#classical cinema

[mabusecaligari]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - William Wyler

[leaving-no-shadow]

Stage Fright, 1950 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Jane Wyman and Alastair Sim on the screen A dialogue showing how Hitchcock and his team entailed perfectly realism and  humor. 

[metamorphesque]

tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

[i-should-be-so-lucky]

Joan Crawford in 'Mildred Pierce' , 1945

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees)—no propaganda submitted

Toshiro Mifune (Rashumon, Seven Samurai, Grand Prix, Stray Dog)—no propaganda submitted beyond this video and the photos under the cut

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut]

[admireforever]

Endless Love (1981)

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » Much Ado About Nothing (1993) dir. Kenneth Branagh

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh notso, but let them go

[judy1926]

Marilyn Monroe at the rockefeller Center to inaugurate the construction of the new Time-Life Building (1957)

[pureanonofficial]

Please, God, let me live again.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra

[mabusecaligari]

Our Town (1940) - Sam Wood

Art direction: William Cameron Menzies

[velvet4510]

Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.

[texaschainsawmascara]

"One workday, while we were waiting to shoot, Roman [Polanski] was discoursing about the impossibility of long-term monogamy given the brevity of a man's sexual attraction to any woman. An impassioned John Cassavetes responded that Roman knew nothing about women, or relationships, and that he, John, was more attracted than ever to his wife, Gena Rowlands. Roman stared at him and blinked a few times, and for once had no reply."

- from Mia Farrow's memoir

[anatomicalmartyr]

some rare and gorgeous mugshots photos of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which I sadly don't know the original source or context for

[vintage-old-hollywood]

Marilyn Monroe

[admireforever]

Endless Love (1981)

[firelise]

Denzel Washington being an absolute whore in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)