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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 14h

Myrna Loy by László Willinger, 1941. (Thread)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 8h

Bette Davis and William A. Wellman inspect a record player on the set of So Big (1932)

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 7h

Shelley Winters lights Tony Curtis’s cigarette at a party in New York on October 12, 1950.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight's viewing - "Madame X: An Absolute Ruler"

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 16h

Gloria Swanson by Ernest Bachrach (1941)

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 14h

Carroll Baker photographed by Jean-Claude Sauer for Paris Match in her cabin aboard the Queen Mary, 1964

Actress Carroll Baker — dressed in a black nightdress — captured facing the camera while sitting on a brown fur coat-covered chair, leaning forward and pouting, her right foot resting on a footstool as she paints her toenails, a bottle of nail polish in her left hand, a black vase with flowers beside her, vanity table replete with telephone and make-up in the background, in a medium-length colour shot taken by Jean-Claude Sauer in her cabin aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 11h

Daliah Lavi in "Casino Royale" - BOTD

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 1d

Aurore Clément, Paris, 1978
© Jean-Louis Urli

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 1d

Jean-Luc Godard (6 novembre 1970)
(KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 15h

Luciano Pavarotti - BOTD

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

Jean Arthur, c. 1935.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 16h

Capucine in a hat by Jean Barthet, c. 1952. Photo by Georges Dambier.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 16h

Alice Childress (with scenes from the film "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich". Childress wrote the screenplay base on her novel of the same name.) - BOTD

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 16h

Ralph Vaughan Williams (with Michael Tippett) - BOTD

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 16h

The Marx Bros. in A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA - Released this day in 1946 - Italian release poster - Art by Enrico DeSeta

The three Marx Bros. pop out of a jack in the box toy

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 16h

Josephine Hutchinson in "Son of Frankenstein" - BOTD

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

Pamela Brown in I Know Where I'm Going (1945).

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

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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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 1d

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester celebrate their new American citizenship, 1950

Laughton and Lanchester hold up papers, smiling, arms around each other, American flag on wall behind them.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 16h

Carlos the Jackal (with scenes from the Olivier Assayas biopic "Carlos") - BOTD

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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 1d

Le Procès (The Trial), Orson Welles (1962)

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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 1d

Brunch al Caffè Greco, Roma, 1948.

Aldo Palazzeschi, Goffredo Petrassi, Mirko, Carlo Levi, Pericle Fazzini, Afro, Renzo Vespignani, Libero de Libero, Sandro Penna, Lea Padovani, Orson Welles, Mario Mafai, Ennio Flajano, Vitaliano Brancati e Orfeo Tamburi.

Scatto di Irving Penn.