#penny carroll

[cressida-jayoungr]

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.

#swing time #wedding costumes #ginger rogers #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #musical costumes #1936 films #1936 movies #1930s fashion #1930s style #black and white movies #classic hollywood #old hollywood #classic movies #fred and ginger #black and white films #30s style #30s fashion #penny carroll #wedding dresses #1936 buttons

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Girls Group 3 Match 18

SUBMISSION PROPAGANDA:

Alice -

"despite her exceptionally young age, she's one of the most promising gondolier candidates... at least when it comes to technical skill. she struggles with the customer service part of the job, but over the course of the series, slowly learns how to do it in her way. She later goes on to be the only apprentice to go from a two glove apprentice to a full gondolier!"

Penny -

"Spoilers for Pokémon SV ahead. Penny is very much like Futaba from Persona 5. She's very good with computers, but so bad with people. She has people so devoted to her that they spent a year and a half putting basically their entire life on standby and risking their future, all just waiting for her to come back and let them know she's okay. Rather than just contacting them, she devises an elaborate scheme to force them to give that up and pay attention to their future. And all this despite the fact that she's so shy and antisocial that she never met them face to face or told them her real name! Also she committed cyber crimes almost as an aside."

#autistic anime girls poll #tumblr polls #alice carroll #aria #penny #pkmn penny #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pkmn sv #pokemon sv

[texasthrillbilly]

"Wonderful fantasy"

Says the talking, purple, space llama.

#lost in space #penny robinson #willoughby #sci fi & fantasy #american gothic press #alien #comic book #art #lewis carroll

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Joan Blondell: Myrtle in Penny Arcade (1930 Broadway); Honey Bee Carroll in The Naked Genius (1943 Broadway); Mrs Farrow in The Rope Dancers (1957 Broadway)

Beatrice Lillie: Inside USA (1948 Broadway); Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 (1957 Broadway); Madame Arcati in High Spirits (1964 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut. Semi-NSFW image below the cut

Joan Blondell:

She was wisecracking and sexy and I want her to be my girlfriend so bad

Beatrice Lillie:

#vintagestagehotties #vintagestagepoll #vintage tournament #vintage poll #joan blondell #beatrice lillie #ladies round 1 #vintage ladies

[vintagetvstars]

Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket - Round 1

Round 1 (All polls)

Bea Arthur Vs. Bea Benaderet

Barbara Eden Vs. Kathryn Leigh Scott

Kellye Nakahara Vs. Janine Turner

Betty White Vs. Gracie Allen

Joely Richardson Vs. Miranda Richardson

Holland Taylor Vs. Joan Collins

Joan Chen Vs. Rachel Bilson

Lucille Ball Vs. Suzanne Pleshette

Angela Lansbury Vs. Eartha Kitt

Alex Kingston Vs. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Gina Torres Vs. Sherilyn Fenn

