#florence britton

[lucyghoul]

i needed a terrible procedural in my life i forgot how nice it is when every conflict is resolved within seven minutes

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17 gennaio … ricordiamo …

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2023: Gino Landi, pseudonimo di Luigino Gregori, coreografo, regista teatrale e regista televisivo italiano. Fu avviato allo studio della danza dai suoi genitori, entrambi artisti di varietà. Iniziò come ballerino, passando poi alla coreografia. Tra le innumerevoli regie televisive da lui curate si ricordano quelle di alcune edizioni del Festival di Sanremo, Festivalbar, Partitissima,  ecc. Molte…

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on becoming an avatar

excerpt from “portrait of fryderyk in shifting light” by richard siken // The Magnus Archives episode 183 “Monument” // i'm not calling you a liar, florence + the machine // excerpt from “havent i told you” by Jalal al-Din Rumi // The Magnus Archives episode 159 “The Last” // excerpt from Serenade by Donald Britton // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Episode 200 “Last Words”

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Warren G. Harding

Physique: Average Build Height: 6’ (1.83 m)

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which tarnished his reputation where he is generally regarded as one of the worst presidents. Harding died of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a western tour and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.

Handsome with a grumpy look who was always well dressed and well groomed, many historians have argued people only voted for him because he “looked presidential”. I think he did and he definitely look fuckable.

Harding married Florence Kling De Wolfe, a divorcee with one son. The Hardings had no children together. Harding reportedly had affairs with Carrie Phillips (his wife’s best friend) and Nan Britton (She lost her virginity to him when she was twenty and Harding was fifty) who bare a child during the 1910s and early 1920s, prior to his death in 1923. He wrote tawdry letters to all his lovers filled with euphemism and sexual innuendoes (“Jerry” was the code word for his penis.) And he had so many female admirers (nicknamed his lollapaloozas) that his security guards worked overtime, keeping them at bay.

What else do I know about other than he being a whore. He often play poker with his Cabinet, nicknamed the “Ohio gang”, used tobacco in all its forms - cigarettes, cigars, snuff, a pipe and chewing tobacco, serve bootleg whiskey to his guests and would also sneak off in the middle of the night to watch burlesque shows. Now I wish I could get him drunk, play poker with him and put my ass on the line. Or something to that effect.

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Florence Kling Harding was a divorcée who had a son from her first marriage that she had given up to be raised by her parents by the time she met Warren Gamaliel Harding in 1890 when he was the owner and editor of the Marion Star newspaper in Marion, Ohio. Florence was instantly attracted to the handsome Harding, but the feeling wasn’t immediately reciprocated. Harding was five years younger than Florence and already had a reputation as a notorious womanizer. However, Florence was persistent in her advances and Harding was practically incapable of turning women down — his father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, once told him, “Warren, it’s a good thing you wasn’t born a gal. Because you’d be in the family way all the time. You can’t say no.” — and they were married in July 1891. It’s impossible to know whether Harding truly fell in lover with Florence, or if he saw her as a potential key to unlock his burning ambition, but it’s worth noting that Florence very quickly went to work running nearly every aspect of Harding’s newspaper business and helping turn it into a success financially. And that Harding was relentlessly unfaithful to his wife throughout their marriage. Warren and Florence never had a child together, but Harding fathered an illegitimate daughter with a young girl from their hometown of Marion, Ohio just a year before he was elected President (Harding’s daughter, Elizabeth Ann Britton, kept a low profile and avoided publicity throughout her life and died in 2005).

