The WORK WIVES are not getting out.

romangerri + physical closeness (almost touching but not really)

— OLIVIA (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry

I’m taking her outta here, away from you!

Jean Arthur & Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair (1948) dir. Billy Wilder

Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

Ruth Wilson by Rankin for InStyle UK, March 2016

MARILYN MONROE in colour - at a press conference, June 1956

Mary Malone + her very heterosexual collection of shirts

I started testing objects to see if the particles would respond differently. I saw more activity when the items were man-made - a chess piece, my I Ching box in particular. Finally, in a moment of madness, I attached myself. But it was only afterwards, when I was lost in thought, that it happened. The set of particles made contact. They seemed to be… conscious.

Grace Kelly rehearsing a fencing scene on the set of The Swan, 1956

I remembered once reading in a book that long ago they used to put insane people into pits full of snakes. I think they figured that something which might drive a normal person insane, might shock an insane person back into sanity. Did you ever hear of that? Olivia de Havilland as Virginia Stuart Cunningham in The Snake Pit (1948) dir. Anatole Litvak

Marie Antoinette (2006), dir. Sofia Coppola

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir

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