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Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge (1940)

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Monty Fresco. Boy Brings Home Christmas Tree, Spitalfields Market, London, 1946

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In a Lonely Place (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray

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Dear Milena,

I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.

― Franz Kafka

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High school, Tennessee, Edward Clark, 1947. 

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Soldier kissing his girlfriend.

Maryland. 1934 May 31. Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress

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Izis: Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 1950

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Kiss from a Lamb. By Reg Speller (1939)

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Animal tea party, 1903-1910 (since there is a teddy bear present, a hot fad that debuted in 1903, it couldn’t have been earlier) (via)

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Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931) dir. George Fitzmaurice

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Mata Hari, 1931

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Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931).

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“The Virgo astrological profile is a virtual blueprint of Greta Garbo’s personality: reserved, modest, practical, discriminating, devoted, loyal, highstrung. According to those who study the stars, outwardly the quintessential Virgo woman may appear serene and remote—but she keeps her passions under tight rein while dark emotions surge underneath. Emotions represent the unpredictable, the unknown. To observe that before she enters into a long-term relationship, such a woman is careful to take note of “where the exit doors are” would be an uncanny characterization of the private Greta Garbo. She knew where all the emergency exits were—and had invented a few of her own.”

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Greta Garbo and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in A Woman Of Affairs (1928)

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Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931)