With the right light and a black and white filter, almost anything can have a film noir aura. All that’s missing here is a striking set of gams and a wisp of cigarette smoke.

Fan

Bed

Book

Fan Again
With the right light and a black and white filter, almost anything can have a film noir aura. All that’s missing here is a striking set of gams and a wisp of cigarette smoke.

Fan

Bed

Book

Fan Again

Chuck says to have your people call her people
…director, composer, screenwriter, and inventor. His novel, Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral Tale, was published in 1953. I read it as a high schooler (in the 1990s). Why, yes, I was that teenager. Here is Mr. Barrymore as a younger man:

Lionel Barrymore: Born 28 April 1878.

John Waters Quote
Gloria Swanson amongst the stacks…

Gloria Swanson
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Mickey Rooney Dead at 93 [courtesy Variety]
“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out you haven’t wasted a whole day.”-Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney and his first wife, Ava Gardner.
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)

Buddy Ebsen, 1936. He was born on 2 April 1908.

Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen in Captain January (1936).
Happy Birthday, Gloria!

The Great Moment, 1921
“As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.”

Janet Gaynor receiving her Academy Award from Douglas Fairbanks.