Katee Sackhoff Vs. Geraldine James

Barbara Feldon Vs. Carol Cleveland

Amanda Tapping Vs. Nana Visitor

Amanda Randolph Vs. Barbara Mullen

Kate Jackson Vs. Kim Cattrall

Emma Thompson Vs. Penelope Keith

Rue McClanahan Vs. Barbara Stanwyck

Thalía Vs. Sheila Kuehl

Joan Bennett Vs. Grayson Hall

Julie Newmar Vs. Lalla Ward

Farrah Fawcett Vs. Catherine Bach

Diahann Carroll Vs. Siân Phillips

Mary Tyler Moore Vs. Jan Smithers

Nichelle Nichols Vs. Yvonne Craig

Carolyn Jones Vs. Lara Parker

Janet Hubert Vs. Marcia Strassman

Jackée Harry Vs. Dawn French

Tina Louise Vs. Linda Cristal

Eva Gabor Vs. Anne Francis

Lynda Carter Vs. Peggy Lipton

Courteney Cox Vs. Mädchen Amick

Vivica A Fox Vs. Julia Duffy

Valerie Harper Vs. Jaclyn Smith

Doris Day Vs. Dawn Wells

Debbie Allen Vs. Elizabeth Montgomery

Karyn Parsons Vs. Katy Manning

Deidre Hall Vs. Phyllis Logan

Jeri Ryan Vs. Mira Furlan

Lucy Lawless Vs. Claudia Black

Morena Baccarin Vs. Shannen Doherty

Jonelle Allen Vs. Francesca Annis

Jane Seymour Vs. Annette Crosbie

Diana Rigg Vs. Joanna Lumley

Melissa Joan Hart Vs. Lisa Robin Kelly

Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon Vs. Lisa Hartman

Eliza Dushku Vs. Chloe Annett

Fran Drescher Vs. Mariska Hargitay

Lauren Graham Vs. Charisma Carpenter

Marlo Thomas Vs. Lily Tomlin

Connie Booth Vs. Barbara Billingsley

Gillian Anderson Vs. Alexandra Paul

Penny Johnson Jerald Vs. Mag Ruffman

Sarah Jessica Parker Vs. Judy Parfitt

Cicely Tyson Vs. Aimi MacDonald

Anna May Wong Vs. Peggy Ashcroft

Carol Burnett Vs. Elisabeth Sladen

Sarah Michelle Gellar Vs. Hattie Hayridge

Pamela Anderson Vs. Loretta Swit

Itatí Cantoral Vs. Audrey Meadows

Jane Krakowski Vs. Jennifer Aniston

Terry Farrell Vs. Nicole de Boer

Carole André Vs. Melissa Leo Vs. Sabrina Lloyd

Eve Arden Vs. Dorothy Provine Vs. Vivian Vance

#vintage tv stars poll #breaking news #todays news

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

Trans and nonbinary webcomic character tournament nominations are closed! The following characters (sorted by webcomic name; links to character introductions added as they go up) received three or more nominations and qualified for the tournament:

Aurora - Dainix

Charity Case - Julie

Clover & Cutlass - Maggie

Court of Roses - Merlow the Rose

Cucumber Quest - Rosemaster and Bacon

Dumbing of Age - Carla Rutten

Earth 2068 - Vermillion Gacutan

El Goonish Shive - Tedd Verres and Ellen Dunkel

Experience Boost - Zhusen

Feast for a King - Knife

Four Leaf - Lupe Jara

Friends With Benefits - Eri McCure

Goodbye to Halos - Fenic

Heartstopper - Elle Argent

High Class Homos - Lucas

Homestuck - Davepeta

I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl - Cheryl

Kill Six Billion Demons - 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil (White Chain)

Lavender Jack - Johnny Summer

LoveBot - Xada

Magical Boy - Max Owen

Nasty Red Dogs - Gaueko

Never Satisfied - Lucy Marlowe

O Human Star - Sulla Pinsky

Out of the Blue - Eddie Kaspbrak

Paranatural - Penny Spender

Questionable Content - Claire Augustus

Rain - Rain Flaherty and Kylie Coven

Rectify - Fleet

Shootaround - Chau Le

Sister Claire - Magpie

Sleepless Domain - Zoe Blecher

The Order of the Stick - Vaarsuvius

Tiger, Tiger - Luck

Val and Isaac - Space Dread

White Noise - Teige Carroll and Yoshi

Widdershins - Eliza Swift

I'll be posting character introductions over the next couple weeks as time permits. If you’d like to suggest an alternate picture/description or if there’s any missing or incorrect information in the introductions, let me know!

Since no comic had three or more characters with at least three nominations, there will be no preliminary rounds, and we'll jump straight into the round robin group stage around the middle of July as soon as character introductions are finished.

#sticking a tag here so tumblr doesn't constantly remind me to do it #I have edited this post so many times

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

Someone somewhere created a blog called “The saddest thing I own.” I sent the link to a friend and this was her reply:

I was thinking about the saddest thing I owned. At first I thought nothing I owned was sad; that I wouldn’t keep anything around if it made me hurt. Later in the day though I opened a drawer to find my keys and sitting there in front was a note I had saved, left on the backdoor of my store. It is written on a receipt for bottled water….a Hinckley and Schmidt receipt. A homeless guy found it and wrote on the back…

Dear Boss,

"I found this receipt and thought you might need it. Thank you for letting me stay in the back of your store, it’s very nice of you and I appreciate it. If you ever need anything let me know. Thank you very very much for not kicking me out.

