Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Helen Gallagher: Nancy in High Button Shoes (1947 Broadway); Gladys Bumps in Pal Joey (1952 Broadway); Nickie in Sweet Charity (1966 Broadway)

Bernadette Peters: Bettina in Johnny No-Trump (1967 Broadway); Ruby in Dames at Sea (1968 Off-Broadway); Josie Cohan in George M! (1968 Broadway); Gelsomina in La Strada (1969 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Helen Gallagher:

No additional propaganda submitted

Bernadette Peters:

shes so fucken pretty just look at her im in love with how pretty she is

(l.-r.) Gwen Verdon, Helen Gallagher, Thelma Oliver in the stage production of Sweet Charity, ca. 1966

I just watched Gallagher dancing with Bobby Van at the 1972 Tonys. From No No, Nanette, a dance number called "You Can Dance with Any Girl."

This is followed by a performance by legendary hoofer Ruby Keeler, then 63 years of age, of "I Want to Be Happy." Just pickin' 'em up and slappin' 'em down, like the old days at Warners.

Happy Valley / Series 1 / Episode 6

We worked together at the Mission in Halifax, Christian Mission on Commercial Street. So unfair. She should have lived to be ninety, Helen. She should’ve been happy and healthy, and for another thirty years. She helped me. Helen. Ten years ago, I didn’t work at the Mission. I was one of the people who ended up there. I was a drop-in. I did drugs. Bad ones. Stupid ones. And I was - I am - an alcoholic. Recovering. Ten years. More or less. And she - Helen - she turned my life round. Our Catherine’d more or less given up on me. You know what cops are like - well, you might not know, but - zero tolerance. Bless ‘em. And she had her own stuff to deal with anyway, with her daughter. Becky. She was always a handful. But Helen... she had time for everyone. Anyone and everyone. Didn’t matter what they’d done, didn’t matter where they’d come from. And she never gave up. She never gave up on anyone, and she certainly never gave up on me.

Siobhan Finneran as Clare Cartwright in Happy Valley s2, deleted scene: Clare confides in Neil

The stupendous Thelma Oliver (Helene), Chita Rivera (Charity), and Helen Gallagher (Nickie) in the national tour production of Sweet Charity (1967 - 1968)

Fav Shameless Trope; Lip being attracted to girls who give him shit.

ill someday write a meta about Lip x Helene x Monica if i have energy cause i rarely see people talk about how Monica affected Lip and was the only kid who never faltered under her. and how Helene's presence was a very fucked perception of what he wanted + carnal desires. Lip, my man, you are one fucked kid with fucked circumstances. ill write about you someday.

Seeing Ian in season 1 puts into perspective the amount of BS he had to go through. Like when I think of things I wish were addressed with more weight, Ian's abuse at the hands of older men is one of them. I know Ian doesn't see it that way but others do (Mickey and Lip) and it feels like it's constantly glossed over. Lip says he wanted to call the police on Kash but he couldn't bring himself to do it. A scene of that would've reinforced just how wrong it is, instead of the situation ending with Kash is a sad middle-aged man and that's why Ian shouldn't want him. Not, Kash is a predator and Ian is a victim.

We can also talk about how both Lip and Debbie are victims of grooming. Grooming was never seriously addressed on the show.

i’m actually so pissed that grooming was never addressed as it was such a big issue for ian, debbie, lip, and also kind of carl but not really (with lori i think her name was, his boss). the only time grooming is ever brought up is with tami but it’s just a one episode thing and it’s irrelevant to the plot tbh.

ian’s situation devastates me because he never ends up thinking it’s wrong. he was constantly objectified by these older men he was with, too. to them he was seen as just a “boy toy” or the “forbidden fruit”. not only were his relationships with kash and ned creepy, but the guys at the club, too. for example, the one who dragged him out of the club, barely conscious, after giving him a roofie. ian graciously accepted the pill like he was used to it, and he probably was. he let this guy drug and grope him, and i always see people saying “imagine what would’ve happened if mickey hadn’t come” and i’ll tell you what would’ve happened, he would’ve been raped. and i can guarantee you with how used to it he was, it had happened before. and i’ll say more about this with lip and debbie, but i firmly believe the reason he indulged into these relationships was to fill the void frank created.

