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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · Nov 9

Gloria Swanson and Raoul Walsh play fighting in Sadie Thompson (1928).

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · May 2

German poster for Diary Of A Lost Girl (1929), starring Louise Brooks. Poster design by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm.

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🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · Nov 22

Inside Kay Francis' hand painted wardrobe for #FashionFriday

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 20h

Paulette Goddard by Cecil Beaton.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 14h

Oh you're right. I haven't seen him doing that recently either. There must be a reason. Has he become so physically enfeebled that he no longer does it or mentally enfeebled he no longers remembers to do it.

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 16h

I keep looking at this and it keeps making me laugh

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1d

"This is a story of a period between two World Wars—an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat."

Next week marks 85 years since THE GREAT DICTATOR opened in New York City.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 18h

Robert McGinnis cover art. For Never Kill A Client paperback by Brett Holliday, 1963.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 20h

Good point. His lugubrious is funny on its own

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 22h

Photo by Andreas Feininger, 1936.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23h

Alastair Sim, born today in Edinburgh in 1900.

As Miss Fritton in The Belles Of St Trinians (1954).
"In other schools girls are sent out quite unprepared into a merciless world, but when our girls leave here, it is the merciless world which has to be prepared."

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23h

It's very good. I was worried because I've read the books

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The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social · 1d

Sal Mineo in The Gene Krupa Story (1959) 🥁

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23h

Raquel Meller, c1931.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23h

Carole Lombard in a publicity shot for To Be Or Not To Be (1942). Photo by Robert Coburn.

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

"If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. And you should be allowed to be how you are and who you are."

Dolly Parton is one of the very good ones, and the world needs her light now more than ever.

Hoping she will be okay!

We LOVE YOU Dolly! 💚🙏✨

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

This work depicts Francis Cadell's living room at 6 Ainslie Place in Edinburgh in the 1920s; his furniture was bright, contemporary; the floor a glossy black, the walls a rich mauve. The colour, organisation and structure is clearly reflected in this crisp, modern picture.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Myrna Loy by Arthur Yarborough, c1925.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

It did!

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Oh absolutely! Incredibly creative and still have a visual impact today

"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 1d

Miriam Hopkins, publicity shot for She Loves Me Not (1934).

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 4d

I was there!

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Swedish poster for (The Girl From) Moulin Rouge (1934), starring Constance Bennett. Poster art by Gösta Aberg.

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Dominique Revue @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · Aug 18

"My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!"

—Terence Stamp
Portrait for the anthology SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, in costume as 'Toby Dammit' for Federico Fellini's short

📸: Lawrence Schiller

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2d

Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken in L.A. Confidential (1997). Photographed by Sheila Metzner.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 2d

Anna Magnani

Leslie Gill, 1941

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