"Judy and I used to laugh all the time when we worked together so she used to be a very gay and gloriously funny girl ... i like to say that because everybody after her death is always calling me - some journalist - and say 'what a tragedy' but she usually brought joy to everybody, and in her early days was a glorious gay girl"
A FREE SOUL (1931) Dir. Clarence Brown
having a tumblr blog is like being the curator of my own personal museum of mental breakdowns and special interests
James Dean and Geraldine Page photographed by Dennis Stock, NYC, 1955
HARRY HOUDINI ↳ as Harvey Hanford in The Grim Game // cuffs
I totally lost it when he looked at the camera. <3
25 year old Orson Welles arriving at the New York premiere of 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆 (1941).
The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
Premiere night for Psycho. Times Square, New York City, 1960
Film-maker Gary Huggins inadvertently snapped up a slice of lost silent film history at an auction in a car park in Omaha, Nebraska, that was selling old stock from a distribution company called Modern Sound Pictures. Hoping to bid on a copy of the 1926 comedy Eve’s Leaves that he had spotted on top of a pile, Huggins was informed that he could only buy the whole pallet of movies, not individual cans. The upside? The lot was his for only $20.
Huggins soon discovered that his new pile of reels included 1923’s The Pill Pounder, a silent comedy that had been thought to be lost for decades. It is a short, two-reel film, shot on Long Island, New York, and directed by Gregory La Cava, best known for later classics such as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).
JEAN HARLOW in DINNER AT EIGHT — 1933, dir. George Cukor