But despite Harding’s extensive infidelity and the scandals and allegations of corruption swirling around Harding’s Administration, Florence Harding — now First Lady — tirelessly attended to the 29th President of the United States after he fell ill during his cross-country Voyage of Understanding in the summer of 1923. She remained near his bedside as Harding rested and hoped to recuperate at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in early August 1923. When they had first arrived in San Francisco on July 29th after canceling all planned events in California due to Harding’s illness, the President’s doctors were worried by his condition, which they had described as “grave”. Originally announced as “ptomaine poisoning” with severe indigestion caused by crabs or seafood that Harding had eaten while visiting Alaska, the bulletins released by his medical advisers noted that the President’s breathing was labored and he had a dangerously rapid pulse. After taking X-rays, the doctors also diagnosed Harding with pneumonia and were worried about the effects of his illness on his heart. But by August 1st, Harding’s fever had broken and his pulse and breathing were closer to normal. Although they had expected to remain in San Francisco for at least two weeks while Harding recovered, the President was in good enough spirits on August 1st to talk about traveling to Catalina Island where he was originally scheduled to go on a deep-sea fishing trip with his friend and supporter William Wrigley Jr.

As President Harding rested in Room 8064 of the Palace Hotel on Thursday, August 2, 1923, he was feeling better than he had in days. To the members of the Presidential traveling party that visited him throughout the day Harding acknowledged that he was tired but said that he felt “out of the woods.” In the afternoon, Harding  and Secret Service agent Colonel Edmund Starling spoke again about deep-sea fishing off of Catalina Island before returning to Washington, D.C. and Harding joked about how he hoped to have better luck there than in Alaska where he didn’t catch any fish.

Early in the evening of August 2nd, Mrs. Harding brought in a copy of the latest edition of the Saturday Evening Post and thumbed to a story by Samuel George Blythe called “A Calm Review of a Calm Man”. With allegations of corruption bearing down on several of Harding’s closest aides and Cabinet officials, the President had been depressed and unable to find silver linings in the clouds gathering over his Administration. But as the First Lady read Blythe’s article out loud to him, Harding was pleased to actually hear some positive reviews about the President’s governing style. “That’s good,” said the President. “Go on; read some more.” As Mrs. Harding was reading, the President closed his eyes while reclining on the bed with his head propped up by the pillows. When she finished reading, the First Lady left Harding’s room and went to her nearby room in the suite while the President was seemingly sleeping.

One of the nurses attending to the President, Ruth Powdery, filled a glass with water in the bathroom and brought it to Harding so that he could take his medication before going to sleep for the night. The nurse was walking towards Harding when she noticed that his face suddenly twitched and his mouth dropped open. As the President’s head fell limply to the side and he slumped over the nurse called for Mrs. Harding who rushed into the room and instantly screamed for a doctor. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover and Interior Secretary Herbert Work ran into the room almost immediately along with Harding’s personal physician, Brigadier General Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, but it made no difference. It was 7:32 PM on August 2, 1923 and President Harding was dead. He was 57 years old.

Dr. Sawyer quickly declared that Harding had died of a cerebral hemorrhage, but there was some disagreement by others present about the exact cause of death. As other doctors arrived on the scene the distraught First Lady asked whether any of them could do anything for the President and it took nearly an hour before she could be convinced that Harding was actually dead. With the doctors disagreeing about whether or not the President had died of a stroke or a heart attack or some other cause, there was a push to conduct an autopsy in order to make a final determination. However, Mrs. Harding was adamantly opposed to allowing an autopsy to be performed on President Harding. She even refused permission for an artist to make a death mask of her late husband. Florence Harding’s actions in the wake of her husband’s death would later lead to allegations that she may have poisoned the President — either to punish him for humiliating her by engaging in numerous extramarital affairs or out of mercy to prevent his reputation from being further tarnished by the many scandals of his Administration. The rumors about Florence Harding possibly poisoning Warren G. Harding have never been backed by any solid evidence, but some of Mrs. Harding’s actions immediately after the President’s death were unusual. After Harding’s body was returned to Washington, D.C. and he was lying in state in the East Room of the White House, Mrs. Harding reportedly sat next to his open casket for several hours overnight while saying to the dead President’s face, “No one can hurt you now, Warren.”

