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"What are you giving me with the flying fish"

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• Laura she/her • mostly Old Hollywood • • someone on twitter once told me I post too many Carole Lombard pics •

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · Nov 9

Gloria Swanson and Raoul Walsh play fighting in Sadie Thompson (1928).

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 58m

Director Mervyn LeRoy, born today.
Gold Diggers of 1933.

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1h

Remembering a personal favourite, Jean Peters, born today.
“I love a flashy, sexy role — when it’s in character. But to be built up purely as a sex queen — no thanks.”

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 1h

Jean Peters in "Pickup on South Street" - BOTD

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1h

Still chuckling at Myrna Loy's amused retelling of Paulette Goddard's description of her first husband.
"...he was just a kind of Robin Hood, taking money from the rich and giving it to me."
From her bio, Being And Becoming.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 6h

Evelyn Brent is always a mood.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 4d

Lang and Dietrich.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 10h

Greta Garbo by Ted Haworth featured in Das Magazin, 1933.

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Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 20h

A B-girl (Jan Sterling) disappears and later a human skeleton turns up on a Massachusetts beach. Det. Lieut. Peter Moralas (Ricardo Montalbán) investigates and finds that the solution to the crime is more complicated than it at first seems. "Mystery Street" (1950) #filmnoir

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Happy melodramatic new t-shirt day! Directed by Douglas Sirk.

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Dominique Revue @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 1d

A little Dorothy Dandridge to start the day. ✨

📸: Allan Grant
1954

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Style for the day.
Loretta Young rocking an outfit from Three Blind Mice (1938).

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Charles Boyer by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1950.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant! They're very good together

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It's on YouTube but the sound isn't great :(

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Edmund Lowe and Claire Trevor spark off each other and sparkle together in Black Sheep (1935). A lovely surprise watch!

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Yves Montand and Edith Piaf in Étoile Sans Lumière (1946).

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

On what would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, a reminder of what this awesome woman said at her funeral.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Boris Karloff and his Bedlington Terriers to brighten up your day.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Joan Crawford illustration by D. B. Holcomb, 1935.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

I never thought so before, but I see a resemblance with your pic

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Geraldine Fitzgerald by George Hurrell, c1939.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Ida Lupino and George Raft having a laugh during the filming of They Drive By Night (1940).

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 3d

Carole Lombard photographed by Robert Coburn. This photo session was taken shortly before she died and was intended as publicity for her next planned film, They All Kissed The Bride (1942).

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