, dei grandi fotografi e della pubblicità d’autore, dove in questi temi, ogni spettatore può ritrovare il suo vissuto interpretato nei  luoghi che hanno fatto dell’Italia il paese dell’arte e della bellezza.

Così, insieme ai gonfaloni storici di rappresentanza quali orgoglio di appartenenza, troviamo i rari trofei dei raduni, delle attività sportive e turistiche: uno fra tutti il leggendario Trofeo del Turismo, pezzo unico, assegnato annualmente dal 1950 al ‘69 al Vespa Club che nel corso dell’annata aveva  svolto la maggiore attività turistica. Veniva assegnato temporaneamente per la durata di un anno e doveva essere riconsegnato al Vespa Club d’Italia un mese prima del Congresso ordinario. All’atto della restituzione il Trofeo veniva sostituito con un esemplare ridotto che veniva conservato definitivamente nella sede del Vespa Club premiato.

II Grand Prix d’Excellence istituito al secondo Congresso del Vespa Club d’Europa a Parigi il 14/15 dicembre del 1953, veniva assegnato dal Comitato dei Presidenti Europei al Vespa Club Nazionale che aveva saputo organizzare un importante manifestazione di propaganda vespistica. Questo Trofeo passerà di anno in anno ai Vespa Club Nazionali vincenti, alla riconsegna il Trofeo veniva sostituito con una copia ridotta dello stesso.

La Targa d’Eccellenza istituita al Consiglio Nazionale di Vicenza nel 1952, veniva assegnata annualmente al Vespa Club meglio organizzato e vitale , oltre alla famosissima e significativa Targa di Bronzo dello storico ventennale 1949 – 1969 posta all’Hotel Belmare di Viareggio dove era nato il Vespa Club d’Italia.

Naturalmente, i complementi fondamentali che aggregano questa storia inarrivabile negli anni in cui si è manifestata, saranno gli scooter Vespa che hanno avuto maggior rilievo nella società e nel cuore degli appassionati: la Vespa 98 del 1946 l’inizio della fantastica avventura che ricorda Enrico Piaggio e Corradino D’Ascanio, le Sport “6 giorni” del 1952 e del 1953 delle memorabili imprese sportive, la 125 del 1952 modello interprete del film di William Wyler “Vacanze Romane” con Audrey Hepburn e Gregory Peck, e tanti altri memorabili pezzi che rappresentano un percorso entusiasmante sino agli anni ’70.

Vale la pena di ricordare l’accostamento di questo magico veicolo al mondo femminile negli anni ‘50 con l’Audax internazionale femminile, l’epico raduno di Milano e il raduno internazionale ”Ragazze in Vespa”.

Un percorso che si sposa naturalmente con le collezioni del patrimonio permanente del Nicolis sino, ogni volta, a rinnovare e completare ogni tassello della storia contemporanea del nostro Paese.

Per questa originale mostra, evocativa di uno dei prodotti più conosciuti e apprezzati dell’arte industriale italiana, è stata scelta un’immagine emblematica tratta dal libro “Museo Vite da Vespa” di Marco Romiti, simbolico per i cultori della Marca dove, fra i trofei dello storico palmares, la Vespa figura come identità espressiva di tecnica, stile, originalità e buon gusto.

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Vespa Club d’Italia – I Grandi Trofei Storie di Sport, Turismo e Costume La Vespa Piaggio, lo scooter entrato nella leggenda e per la sua origine aeronautica e per aver battuto le strade di tutti i continenti, presenta la sua storia attraverso un formidabile palmares, frutto della passione di chi ha rappresentato questo marchio sin dalla nascita in perfetta sintonia con la Casa madre.

#Museo #Museo Nicolis

[jasonfry]

The Mets still aren’t playing real baseball and a maniac is still president, so I keep trying to educate myself by watching old movies I’ve somehow never seen. Some recent ones:

How the West Was Won (1963): Bailed out of this hot mess at the halfway point and think I deserve a parade for making it that far. This was like watching a telethon in which stars come up to the microphone one by one to look ill at ease. There’s also an excess of randomly bursting into song, for which my tolerance is admittedly low. And how many years did Jimmy Stewart play characters who are supposed to be half his age?

