Something has happened to us. But it doesn’t happen like that, in a day.
Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Madeline Smith for Biba, 1967.
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TITANIC (‘53)
Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
“Everything she did seemed effortless, but perfectly timed and final…Laying aside a blue satin dressing-gown and a crossword puzzle, she would take her place before the camera, and be, instantly, not Vivien Leigh at all, but Cleopatra, matching gestures and dialouge with grace and accuracy, and repeating them, when called upon, again and again and again with the same tireless certainty and rhythm.” -Marjorie Deans
Rita Hayworth, 1949
Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier
“Not America’s Sweetheart, but America’s Suppressed Desire - Greta Garbo. What every woman wants to look like. The Eternal Feminine to every man. One of the reasons why people run, not walk, to the nearest theatre.”Photoplay magazine, February 1928
Margrethe Mather
I love you, Stany.
female awesome // 15 ladies in a tv show
★ charlotte charles (pushing daisies)❝ It’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out of your mouth in a big wet wad and you can breathe again.
“You wrote that, ya dope.”— Joan Baez to Bob Dylan, the first time he heard “Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word” on a radio and said it was a real good tune (via joan-chandos-baez)