He lived on the back step of my store, in the alley. He’d put cardboard down every night and had a broken wicker kitchen type chair he would sit on. Sometimes when I would stay late he would be out there and I would nearly hit him when I opened the door. He would say…”i’msorryi’msorryi’msorry,” a million times. I would say “No, I am sorry, I nearly hit you.” He would always say “Thank you, take care boss, have a good evening”…” I answered “You too, Honey.” He never asked me for a penny, I never knew his name. He liked that I called him Honey and would smile. I haven’t seen him for a year at least. I took his chair in after a few months, it’s still inside waiting for him. I wonder if he is still alive. The note was the last I heard from him. I saved it because it broke my heart every time I read it and made me realize how lucky I am, I was dealt a good hand, and how good people can be dealt such terrible cards. He was grateful for a step to sleep on."

— Jonathan Carroll

[whitleyschn33]

RWBY V9 E08 Liveblog

I’m early again and already spoiled by the thumbnail, thanks a lot Crunchyroll (using the free trial until my usual sites fix themselves.)

- Another vague content warning, content warning are only useful if they warn about the actual content, RT. (It’s suicide/sucidial actions AGAIN just say suicide for fuck’s sake)

- Little, when have you ever actually guided the girls anywhere?

- I like that Ruby is breaking, but I wish the tone wasn’t quite so... grumbly? Like, the tone of voice sounds more petulant than upset, if that makes sense.

- Well... I do hope Little does actually knows the way back to the village, otherwise Ruby just left them there to die acres away from their home.

- ...What is this transition? It’s so abrupt, Ruby just arrives at the house. No shots of her reaction to her surroundings, no real look at what this acre looks like, no reaction to the house “appearing” (I say that as if it wasn’t just there, like the camera didn’t just cut to it without any establishing shot). This moment just feels so rushed, why?

- Is that the Roman Holiday cover art? And I’m assuming the little girl is Neo, so is her hair and eyes not natural, or did she unlock her semblance incredibly young?

- Hi Roman, by the way

- And all that hesitation Ruby was showing about using her weapon before? Gone. Could just be instinct overriding the trauma, it’s different being spooked into a fight vs rushing into one, but whatever.

- Can Neo just make her illusions speak now? Why?

- Even dead, Roman steals the show. Man, I’ve missed him.

- Very generic “hey, maybe Ruby’s cracking under stress” talk

- She... apparently didn’t walk that far.

- Is this entire house made by Neo? The chandelier shattering seems to suggest that, but the house stays later in the episode implying that it’s not.

- And like... has Neo been around enough to know about all of this? About Pyrrha, Ozpin, Clover, Ironwood? This is an incredibly cathartic scene (and once again I wish we could have gotten to all of this earlier), I’m very much enjoy Penny’s and Ironwood’s lines, but I’m confused on just how Neo is doing it.

- ....Dead Oscar illusion is kinda sick, nice job animators, but this poor boy can’t catch a break even when not actually here.

- Hey, they remembered Qrow existed! 

- Good kitty with laser beams.

- ...Not good kitty. Darn it, Robbie Daymond. And “my maker”, is this how we’re going to tie this back to the main Remnant plot, because his maker can’t be Alyx or Lewis (I’m settling on this spelling because I finally got it through my dense skull that it’s a reference to Lewis Carroll, which makes me wonder if it was actually Lewis that made it out and Alyx that never came back, as the twist), so maybe it’s Ozma or the God of Light?

- Nice effort, Little - I do enjoy when they actually try to help in whatever ways they can, like with the doll at the auction.

-...So, will Little ascend, or because Neo killed them, are they dead dead?

-These reactions are so incredibly flat. If you’re going to do this, go all out with the team’s reactions, don’t just have them gasp and stare. They’d be doing so well with the facial expressions on Ruby, why cheap out here?

-Ew. Also, he’s alway gone in through the heart, why the mouth now?

