Favourite Movies Wached In 2023

"Mother's connection with her fans was special. On the whole, their devotion to her, even when the headlines were unflattering, didn't waver. In fact, her ups and downs seemed to endear her to them all the more. They saw that she had her problems, too. There were some stars that seemed unreal, but for all her glamour, Mother retained an approachable side that her fans sensed. I think she was seen by them as Cinderella, who through a combination of luck and beauty of face and form, landed in movies. These qualities, combined with her personality, were embraced by the public and produced an enduring star.

"For her part, Mother respected her fans and recognized that the public makes a star. From the time she was very young, she appreciated the fan letters sent to her from people all over the world. In the beginning she read and answered as many pieces of mail as she could herself, but it quickly got out of hand and had to be managed by studio personnel. During a nine-month period in 1944 in which MGM monitored the fan letter flow to each of the stars, Mother and Judy Garland were shown to be ahead of the rest by far, each receiving close to 200,000 letters. After she left the studio, Mother hired a personal secretary for the first time and she dedicated a certain part of every day to signing photos, reading the mail, and dictating responses to her secretary. She took this very seriously. There were rare occasions when she was scared by a bizarre fan, but more commonly, there were special fans with whom she became comfortable enough to strike up regular correspondence, or even make telephone friends." -Cheryl Crane

LANA TURNER in THE YOUNGEST PROFESSION — 1943

Baby Face (1933) dir. Alfred E. Green

Now that all the polls are out, I finished adding all the films and here's the complete list of the movies submitted as propaganda for @hotvintagepoll :

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Vintage ladies propaganda

The movies listed for the hot vintage ladies poll Short disclaimer: the movies were submitted and not all checked and might be offensive (es

There are 946 movies on the list, but there were some I could not find on letterboxd that are missing (sorry).

On browser mode/the computer you can Control F to find a specific actress. On mobile or browser you can sort by language, genre, date, etc.

Letterboxd tells you when applicable where you can stream/rent/buy the film as well! (This is not an ad for letterboxd I swear)

Anyone can dm me if there are any mistakes and I'll fix them asap!

I'll share the disclaimer again just in case: these movies are chosen by whoever submitted them and do not mean they are suggested by @hotvintagepoll. I tried to put warnings for really offensive elements on the movies I've seen/could think of but I'm definitely forgetting some and will gladly add warnings on movies that need them (dm me for anything I should add)!

Happy watching!

I wanna do something with my life, like watch more movies.

Harold Lloyd in The Flirt (1917)

i just have to make it through the next few or tens or hundreds or thousands of weeks. until i'm dead

Paul Henreid and Bette Davis - Now, Voyager 1942

Propaganda

Lee Ya-Ching (A Poet From the Sea, Mulan Joins the Army)—actress and aviatrix! pioneer. legend. i see a vintage lady on a plane and brain goes brr

Bonita Granville (The Glass Key, Now, Voyager)—she started out playing Nancy Drew as a teenager (won't include any pics of that because she's underage in them, but look up the publicity pics—delightful), it's a shame she didn't become a bigger Star™™

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Lee Ya-Ching:

Bonita Granville:

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934.

basically a lot of my problems boil down to me being really bad at waking up. and also really bad at going to sleep