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A.C. Miller

@acmillerauthor.bsky.social

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Author. Cinephile. Lover of sandwiches and everything vintage. https://linktr.ee/acmillerauthor

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 15h

Truly, the only way to entertain.

Ad from 1939.

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 15h

Heck yeah!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 15h

I want to hang out at Kay Francis's house!

From the October 1939 issue of House & Garden.

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

It sure is!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, she was good.

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

No better time to watch @tcmtv.bsky.social than right now when Gene Tierney's on the screen! #TCMParty #Laura

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Anita Louise in a Quaker Lace Company ad from 1938.

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Constance Bennett in a publicity photo for TOPPER TAKES A TRIP ('38).

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Me too.

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

They sure did!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

1000000000000%!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Which mid-30s lamp do you want?

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

We need more parties centered around toast.

Ad from 1935.

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Birthday girl, June Allyson, with Peter Lawford in a promotional photo for GOOD NEWS ('47). #BOTD

📸 Loomis Dean

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Birthday girl, Carole Lombard, in a publicity portrait for THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS ('36). #BOTD

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Same!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

It's all so wonderful!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Time for my first horror film of October, ASYLUM ('72).

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Still of Vincent Price in MADHOUSE ('74).

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

The temperature has dropped nearly 30 degrees from yesterday, so it finally feels like October.

So, this is now me, debating which pre-1975 horror to watch:

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

#OTD in 1937, one of my favorite 30's films, STAGE DOOR, had its premiere in San Francisco.

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Now, that's a wonderful 1934 bedroom.

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely impossible to go wrong with REAR WINDOW ('54). #TCMParty

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Ooo these are good!

A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, it wasn't very good.