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936): Loosely based on the life of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth during Booth’s flight from Ford’s Theater. Turgid and plays irresponsibly loose with the facts, but the lean, feral John Carradine brings the movie to life in his early scenes. Mudd’s wife is played by Gloria Stuart, who got a last star turn decades later in Titanic.

They Were Expendable (1945): War in the Pacific propaganda from John Ford, essentially. John Wayne and Donna Reed are pretty good, as one would expect, but this never really ignited for me.

Gunga Din (1939): The frenetic music hasn’t aged well, and Sam Jaffe in ethnic makeup really hasn’t aged well. But the cast -- Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen -- chews scenery merrily and the battle scenes are big and bold. And of course the second Indiana Jones movie wouldn’t exist without this.

The Guns of Navarone (1961): Gregory Peck is worth watching in anything ... OK, anything that isn’t How the West Was Won. He’s good as the calm center of this one, particularly when butting heads with the frantic David Niven, and Anthony Quinn is nicely enigmatic. As a kid I might have tried poking holes in the plot, but I’m no longer a kid so I just enjoyed watching a band of pros at work.

Libeled Lady (1936): William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow are all having a good time in this screwball comedy (from the gentler end of the spectrum) about a rogue reporter trying to get an heiress to drop a libel suit. Pleasant way to pass an afternoon.

#movies

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Gregory Peck is not only a certified hunk of a man but a great actor and a genuinely good person.

He starred in the film version of the novel Gentleman’s Agreement which was “Hollywood’s first major attack on anti-semitism” which features Peck as a magazine writer who pretends to be Jewish so he can experience personally the hostility of bigots and then calls out and exposes antisemitism and this film was made in 1947 like only two years after the end of World War II so historically an important film(I love this film and think its underated like its great and like Greg looks amazing as he rails against bigots). I could make an argument, and I have honeslty thought about writing a paper on it, that a majority of his films tackle some important issue whether it be antisemitism (Gentleman’s Agreement), racism (To Kill a Monckingbird), nuclear war (On the Beach), post-war discontent and PTSD (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit), the futility of war (Pork Chop Hill) etc.

His daughter Cecilia said “ My father was a champion of stories that needed to be told, like To Kill a Mockingbird, Gentleman’s Agreement, and On the Beach. He was not afraid of films that championed diversity, equality, and tolerance. He was deeply intelligent, and also very funny in real life.”

He was against the House Un-American Activities Committee and their investigation of “alleged communists” in the film industry and signed a letter deploring their actions in 1947. He was outspoken against the Vietnam War, while at the same time supportive of his son who was fighting there. He produced the film version of the play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protestors for civil disobedience. Peck said “I decided to make the film because the play confirmed my thinking that the Vietnam War [was] an abomination.” His outspoken-ness against the Vietnam war and general political activism put him on Nixon’s “enemies list” (honestly what an icon).

He was a vocal supporter of a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons and was a lifelong advocate for gun control.

He and his wife Veronique often hosted dinners at their home in support of the arts and humanitatian or social justice causes. His daughter

He was Catholic but took a pro-choice stance on abortion and supported gay rights.

He was the president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1967-1970) and postponed the awards following the assasination of MLK.

He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts and he also won the Jean Hersolt Humanitarian Award.

He didnt just play the handsome hero on the big screen he was one in real life.

Now some photos of him looking good:

Gregory Peck vs Paul Robeson

#gregory peck #propaganda

[stockholmseoul]

Notes on Roman Holiday

-- Exactly which country is Audrey Hepburn’s character from? Hollywood, of course. She is a princess envoy from the Land of Hollywood, and this is her propaganda film.

