A Tale Well-Calculated

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

Agnes arriving in Italy in 1958  [X]

Lillian Gish 1927 - Photographer Ruth Harriet Louise – MGM. This was a gift from Gish to one of her fellow cast members in the 1932 stage production of Camille at the Central City Opera.

agnes moorehead, 1936 🎞

The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted throughout all the years that saw their midland town spread and darken into a city. In that town, in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet, and everybody knew everybody else’s family horse and carriage. The only public conveyance was the streetcar. A lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window, and the car would halt at once and wait for her, while she shut the window, put on her hat and coat, went downstairs, found an umbrella, told the girl what to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. Too slow for us nowadays, because the faster we’re carried, the less time we have to spare. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) dir. Orson Welles

Mary Astor

The sound my stupid cat makes when I move him from his favourite spot (on top of my jackets)

“I remember years ago sitting in a vaudeville theater with Alice when there was a monkey act on.  Alice sat on the edge of her chair.  I asked why.  She replied: ‘Who knows?  I may have to play one of those critters some day.’“  –Agnes Moorehead

Ruth Chatterton, c. 1930s

Who said where has the time gone? I watched it go and was grateful it had gone so well.

Do you remember?

Today’s birthday girl.  Happy birthday darling!

aline macmahon in gold diggers of 1933 (1933) directed by mervyn leroy

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