Propaganda

Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, Bells Are Ringing)—this woman had an IQ of 172!! she was a jewish new yorker!! investigated for communist sympathies and named no names!! tony and oscar winning actress!! leonard bernstein thought of marrying her???? which part of this is not fabulous i ask you that right now

Mary Anderson (Lifeboat)—no propaganda submitted

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Judy Holliday:

Mostly remembered for beating screen legends Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis at the Oscars for her performance as ditzy blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, Judy Holliday was an incredible actress whose charm, vulnerability, and humour impressed Katharine Hepburn so much that Hepburn helped her secure the role of Billie Dawn in the screen adaptation of Born Yesterday by getting her a role in 'Adam's Rib', starring Hepburn and Tracy, when Judy was deemed 'too unknown'. Holliday was also an incredibly smart Jewish leftist, who played the ditzy blonde part again when pulled up by HUAC for 'communist sympathies'. She never named names and managed to avoid getting blacklisted. What a queen. She also had an incredible and unique voice and one of the best smiles in the business.

HOT. FUNNY. JEWISH. BLONDE. WOMAN.

She was a singer, dancer, comedienne, and Oscar-winning actress (for Born Yesterday), and she had a gorgeous curvy Cinderella vibe that is everything to me. The part of Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain was written for her, but after she won her Academy Award the producers realized she was far too big a star for a supporting role, so her friend Jean Hagen did a perfect impression of how Judy would play it, and she got the part!

SOMEONE PLEASE TALK ABOUT BELLS ARE RINGING??? HELLO??? THE FUNNIEST COMEDIENNE MY GOD SMART AND FUNNY AND HOT AS HELL?

Judy Holliday was the whole package--actress, singer, dancer, and comedienne--she lights up the screen in such a powerful way that she outshines everyone else. Here she is in a supporting role in Adam's Rib (1949) giving her statement to lawyer (Katharine Hepburn) on why she shot her cheating husband [editor's note: tw for domestic abuse & murder mentions] In every movie I've seen her in my heart goes out to her, she's so authentic and beautiful. She's proof that it takes smart to play dumb, and can make me laugh and cry in the same scene let alone the same movie. Film historian Bernard Dick on Holliday: "Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability... her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts." She won the Oscar for Best Actress (beating out Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, and Anne Baxter) for her performance in Born Yesterday.

Lora Webb Nichols ~ Mary Anderson (Showing Long Hair), 1911 - Courtesy Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts / src ODLP & Univ. of Wyoming

John Hodiak, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Henry Hull, and Tallulah Bankhead in a publicity photo for Hitchcock’s LIFEBOAT (1944)

more beautiful women from the past (imo)

Hocus Pocus: Mary Anderson —Aesthetic

Mary Anderson's Character & Personality

Mary is the middle witch who lived during the Salem Witch Trials, along with her two sisters. She's her older sister's right-hand witch, always trying her best to appease and calm her rages. As such, Mary has a slight rivalry with younger sister, even though their relationship is mostly sweet and loving. In her quest to stay on her eldest sister's good side, she compliments her whenever she can and has a habit of repeating whatever she says. Being a bit ditsy, Mary isn't as cunning or evil as her eldest sister. However, she's more competent, clever and observant than her younger sister. Mary is the most caring of the sisters, but this only applies to her sisters. When it comes to children, she delights in tracking them down with her powerful sense of smell. She also suggests various ways of cooking them, heavily implying they're cannibals.

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Mary Anderson

Walter Slezak, John Hodiak,Tallulah Bankhead, Heather Angel, Mary Anderson in Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee. Screenplay: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Cinematography: Glen MacWilliams. Art direction: James Basevi, Maurice Ransford. Film editing: Dorothy Spencer. Music: Hugo Friedhofer. 

Lifeboat has two things going for it: Alfred Hitchcock and Tallulah Bankhead. Otherwise, it could easily have turned into either a routine survival melodrama or, worse, a didactic allegory about the human condition -- elements of both remain. The situation -- a small group of survivors of a merchant marine vessel torpedoed by a German U-boat confront the elements, their own frailties, and the U-boat captain they unwittingly help rescue -- was dreamed up by Hitchcock and was assigned to John Steinbeck to come up with a story. It was then turned into a screenplay by Jo Swerling, with the uncredited help of a number of other hands, including Ben Hecht and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville. Steinbeck is said to have hated it, partly because the screenplay was purged of his leftist point of view, but anyone familiar with his fiction can see how the script's avoidance of his tendency to preach strengthened the film. And the casting of Bankhead, in what is virtually her only great screen role, adds a note of sophisticated sass that the melodrama desperately needs. Steinbeck also objected that the character of Joe (Canada Lee), the ship's steward and the only Black survivor, had been turned into a "stock comedy Negro," which is hardly fair: Although there are unpleasant taints of Hollywood racism in the characterization -- Bankhead's character refers to him as "Charcoal" a couple of times -- Joe is generally treated with respect. At one point, when the occupants of the lifeboat decide to put something to a vote, Joe asks, with more than a touch of sad experience behind the question, "Do I get to vote, too?" And when the survivors finally turn in a frenzy on the treacherous German (Walter Slezak), clubbing him to death and drowning him, Joe is the only one who seems to recognize that what they're doing is essentially a lynching; he tries to dissuade Alice (Mary Anderson), the U.S. Army nurse, from joining the assault. (Of course, it's also possible that the studio feared that having a Black man assault a white man would outrage Southern audiences.) While it's not prime Hitchcock, Lifeboat is engaging and entertaining, and a cut above most wartime melodramas, partly because it dares to present the enemy, the German captain, as dangerous, cleverly outwitting and manipulating the Americans and Brits in the boat -- which naturally outraged some of the flag-waving critics.

Mary Anderson is pictured here in 1883 as Parthenia in Ingomar, the Barbarian. Colour by Matt Loughrey.

Mary knew her brother was so overwhelmed and struggling, he would never admit it, he was afraid if he did he wouldn't be good enough, but she knew his tells.

They were close, Howdy loved his little sister ever since she was born. She understood him. His best friend. She had more of a life than he did, and he didn't want her to have to put it all on hold to worry about him or the farm.

She wish he let her worry more. She wishes he told her what was going on in his life before he disappeared. She didn't want to push him on it, but god she wishes she did. She wishes she told him he was good enough. So many things she wish she could tell him.

The police gave up so quick, financial troubles and a straining relationship with his parents. He was 27 and living on the failing family farm, plenty old enough for them to write it off as him simply running away from his worries.

She knows her brother didn't just leave, times were tough but things were starting to look up, and despite it all this man loved his family with his whole heart, he would not just walk away from them like that.

She knew something bad happened to him. She knew he wasn't ever coming home. But nobody seemed willing to help her or her family. And she just had to live life. Without him and without ever knowing.

John Steinbeck wrote the story for Lifeboat (1944) based on Alfred Hitchcock's story and at his request. Jo Swerling then wrote the screenplay.

I noticed Mary Anderson had no propaganda, so I thought these photos might help!

Also she reportedly once asked Alfred Hitchcock which side was her best side, and Hitchcock told her she was sitting on it. So, um. If there’s any ass lesbians out there, apparently this hot old lady had a nice one

Thank you! This does help.

Mary vs Judy

- He said "Aren't you going to kill me?" - "Aren't you going to kill me?" What are you gonna do with people like that?

Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock (1944)

Lifeboat

directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1944

Queen of Swords. Art by ctrlaltdanielle, from the Nostalgic TV Tarot Deck.

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