Vivien Leigh photographed by a fan, 1940s

Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard play fight on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 1941.

WORKING GIRL (1988)

“You can bend the rules plenty when you get upstairs but not while you’re trying to get there. And if you’re someone like me, you can’t get there without bending the rules.”

nine pictures, asked by anon || Robert Redford

Happy birthday, Robert Redford | August 18, 1936 As a director, I wouldn’t like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn’t like me as a director.

”She is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and willful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!” — Richard Burton “I’ll carry you off on a white charger but I’d prefer it if it was the other way around. I’m a hopeless romantic and want to be romantically swept away. In the meantime we will be loving and sweet – but someday, you son of a bitch, something will make you realise that you cannot live without me and you have to marry me, otherwise your life will not be complete.” — Elizabeth Taylor

Singer-actress Gloria DeHaven, the perky star of MGM musicals in the 1940s and a stalwart of show business for more than six decades, has died. She was 91.

DeHaven, who made her screen debut in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) as Paulette Goddard’s kid sister — her father served as an assistant director on the film — died Saturday while in hospice care in Las Vegas, her daughter, Faith Fincher-Finkelstein, told The Hollywood Reporter. DeHaven suffered a stroke about three months ago, she said.

The vivacious DeHaven, a studio player at MGM, appeared in a number of top films with leading stars, including Thousands Cheer (1943) with Gene Kelly;Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) with June Allyson and Van Johnson; Step Lively (1944) with Frank Sinatra; Summer Holiday (1948) with Mickey Rooney; The Doctor and the Girl (1949) with Glenn Ford and Nancy Reagan; Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) with Janet Leigh and Tony Martin; and The Girl Rush (1955) with Rosalind Russell.

R.I.P. Gloria DeHaven

Olivia De Havilland in GOVERNMENT GIRL (‘43)

Candid photo of Olivia de Havilland (taken by unknown) from the 1940s

“They didn’t have a choice. They were inexorably tied to each other by every molecule of their being. The good, the bad, the ugly. They were stuck together.”  - Lissy Newman 

“It was so evident that they were madly in love with each other forever.” - Mario Andretti 

“On January 29, 2008, we celebrated Paul and Joanne’s fiftieth [and last] wedding anniversary. The way they jointly cut the first piece of cake was a moment of happiness for all of us. And then, putting the cake knife aside, Paul took both of Joanne’s hands in his and drew her close to him. They looked at each other with intimate conspiracy, a look of endearment for those fifty years, and Paul said, ‘Joanna, being married to you has been the joy of my life.’” - A.E Hotchner 

Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward | m. January 29, 1958 

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950): empty spaces

Jane Fonda

I promised myself that when we met we’d drink Tequila. No Chardonnay, no frog water. Real. Drinks.

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder

An Education, 2009.

Alfred Hitchcock: The 1940s

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