old to semi-old celebrities you would travel back in time to have lots of sex with.

xp or is it Lauren Harries?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning had the greatest hair.

https://youtu.be/Fxum3q_tAPE

Amanda Blake

Best bit is at 15:50

Silent film actor Bert Van Tuyle

https://media.fstatic.com/-mMhy8d3BhR4aHONietuo1FcjA0=/full-fit-in/290x478/media/artists/avatar/2015/10/bert-van-tuyle_a409430.jpg

Silent/early sound film actor Rockliffe Fellowes

https://i1.wp.com/moviessilently.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/regeneration-1915-image-45-e1453572588296.jpg?resize=650%2C497

Barbara Stanwyck, OMG.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/77/1b/81771b36acbb0f7591d5ea7beda7dc07.jpg

damn

quote by herman mankiewicz that i read years ago and always stayed with me for some reason:

Barbara Stanwyck is my favorite. My God, I could just sit and dream of being married to her, having a little cottage out in the hills, vines around the door. I'd come home from the office tired and weary, and I'd be met by Barbara, walking through the door holding an apple pie she had cooked herself. And wearing no drawers.

― fit and working again, Tuesday, December 24, 2013 2:36 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've just spent 15 minutes seeking a single Victorian-era portrait that stirred me. It really was a dismal time.

Yep, Stanwyck and Lombard.

and Cleo De Mérode.

Pretty set on flappers; Louise Brooks = major catnip

Only just watched Double Indemnity for the first time and Barbara Stanwyck is obviously stunning in it but that could be a different person in the shot above, apart from the nose. She has the best nose ever

Well, she's in her mid-30s in Double Indemnity, I reckon the above photo is probably up to 15 years earlier.

something pleasantly contemporary about her. v fly in baby face; v ripped in lady of burlesque

and she either dyed her hair or wore a wig in DL

(xp) Exactly that I thought, looks like it could have been taken yesterday.

Stanwyck is all-time. Unlike Mankiewicz, I cannot imagine the part with the apple pie. But the rest, yes. I checked out some Cleo De Mérode photos and they all seem so shyly demure as to verge on lifeless.

she has a bridget fonda vibe in the above pic, maybe?

(xpost) The eyes. The eyes.

gross thread

Acquiring the socially appropriate attitude to sex and sexuality is a difficult thing to get precisely right. teach us, O Left.

Cleo De Mérode photos and they all seem so shyly demure as to verge on lifeless.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, April 24, 2020 10:51 PM

These are amazing photos!

I stand corrected.

Love this one of L Sprague De Camp
https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1218217726p8/3305.jpg

I intend to use my time machine to kill baby Hitler, not have sex with Barbara Stanwyck.

Many faces of Lee Yi Min
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=1906

Barb was around when hitler was around you can do both I think

And killing Hitler may score you big points with Barb.

Just watched the Bunuel film in that thread, and I suppose I'd leave my wife for Lucia Bosé too.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmIyM2I5OTktMWFmZS00NmViLWI1NDAtYTViYzYyOTMyYTVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzk4OTI2MjM@._V1_.jpg

unnngghh so hott 🙀

https://i.ibb.co/BysP9D2/9109141-old-pencil.jpg

she has a bridget fonda vibe in the above pic, maybe?

I was going to say Jennifer Jason Leigh

esby is your wife a curvy colombian woman

Every time I watch Black Narcissus, it's obvious this is Kathleen Byron.

Yes. In the Small Back Room as well.

Joan Greenwood. That voice!

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good god! i never get randy for old celebrities but toshiro mifune? words fail me

Yeah

toshiro mifune giggle and blush club

Just saw Thief Of Bagdad (1940), I really like John Justin's face (but his moustache is one of the amusingly jarring things in the film), didn't think I'd ever seen him before but he was in some Ken Russell films in smaller roles.

I thought there must be some fanfiction about him and Sabu, but to my surprise there are 49 pieces on ArchiveOfOurOwn and from skimming the tags and synopses most of them seem to be about Conrad Veidt and the princess, in sympathy with him! I guess some people found his desperation and passion charming?

Vincent Price aged 19 in 1930 pic.twitter.com/UZBhbpf5EO

— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) December 15, 2020

caroline blackwood jeez

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvF92XYWgAEcWRo.jpg

George O'Brien, best remembered for Sunrise (1927).

Young Vincent Price mostly reminds me of Patrick Marber.

I see Tom Hardy.

Agreed

All the talk of The Silent Partner on the obituary thread has me thinking about Celine Lomez, also in Réjeanne Padovani.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/celine1.jpg
https://phildellio.tripod.com/celine2.jpg

Not strictly speaking relevant to this thread, but my main memory of Réjeanne Padovani (the film) was that it had the ugliest costumes in any film ever (mid-70's Quebec politicians in garish polyester suits), utterly authentic to the time and place though.

I would play on TV in the mid/late-70s (CFTO, I think), and I'd watch it just so I could see Celine Lomez. None of it made the least bit of sense to me (not that my knowledge of Quebec politics is any greater today than it was at 16). I only realized years later--it screened once at Lightbox--that it was one of Denys Arcand's first films.