"You're so mixed up in your emotions, darling"

250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order ⇨ Marie...

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250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Marie Antoinette (1938)
Perhaps the great loves come with tears.

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Kay Francis & Miriam Hopkins in ‘Trouble in Paradise’, 1932.

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Kay Francis & Miriam Hopkins in ‘Trouble in Paradise’, 1932.

bobertsbobgomery: James Cagney and Ruby Keeler performing...

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James Cagney and Ruby Keeler performing ‘Shanghai Lil’ in Footlight Parade, 1933

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Carole Lombard and Kathryn Crawford photographed for Safety in...

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Carole Lombard and Kathryn Crawford photographed for Safety in Numbers, 1930

tracylord: Happy Birthday Irving Grant Thalberg! ↳ (* 30 May...

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tracylord:

Happy Birthday Irving Grant Thalberg!
↳ (* 30 May 1899 - † 14. September 1936)

“No one can possibly write the history of motion pictures without devoting the largest individual share of it to Irving G. Thalberg, who incidentally was my intimate friend until the day he died. In my opinion, he was the most creative producer in the history of films during the period when he was Production Head of MGM, and the guiding light of that operation.”

Darryl F. Zanuck

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When Claudette was offered the role in Three Came Home, she...

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When Claudette was offered the role in Three Came Home, she signed on , even though she knew it would be a grueling shoot and that she would be the object of violence, which, to be effective, had to be done realistically. However, she did not think she would end up with a broken back.

Agnes is trying to take her clothes off the line during a rainstorm when a guard attacks her. Rather than portray it as the rape it was, Johnson made it clear that it was an abortive rape, and director Jean Negulesco shot the scene accordingly. Agnes, who earlier had to crawl under the barbed wire to enjoy a few fleeting moments with her husband, is now subjected to more roughhouse than she had ever experienced before, including being thrown on the ground and then against the steps of the women’s quarters.

When Agnes makes the mistake of lodging a complaint, she is expected to sign a confession stating, in effect, that she fabricated the charge (which could mean death). When she refuses, one of the soldiers turns his back and looks out the window, as if he does not want to see what will happen. As Agnes is seated on a chair, another guard comes behind her and twists her arm behind her back. When she still refuses, she is thrown on the floor, on her back, and kicked in the ribs. At the time, Claudette did not know that she had broken her back, although anyone looking closely at the sequence would not have been surprised.

If all the films that Claudette made in which she dealt with...

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If all the films that Claudette made in which she dealt with children - bathing them, tucking them into bed, reading to them, consoling them - were arranged in order of age, from infants to toddlers, pre-adolescents, teenagers, and adults, the image of a perfect mother would emerge. Perhaps Claudette was just a screen mother, but one would like to think that her films revealed the kind of mother Claudette might have been if she had children of her own. Even when she bathed her young son in Family Honeymoon, she did it with such naturalness that it seemed not only unrehearsed but also unfeigned. It was the same in The Egg and I, when she cupped the chicks in her hands as tenderly as she would hold an infant in her arms. Somehow one feels that changing diapers would have come as easily to Claudette as breezing down a staircase in a Travis Banton gown.
- Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty

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fuckyeahthevoice: Frank Sinatra, surrounded by cameras, places...

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Frank Sinatra, surrounded by cameras, places his hands and feet in the cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on July 20, 1965. Friend Dean Martin and daughters Tina and Nancy attended the ceremony with him.

Clark Gable at his ranch photographed by Clarence Sinclair...

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Clark Gable at his ranch photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1937.