Truly, Dick Powell's hair was the most luminous star of the pre-code era.

Warren William would be good for this too.

I forst saw it around 10 years ago (?) and I have never stopped thinking about it for a single moment.

Good call.

Basically no one in the cast of Gold Diggers of 1933 would be a bad choice

I wanted to give Myrna a chance to shine on her own.

I was thinking about charisma and he wrote the book!

I love your choices too!

My 1930s Muppet Show host picks off the top of my head: Joan Blondell, Patsy Kelly, Harpo Marx, Myrna Loy

I still haven't typed it up.

(Another student recently told me that "English grammar is vibes-based." I told her she is 100% correct and actually all grammar is vibes-based. I speak teen.)

There are also videos on youtube of "blue noise" and "green noise," which are exactly what my student described. But this is a whole other nomenclature and surely vibes-based.

I went home and looked it up, and there is some scientific background to white vs. pink vs. brown noise. As a neurodivergent mess of a person, I can attest that brown noise is MAGICAL.

"Blue noise is the waves in the ocean or a flowing river," she said. "Green noise is the sound of trees in the wind. Or a rainforest." I didn't know if she was making stuff up or not, but I liked what she was saying.