-Oh yeah, wasn’t one of the theories of Neo’s fairy tale illusion the Cheshire Cat? Well, that’s confirmed now in horrific fashion.

Once again, I am asking why couldn’t we have cut out the fluff and gotten to this point sooner? It makes no sense that Neo is suddenly strong enough to do this, but at least it’s interesting and furthering Ruby’s character and arc along, and with only two episodes left and so much to deal with, this finale is going to feel rushed as all get out, I’m afraid.

#rwby9 #rwby9 spoilers #rwde #crtq #rwby volume 9 #rwby volume 9 spoilers

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Georgia Republican Party paid at least $220,000 last year to two law firms defending fake presidential electors who could face charges as part of a Fulton County investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 loss.

According to recently filed campaign disclosures, the state party paid Strickland Debrow of Newnan, GA, about $170,000. Atlanta-based Pierson Law LLC, received roughly $52,000 from the Georgia GOP.

The disclosures come as outgoing state party chair David Shafer, one of the 16 phony electors, announced last week that he wouldn't run for another term. In his farewell letter, Shafer revealed that the party paid the elector's legal expenses.

"Thankfully, our State Executive Committee voted to ratify their acts and pay (the elector's) legal expenses," he wrote. "I have raised the money to honor that commitment so that none of them have had to pay a penny out of pocket."

A spokesperson for the Georgia Republican Party didn't respond to questions before publication. Representatives for Strickland Debrow declined to comment for this story. Holly Pierson of Pierson Law told 11Alive that none of the electors "did anything wrong."

"It’s incredibly frustrating that any of the Republican electors were put in the position of having to obtain counsel when it is so abundantly clear legally that none of them did anything wrong," Pierson said. "Recognizing that fact, the Georgia Republican Party voted to step up and protect its membership, which was the principled and courageous thing to do. The Republican electors recused themselves from the vote to ratify their actions and cover their legal expenses, which was otherwise unanimous."

Sixteen Georgians served as phony electors for Trump. They are:

• Shafer •Joseph Brannan •James "Ken" Carroll •Vikki Townsend Consiglio •Carolyn Hall Fisher •Burt Jones •Gloria Kay Godwin •David G. Hanna •Mark W. Hennesy •Mark Amick •John Downey •Cathleen Alston Latham •Daryl Moody •Brad Carver •Shaw Still •C.B. Yadav

The two firms paid by the Georgia GOP represented 11 of the electors — Amick, Brannan, Carver, Consiglio, Downey, Fisher, Godwin, Latham, Shafer, Still and Yadav.

Fulton County prosecutors honed in on the electors as part of their investigation to determine if the former president and his allies violated state law after the 2020 Presidential election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in a July 2022 court filing that the electors could face charges.

A Fulton County Superior Court Judge ruled last year that Willis couldn't prosecute Burt Jones, who currently serves as Georgia's Lieutenant Governor, because Willis hosted a fundraiser for Jones' Democratic opponent ahead of the November election. The Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia will determine if Jones should be investigated by a special prosecutor.

Legal experts previously told 11Alive that the electors may face fraud or forgery charges for the documents they submitted to state authorities and the National Archives. The 16 Republicans said that they were the duly elected presidential electors, and they falsely claimed that Trump won the election.

The Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury finished its eight-month investigation last month. The panel heard from 75 witnesses. Three portions of the jury's report was released Thursday. Jurors expressed concern that at least one of the witnesses may have lied during testimony. Key sections of the report remain secret.

#us politics #news #georgia #2023 #11alive #conservatives #republicans #gop #gop policy #gop platform #corrupt gop #Georgia Republican Party #donald trump #Strickland Debrow #Pierson Law LLC #Georgia GOP #Holly Pierson #David Shafer #false slate of electors #2020 election #fani willis #georgia election investigation #Burt Jones #Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia #Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury #YouTube #videos

[bestworstcase]

Hm...What do you think is the possibility that the Ever After's denizens are the remnants of the First Humanity's souls, turned into their current state out of an attempt to erase their past identity (tying into what seems to be the Ever After's theme of removing identity in the face of past traumas and such)?

