Shoutout to @fat-fem-and-asian for getting this list together, and to @scealaiscoite for providing most of these awesome prompts.
Sammy Davis Jr. mirror selfies in the mid-1950s 📷.
(Featuring Jerry Lewis in the last two photos.)
In the early 1930s, scholarly studies were done on the impact of screen stars on teenagers, because of fears that the movies were sexualizing them. These studies found that teenage girls learned sex techniques through watching Garbo’s sex scenes, especially those in Flesh and the Devil; they then practiced her techniques at home with their girlfriends. Raymond Daum described Garbo’s many young female fans as having “schoolgirl crushes on her” that “defined a national idolatry.” And knowledge of Garbo’s non-heteronormative sexuality was spread through lesbian networks “from coast to coast.” Moreover, the 1920s was an era of commercial expansion in which the ranks of saleswomen and typists, careers dominated by young women, increased. These women made enough money to see a movie more than once. They identified with female stars and liked to see them in powerful roles.
Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (1926)
He was shook
cat: what in the fucking chocolate guy shit was that
Mom’s favorite child. Photo from my collection - no info or writing, ca. 1950s.
Gilmore Girls
1.11 | “Paris is Burning”
how to tire a corgi out (volume warning)
Dad’s favorite child. Photo from my collection, no writing or documented info.
TOWONGFOO,THANKSFOREVERYTHING!JULIENEWMAR (1995) dir. Beeban Kidron
undr:
Philip Jones Griffiths. A young couple seek a tender moment in a doorway, London. 1960s
do you think m night shyamalan sleeps fine knowing he’ll never recreate the magic of the sixth sense?