Sophia D’Aurelio Adair

Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.

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Historical hearsay dictates that Jean Harlow was meant to be the original Maisie, a role that fell to Ann Sothern's feet in 1939. I wrote about why it's not that cut and dried on Vitaphone Zone. Link below:

[T. Talin d'Eyzac @Ttalindeyzac]

‘Poolside’,
Gene Tierney, 1946

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If it was actually maintainable for me I’d probably still do this. Idgaf

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Grace Bradley, yet another all-timer in getting me to pluck my eyebrows off when I was 20

[Trapped by Television @LouLumenick]

1934. Based on "The Baby In The Ice-Fox,'' a short story by James M. Caine.

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

the coolest graduation photo ever taken: clarice lispector.

[EdwardMO 🌻 @EdwardHMO]

Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the folk rock group The Mamas & The Papas...

Michelle Phillips #botd

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Great passage on William A. Wellman disagreeing with Walter Wanger over the star quality of Rosalind Russell #BOTD during the production of The President Vanishes (1934):

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@pelicinema Yeah this is certainly something to read with PMS

[ana @pelicinema]

needed to leave my desk to go sob in the bathroom

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Oh there’s no way I’m bring up this up without sharing this again. I laughed for days

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James Hong talking about Lauren Bacall getting William Wellman to calm down after getting hit by a spitball during Blood Alley (1955)

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Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Stephen Bogart on location in San Francisco’s East Bay during the production of Blood Alley, 1955)

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Beautiful film

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Blood Alley (1955) dir. William A. Wellman

[dr. olympia kiriakou @thescrewballgrl]

There are still some tickets available for the TO BE OR NOT TO BE screening that I’ll be introducing next week! If you live in London and want to see one of the best film comedies ever made, please join us!

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Jean Harlow with director Sam Wood, bandleader Abe Lyman, beau Hal Rosson, costume designer Irene, and Johnny Weissmuller at the Cocoanut Grove 93 years ago today (June 3, 1933) for the opening of Lyman’s Ambassador orchestra engagement:

[Nαтe Blαncнeтт @NateBlanchett]

If Steyer places worse than second tonight, I am moving to Canada. I do not want to live in a country where a white male billionaire (with hair no less) cannot buy an election against candidates as mid as his opponents are in the California governor primary.

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Now thinking about Courtney Love as Jean Harlow by Aucoin at 10:21 PM on a Tuesday

[Molly @_uncoolniece]

MISS HIM SO MUCH; here’s Martha Stewart, Calista Flockhart, Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder

[Molly @_uncoolniece]

MISS HIM SO MUCH; here’s Martha Stewart, Calista Flockhart, Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder

[paige ☻ @hellynaswife]

really sick of filmmakers and creatives that will never have to feel the ramifications of AI taking their jobs tell us we need to be open to it! like thats so easy for YOU to say

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I love how they slapped their own brand on the tweet when they don’t even have Twitter. Instagram is for the stupidest plagiarists among us lol

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Crazy how this post was already stolen and modified for reels slop inside of 13 hours

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Beautiful gag in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) where Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall are fantasizing about marrying a wealthy man and then it cuts to Betty Grable who is just dreaming about a delicious sandwich