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Writer, researcher. Jean Harlow and other dead actresses, silent/pre-Code film history, Old Hollywood portraiture, vintage fashion, etc., etc. @harlowheaven

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Sophia D’Aurelio
16 days
Thought my last piece was long and laborious, but I guess I held my own beer and surpassed it. The trials and tribulations of silent actress Justine Valse, who found herself next to Pola Negri at the center of a blackmail scandal, are up on my Substack:
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Sixteen years without Paul Newman, must post these 1965 Milton Greene portraits to remember him by
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My favorite ever picture.
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What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?
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Laughed out loud at this IMDB trivia listing for City Lights.
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is everyone obsessed with technicolor all of a sudden because every film today is shot like shit or
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𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮.
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technicolor films
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going back to 1931 anyone want anything
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just got back from 1932 anyone want anything
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Various late 40s cover stars of the French erotic glamour magazine “Paris-Hollywood”:
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Love this 1933 newsreel demonstrating some of the radical new women’s pants. “To be smart, the crease in your trousers must be as permanent as the wave in your hair…”
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Ann Sheridan in color, photographed by George Hurrell in 1942.
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Happy birthday to my favorite living legend—Mamie Van Doren! Celebrating with some of my favorite photos of her, taken by Russ Meyer circa 1957:
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Dorothy Mackaill in a publicity portrait for MIGHTY LAK’ A ROSE (1923, lost). Remarkably modern for a century ago.
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@computer_gay FIFTY FIVE and still acting this stupid!
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happy birthday, bette davis, a master of cinematic freakouts
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Happy 95th birthday to The Wild Party, a film very close to my heart
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it’s the anniversary of this important historic picture of jean christening the first beer truck to leave the brewery after prohibition
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Peggy Cummins makes up in a publicity photo for Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
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Dolores Moran by Scotty Welbourne, circa 1943.
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i’m still grappling with the fact that the 1920s were a hundred fucking years ago
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Peggy Cummins in a publicity portrait for The Love Lottery (1954)
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Hedy Lamarr in a full-length fashion shot for Life Magazine, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1938.
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I love when this still from The Wild Party (1929) gets passed around with this false caption, as if any of the film’s girls knew this little.
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A sex education course in 1929
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Sylvia Sidney in Malibu, 1934
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Mamie Van Doren in a stunning publicity photo for High School Confidential (1958)
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Wearing late 20s to a 1920 film
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More summer outfit inspiration, brought to you by Angela Lansbury in 1945.
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Marie Wilson by George Hurrell, 1939
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Does anyone need anything from 1925
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precode also known as the “blondes in bathtubs” era of film
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Doris Dawson by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1928
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Dancer Helen Tamaris photographed by Man Ray, circa 1925
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Just found my new favorite Clara Bow photo in the Bell family albums at UNLV. This is literally just titled “Clara Bow in the Mojave desert with a cigarette and a gun”. Incredibly personal vibes to me here
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1930s retouching be like
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We are judging Elon Musk.
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Carole Lombard photographed by Don English, 1931
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Bette Davis and Joan Blondell for Warner Brothers, 1937.
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Dolores Costello by Preston Duncan, 1924
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Martha Vickers in a Renié gown, photographed by Scotty Welbourne for THE FALCON IN MEXICO (1944).
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Thinking of this one on her day. Some favorite photos of Marilyn from 1949.
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Love this pic of Veronica Lake for 1. the outfit 2. being published on my birthday
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3 years
Just finished watching. Blown away. I have not been moved this much by a film in a long time. Less a horror film than a necessary and exquisite commentary, and visual representation of, trauma and mental illness—and how it separates you from reality and others.
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Veronica Lake photographed by Bob Landry for LIFE, 1941
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You’ll have to pry Facebook groups out of my cold dead hands
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Thinking of my best girl, Jean Harlow, every March 3rd always. Quite a feat to leave behind such a dazzling body of work at only 26—despite her much-deserved place amongst the celluloid goddesses, she really had so much left to give. 📸: Photographed by Ted Allan for SUZY, 1936
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Sophia D’Aurelio
4 years
my grandma is in the hospital with covid and it’s really not looking good. thought i’d share a few of my favorite pictures of this special woman in her salad days. she’s one of my best friends. this is so hard to go through i’m having a hard time even emotionally processing it.
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@InvincibleSugar Why would you pay to make me look at this
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Dusty Anderson in a Ned Scott publicity portrait for Tonight and Every Night (1945)
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Finally finished the Sisyphean task of compiling my longest (and my favorite) piece to date, a labor of love that details the tumultuous life and career of silent actress Jean Lorraine—well, the first of three. It’s a lot.
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Happy Valentine’s from Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, 1930 (in publicity for Paramount on Parade).
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Tallulah Bankhead by Herbert Mitchell, 1932
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Jazz Age icon Louise Brooks passed away 39 years ago today, which means there’s as good an opportunity as any to share one of the best publicity photos ever taken, of Brooks for BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928).
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4 years
just found this old screenshot and i think i need to share it again
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2 years
I am well aware Bette Davis did not mince words, but this passage in a ‘65 interview with her and ODH had me clutching my chest like I was dying of a heart attack
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Another from the other day 💃
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february is a decent month
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rita hayworth in hair bows is something deeply personal to me
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Perfect day to share this photo of Bill Wellman shoving Carole Lombard on the set of Nothing Sacred (1937) from my collection
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As someone who for years asked “when will I get to see the Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi footage?”, this was a prayer answered. Thank you (and it’s so great to hear Harlow start to answer a question from one of her closest friends, Ruth Hamp).
