Auntie Mame (1958) Costume Design By Orry-Kelly

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But the hands that built the tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the brain that had conceived it. One man's hymns of praise became other men's curses.

METROPOLIS (1927) | DIR. FRITZ LANG

After 101 years – and a $20 find at a yard sale – Clara Bow’s lost film premieres

The Pill Pounder, one of the key titles in the CV of the iconic flapper, has enjoyed a belated revival at the San Francisco Silent film festival

Film-maker Gary Huggins inadvertently snapped up a slice of lost silent film history at an auction in a car park in Omaha, Nebraska, that was selling old stock from a distribution company called Modern Sound Pictures. Hoping to bid on a copy of the 1926 comedy Eve’s Leaves that he had spotted on top of a pile, Huggins was informed that he could only buy the whole pallet of movies, not individual cans. The upside? The lot was his for only $20. 

Huggins soon discovered that his new pile of reels included 1923’s The Pill Pounder, a silent comedy that had been thought to be lost for decades. It is a short, two-reel film, shot on Long Island, New York, and directed by Gregory La Cava, best known for later classics such as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).

Wenda Parkinson is modeling a suit by British designer Hardy Amies for British Vogue, 1951. Photo by Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) - Hyde Park Corner

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BETTE DAVIS as Julie Marsden in JEZEBEL — dir. William Wyler (1938)

“Everyone has a right to privacy. It is both undignified and irrelevant to discuss one’s emotions and attitudes in public - unless they have some bearing on one’s work.” – Vivien Leigh

I've been just a big sentimental fool. It's a tendency I have. Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Harold Lloyd in The Flirt (1917)

The fact I’ll never be able to read all the books I want to read is crushing me