-- Why Roman? If we were talking about Hollywood as a new player in Western civilization, Athens would’ve made more sense, or Paris. But Hollywood is declaring itself an empire, and the last great Western empire (in the minds of mainstream movie-goers) is the Roman Empire. Postwar America is the new, powerful empire: a mere $1.50 gets Hepburn new shoes, a chic haircut, gelato, and change.

-- Audrey Hepburn spends a considerable amount of time in the beginning of this film asleep. The Sleeping Beauty myth is about the coming of age (a girl in pre-pubescent slumber, a bleeding girl) and waking up to sexual knowledge.

-- Sexual knowledge is important in the film: Gregory Peck’s landlord and cleaning person both mistake Audrey Hepburn for a prostitute. (They use similar scenes for Notting Hill, also a Hollywood propaganda film using then-princess of Hollywood Julia Roberts, who is named Anna, as is Hepburn’s character.)

-- There are many subversive aspects regarding Hepburn’s character. Of course, she rejects the princess role and later on claims it (by returning), but there’s something about the hair-cutting scene that particularly shows agency. Feminist agency/queering (there’s some cross-dressing: ”You should always wear my clothes” “It seems I do”), also shown in the ‘my first cigarette’ scene and reckless vespa driving, the last of which has the police after her. Also, joining in the barge fight. 

-- Hepburn’s character is about claiming her power, growing into it, negotiating its terms. She cannot marry Gregory Peck—despite his proposal about getting a house with a kitchen—because that’s not what it’s about. Marriage would diminish her power. If she were to marry, it would have to be on her own terms. This is why the ending is of Audrey Hepburn resplendent in her castle—in her reclaimed power—and Peck leaving her there. This is not a tragic love story. It is a triumphant coming-of-age. Princess Ann doesn’t lose a boyfriend, she wins herself.

-- “I was indisposed. I am better.” 

-- There’s a small replica of the Mouth of Truth at the entrance to the courtyard of Gregory Peck’s apartment. I wonder why it’s there?

[hotvintagepoll]

The year is 1945. You are at a preview test of the new Hitchcock film. The opening credits start and Gregory Peck's name is shown on screen. You go insane at the sight and are told to calm down during the beginning scenes of the movie. You turn and see producer David O Selznick shushing you. You must be escorted out of the theater.*

*this is based on a real thing that actually happened

Gregory Peck vs Paul Robeson

#propaganda #gregory peck

[hotvintagepoll]

Suraiya Propaganda!

Seeing Gregory Peck just now reminded me of this - after Suraiya sent him an autographed photo of herself (through Frank Capra), they missed each other at a FilmFare event in Mumbai. He'd been invited to the main event, but his plane had been delayed so he was only able to attend the after party. At the after party he met stars like Meena Kumari, Dev Anand, and many others.

But not Suraiya.

Suraiya had gone home rather than attend the party, and Gregory's plane back to Sri Lanka would leave before morning.

He asked someone at the party where she lived, and that person just so happened to be her uncle. The two of them went to her house, despite the late hour. "There was a knock on the door at a little past eleven of Tuesday night, January 5, and there, when it opened, was Mr. Peck himself asking Suraiya"s very astonished mother with a bow: 'Where is Suraiya, Madam?' Just like that. While she still hesitated, along came Suraiya from her bed, wide-eyed with wonder, to welcome her favourite star. who stepped in and stayed chatting informally till well past midnight, when he left to catch the Colombo plane..."

TLDR: a single PHOTOGRAPH of Suraiya had Gregory Peck on his knees just to get a single glimpse of her. How many other women of the age could say the same?

Theda Bara vs Suraiya

#suraiya #propaganda #gregory peck

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No sure I doing the right thing now?

this doesn't fit the submission guidelines but i'll do this for the greg girlies. (by and large, though, remember not to send me super super long asks or post-1970 propaganda.)

Greg vs Paul

#gregory peck #propaganda

[hotvintagepoll]

Gregory Peck propaganda (I hope that these are readable too)

Paul Robeson vs Gregory Peck

#gregory peck #propaganda