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indy829 · 8 days

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@hotvintagepoll Before she falls too far down into the shadow realm, I did want to make sure that voters got to see pre-code Myrna Loy.

#golden age of hollywood #hotvintagepoll #propaganda

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indy829 · 1 month

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@iconuk01 the photos seem to be from the rehearsals of a television program called Night of 100 Stars from 1982. This seems to be backstage at Radio City Music Hall. Sitting next to Burgess Meredith is Jimmy Stewart, who has a top hat in his lap. He wore this top hat in rehearsals and during the show. Here is a photo of him wearing the same outfit from that same rehearsal.

The official cast credits on IMDb do not include the likes of Mark Hamill or Billy Crystal, but the special's entry on the Muppets wiki (because of course the Muppets were there) mentions they were all included as well.

Here's a class photo they all took. Can't locate Hamill or Crystal in the sea of blurry faces.

Curly Hamill

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indy829 · 2 months

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Toshiro Mifune as Tajomaru RASHŌMON / 羅生門 (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa

#golden age of hollywood #classic film #toshiro mifune

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indy829 · 2 months

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Stjepan Šejić whenever he draws Batman characters:

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indy829 · 3 months

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I THOUGHT Selina's poses looked familiar from time to time just didn't think it would co with Audrey 😻🖤

#dc #catwoman #selina kyle #audrey hepburn #batman fandom #adam hughes #batman

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indy829 · 4 months

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by Kurt Kauper

#art #painting #reblog #kurt kauper #cary grant #golden age of hollywood

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indy829 · 4 months

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Just watched Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023) and enjoyed all of the sartorial homages to mid-century Hollywood by costume designer Mileno Canonero, especially with Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe.

First up, we have the Edith Head-designed crisp white halter top and pistachio green pencil skirt ensemble cinched at the waist with a white belt that Kelly wore in Rear Window (1954). They even have Scarlett Johansson wearing a bracelet on the same wrist that Kelly wore her chunky charm bracelet. Even more bonus points for having Scarlett with a cocktail in-hand while wearing this outfit.

And then there's the floral dress that Johansson is seen wearing that is adorned with hand-painted pink and green cactus flowers. The floral design, along with the sleeveless bodice, quarter buttons that bifurcate said bodice, and jewel neckline encircled by a strand of tight-fitting pearls, really hammers home the Rear Window outfit Canonero wanted to reference. The main difference between the dresses is that while Johanssen has pink and green cactus flowers to match the desert setting of the film, Kelly's flowers are a golden yellow. These dresses are also both worn during the most action-oriented scenes in their respective films.

There are loads of Old Hollywood actresses Asteroid City could have referenced, so why Kelly? Well, Rear Window is largely a tale about the voyeurism displayed by the charcater portrayed by Jimmy Stewart. In Rear Window, the audience becomes complicit in that voyeurism as well. Asteroid City utilizes the lateral camera movements and dollhouse set designs favored by Wes Anderson to convey a sense of voyeurism, especially when the characters portrayed by Johannson and Jason Schwartzman are gazing into each other's (side) windows.

In these scenes, a couple of other mid-century actresses are referenced. While Johannson's outfits are mostly Grace Kelly-inspired, her hair and makeup are more decidedly Elizabeth Taylor, especially with how the latter looks in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

Could this be a reference to the fact that the playwright charcater portrayed by Edward Norton in AC is heavily-patterned after real-life playwright Tennessee Williams who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Is the pressured stream-of-consciousness dialogue that Anderson has been favoring lately imitating that of Tennessee Williams characters who are always bursting at the seams to reveal their hidden truths?

And finally, the last 50s actress I saw a reference to was also a bit of a downer. TW for self-harm/suicide.

Johansson portrays an actress in the film and often runs her scenes and lines with Jason Schwartzman's charcater. In one such scene, she is pantomiming overdosing in her bathtub. The most noticeable prop is a comically large bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume placed on a stool nearby. Why is this relevant? Chanel No. 5 was the purpoted favorite of Marilyn Monroe (though some reports that her actual favorite was Floris Rose Geranium, but the cultural image we have of her today is tied closely to Chanel).

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this scene. It seems that the film at large is a satire of/homage to 1950s Hollywood. Maybe this scene was a parody of the glamorous tragedy of the era that we as a culture still fetishize. Maybe it's a critique on how cruel the voyeurism of audiences and filmmakers can be especially with films like Blonde (2022).

