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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair

@vitaphonezone.bsky.social

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Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow. linktr.ee/vitaphonezone

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · Jul 6

I wrote a bit about June Harlow, a 1950s burlesque queen and film hopeful who built a solid career based partially off her resemblance to her ‘aunt’ Jean Harlow—showing that being a fake Nepo Niece can carry you pretty far. open.substack.com/pub/vitaphon...

June, not Jean: Harlow's Nicest 'Niece'

A particularly relevant and refreshingly inarguable fact about Jean Harlow is that she was an only child.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 8h

Kathleen Burke, famed for portraying Lota, the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls (1932), wears a more subdued look while her sidekick takes the reins (scanned from a 1932 issue of Screen Book magazine).

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 16h

Love this

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 19h

A large crowd of kids gathered outside a theater showing THE AIR MAIL (1925) plus an Our Gang short

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 17h

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester celebrate their new American citizenship, 1950

Laughton and Lanchester hold up papers, smiling, arms around each other, American flag on wall behind them.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking about this shot of Groucho and I at TCMFF last year

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 17h

Surrealist painter Georges Malkine and His Meezer, photographed by Man Ray. Used by André Breton to illustrate the article “Surrealism in 1929,” published in the review Variétés.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 19h

Clara Bow

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 19h

Saturday morning Secret Beyond the Door feeling

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 1d

Just love this painting of Vivienne Osborne, one of a few inanimate stars in this personal favorite slice of 30s horror (another is Lombard’s star sapphire ring)

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 1d

Supernatural (1933) dir. Victor Halperin

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 2d

Barbara Stanwyck in Lady of Burlesque on the cover of Movies magazine, July 1943

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 4d

Some midweek glam 🍸
Robe du soir, Jeanne Lanvin, 1933-34, via Palais Galliera, Paris.

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SilentFilmTitle @silentfilmtitle.bsky.social · 4d

Street Angel (1928). #SilentFilm

Intertitle from 1928 film ‘Street Angel’ which reads "Love will find you, never fear! No
woman escapes!"

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 6d

One of my own favorite pieces for anyone with a question mark over their head about Jean Lorraine: bsky.app/profile/vita...

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · Jan 3

Finally finished the Sisyphean task of compiling my longest (and my favorite) piece to date, a labor of love that details the tumultuous life and career of silent actress Jean Lorraine—well, the first of three. It’s a lot. vitaphonezone.home.blog/2024/01/03/t...

The Vanishing Act of Jean Lorraine

I know what you’re thinking--God, doesn’t this chick talk about any movie besides The Wild Party? Yeah, well, sorry. An Adrienne Doré fan like myself is bound to pick up on other obscure names ...

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 6d

Jean Lorraine, Clara Bow, and Adrienne Doré in an Otto Dyar publicity portrait for The Wild Party (1929) featured on a French cigarette card:

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 9d

My favorite photo of birthday boy Groucho, photographed by Ted Allan for A Day at the Races (1937). A good reminder not to take anything too seriously today.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 9d

It is her season.

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 9d

Ruth Chatterton looking as cool as ever in dark sunglasses on the set of The Right to Love (1930) with director Richard Wallace at camera (from Photoplay, February 1931)

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13d

I have decided to embrace the full ridiculousness of my pen and married names together for some much needed fun.

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13d

Oh God, going on my watchlist

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 15d

CARNIVAL OF SOULS - Premiered in its hometown of Lawrence, Kansas this day in 1962 - Japanese release poster

a screaming woman is surrounded by pasty-faced ghouls, in the distance is a desolate pavilion

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13d

It’s fine. I’d watch an even worse film because I deeply understand the laundress Loren/anarchist Newman dynamic here.

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13d

The worst movie with the hottest people in it.

Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 13d

"Lady L" (1965)
Paul Newman and Sophia Loren

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 15d

egyptian theater, ogden, utah, 1991

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 14d

Partial to this pose as well (and its press caption). “Ida dearly loves to don outlandish makeup, and fairly shrieks ‘Isn't it wonderful!’ whenever someone says she looks horrible.”

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