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[limeshade]

A strange thing, the heart of a man—that loves, suffers, and despairs—yet has courage to hope, believe—and love—again.

Norma Shearer as Consuelo and Lon Chaney as Paul Beaumont / HE

HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) Directed by Victor Sjöström Written by Carey Wilson and Victor Sjöström

[slayer-barbie]

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

[elinordash]

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970)

[snowbairdd]

And that he will carry me away to his castle where we will live happily ever after.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) dir. David Hand

[fashioninmedia]

"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."

PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[minayuri]

RUDOLF KLEIN-ROGGE as Dr. Mabuse

DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (1922) DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE (1933)

dir. Fritz Lang

[inadequate-nefelibata]

Forgive my speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth.

Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart as Joel Cairo and Sam Spade THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

[classicfilmsource]

The Private Life of a Cat 1946 | dir. Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

[limeshade]

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

[elieandrews]

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) dir. Robert Wise

[filmgifs]

Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones (1958) dir. Stanley Kramer

[normasshearer]

Joan Crawford in HUMORESQUE (1946) dir. Jean Negulesco

[divineandmajesticinone]

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley & The Bride of Frankenstein

[clarulitas]

FRED ASTAIRE performs "You're All the World to Me" — Royal Wedding (1951) dir. Stanley Donen

[cinemaspast]

CHARADE (1963) dir. Stanley Donen

[audreys-hepburn]

SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder