Sarah
@thebasementtan.bsky.social
Film and fashion nut. Maker of crossword puzzles, lover of tap numbers, picker of weeds.
Happy Deanna Durbin's birthday! Here she is with Charles Laughton in the utterly charming IT STARTED WITH EVE:
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy Deanna Durbin's birthday! Here she is with Charles Laughton in the utterly charming IT STARTED WITH EVE:
My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
Happy Busby Berkeley's birthday. From the sexy and ticklish "Spin a Little Web of Dreams" number from FASHIONS OF 1934, in which, I presume, dozens of blondes in feather bikinis were given life-altering cases of Feather Lung.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy Busby Berkeley's birthday. From the sexy and ticklish "Spin a Little Web of Dreams" number from FASHIONS OF 1934, in which, I presume, dozens of blondes in feather bikinis were given life-altering cases of Feather Lung.