I Wanna Do Something With My Life, Like Watch More Movies.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Antique Cat Figurine

the first film I saw Norma Shearer in was The Women and I think that negatively coloured my perception of her for years (decades?) because I thought she was the worst one in that (Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russel, and Joan Crawford outshine her completely and when I saw the film as a teen I found her matronly and submissive). Watching her pre-code films now is wild, she's so sexy and cool! This is a problem I've had with a lot of actresses who took up more "good woman" roles in the late 30s and 40s (eg Claudette Colbert or Myrna Loy) because when I first got into classic films as a teen, I could not relate to those women or their characters and found them old and stodgy. Similarly I always thought actors like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in the 1940s were so ancient and couldn't believe any woman would be attracted to a man that old

“There where it smells of shit it smells of being.”

— Antonin Artaud, To Have Done with the Judgement of God

Norma Shearer in Let Us Be Gay, 1930

no longer explaining myself no i will not elaborate

Clara Bow, 1927

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]