In Plymouth Notch, Vermont, telephone services were turned off at night in 1923. At a farmhouse in this small rural area of Vermont, Colonel John Calvin Coolidge Sr., who was a justice of the peace and a notary public, was hosting his son and daughter-in-law, who had come to town for a few days of vacation. The Colonel’s son was the Vice President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, and while he had learned of President Harding’s illness a few days ago, he was under the impression that Harding was improving and would make a full recovery. On August 2, Calvin Coolidge had helped his father with some yard work around the farm and went to bed fairly early. Late that night, Colonel Coolidge heard someone knocking on his door and answered it while Vice President Coolidge was still sleeping. Since there was no way to contact the Coolidge household by phone, the nearest telegraph operator rounded up two members of the Vice President’s staff who were staying nearby and a reporter and drove to Plymouth Notch. When Colonel Coolidge opened the door at about 10:30 PM, the men handed him a note for the Vice President that read, “The President died instantly and without warning and while conversing with members of his family at 7:30 PM. His physicians report that death was apparently due to some brain embolism, probably an apoplexy.”

The Vice President and his wife, Grace, were awakened shortly afterwards by his father calling for them and they headed downstairs. When Coolidge saw the look on his father’s face and heard the tone of his voice, he realized that President Harding was dead. “The only times I have ever observed that before,” Coolidge said of his father’s demeanor that night, “were when death had visited our family. I knew something of the gravest nature had occurred.” A special phone line was opened for Coolidge at a store near his father’s farm so that Coolidge could speak to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. Hughes recommended that Coolidge take the Presidential oath of office as soon as possible, seconding the opinion of the Attorney General, who had sent a telegram to Coolidge suggesting the same thing. The Secretary of State told Coolidge that he could be sworn in by any notary and Coolidge told Hughes, “My father is a notary.”

Colonel John Coolidge searched through his private library for a copy of the Constitution, which had the exact wording of the Presidential oath of office. A kerosene lamp was lit in Colonel Coolidge’s sitting room and at 2:47 AM on August 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th President of the United States by his own father. When asked later what he was thinking at that moment, Coolidge remembered, “I thought I could swing it.” After he was sworn in, President Coolidge went upstairs and promptly went back to sleep. The new President and his family traveled to Washington, D.C. later that day to await the return of President Harding’s body, which was traveling on the same train that had taken him on his “Voyage of Understanding” as it crossed a country in deep mourning and the nation prepared for a State Funeral.

[kiawahisland]

mw fcs?

at this point, anyone! i'll list some of my faves below, though.

jordan calloway, mike faist, ana de armas, priscilla quintana, peter gadiot, nicholas galtzine, emma d'arcy, dylan o'brien, may calamawy, erana james, austin butler, camila mendes, ben robson, laura harrier, michael b jordan, ayo edebiri, jacob elordi, olivia cooke, lola tung, willa fitzgerald, sandra oh, mena massoud, lee hakjoo, wolfgang novogratz, georgina campbell, tessa thompson, gemma chan, gavin casalegno, liv hewson, anya taylor-joy, sean teale, courtney eaton, jonah hauer king, natasha liu bordizzo, michael trevino, zion moreno, zendaya, leo woodall, lindsey morgan, jordan bolger, emma corrin, sofia pernas, chris briney, sydney sweeney, florence pugh, dew jirawat, oscar isaac, margot robbie, connie britton, elodie yung, indya moore, mahershala ali, bridgette lundy-paine, avan jogia, theo james, bianca lawson, adria arjona, greta onieogou, trevante rhodes, scott eastwood, tommy martinez, sophia bush, simone ashley, zoey deutch, tyler blackburn, riz ahmed, alfonso herrera, sophe thatcher, paul mescal, lewis tan, manny jacinto, quintessa swindell and anyone you want to bring us!

[beautifulactres]

Florence Britton (1909-1987)

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The Devil to Pay! (1930) George Fitzmaurice

July 18th 2022

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Gene Raymond, Carole Lombard and Florence Britton in

Brief Moment (1933) Director: David Burton

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Merrily We Go to Hell (Dorothy Arzner, 1932)

[genevieveetguy]

Gentlemen, I give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style: single lives, twin beds and triple bromides in the morning.

