Sometimes I Talk A Lot And Sometimes I Don’t Talk At All And Somehow Both Are Embarrassing

JEAN HARLOW & MARIE DRESSLER in DINNER AT EIGHT — 1933, dir. George Cukor

Norma Shearer in Let Us Be Gay, 1930

Photoplay Magazine, August 1928.

“Everyone has a right to privacy. It is both undignified and irrelevant to discuss one’s emotions and attitudes in public - unless they have some bearing on one’s work.” – Vivien Leigh

Norma Shearer photographed by George Hurrell, October 1929.

me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight

Man at snack stand, circa 1950s.

Norma Shearer as Florence Banning and Molly Helmer in Lady of the Night (1925) dir. Monta Bell