The character herself, an actress who is considered glamorous but also complicated to work with being brought out to a remote desert locale brings to mind Marilyn Monroe filming The Misfits (1961) in the northern Nevada desert.

All-in-all, I enjoyed this latest outing with Wes Anderson and really admired how much thought and precision was put in by the likes of Mileno Canonero. I know that there are probably a ton of other references and homages I didn't mention here, but these are just a few impressions based off of my initial viewing last night.

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indy829 · 5 months

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*gasp*

Is this... Kilmer/Jones Bruharvey??

With 13 glorious years between them? And Harvey speaking with a grumpy Texas accent and city boy Bruce getting weak in the knees?

Bruce: Want to make sure I won’t get in trouble with the law heehee :3c

#wppyart #bruharvey

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indy829 · 5 months

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@whipbogard

I forgot to include this college-aged pic of TLJ. Is that you, Mr. Apollo?

Schumacherverse Harvey

#harvey dent #wppyart #two face #dc comics #tommy lee jones

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indy829 · 5 months

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If Cary Grant had accepted the role of Linus Larrabee in Sabrina (1954):

Don't get me wrong, I adore the against-type casting of Humphrey Bogart, and I think the end result created some strange magic between Bogie and Hepburn. However, I'm of the opinion that early 50s Grant paired with early 50s Hepburn would have absolutely melted movie screens.

Cary Grant was Sabrina director Billy Wilder's first choice for the curmudgeonly older Larrabee brother who is eventually won over by the fresh charm of Audrey Hepburn in the titular role, but Grant turned it down ostensibly for the same reason he turned down starring opposite her in Roman Holiday the year before.

25 years Hepburn's senior, Grant was concerned about looking like a "dirty old man." After Sabrina, he would turn down working with her one more time in another Wilder flick Love in the Afternoon (1957), that part going to Gary Cooper.

He would finally (thankfully) relent when he starred opposite her in Charade (1963), with the condition that the script be rewritten to have her playing the aggressor in the relationship.

#golden age of hollywood #audrey hepburn #old hollywood #classic film #tcm #cary grant #1960s #humphrey bogart #1950s #charade #roman holiday #sabrina #sabrina fairchild #black and white film #fan edit

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indy829 · 5 months

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Cary Grant blowing a kiss. He always did it the same way.

#golden age of hollywood #old hollywood #classic film #tcm #cary grant #1940s hollywood

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indy829 · 6 months

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"…But this Audrey, she’s cute as a button. She’s got it, that magical stuff from which true stars are made. I found that out while we were making Sabrina at Paramount. This gal certainly proves the theory that a little talent in the hand is worth more than two in the bust!”

-Humphrey Bogart, Screenland magazine, July 1954

#audrey hepburn #humphrey bogart #what an odd thing to say #it sounds like 1950s AI wrote this #love him but Bogie was so petty to her behind the scenes and behind her back

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indy829 · 7 months

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Emma Frost and Kate Pryde. They've come a long way since their introduction in Uncanny X-men #129.

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indy829 · 7 months

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#bruce wayne/harvey dent #bruharv #twobats #bruharvey #two face #bruce wayne #batman villains #batman #gay couple #gay men #gay #tarot #tarot cards #the lovers #art nouveau #batman/two face #bruce+x+harvey

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indy829 · 8 months

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Cinematic Mystery

*SOLVED*

#golden age of hollywood #audrey hepburn #old hollywood #classic film #tcm #1960s #cary grant #1940s #charade #mr. blandings builds his dreamhouse #“How do you shave in there?”

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indy829 · 9 months

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WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) dir. Terence Young

#wait until dark #audrey hepburn #alan arkin #old films #old hollywood #golden age of hollywood #tcm #terrence young

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indy829 · 9 months

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I was recently watching Barbie trying to figure out who Sugar Daddy Ken reminded me of.

Then I remembered this 1955 photo of Cary Grant walking his Siamese cat through Berverly Hills:

Not dressed as flashily as SD Ken and wrong species of pet, but a very similar silhouette and Sugar Daddy energy. The fact that it's not only a cat he's walking, but a Siamese cat somehow makes it more flamboyant than a toy dog.

Anyway, love that a movie like Barbie exists, and would have loved to have Cary Grant as my SD.

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