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recycledmoviecostumes · 2 years

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This spectacular red gown was designed by Adrian for Joan Crawford in the 1938 film The Bride Wore Red. The gown, which supposedly weighs around 30 pounds due to the weight of all the beads. It is still in existence and in extremely good condition considering its age.

The movie The Bride Wore Red was in black and white and the full beauty of the color of the dress was not able to be fully appreciated until later. The dress made its second appearance in The Big Store in 1941 in a fashion show scene, where it was worn by an extra. Though this film is also in black and white, Groucho Marx does explain "This is a bright red dress" because "Technicolor is sooo expensive!" In 1943 gown appeared in Du Barry Was A Lady, sans the cape on Inez Cooper as Miss December. This time the dress is seen in color. The gown appears to have been worn by Angela Lansbury for a promotional photo shoot around 1945, and the 1968 film used the dress for promotional imagery for The Legend of Lylah Clare, with Kim Novak as Lylah Clare.

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#the bride wore red #joan crawford #the big store #du barry was a lady #inez cooper #Angela Lansbury #the legend of lylah clare #kim novak #adrian #costume drama #period drama

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forever70s · 9 months

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Kim Novak in "The Legend of Lylah Clare" (1968)

#kim novak #actress #1968 #the legend of lylah clare #film

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schlock-luster-video · 10 days

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On April 16, 1969, The Legend of Lylah Clare debuted in France.

#the legend of lylah clare #robert aldrich #kim novak #drama film #hippie movies #1960s #1960s cinema #1960s movies #tcm underground #art #fan art #movies #film #movie art #drawing #movie history #pop art

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hellyeahgeorgekennedy · 1 month

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Kim Novak and George Kennedy in The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

#george kennedy #kim novak #the legend of lylah clare #1968 #old hollywood #classic movies #old movies #hollywood #60s movies #big daddy

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falsebooles123 · 1 year

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FUCK its the end of January - Diary of a Big Ole Gay 1/31/2023

Hey whores, its me your bitch back on his bullshit.

So I have a interview tomorrow and I'm waiting to hear back from like three, four different places. so its a lot of waiting.

(yeah I kinda hate having to sit on my ass and waiting)

Also I probably didn't watch that much queer stuff this week so sorry? I mean I had to slow down a little whores. most of this stuff is stuck behind a paywall. (pssst I have a ko-fi if you wanna help a whore out).

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) dir. Robert Aldrich

So this is one of those movies that had a queer element and then were also just very poorly recieved for completly unrelated reasons, (think Sylvia Scarlett or Glen or Glenda). This film is about 80% less gay then that. On one hand you have this very meta type of patisches to it its a lot of elements from things like Rebecca and Sunset Boulivard.

You basically have this young actress who has this preternaturally ability to imitate Lylah Clare a golden age star who died in a spectacular fasion and she bascially falls into the wild child/Bisexual Vamp role. If you remember me discussing Lola from Pandoras Box then you have a sense of what I'm talking about.

TBH it is very campy and fun but the reason why this is on the list is that one of the characters is a lesbian and she was fucking Lola Rebecca, *checks notes*, sorry Lylah Clare.

Muchachas de Uniforme (1951) dir. Alfredo B. Crevenna

so this is a mexican remake of the classic and while there are some aspects I really like about it (the expressionist type architecture, the costume design), it tones down a lot of the queerness of the original.

I will say that this

1. is a lot darker and if you know how the original ends then know that they go for the bummer ending. (bury your gays)

2. I watched this on youtube and there were no English Subs so I had to use the auto-translate function which meant I only got the barest bones concept of the dialogue. its buggy, spanish is a fast spoken language and also if I understood spanish the dialogue would probably be really pretty. So understand there is a language barrier for me here.

Lo siento, me esponal no es bueno, estudiar para tres anos perro soy es estudiente malo. Sue me.

Madchen in Uniform (1958) dir. Géza von Radványi

This one is a lot more faithful to the original but they also butcher the bedroom kiss scene. However they do make that up with this kiss later on when they extend the play plot point.

I will say that I do like aspects of this film, i like there take on it but the original madchen in uniform is far superior to both of the remakes.

and thats not to say that the remakes are bad films they have a great aestetic, they add little details the original does but its something about the original that just sings in a way these ones dont

Everything Else I watched this week and a half

as you can tell I watched Infinity Pool, It was great. Horror Autuers are like lets shit on rich people and I'm all for it. Its giving sci-fi taking to its psycological horror extremes and what happens when you give in negative nihilism.

Also watched 2017 B&B, its a gay thriller and its pretty good if a bit triggering.

I finished the rest of the Hammer House of Horror and umm what else...

So I watched Bi-coastal, one of the Catalina Bisexual Features they did in the 70s directed by Tom DeSimone, (or as he went by then Lance Brookes). The men in it are definetly hollywood twink and not the sexy Gage Men, but despite that Bi-Coastal was V V hot. and honestly very bi positive for the time.

#Muchachas in Uniforme #Madchen in Uniform (1958)#The Legend of Lylah Clare #suicide (implied)#pornography (implied)

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katawanda · 3 months

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“Sharon was so amazingly down to earth, her ethereal beauty seemed to captivate all those around her, but she seemed oblivious to it and the effect she had on strangers. She would sometimes flirt a bit, but it was well known around Hollywood that Sharon was a one-man girl, and she kept true to herself and never slept around. A rare thing in young actresses trying to get their ‘big break’ I can tell you. There was something very ‘special’ about her and we were very protective of her too.”

-Kirk Douglas

Sharon and Kirk pictured in 1968 at the premiere of ‘The Legend of Lylah Clare, the Troubadour’

#sharon tate #1960s history #old hollywood #1960s #valley of the dolls #eye of the devil #odile de caray #hollywood #swinging 60s #the fearless vampire killers #kirk douglas

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oldshowbiz · 7 months

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Robert Aldrich's Hollywood Boulevard as seen in The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

#filming location #hollywood #hollywood blvd #robert aldrich #walk of fame #highland ave #first national building #hollywood first national building

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iskra8 · 3 months

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Photo Le Demon des Femmes THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE by Robert Aldrich with Kim Novak, 1968 (b/w photo)

#kim novak #actress #vintage

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rococorevival · 10 months

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Legend of Lylah Clare Bedroom

I really recommend the film 'The Legend of Lylah Clare" by Robert Aldritch in general, but that bedroom, is just amazing. I do apologize for not being able to get the best picture of it, it is a little dim.

#pink #rococo

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annoyinglyperfectartisan · 1 year

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