After all, we've seen through Penny that souls can survive on their own without a body in certain circumstances, so maybe when the GoD nuked everyone, he turned their bodies to ash but their souls got dumped into the void.

it’s wonderland.

not in the sense of it being exactly the world carroll invented but rather: it’s a story. wonderland is a story. in a fancy they pursue/the dream-child moving through a land/of wonders wild and new/in friendly chat with bird or beast/and half believe it’s true/and ever, as the story drained/the wells of fancy dry/and faintly strove that weary one/to put the subject by/“the rest next time—“ “it is next time!”/the happy voices cry/thus grew the tale of wonderland/thus slowly, one by one/its quaint events were hammered out/and now the tale is done.

or,

“When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone: “at least there’s no room to grow up any more here.”

you might say it’s steeped in an awareness of the nature of fairy tales and its own status as one of them, or something. to borrow ozpin’s turn of phrase. and of course the kids—blake in particular—identify the ever after as a familiar fairytale: they want to get to the tree because they think it will get them home, and they think that because alyx, the girl who fell through the world, finds her way back home at the base of the tree.

i don’t think this place is an afterlife in any configuration; i think its metaphysical substrate is NARRATIVE, and it isn’t interested in removal of identity so much as it engages literally with the concept of narrative role. its denizens are constructs of mechanical purpose and they ask what, not who: what are you, what is the point of you, what are you for?

ruby rose is the hero. her name is the title of the first episode and ozma, as the narrator, introduces her as the “smaller, more honest soul” who carries the light through the darkness—and at the end of volume three salem flips this on its head by noting (correctly) that turning to his “smaller soul” to save the world means asking her to die for the sake of everyone else. taking the trailers into consideration with everything set up in the last eight volumes, what i anticipate is that this will be the locus of ruby’s identity arc: not a struggle against a world seeking to erase who she is per se, but grappling with what it means to be Ruby Rose, the Smaller, More Honest Soul. and she’ll have to interrogate that because the ever after is a story—specifically a fairytale, with the archetypal rigidity and simple narrative expectations that implies.

#‘what are you?’ #‘you never were the hero’ #‘so what are you going to be?’ #<- this is the central conceit of the volume i think. #it’s a single thematic statement spliced together from different scenes #rwby v9 spoilers

[cogentranting]

Ranking 50 Disney Dogs pt1

Ranking all (ish) the dogs from Disney according to a very scientific process averaging scores on Design (how much I like the character design) Breed Alignment (how much they look like the breed they’re going for.. or just how much like a dog), Personality (how I much I like them as a character) and if applicable , voice acting (how much I like the vocal performance.  [Disney Animation theatrical releases only-- no Pixar, no straight to home video, no partially live action] 

50. Hunting Dogs- Bambi It’s important to remember on this list that there are no bad dogs. Just because they’re at the bottom of the list doesn’t mean they’re bad! Except for these dogs. (that front one was definitely kicked in the head by an elk). 

49. Town Dogs- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad See? these dogs would never try to murder anyone. 

48. Broomdog- Alice in Wonderland Unsettling! Just as Lewis Carroll intended!

47. Obby- Atlantis I googled “Disney Atlantis dog” (which is my MO for if I don’t remember if a movie has a dog) and this came up. He shouldn’t be here for a number of reasons-- he’s “not” a “dog”; he’s from a straight to dvd sequel; he’s an ‘”affront to God”--  but we’re ranking him anyway. 

46. Dog Announcer- Chicken Little They managed to perfectly achieve the most generic dog I can think of (anthropomorphized) 

45. Labrador- One Hundred and One Dalmatians They managed to perfectly achieve the most generic dog I can think of (realistic) 

44. Rusty- Home on the Range Honestly he’s mainly this low because I don’t remember this movie except for a vague dislike. 

43. Buster- Meet the Robinsons My positive feelings about his glasses are warring with my reaction against his eyebrows which I legitimately had to check to make sure someone hadn’t edited them on in this picture. 

42. Otto- Robin Hood He has a nice face but it’s time we addressed the elephant in the room:  most animals in this movie are fully dressed and Otto is wearing only an apron

41. Stella- The Princess and the Frog Is this the best picture I could find of her? No. But consider: it’s not the worst. 