Merrily We Go to Hell, Dorothy Arzner (1932)

[thedabara]

ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1974

Agnes Moorehead at 73 from cancer

Olga Baclanova at 81 from cancer

Patricia Cutts at 48 from barbiturate overdose

Florence Rice at 67 from cancer

Arline Judge at 61 from heart attack

Marguerite Namara at 85 from unknown events

Betty Compson at 77 from heart attack

Sandra Spence at 48 from cancer

Anna Q. Nilsson at 84 from heart failure

Pamela Britton at 51 from cancer

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17 gennaio … ricordiamo …

17 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Michel Subor, nato Michel Subotzki, attore francese che ha guadagnato la fama iniziale con il ruolo da protagonista nel secondo lungometraggio Le petit soldat ( 1960). Dopo un periodo di trent’anni di apparizioni molto sporadiche sul grande schermo, Subor tornò al cinema d’autore alla fine degli anni novanta. Morto a 86 anni, in seguito di un incidente stradale. (n.1935) 2019: Renzo…

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Over The Years, Cincinnati Residents Created Some Very Curious Wills

Some of us prepare for the afterlife by pondering the disposition of our worldly goods. Some of us, in fact, entirely over-think this very grave (cough! cough!) matter. On the other hand, some of us give inheritance the merest passing thought. Over the years, Cincinnatians have filed some truly unusual wills at the Probate Court.

Losing His Head

W. Byrd Powell, a titan of the eclectic medical movement and a proponent of phrenology, left a most unusual bequest to his favorite student – his head. Powell, who died in 1866, was a noted phrenologist and therefore much invested in studying how the inner essence of human beings was expressed through the shape of their heads. It was rather common for phrenologists to donate their heads to science. It is not recorded to whom his student, Dr. Temperance Kinsey, one of Cincinnati’s first women doctors, passed the head onto at her death.

Eye Of Newt

John D. Riemeier was a wealthy lumber dealer, who owned a big farm in Colerain Township. He died in 1889 and left an estate valued by the newspapers at around $800,000. He also left a will that satisfied no one and kept the courts busy for a year. Most of the complainants cited Mr. Riemeier’s belief in witches. He had unwisely told several witnesses that he boiled a pig for twelve hours to entice a witch to emerge from behind his barn, foaming at the mouth. It was she, he asserted, who dictated the terms of his will. The Honorable Morris L. Buchwalter of the Court of Common Pleas was in no mood for hoodoo and set the bewitched document aside.

All We Are Is Dust In The Wind

Carl Schumann was a thrifty peddler who had accumulated an estate worth more than $2,000 when he died in 1910 at the Altenheim, Cincinnati’s Home for the German Aged. Herr Schumann bequeathed the bulk of his estate to that venerable institution, but he set aside $50 and an unusual request to the Herwegh Maennerchor (Herwegh Male Chorus). The decedent was to be cremated and he instructed the chorus to sing two German lieder while the flames consumed his earthly remains. The men of the chorus were to receive his ashes, say a few prayers, then toss the ashes into the wind from the crematory hilltop. The $50 would cover “sociability” afterwards.

If These Walls Could Talk

When she died in 1924, Nettie E. Chaffin of Washington Court House, Ohio, left the bulk of her substantial estate, estimated at $50,000, to Hyde Park’s Knox Presbyterian Church. In the fine print of the bequest, the church discovered a somewhat irregular condition attached to this generous gift. The donor demanded to be buried inside a wall of a new church, then under construction. Although her tomb was to be unmarked, she requested a plaque in the nave which would note her gift and her eternal presence “until the day break and the shadows flee away.” The church accepted the terms and immured Mrs. Chaffin as the walls of the new edifice arose.

Inspired By The Muse

Most wills are composed in formulaic legal jargon. Not so the 1946 last will and testament of Louis Henry Ernst Sommerkamp. An inspector for the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, Louis picked up a yen for poetry, and composed part of his final testament in verse:

"All my earthly goods I've in store.

