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"We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians."

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Richard, Count of Poitou turns his back on his father and pays homage to Philip II, King of the Franks (AD 1188)

(Lily-less version here, and also WIPs and other posting on Patreon)

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the valley of the bees (1968)

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me everyday:

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Dickie & Joanie in Dames (1934) 🥺

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THINKING ABOUT THIS AGAIN

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the way it just immediately Goes There….

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Go, Ondřej! Take my cloak. Go back, Ondřej. You’ll be forgiven. Pray. Pray for both of us.  - Údolí včel, dir. František Vláčil

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Miriam Hopkins & Ray Milland in Wise Girl (1937)

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Marion Davies in April Folly (1920)

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22-year-old Ray Milland in The Flying Scotsman (1929)

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Marcello Mastroianni & Timothy Dalton in Giuochi Particolari (1970)

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Ray Milland eating

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The Elephant Man (1980)

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Joan Blondell in Center Door Fancy on her relationship with Dick Powell while she was married to her first husband, George Barnes. In the novel, Nora Marten is Joan, Jim Wilson is Dick Powell, and David Nolan is George Barnes.

I'm interested in who May Gould might be! Clues: she doesn't drink and Joan Blondell seems none too fond of her. Ginger Rogers famously didn't drink, but I can't find any evidence or rumour of a romance between her and Dick Powell.

Months have past and Joan/Nora is pregnant...

(In the novel, the Kern brothers are the Warner Brothers)

Here the Archive.org copy I'm using was blurry, so I switched to a different edition of Center Door Fancy. The text was not changed between editions.

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Excerpt from Joan Blondell's fictionalised autobiography Center Door Fancy. Jim is Dick Powell, Joan's second husband and star in and of himself. I think Teresa Hernandez must be Marion Davies and He Who Must Not be Named, "the world-famous publisher," is William Randolf Hearst. Joan's thoughts in this part of the book occur just after she is divorced from her first husband and before she is married to Dick Powell, so the year must be 1936. Dick Powell and Marion Davies made 'Page Miss Glory' together in 1935 and 'Hearts Divided' in 1936. Coincidence?

I think it's interesting to see the power dynamics at play with obviously Hearst at the top--Joan capitalizes his pronounced like a revered god and doesn't even dare/bother to provide a pseudonym for him--but also how Marion Davies benefited in her personal life (or not) by either overtly evoking Hearst's name/power or just because everyone knew he would support her. I've read elsewhere that Marion Davies had many affairs during her relationship with Hearst and that he didn't actually mind very much as long as it wasn't public knowledge. Also, I can't find anything about Dick Powell and Marion Davies having an off-screen romance anywhere, so a nice 90-year old piece of hot goss for me from Ms Blondell <3