40. Tiger Talbot- The Sword in the Stone  Mastiffs! How royal. 

39. Cerberus- Hercules The ratio of teeth to mouth just feels off. But. Stylized! Fun! 

38. Cerberus- Encanto in a tie between Cerberi, we love the gold accents. 

37. Talyllyn- The Black Cauldron Fun twist: this dog’s evil and lives among the undead! Hurray! Dogs supporting necromancy!

36. Sultan- Beauty and the Beast He could take Talyllyn in a fight. 

35. Bull- Lady and the Tramp The real Bull is a perfectly fine character and a perfectly fine character design but honestly just kinda boring so instead enjoy this melting plush version of him from an ebay listing. 

34. Collie- One Hundred and One Dalmatians He has barely anything that qualifies as eyes (but a lot of eyelid) and I adore that. And the noble FLOOF. 

33. Lucky- One Hundred and One Dalmatians a puppy!

32. Penny- One Hundred and One Dalmatians another puppy!

31. Bruno-Cinderella He has an abundance of leg.  Look at that model pose. 

30. Legend- Strange World Disregard the advertising, it’s just the best picture I could find since as of posting this, the movie is still only in theaters. I have not seen this movie but Legend is cute and only has three legs and I would very much like to cuddle him. 

29. Rolly- One Hundred and One Dalmatians What would you do if I just ranked all 101 separately? Anyway, Rolly gains points over Lucky and Penny for having a personality I remember, but doesn’t rank higher because that personality is just “likes to eat” 

28. Percy- Pocahontas Percy’s design has a lot of personality. Is a personality we like? ... less certain. But there’s a lot of character. 

27. Patch- One Hundred and One Dalmatians There’s a reason he got his own movie: he has a design that’s distinct enough to be marketable star power!

26. Einstein- Oliver and Company Is he the most famous cartoon Great Dane? No. But would he beat Scooby Doo at the AKC National Dog Show? Without a doubt.  Link to Part 2- the top 25!

#long post #disney dogs #disney #dogs #ranking disney

[meowydoe]

RIP Jane Doe / Penny Lamb you would’ve loved Bernadette Carroll

#ride the cyclone #jane doe rtc #penny lamb #daisy yip yaps

[byneddiedingo]

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)

Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa. Screenplay: Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott, based on a story by Erwin Gelsey. Cinematography: David Abel. Art direction: Van Nest Polglase. Film editing: Henry Berman. Songs: Jerome Kern (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics).

The plot of a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film is typically a thread on which the gems (the songs and dances) are strung, and Swing Time is no exception. The screenplay by Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott seems to exist largely to provide opportunities for Astaire and Rogers to open their mouths, the better to sing with, or to find places to dance. This is the movie in which Astaire plays a gambler named Lucky Garnett, who is late for his wedding to Margaret Watson (Betty Furness), so her father calls it off and says that if Lucky can make $25,000, he can come back to claim her hand. So off he goes to New York, accompanied by his friend Pop Cardetti (Victor Moore), where he falls for Penny Carroll (Rogers), a dance teacher. And so on.... That anything this silly remains watchable more than 80 years later is the consequence of the unsurpassed artistry of Astaire and Rogers, the dance direction of Hermes Pan, the comic support of Moore, Helen Broderick, and Eric Blore, and six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Rogers does more than her usual share of the singing in this one, taking the lead on both "Pick Yourself Up" and "A Fine Romance," but as usual it's Astaire's peerless phrasing that carries the songs, especially the Oscar-winning "The Way You Look Tonight," which is wittily staged when Rogers enters the room having lathered her hair with shampoo but not yet rinsed it out. The dance highlight is probably "Never Gonna Dance," the climactic number when Lucky and Penny each think they're doomed to marry someone else, but Astaire's solo, "Bojangles of Harlem," a tribute to the great Bill Robinson, is also superb -- as long as you're not offended by the fact that Astaire does it in blackface. (To my mind, the reverence paid to Robinson outweighs the minstrelsy, but only slightly.) Astaire always insisted that dance sequences be done in long takes, which led to 47 reprises of  "Never Gonna Dance" during the filming before a take that completely satisfied Astaire was achieved -- at the expense, it is said, of Rogers's feet, which began to bleed. This was the only film role of any consequence for Furness, whose chief claim to fame was that she opened countless refrigerator doors as the TV commercial spokesperson for Westinghouse in the 1950s.

