23
May
Esquire Theme by Matthew Buchanan
Social icons by Tim van Damme
23
May
“Flapper “
The notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoke cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.”
“The New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date— to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother’s generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny”
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Norma Jean (Marilyn Monroe) :: 16 years old on an outing to Catalina
On this date (May 23, 1934) outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were gunned down in a police ambush near Sailes, Louisiana. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
22
May
“Doesn’t make a difference if you’re right or wrong.”
“You just have to make a decision.”
Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire practicing the ‘Shorty George’ routine from You Were Never Lovelier on top of the studio roof, 1942
21
May
Taxi! (1932)
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20
May
In love with this movie
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Gladys Cooper in colour and black and white
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