To my dear wife I leave for evermore,

I freely give - no limit do I fix,

This is my last will and she the executrix."

Legal obligations being what they are, there was a bit more prosaic verbiage to legalize the document, but that quatrain stands unique in Hamilton County’s probate archives.

Check, Please!

Elmer J. Schantz owned an automotive garage on Madison Road in 1946. His doctor’s office was just down the street. One evening, Elmer brought a curious document to his medical appointment. It was a check on which Elmer apparently designated a diamond ring and $5,000 be provided to his girlfriend in the event of his death. Elmer’s doctor advised him that, if the check was intended as a will, it needed to be witnessed. The doctor signed, then called in a patient who knew Elmer from the waiting room, and she signed, too. A few months later, Elmer was dead and his check, although challenged in court, was accepted as a proper will. Unfortunately, on the back of the check, Elmer asked not to be buried in Napoleon, Indiana. By the time all the legal challenges were dismissed, Elmer had already been buried in that Hoosier town.

Translation Required

Wing Yee operated a laundry on McMicken Avenue in Mohawk when he died in 1949. His will was very brief, but presented a challenge to the Hamilton County Probate Court because it was written in Chinese characters. There being no official Chinese interpreter, another laundryman was contacted, who provided a translation. The will was filed and accepted, allowing Mr. Yee to bestow his business upon his cousin.

Walk Like An Egyptian

Among the highlights of any visit to Spring Grove Cemetery is the Groff monument, a modest pyramid located a short walk from the Lawler sphinx, creating a sort of Egyptian neighborhood in the verdant graveyard. “Modest” was not Florence Groff’s intent. When she died in 1949, she decreed through her will and testament that a pyramid 20 feet on a side and approximately 20 feet tall occupy the entirety of the family plot. Spring Grove objected, distant relative contested the will and the compromise is a picturesque yet miniature version of the late Miss Groff’s vision.

Brevity, The Soul Of Wit

C. Britton Austin was 72 years old when he died at General Hospital in 1955. Two days before his demise, Mr. Austin scribbled just eight words on a scrap of paper 2 ¼ inches by 4 inches, “everything to my sister Frances and brother-in-law Ed.” Signed, dated and witnessed by two doctors, this briefest of Hamilton County wills was accepted by the Probate Court.

Testamentary Valentine

Frank R. Gusweiler sat down on Valentine’s Day in 1957 and wrote his entire last will and testament on a standard index card, leaving everything to his wife – and law partner – Katherine, designating her as his executrix and requesting she not be required to post bond. Five months later, Frank was dead and his very brief, handwritten, legal Valentine was filed in court.

Zoological Considerations

It is not uncommon for pets to be mentioned in wills, usually dogs and cats. Edna P. Schopper’s 1958 will is unusual only in that she provides $1,500 for the care of her pet dove, a species not often found in Probate Court. Julia G. Haley’s 1951 will provides for her two pet cats in a most unusual manner: “In the event of my death, there will be no one to care for them and as I would not want them to be turned out homeless upon the streets, it seems to me best to make some provision concerning their disposition. I do, therefore, give, will, devise and bequeath to my friend, Harry O. Porter, the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) and request him, as soon after my death as possible, to visit my home and therein, in as humane and painless a way as advisable, put my pets to death and dispose of their remains in the cemetery provided for this purpose.”

Details, Details

Philip H. Goldsmith was only 61 when he succumbed to a heart attack in 1958. Mr. Goldsmith was the chairman of the board of the MacGregor Sports Products Company, and he certainly had some worldly goods to dispose of. His will, in essence, is fairly simple. He gave everything to his wife, with the remainder going to his daughter. However, it took 29 pages to say that, after Mr. Goldsmith outlined every single possible detail in baroque legalese. It is among the longest wills filed in the county.