#Swing Time #George Stevens #Fred Astaire #Ginger Rogers

[hecksupremechips]

Penny for your thoughts on puppetry

Okay OKAY so in case nobody knows I fucking LOVE puppetry. I’m a fucking Sesame Street/muppets ass son of a bitch. A lot of people like to jump on this stupid bandwagon of hating puppets cuz "uwaaaa they’re sooooo scarrryyyy!!!11!1" and that just ughhhh PISSES ME OFF. PUPPETS ARE HERE FOR WHOLESOME PURPOSES ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU FEEL NO BLISS WHEN WATCHING COOKIE MONSTER YOU JERK??/? Very annoying

I’m obsessed with just like sesame street lore and fun facts like. First off the show was waaaayy ahead of its time it started in like 1969 as a way of making preschool accessible to kids who were low income but it did it in such a way where like adults who were watching it would also have fun too. When they teach kids the alphabet they do funny skits or silly songs about it to make learning seem fun! Not to mention that any kids who’d be in those segments weren’t actors or anything it’d be their genuine reactions and so often they’d be trying not to laugh cuz holy shit they’re talking to elmo! Plus the show would just be so casually integrated with people of different races who all respected each other and it makes me think of my mom who grew up in very white area saying that sesame street was literally how she learned about like, the existence of black people. And it gave some black actors a chance to be in roles where they weren’t mocked or brutalized. Though a lot of progress had to be made throughout the show like one of the black actors early on thought that the show was too white and wasn’t reaching black youths like it should. So he created Roosevelt Franklin, a black-coded muppet that he performed

His role was essentially to teach the same basic education shit but trying to add black culture into it. He said he wanted black kids to have their race be a positive experience for them. The character was really controversial though, many black people not in favor saying he was too stereotypical and felt like a caricature of black identities. Whether or not the character was indeed Problematic didn’t really matter in the end though because he was removed from the show just a few years after he was introduced. I’ve no clue about what the show is doing today but as far as I know they’ve made better choices with black characters and have black muppets who are less of a caricature. Also important to mention that while the concept of Roosevelt was created and performed by a black actor, there were still many white performers playing a part which is what could’ve caused more offensive writing. Plus many black people had different opinions on the subject so I’m not gonna say they all felt one way or another

I also just wanna go over some of my favorite techniques and effects the puppeteers made and used on some of the muppets. One of the most iconic ones being Kermit on a bike

Where he miraculously is able to ride without any visible puppeteers in view. And it’s not a small model either, that’s without a doubt the full sized muppet. Essentially what they did was attach invisible wires to Kermit’s limbs and the bike and a puppeteer was using a crane above camera for some marionette style puppeteering. Remains to be an absolute hit to this day. There’s also the big bird mechanism where he is essentially a suit puppet. Because of this, one hand must be in the head in order to control mouth, eye, and head movements. That means only one arm is available to be an actual arm, and there clearly isn’t anyone else operating the other arm. What’s happening in that the empty arm is actually stuffed and has wires attached to the occupied arm that allows it to move in relation to it. Plus Carrol Spinney had to wear stupid big ass bird pants all the time I just think that’s funny. As for smaller effects theres the simple technique where an arm rod puppet can have their arms easily removed and reattached if the scene calls for a live hand substitution. Blinking puppets have a handle behind their eyes that can be moved by fingers. Puppeteers for shows and movies like these absolutely have to stand in close proximity to each other with their arms straight up which mean that they better be buff and use good deodorant. It’s not an easy job to do and it shouldn’t be underestimated

I have sooooooo much more I could say but ummmmm I’ve already said a lot and I need to move around 🤪

#the klock keeps ticking #ask #all else i wanted to say was tricks to make puppets and how fucking awesome it is when puppetry is used in films instead of chi #*cgi #ie little shop of horrors #plus maybe more backstory on sesame street like behind the scenes dynamics and what each character was supposed to represent

