#40s cinema

[silentagecinema]

nightmare alley (1947) directed by edmund goulding

"Throughout the ages man has sought to look behind the veil that hides him from tomorrow. And through the ages certain men have looked into the polished crystal and seen. Is it some quality of the crystal itself? Or does the gazer merely use it to turn his gaze inward? Who knows? But visions come. Slowly shifting their form. Visions come."

[jeanharlowshair]

Screenland Magazine, August 1946.

[nowimnothing-inc]

Disney’s Fantasia (1940)

[vintage-tigre]

Ava Gardner, 1948

[vintagehollywood1]

Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in Spellbound 1945

[dolorygloria]

Ava Gardner film stills for 'The Killers'

[egiboggart]

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975

[letsmakefingerfive]

France Nguyen

[witchesonatree]

old hollywood movie posters really hit different

[erosioni]

Alida Valli on the set of Carol Reed’s The Third Man, 1949. 

[hicsuntleonesblog]

Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)

[silentagecinema]

casablanca (1942) directed by michael curtiz

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, November 1944.

[frenchvintagedreams]

GILDA (1946). Directed by Charles Vidor

[cesares-eyeliner]

i 🖤 lon chaney jr

[vintagehollywood1]

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda 1946