#theodora goes wild

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Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas in Theodora Goes Wild (1936) dir. Richard Boleslawski

#theodora goes wild #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #richard boleslawski #1936 #1930s #*

[hollywoodlady]

Irene Dunne for 'Theodora Goes Wild' (1936).

#irene dunne #Theodora Goes Wild #30's #by lady hollywood

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Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #theodora goes wild #1930s #film #movies #black and white #comedy #actress #my gifs :) #irene dunne please call me

[glennfitzgerald]

Irene Dunne

Theodora Goes Wild

1936

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #theodora goes wild

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#theodora goes wild #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #thomas mitchell #thurston hall #rosalind keith #spring byington #richard boleslawski #1936

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2022:

Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski), 1936

#films #movies #stills #Theodora Goes Wild #Richard Boleslawski #Irene Dunne #1930s #Hollywood #seen in 2022

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Richard Boleslawski

December 8th 2022

#theodora goes wild #1936 #richard boleslawski #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #elisabeth risdon #margaret mcwade #thomas mitchell #thurston hall #spring byington #nana bryant #robert greig #leona maricle #henry kolker #william benedict #william 'billy' benedict #frank sully #frederick burton #rosalind keith

[jeanharlowshair]

Movie Classic Magazine, December 1936.

#melvyn douglas #irene dunne #richard boleslawski #theodora goes wild 1936 #1930s #movie classic magazine #old hollywood #old magazines #old movies #old movie stars #old hollywood glamour #classic hollywood #old hollywood actors #1930s movies #30s movies #1930s cinema #1930s hollywood #30s film

[warblingandwriting]

sometimes it can be weird to talk about my interests irl because people think I'm pretentious and I don't how to explain I love garbage actually, it's just OLD garbage

#thoughts #life stuff I guess #what I get for liking classic films #classic literature #films #like some things like Theodora Goes Wild are not that different from 90s romcoms! #I just like them better cause most of them had more creative ways to keep a couple apart than 'one of them is dating someone else' #or like eliza haywood? Don't get wrong she was doing stuff #but it was also the 18th century equivalent of like... colleen hoover (wildly popular romance) #but just saying 'oh yeah I'm into golden age hollywood and eighteenth century literature' makes it sound like I'm sipping tea #looking down on modern things #and like... I am usually sipping tea #but I like some modern things too! I just don't have the same academic interest in discussing them (usually)

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Dorothy McGuire (Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, Gentleman's Agreement)— Kinda the original MILF, but to call her that feels offensive because she always played the most gentle and kind mothers imaginable. She's more like a MILC (mother I'd like to cuddle). She also had a wonderfully soft voice.

Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth, Theodora Goes Wild, My Favorite Wife)— The first time I saw her in Theodora Goes Wild she struck me dumb because who is that BEAUTIFUL woman being so funny and clever??? She was primarily known as a dramatic actress (and believe you me those are muscles she can FLEX, Penny Serenade hurts my feelings) but she’s also one of the funniest screwball leading ladies I’ve ever seen. Her films with Cary Grant are especially charming, but all her characters have this knowing quality in the heart of them that’s so intriguing, and her screwball girlies have this freedom to go after what (or who) they want that is delightfully subversive. I want to be her, I want to fuck her, I want to see every movie she’s ever done, she is a brilliant actress and she is my dream woman.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Dorothy McGuire:

Irene Dunne:

irene excelled in screwball comedies, musicals, melodramas...she could do it all. she often played elegant society ladies and brought sparkling charisma and poise for days to anything she did, and sang like an angel (she pursued opera before going into moves), her rendition of jerome kern's "smoke gets in your eyes" in roberta moves me to tears every time.

 A fantastic star of screwball comedies Irene Dunne is an undersung hot woman in my opinion. She rose to fame in her roles alongside the likes of Cary Grant, and was usually the funniest person in her movies. And the hottest.

She's snarky, and quick, prone to rolling her eyes, and eager to trip her counterparts up. In short, she was a devilish, charming, problem of a woman in many of her films, the pinnacle of hotness.

