I'll Have an Old Fashioned

[Text ID: “There is a knock at the door. How disappointing… It is the New Year and not you.”]

carole lombard, date unknown 🎞

Holiday (1938) dir. George Cukor

→ SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

Happy Birthday Irene Dunne! Born Irene Marie Dunn, December 20th, 1898

Judy Holliday’s bio in the playbill for Bells are Ringing

Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea in The More the Merrier (1943) dir. George Stevens

The career of African American artist Augusta Savage (February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was fostered by the climate of the Harlem Renaissance. During the 1930s, she was well known in Harlem as a sculptor, art teacher, and community art program director. Her work is now in the permanent collections of major museums across the world.

Vaslav Nijinsky in different ballets ~ illustrations by George Barbier (1910-1912)

Portrait of Ingrid Bergman by David Seymour, 1952

“I didn’t look like a storybook princess. I wasn’t a lace paper valentine, I was the comic variety.” - Myrna Loy

Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Letter written to his sister Ludmila, 1905