Sidney Poitier And Diahann Carroll In Paris Blues (1961), Dir. Martin Ritt

The Ephraim Enterprise, Utah, January 25, 1935

Genevieve Naylor, Reading with chocolates, Redbook, 1957

me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight

Permanent dark eye circles squad

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in 1918.

A Summer Place, Delmer Daves, 1959.

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers. As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.

A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) dir. George Stevens

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg aboard a ship traveling to Europe, circa 1930.