The Generosity Of The Dead

William Bloom was a professional gambler. He gravitated to the Silver Slipper night club on Monmouth Street in Newport and apparently enjoyed the camaraderie. When he died in 1959, he identified bequests for “each waitress, each bartender, each porter, each shill, each dealer . . . the master of ceremonies, the doorman, and each person employed at the Silver Slipper, except showgirls.” He made a special gift to singer Bobby Linn to promote her career, plus allotments for various relatives. Problem was, Willaim Bloom’s will distributed more than $30,000, but he had less than $15,000 to his name when he died. Poor Probate Judge Chase M. Davies was left to sort out the mathematics.

Nuncupative Yet Valid

John N. Kinney wrote no will at all. A couple of days before he died in 1961, Mr. Kinney was visited by his brother and one of his sisters. He told them that another sister, Claire had visited him daily to make sure that he was fed and cared for and that he wanted her to inherit everything. The disinherited siblings appeared in court and swore to the statement made by their brother. This oral declaration, known as a nuncupative will, was accepted as valid by the court.

He Really Loved His Job

Charles A. Lackner was a teller at the Fifth Third Bank for 43, retiring in 1946. When he died in 1961, his former employer was surprised to discover that Charles had bequeathed $8,000 to the bank “in appreciation for the kindnesses shown by bank officers and employees.” Rather than keep the inheritance (How would a corporation book that?), Fifth Third created the Charles A. Lackner Fund at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation and added another $8,000 to sweeten the pot.

[kiki345]

to continue my last post, we have the fancast for nora,,, which i think should be sofia bryant bc i could NOT stop thinking abt her when alex mentioned she had curly hair

-yeah anyways here is my pez: kedar williams who i think would be perfect and he would pull off bright pink hair and impulsive colored nails

also he’s so attractive wow

-next we have bea!!!! and i ADORE this fc bc i think it’s an accurate depiction of how we all imagined bea

my fav british human florence pugh (also the dyed tips just further prove my point of her being a spunky punk rock reject the status quo and the crown degenerate)

-and now we have a no brainer for madam president, ellen claremont: connie britton. ok ik this one is quite popular but i really can’t imagine anyone else, plus the fact that she was on Nashville (the tv show) validates her convincing act of a southern woman

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what fcs do you want to see here?

Hi anon! So glad you asked. Here’s a list of our most wanted face claims!

FEMME — Anne Hathaway, Nicole Beharie, Priscilla Quintana, Laura Harrier, Tanaya Beatty, Isis Valverde, Sanra Oh, Tessa Thompson, Cara Gee, Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, Hunter Schafer, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sofia Pernas, Diane Guerrero, Carla Gugino, Margot Robbie, Connie Britton, Elodie Yung, Zion Moreno, Zendaya, Michelle Yeoh, Malese Jow, Bianca Lawson, Adria Arjona, Greta Onieogou, Lesley Ann-Brandt, Ana de Armas, Sophia Bush, Constance Wu, Emmy Rossum, Maggie Q, Simone Ashley, Zoey Deutch

MASC — Rahul Kohli, Michael B Jordan, Daniel Henney, Eddie Spears, Pablo Schreiber, Oscar Isaac, Michael Evans Behling, Scott Eastwood, Tommy Martinez, Tyler Blackburn, Riz Ahmed, Alfonso Herrera, Jesse Williams, Wesley French, Henry Golding, Peter Gadiot, Jason Mamoa, DJ Cotrona, Justin Rain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jon Bernthal, Lewis Tan, Charles Michael Davis, Theo James, Manny Montana, Mahershala Ali, Raymond Ablack, John Cho, Chris Evans, Daniel Dae Kim, Dev Patel, Sean Teale, Michael Trevino, J.D. Pardo

NON-BINARY — Asia Kate Dillon, Avan Jogia, Indya Moore, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Bridgette Lundy-Paine, Sara Ramirez, Chella Man, Lachlan Watson, Liv Hewson, Nico Tortorella, Quintessa Swindell, Ruby Rose, Tommy Dorfman, Ellie Desautels, Ser Anzoategui