Claudette Colbert singing in French in Under Two Flags, 1936

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tracylord:

Norma Shearer - Wilt Thou Have My Hand (vocal and piano)

Charlie Chaplin vs. Inception (x)

“Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

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Claudette Colbert sings/hums Dream Lover to Ray Milland in Arise, My Love (1940)
We two can leave the world behind us
Nobody indiscreet can find us
All dreams are of mine, secrets divine
I will share them with you

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How to make Bette Davis mad (Part 2)
Tell her Dark Victory is not such a great movie.

— Extract from BBC Archive, 1963

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How to make Bette Davis mad (Part 1)
Tell her she uses the same mannerism in every performance

— Extract from BBC Archive, 1963

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Irene Dunne singing You Couldn’t Be Cuter in Joy of Living, 1938

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deforest:

Ladies and gentlemen, for your listening pleasure: Robert Montgomery’s specially tailored laugh in The Earl of Chicago (1940).

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Bette Davis is the best goddamn actress who ever lived! Juarez, 1939

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professorowenaravenclaw:

♪ Any age you can be, I can be younger;
I can be younger than you’ll ever be!
32? 31?
25? 23?
21? 19 a half,
18 a half, 16 a half!
Is that your age, darling, or your shoe size? ♪

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better! || Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich

marlene-dietrich:

Marlene Dietrich singing a lullaby in German in Blonde Venus, 1932

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fuckyeahthevoice:

This famous recording of Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” is considered by many to be Frank Sinatra’s true masterpiece, as well as being one of the all-time great arrangements of the genre, thanks to Nelson Riddle. It was a last minute addition, arranged on the fly, to the classic album Songs for Swingin’ Lovers, and took a highly unusual 22 takes for both Sinatra and the orchestra to master. Riddle remembered it as one of the few times that the members of the band stood up after the first rehearsal and applauded. Of its finish, Will Friedwald, music critic and author of Sinatra! The Song is You, wrote:

…Sinatra returns for an out chorus to end all out choruses: he starts by using [trombone soloist] Bernhart’s highest emotional peak as his own lowest note and builds from there to a musical dramatic climax that fully exploits Cole Porter’s lyric as meaningfully as his melody, combining pure swing with caveman machismo, capable of grabbing even the most Frank-resistant listener way down at the bottom of his soul. 

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This Can’t Be Love // Bing Crosby

The sounds my dog makes when he’s playing. I swear he doesn’t sound like a dog at all, but a baby. So funny. 

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Pretty As a Picture // Dean Martin

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