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New on our YouTube channel! “The Voice of Hollywood” (1931) This preserved short features rare footage of Jean Harlow, Bela Lugosi discussing “Dracula,” and Walter Huston performing a musical number. It survives as a fragment:
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For Screwball September I’d like to recognize one of my favorite subtleties in BOMBSHELL (1933) that always cracks me up—the way Jean Harlow pawns her “baked potato” off on Una Merkel, only for it to circle around the entourage in hot-potato fashion
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Dolores Costello by Hartsook Studio for The Little Irish Girl (1926).
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Constance Bennett photographed in 1931—love this dress.
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Simone Simon by George Hurrell, 1936.
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LARPing a spring day in 1930
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Call Her Savage and Wings on TCM tonight. This letter from Gilbert Roland to Clara Bow in their old age lives in the back of my mind
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Mamie Van Doren photographed by Earl Leaf at home on July 10, 1956
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Ava Gardner by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1942
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@ladievengeance @joonyorde rumor is he was an asshole tho everyone said he threw rocks at cows.......
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Anna Sten lights a cigarette for a construction worker at Boulder Dam, 1934.
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Don’t necessarily need to remind everyone of my soft spot for Fredric March (and his mustache) in The Wild Party on his birthday, so will take the holiday to share this Otto Dyar publicity photo of him with camera, Alice Adair, Adrienne Doré, and Jean Lorraine on the set.
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Jean Harlow obtains a secret divorce from cinematographer Hal Rosson in 1935. It was so secret that she obtained the divorce after a ten minute testimony on how he kept her up by reading in bed with the light on
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Joining Olympia with sharing some more divorce court chic and the impossibility of having a “secret divorce” in Old Hollywood. Ann Harding obtaining her divorce from Harry Bannister in 1932
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Frances Farmer by William Walling, 1935
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Wishing a happy birthday to Irene Dunne, a favorite of mine and a truly talented comedienne. Always loved this candid of Irene playing solitaire, photographed by Roman Freulich in 1942.
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Lilian Harvey by Ray Jones, 1933
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🧛‍♀️
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Remembering the fabulous Adrienne Doré, born 115 years ago today (May 22, 1907) in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Can’t express enough how much this woman, however obscure, has changed my life. What better way to celebrate than with one of her Fryer glamour shots from my collection, 1932:
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Paulette Goddard by Max Munn Autrey, 1936
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Spencer Tracy takes a picture of Madge Evans on the set of THE SHOW-OFF in February 1934.
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Mary Philbin by Otto Schellenberg for the Universal film FIFTH AVENUE MODELS (1925).
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Rewatched THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI the other night and reminded of how perfect this exchange is. Harlow’s shocked, courteous smile is perfectly timed—the way it gives way to revenge only to appear again, satisfied, is further proof of her effortless comedic charm.
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well. she’s gone. almost two whole weeks of what was probably just straight up agony for her. i probably won’t be on here for a bit. wasn’t really anyway lately but more so now.
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my grandma is in the hospital with covid and it’s really not looking good. thought i’d share a few of my favorite pictures of this special woman in her salad days. she’s one of my best friends. this is so hard to go through i’m having a hard time even emotionally processing it.
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Pier Angeli with kitty, circa 1951.
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any slight or attack on the beauty of orson welles, whether perceived or intentional, is reason enough to post beautiful orson welles thank you
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sorry for the lack of content i was doing this
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My kitty of 15 years passed the other day. The loss is uniquely painful. Please your cats for me. There is never enough time.
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@Lisa35057118 @RivCoScanner @ParapsychoIogy @HeyRiverside ok lisa 8 digit account number that joined today
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this reminds me of how criminally few people realize how garish 20s and 30s patterns were. i never want to see a black beaded dress in a reenactment again
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I sometimes wonder if designers know that just because old photos and paintings yellowed, that doesn't mean the world was dull and sepia tone in ye olden days. Check out these smoking suits from the 1870s and 1880s respectively.
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Ann Sheridan reads an issue of Variety while her hair dries. Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt on the WB lot, 1938.
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In love with this 1933 study of RED HEADED WOMAN author Katharine Brush by Leon Gordon; and this photo of Brush standing beside it in her Manhattan apartment, 1940.
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bro..... LMFAO
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1953 Lauren Bacall w/ Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of How To Marry A Millionaire
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My cat looks exactly like this so I relate heavily to this Dishonored (1931) still
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Cause I got spurs that jingle jangle et ceteraaaaaa
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literally who is that on the left
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Remembering my fellow Cancerian, the ultra-talented James Cagney, on his birthday. In love with this photo of him and Joan Blondell on the set of Penny Arcade, the Broadway production that became SINNERS’ HOLIDAY (1930) and helped set both of their film careers in motion.
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Dolores Costello by John Ellis, 1924
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just obsessed with this swedish (?) poster for red headed woman
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Time to make my favorite seasonal joke: Jean Harlow and her Oscar.
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Jeanne Crain by Peter Stackpole for LIFE, May 1948.
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a pointless thread: nearly 35 years straight of studio new year’s shots
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