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“I beg your pardon?!”

The Romans - season 02 - 1965

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Doctor who in 28mm

Barbara Wright.

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They’re lost

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DOCTOR WHO — Thin Ice (S10E03) directed by Bill Anderson | written by Sarah Dollard ››› Peter Capaldi as The Doctor ››› Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts

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“Private justice, eh?”

The Enemy of the World - season 05 - 1968

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Funniest part of the five doctors actually is that there is a paved road in the death zone leading directly to rassilon’s tomb like a tourist trap

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it’s because you’re always on that damn internet archive

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Doctor Who Reoccurring Characters - The Master (Eric Roberts)

“I always dress for the occasion.”

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A photo from The Magician of Sunset Boulevard: The improbable life of Paul Kohner, Hollywood agent. Taken in 1927, Conny’s seated/kneeling just behind Mary Philbin, looking off to the side instead of towards the camera. That’s Paul Kohner in the wide-striped tie, front and center.

Mauritz Stiller, Mária Corda, Paul Leni, Emil Jannings… 

I don’t know about you, but Conny being such good friends with Emil Jannings will never make much sense to me. Nearly everything I ever read about Jannings, he just comes across as an obnoxious oaf. But maybe that’s what he liked about him? Jannings was a boisterous character, for sure, but also could easily get childish and petulant. According to an Australia Woman’s Weekly article, Conny said, “you could not know Jannings without loving him.” From what little I know, I just find him so overbearing. And then, we definitely cannot overlook the fact that Jannings later became a Nazi.

John Loder’s autobiography only talks about Jannings for maybe two pages and I couldn’t stop rolling my eyes. According to Loder, post-WW2, Jannings urged him to explain to everyone back in Hollywood that he “had no choice” but to join up with the Nazis.

Anyway, I want to share this excerpt that is from chapter 18 of The Magician of Sunset Boulevard– I felt it offered some interesting insight. It’s a small glimpse into one of the “European colony” dinners during the talkie transition, when there was a lot of uncertainty. This happened in October 1929, so Conny had been gone from Hollywood for about seven months at this point, and wasn’t present for this particular account. A lot of European actors had already left, which caused plenty of strain to the social circle and increased anxieties.

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enlightenment is such a great dreamy masterpiece of a doctor who episode. like, what if wild blue yonder was a romance.

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An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie.

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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965).