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Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket - Round 3

Round 3 (All polls)

Bea Arthur Vs. Lily Tomlin

Cicely Tyson Vs. Joan Chen

Jane Seymour Vs. Gina Torres

Lucille Ball Vs. Judy Parfitt

Vivica A Fox Vs. Morena Baccarin

Betty White Vs. Eartha Kitt

Carolyn Jones Vs. Julie Newmar

Diahann Carroll Vs. Rue McClanahan

Elisabeth Sladen Vs. Lynda Carter

Farrah Fawcett Vs. Jeri Ryan

Diana Rigg Vs. Nichelle Nichols

Kathryn Leigh Scott Vs. Mädchen Amick

Nana Visitor Vs. Gillian Anderson

Eliza Dushku Vs. Lucy Lawless

Fran Drescher Vs. Itatí Cantoral

Alex Kingston Vs. Penny Johnson Jerald

#vintage tv stars poll #breaking news #todays news

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Trans Webcomic Character Tournament: Group Stage

It's taken... uh... we won't talk about how long it's taken, but the Trans Webcomic Character Tournament is ready to begin!

This tournament will be broken into two stages: a round-robin group stage followed by a sixteen-character single-elimination bracket.

For the group stage, characters are divided into ten groups of four* and members of each group will face each other in a round-robin format. The group winner will be the character who wins the most matches in the group (an exact tie counts as a win for both characters). If two or more characters win the same number of matches, then the total number of votes each character received will be used as a tiebreaker.

That gets us to ten characters advancing to the elimination stage, but we still have six more slots in the bracket. Those slots will be filled by the six characters who received the most total votes* without winning their group. Seeding for the elimination bracket will also be done by total number of votes received in the group stage.

This means that (for example) being in the same group as an extremely popular character won't automatically doom your favorite. It also means that collecting as many votes as possible matters, even if a character gets a bunch of those votes while losing.

Polls will last one week and will happen when they happen; I can't promise any particular schedule but I'll try not to post an overwhelming number at once or go too long without posting any. Groups are listed under the cut.

*Since 41 characters qualified for the tournament, Group A has five characters instead of four, and each character will be in four head-to-head matches instead of three. When comparing the total number of votes received, I'll adjust the Group A totals to take that into account. (Functionally, I'll be comparing the average number of votes per match, but total votes sounds more impressive.)

GROUP A: Rain Flaherty (Rain) Kylie Coven (Rain) Elle Argent (Heartstopper) Lucas (High Class Homos) Luck (Tiger, Tiger)

GROUP B: Eddie Kaspbrak (Out of the Blue) Lucy Marlowe (Never Satisfied) Fenic (Goodbye to Halos) Johnny Summer (Lavender Jack)

GROUP C: Space Dread (Val and Isaac) Max Owen (Magical Boy) Knife (Feast for a King) Claire Augustus (Questionable Content)

GROUP D: Zoe Blecher (Sleepless Domain) Rosemaster (Cucumber Quest) Bacon (Cucumber Quest) Julie (Charity Case)

GROUP E: Cheryl (I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl) Maggie (Clover & Cutlass) Eliza Swift (Widdershins) Sulla Pinsky (O Human Star)

GROUP F: Penny Spender (Paranatural) Vermillion Gacutan (Earth 2068) Gaueko (Nasty Red Dogs) Xada (LoveBot)

GROUP G: Tedd Verres (El Goonish Shive) Ellen Dunkel (El Goonish Shive) Merlow the Rose (Court of Roses) Chau Le (Shootaround)

GROUP H: Dainix (Aurora) Zhusen (Experience Boost) White Chain (Kill Six Billion Demons) Lupe Jara (Four Leaf)

GROUP I: Teige Carroll (White Noise) Yoshi (White Noise) Vaarsuvius (The Order of the Stick) Eri McCure (Friends With Benefits)

GROUP J: Carla Rutten (Dumbing of Age) Davepeta (Homestuck) Fleet (Rectify) Magpie (Sister Claire)