TheQueenOfOldHollywood

VERTIGO (1958);

Olivia de Havilland as Rachel Ashley MY COUSIN RACHEL 1952 | dir. Henry Koster

with clara bow with joan crawford with rosalind russell on set of craig’s wife with her long-term partner, choreographer marion morgan

But a woman, unhappily, is not religion. She’s a human being with human thoughts, and she shouldn’t be judged by the same rules. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND as Rachel Ashley in MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952)

22-years-old Buster Keaton, in  𝐓 𝐇 𝐄   𝐂 𝐎 𝐎 𝐊  (sep.1918)

JOAN CRAWFORD watching Sadie McKee (1934) in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) dir. Robert Aldrich

Wuthering Heights (1939) dir. William Wyler

murder on the orient express (1974) dir. sidney lumet — requested by anonymous

The three women photographed separately, the year prior to the short’s release, 1932.

the sewing circle was a private group of gay and bisexual women and men in hollywood. the group existed during the so-called “golden age of hollywood ” in the 1920s to 1950s. the circle included film idols such as greta garbo, marlene eietrich, joan crawford, and barbara stanwyck, as well as the poet and screenwriter mercedes de acosta. the circle kept its existence a secret, as the hollywood code of conduct as it did not allow homosexuality to appear in the cinema at the time, nor did it allow people whose homosexuality was publicly known to work in the industry. especially in the case of the big stars, this was prohibited with the corresponding contractual clauses.

Design For Living directed by Ernst Lubitsch

You mean they’ll like me just because I’m dying? NOTHING SACRED (1937) — dir. William A. Wellman

girls in old movies + wearing the guy’s pajamas ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) PRINCESS O’ROURKE (1943) THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938) IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) THE TALK OF THE TOWN (1942)

MARILYN MONROE as ROSE in NIAGARA (1953), dir. Henry Hathaway. Costume design by Dorothy Jeakins.

THE RED SHOES (1948) — dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Joan Bennett In "The Reckless Moment" (1949)