Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott in a promo for Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945). I love Joan’s mouth in the 1940s; it hadn’t hardened yet.
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Margaret Bourke-White, Diversion Tunnels, Fort Peck Dam, 1936
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Until we can see, we cannot think.”
- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1966)
Anthony Perkins in a bow tie! 1950s.
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Sailor boy in a photo booth.
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Myrna Loy, 1940s. Elegant. (via pickurselfup)
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Marlene Dietrich, 1960s
Dorothy Lamour and John Howard in Disputed Passage (Frank Borzage, 1939)
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Gene Tierney in a publicity portrait for Belle Starr, 1941.
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“Going On All The Time”
The Princess Theatre, Detroit 1909
Henry Fonda with Doris Bowdon, The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1939)
A gay man of a certain age and a certain sensibility. 