She’s so gorgeous and funny and her way of acting is so fresh and timeless! She’s the complete package of hotness to me with her talents, humor, and, of course, hot looks. I named my left tit after her to hopefully attract even a smidgen of her beauty and charm.

#irene dunne #dorothy mcguire #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 1 #Youtube

[citizenscreen]

Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas for THEODORA GOES WILD (1936), directed by Richard Boleslawski

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #old hollywood #classic movies

[grusinskayas]

Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas in Theodora Goes Wild (1936) dir. Richard Boleslawski

#theodora goes wild #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #richard boleslawski #1936 #1930s #*

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) dir. Richard Boleslawski Starring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew. (x)

#theodora goes wild #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #robert greig #black and white #my gifs :) #film #movies #1930s

[la-zu-li]

They are so lovely, the wild swan girls: white wings and absence . . .

1. How to recognize a swan girl.

She will have delicate wrists. You will be able to circle her wrists with your hands. No, don’t try it: you don’t hold swan girls, not like that. Any suggestion of captivity sends them flying off on white swan wings, or on high heels across a street or continent.

They can’t bear to be caught.

No, look at her wrists: skin over bone, with faint pinpricks where the pinions go.

2. How to catch a swan girl.

Feign lack of interest. Stare off into the distance, at a tree perhaps or a beach, or the New York skyline. Turn to her. Be polite, almost too polite. Ask a question to which she doesn’t know the answer. (Will it snow tomorrow? What are clouds make of? How do you say eternity in Norwegian?)

Interest her, and keep her interested, or she will fly off.

3. How to keep a swan girl.

You can’t, not in a house or an apartment, not in a city, sometimes not even a country. When she telephones, you will ask, where are you? When she laughs, it will sound so far away, and in the background you will hear waves, or a language you don’t understand.

4. How to marry a swan girl.

Steal her coat of feathers. This part always goes badly.

5. How to lose a swan girl.

Wait. Eventually, she will go somewhere else. If you hide her coat of feathers, she will leave without it. Wait, you say, but I thought . . . Oh, those old stories? You didn’t believe those, did you?

She knows where to get another, and anyway she doesn’t need wings to fly.

6. How to mourn a swan girl.

Make a shrine, perhaps on a dresser or small table. Three swan feathers, a candle, a stone smoothed by ocean waves. That should do it.

Sit on the sofa. Hold one of the feathers. Cry. Realize it was inevitable. Swan girls fly. It’s just what they do. It wasn’t you.

7. How to be a swan girl.

There are no rules the sky is infinite the world is yours laid out in rivers and mountains like a great quilt pieced by your grandmother.

She is older than they are.

Her hair is white as snow and covers them her eyes are bright as stars and when she laughs avalanches.

You take after her.

Swan girl where will you go? Everywhere you say and then everywhere else.

Theodora Goss

#poem #poesia #theodora goss #swan girls #poema

[alter-koker]

have you seen theodora goes wild?? i keep rewatching it, its so delightful to me!!! i really love the divorce of lady x too and it really reminds me of it!!!

i have!!! i loved the concept of the good girl in a small town secretly being the one to write a salacious novel, especially when she had to agree with everyone that it was deviant and reprehensible, like thats very delicious to me. irene dunne is also absolutely adorable in it, like when she's trying to posture as a big society women and wears all those outrageous outfits but she's actually still very sweet inside... i feel like thats one of the reasons i like screwball comedies so much is that the women are often written in such intriguing ways, like they have so much personality, which a lot of modern movies fail to achieve... plus i love farces

^ very cute even though melvyn douglas' character is being a little bit of an ass at this point in the movie

loved this big feather outfit she wore. so many good promo images for this movie

#u should watch 'bluebeard's eighth wife' i found it to be VERY divorce of lady x #MIDNIGHT ALSO WATCH MIDNIGHT 1939 A GIF OF IT IS PINNED TO MY BLOG. IT'S SOOO

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #144 - Theodora Goes Wild

#2023 in Films