debbie’s situation is also devastating. if you recall, when lip was trying to convince ian that what happened with kash was wrong/grooming people is wrong, he said “ok so what if it was debbie and a 30 year old dude”, ironically, in the next season she gets with a 20 year old dude who for some fucking reason, a good percentage of the fandom sympathizes with/sides with. here’s the real deal: matty groomed her. he was into her, knowing she was 13, but didn’t want to have sex with her, in fear of himself going to prison. prison was the only thing stopping him, he said it himself that he thought she was sexy and wanted to. and before anyone says anything about how debbie did tell him she was 16 at first when he first started to like her, he could obviously tell. the point was that it was obvious she was lying. and yeah, what debbie did was wrong. i’ve said a lot about this before, but what he did was wrong, too. he led her on, flirted with her, promised to have sex with her, slept in the same bed as her, and also talked to all of her friends for some reason, he was a creep!! no grown adult should be hanging out/flirting with an adolescent girl, and it scares me that people defend him. like i said with ian, she was trying to fill a void. not only that, but she was mirroring fiona’s actions. she had seen her sister get into unhealthy relationships, so she did just. and the worst thing was debbie didn’t even like him, it was just comphet. so it was some adult with a one-sided crush on a teenager. creepy. at this time, frank was dying and fiona was working/locked up, she needed attention because she was lacking it, so she went to him for it because she knew he’d give her it.

lip’s situation i have less to say about because technically, he was an adult, but regardless, it was creepy as fuck. more so, his attachment to her was creepy. this is what happens when you get groomed, you grow attached. and lip was so fucking attached it destroyed him when she ignored him. like his siblings, this was to fill the void a parent created. but this time, frank isn’t responsible, monica is. i’ve never really spoken about this despite having a lot to say, but lip and monica’s relationship effects him a lot. i hate to say this, but he’s treated women like shit because of it (i’m not saying he always does, but he has- i’ll explain more in depth sometime) and his mother abandoning him clearly altered his perspective on women. i think that monica leaving made him (and every other sibling, especially debbie) grow attached easily, and i think it also made him lose respect for some women because he just saw his mom in them. i saw a post that explains this a lot better than i am right now so if i find it i’ll definitely link it so it makes more sense.

I HATE THE “LIP SLEEPING WITH HIS PROFESSOR HELENE” STORYLINE!!!!!! IT WAS DISGUSTING AND IT FUCKED LIP UP MENTALLY FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE! SHE WAS A SELFISH ASS WEIRDO! LIP WAS BARELY OVER 20 YRS OLD DIDN’T KNOW REAL LIFE! RUINED HIS COLLEGE LIFE! IT ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY BECAUSE SO MANY GUYS THINKS ITS COOL THAT OLDER WOMEN WANT TO HAVE SEX W/ THEM NOT REALIZING THE WOMEN ARE SEXUALIZED THEM.

I ALWAYS HATE READING FANFICS WHEN THE CHARACTER IS IN THEIR 40s AND THE READER IS IN THEIR 20s! BEING WITH SOMEONE TWICE YOUR AGE IS DISGUSTING AND TRASHY NOT SEXY! IMAGINE WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE YOUNGER PERSON TRUST ME THEY THINKING “YOUNG, DUMB, & FULL OF CUM” 😒

Round 1 Losers Highlights: Helen Gallagher

look at her dance!

Pretty sure I've ranted about this before but Helene is a fucking bitch!!

Happy Valley / Series 1 / Episode 4

Charlie Murphy as Ann Gallagher in Happy Valley s2, deleted scene: Helen's final days

ok but parks being deeply but begrudgingly in love with justineau is just is hilarious, like yes, he is a dickhead sarge through and through, but in no way does it surprise me that the lady who has his heart is the scientist teacher who’s dedicated to saving a zombie child who didn’t even realize she was a zombie until like page one hundred

Can't remember if I posted this earlier in the month or not, but!

This is my @gallacrafts for Theme 12 "You're Under My Skin" aka YUMS!

Ian is a pianist at a piano bar, when he and Trevor, his lead singer, break up and Trevor backs out of a show, Ian needs to find someone to fill in fast.

Mickey is a bartender at the piano bar who notices Ian wanting to drink his troubles away. He thinks the redhead is insane when after just hearing him humming around the bar he wants him to be the lead singer.

For Frank Sinatra music no less.