A Worker Uses A Power Drill On An A-31 "Vengeance" Dive Bomber At The Vultee Factory In Nashville, Tennessee.

I've been just a big sentimental fool. It's a tendency I have. Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Norma Shearer preparing to bake Canadian Oatmeal Sticks

New Year's Resolution: utilize a wider variety of James Cagney-esque insults in my vocabulary. You smackoff. You chump. You penny-pinching pirate. You dirty, double-crossing, yellow-bellied sap of a stool pigeon, I oughta kick your teeth out one at a time now SCRAM, etc.

"I decided I was not going to be one of these people. I wasn't going to mind if I gained weight or got wrinkles, because I could use my brain. And as long as I could use my head, it wouldn't matter how I looked." - Thelma Todd

Anthony Perkins 1960.

El Paso Herald, Texas, January 6, 1928

Norma Shearer & Irving Thalberg (1932)

Photograph by Edward Steichen for “Vanity Fair”

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New York overwhelmed me. For the first few weeks I only strayed a couple of blocks from my hotel off Times Square. I would see three movies a day in an attempt to escape my loneliness and depression. I spent $150 of my limited funds just on seeing movies. - James Dean