the stars are ageless

Lead me, save me from my solitude.

“Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him.”

Vivien Leigh, 1939

Joan Crawford signing autographs in London, 1932

Norma Shearer at a party, 1939

“She was serious about improving herself as an actress. She played the role with fierce determination, holding back nothing. As the bitchy shop-girl in The Women, she knew perfectly well that she would be surrounded by formidable competition from the rest of the all female cast, many of whom were playing funnier and certainly more sympathetic parts. Yet she made no appeals for audience sympathy: she was not one of those actresses who have to keep popping out from behind their characters, signaling, ‘Look- it’s sweet, lovable me, first pretending to be a tramp’.” -George Cukor

Joan Crawford gets a German makeover in Dancing Lady, 1933.

“The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.”

I’m all sorts, Shadow. The screen is the altar. I’m the one they sacrifice to.

Hmm, today’s my day.

Carole Lombard

Barbara Stanwyck playing herself in Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Eleanor Parker and husband Bert Friedlob return to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Early 1950s.

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder

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