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Sophia Loren in 1963 by Burt Glinn

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Pierre-Auguste Cot, Springtime, 1873

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Now, Biff, do you think I'm the kind of a girl who just goes around kissing boys?

RITA HAYWORTH as VIRGINIA BRUSH in THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE (1941) dir. Raoul Walsh

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I'm the greatest star of them all.

SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

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watching Seven Samurai

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Red Skelton teaches Pete the pup, the famous bull terrier from Our Gang, how to dunk his donut at tea time. Pete retired in 1936, at 16 years old, after appearing in more screen comedies than any other actor, animal or human.

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Angela Lansbury, the original Broadway production of Mame. New York, 1966.

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Lana Turner as Peggy Evans in SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS — 1943, dir. Wesley Ruggles

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African-American vaudeville star Aida Overton Walker (1880-1914) being extraordinarily adorable.

Photo by Apeda Studio, N.Y.

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James Earl Jones, 1961. Photographs by Carl van Vechten

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Do you have any old movies that you would actually want to see a modern remake of or that you think would make for a good or interesting modern remake/telling? Any elaboration is welcome

yes! I think How to Marry a Millionaire is ripe for a modern redo. It’s got a great concept (three women rent a luxe Manhattan apartment they can’t afford with the goal of marrying QUICK and RICH) that’s built to give its leading ladies iconic balance, a rich history that would be fun for modern stars to play with (who’s the new Lauren Bacall? Who fills Marilyn’s shoes? What modern star can take over Betty Grable’s very important role of constantly dreaming about sandwiches?), and it’s just bad enough in its original form that nobody is going to be mad at rewrites or negatively comparing the two. I’ve been dying for them to redo it for years and I will take suggestions on who the three leading ladies could be.

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It's been discovered that Dora Richter, the first woman to undergo gender reassignment surgery at Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, fled Nazi Germany to her home in Bohemia and lived happily as a woman to the age of 74.

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First learned about her doing my history of drag spam. Her fate was unknown after she fled Nazi Germany. I'm so happy she got a good ending!

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Ella Fitzgerald photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 19, 1940.

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Jean Harlow

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1928 Actress June Collyer in a fabulous evening gown. This illustrates the transition to longer dresses which will be fully "in" by 1930. Here we have a long, transparent skirt over a knee-length under dress.

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Caption says this is Jackie the lion having lunch at Paramount with Buster Crabbe. The two were working in H. Bruce Humberstone’s KING OF THE JUNGLE (1933) at the time.