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Classic cinema, music and television — from Hollywood and beyond — with some flashes forward in between. Posts by David (@dav1drush.bsky.social). Twitter/X: @TheOldHollywood Instagram/TikTok/YT: @ToOldHollywoodandBeyond
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"I'll waltz you around under the moon." Ben Quick (Paul Newman) attempts to woo Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward) in The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

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"I'll waltz you around under the moon." Ben Quick (Paul Newman) attempts to woo Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward) in The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

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Donald O'Connor jumping on the roof of his hotel in London, 1955

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Katharine Hepburn at the Shubert Theatre during the original Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, 1939

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"Blanche, you're not gonna sell this house." Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) gives her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) a sinister warning in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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Donna Reed photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1944

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"Well, I can't make love to a bush!" Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) and her director experience creative differences in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

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Donna Summer playing chess at her home in Munich, 1969

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"It was stupid, but it was wonderful." Incognito film director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) meets a young actress (Veronica Lake) who loves the comedies he has come to resent in Sullivan's Travels (1941)

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Lucille Ball in a publicity still for Roman Scandals (1933)

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James Dean, Lois Smith, Harold Gordon, Julie Harris and Richard Davalos during a break from filming East of Eden (1955)

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Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy and Dana Andrews during a break from filming The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Anthony Quinn between takes on the set of Ulysses (1954)

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Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood in a publicity still for The Great Race (1965)

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"Why don't you?" Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson) tries to talk the second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) onto the ledge in Rebecca (1940)

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Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

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Irene Dunne during a break from filming Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

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"I can remember when that alarm clock used to ring." Carol (Joan Blondell), Polly (Ruby Keeler) and Trixie (Aline MacMahon) reluctantly prepare for a new day in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

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Nat King Cole photographed upon arrival at Idlewild Airport in New York City, 1959

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Marlene Dietrich in London during a trip to entertain troops, 1944

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"As if he knows what I look like without my shimmy!" Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) gets the lowdown on Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

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Pola Negri photographed at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, 1931

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Audrey Hepburn during a break from filming Sabrina (1954)

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Sessue Hayakawa photographed by Alvert Witzel, c.1918

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Lana Turner in a publicity still for Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

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"I was great up to now." Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) says it with scalding hot coffee in Baby Face (1933)

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Carole Lombard photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull on the set of The Gay Bride (1934)

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Paul Robeson on the set of The Emperor Jones (1933)

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"Raspberries!" Muzzy Van Hossmere (Carol Channing) swoops by in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

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Errol Flynn in the barber's chair during production of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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"Done her in?" Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) questions the fate of her unfortunate aunt — and her straw hat — in Pygmalion (1938) Full clip on YouTube: youtu.be/rpaPDnE7T8s

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Greta Garbo in a publicity still for Wild Orchids (1929)

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Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Holden, Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson and H.B. Warner on the set of Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Dorothy Dandridge during a break from filming The Decks Ran Red (1958)

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"Because I just went gay all of a sudden!" David Huxley (Cary Grant) defends his new temporary attire in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

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Barbra Streisand and director Gene Kelly between takes on the set of Hello, Dolly! (1969)

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Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot in a publicity still for King Kong (1933)

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Mae West as Catherine the Great in the original Broadway production of her play Catherine Was Great, 1944

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Robert Redford in a promotional still for the television series The Twilight Zone, 1962

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