FILMS In 2024: 62 | City Lights (1931) — Dir. Charles Chaplin     

1920's Mineralava Beauty Products, the company that hired Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova to travel the United States giving dance exhibitions and promoting it's products. At each stop they chose a queen of beauty and needless to say, it was a sell-out at every venue! From His Fame Still Lives, FB.

Anthony Perkins 1960.

"But how can you compare Harlow and Garbo, Swanson and Shearer, or Gable and Tracy with any luminary today? Maybe it's just an old timer's sentiment. But today's faces lack depth of feeling. Two world wars and many minor ones have almost changed the face of the globe itself. Why not our actors? As I watch on television many of the stars I once photographed, I look at them as one might old paintings. Some can't stand up to today's demanding audience; others will be as magnetic a hundred years from now. I am sure the Mona Lisa and the face of Greta Garbo will inspire and puzzle for all time." —Clarence Sinclair Bull, photographer

(From Hollywood in Kodachrome: 1940–1949 by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt, 2013)

Bette Davis celebrates her 33rd birthday with a 100 pound cake in Littleton, New Hampshire, April 5, 1941

Girls sent home from McKinley High School for wearing slacks and blue jeans, Chicago, 1946.

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

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What’s my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she’s terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares? - Montgomery Clift

out of all the casablancas in the world she had to walk into my casablanca