#forgotten actresses

[daemonicdasein]

Lee Armstrong as Tammy Larsen in Leprechaun 3 (1995).

[eyesaremosaics]

Stage actress Maude Adams, the LGBTQ icon who (allegedly) was the inspiration for Peter Pan. Though she was never publicly “out”, she never married, and had many close female friendships throughout her life. Including Ethel Barrymore (Yes from the illustrious Barrymore family—the most recent being Drew).

Maude was very popular with female audiences, and due to her disinterest in men, her chastity helped her to maintain a pristine reputation throughout her life. She was often rumored to be engaged to men as an effective “smokescreen” to shield her from rumors of lesbianism. None of these relationships were anything more than just that—rumors.

After playing Peter Pan on stage, Maude reached monumental levels of stardom for the time, which made having a private life very challenging. She lived with her “secretary” until she died, and both were buried on the same plot.

Maude was a serious actress, who claimed she would never marry due to her dedication to her craft. This was a common excuse for closeted gays in the Victorian era. Her fearlessness, and paradoxically childlike innocence are inspiring to me. She lived a colorful life, and is definitely worth looking into.

[littlequeenies]

Why Do We Love ...

Tina Aumont

Tina Aumont didn't came into our life when we were child just like Shannen Doherty or Drew Barrymore did; she even wasn't a teenage idol just as Jane Asher or Pattie Boyd; Tina Aumont she came a bit later in life like Bebe Buell or Demri Parrott.

[Tina Aumont in Home Movie, autour du lit de la Vierge, directed by Frédéric Pardo, 1968]

We first knew about Tina by watching the documentary Nico Icon (Suzanne Ofteringer, 1995) where she was interviewed about her friend Nico. We watched that doc because we liked Nico, we felt Nico was very different from the 60s muses, we found her mysterious and unique and we wante dto know more about her, and by our surprise, a very beautiful dark-haired woman was there talking.

[Tina Aumont in Nico-Icon documentary directed by Suzanne Ofteringer, 1995]

This beautiful dark-haired woman was an actress who was 49 years old and looking great, and she was friend of Nico in the late 60s. Looking that beautiful in her late 40s, we were curious about how did she looked when she was young, so we decided to google her and to our surprise, very beautiful photos came as a result of that search. We love her naturallity, her dark hair and her heavy make-up around her eyes, and her hippie looks, of course!!

[Tina Aumont pictured by Angelo Frontoni in Spring 1968]

We didn't know anything about her so we decided to googled her, and by our surprise, she didn't have any website and we found it a little weird because we discovered that she was a famous actress in the 60s and 70s mainly in Italy, but also she was daughter of two great superstars.

We started to save the photos we saw on google, we started to make some screencaps from her films and then we start buying some clippings & magazines we found on ebay with the purpose to make a site for her as a tribute, for honouring her memory.

[Tina Aumont in Home Movie, autour du lit de la Vierge, directed by Frédéric Pardo, 1968]

We started to build (yes, build) a Facebook page for her, with all the photos we were collecting, and also we started a tumblr because we saw someone was sharing the photos we posted without crediting our effort (a las, the never ending story!)... the facebook we had was becoming very big, with more than thousand followers, people were sharing memories, stories, it was very beautiful, but one day facebook shut down our page for containing nudity.

We had to start everything again...

[Tina Aumont pictured in 1968, unknown photographer]

We created a new facebook, called Tina Aumont Tribute, and we started again to share our passion for this great creative girl, at first it was a very slow start, but little by little, more people liked the page, and we got really surprised when a couple of Tina's friends liked it, and one of them even told us, several times that he's very happy that we keep her memory alive. Through instagram (although we don't have any profile for her), we have contacted several photohraphers, who are glad to share their pics and who have helped us to credit them in some photos.

[Tina Aumont pictured early-mid December 1967 at her home, unknown photographer]

We found Tina had a very exotic and unique beauty, she loved Eastern culture, she was a hippie chick when she was really young and she lived with very creative people during the happiest days of her life. Sadly not everything was beautiful; as we were buying more magazines about her and sharing her photos, darker stories came, in the mid 70s she was a heavy heroin user, her step mother didn't treat her well in her childhood and teen years, and she married a friend of her dad just to runaway from that life. She got pregnant but the baby didn't survive...

[Tina Aumont in L'Uomo, L'Orgoglio, La Vendetta, directed by Luigi Bazzoni, 1967]

Thanks to the tumblr site but mainly to our facebook site for her, three really interesting people contacted us, one was Andrea Montez, a Peruvian girl who shared our passion for Tina and who shared lots of rare photos of Tina with us, we are happy to call us friends; the other person who contacted us was an Italian girl who made great videos with rare footage from Pierre Clementi & Frédéric Pardo's home movies and she sent us her screencaps, always sharing with much love and respect towards Tina; and the third person we met was a French writer who asked for some collaboration as he was writing a biography about Tina Aumont. We were really excited!! We exchanged photos, some stories and lots of knowledge came through him. He worked really hard on that book (Waiting for Tina, à la recherce de Tina Aumont) and he has a page for her on facebook called as the book. He is very active in poetry conventions and he is promoting the book in different festivals.

[Tina Aumont in L'Urlo, film directed by Tinto Brass, 1968]

Today, for what would have been her 77th birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Tina and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR HER

OUR TUMBLR BLOG FOR HER

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY DEAR BOHEMIAN GYPSY - GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.

[burned-lariat]

I'm sorry, but those two young boys were robbed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[tina-aumont]

Beautiful María Montez photo taken circa 1946 announcing that soon a film by Universal International "The Exile" will be realised featuring the Queen of Technicolor.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this beautiful photo.

[inthisfuckinworld]

Get to know me meme: Favorite actresses  [5/5]  → Jessica Biel

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i just love her okay

[lunakittyfox]

Uncle Galeo and Auntie Marina

Allstar has the scientist and Casey has the actress, lucky them XD.

TBH, they’re kinda underrated Snorks

[elequinoa-world]

I expected nothing watching queen charlotte but goddamnit here I am crying my heart out it was SO beautiful and well done well executed and god I hope they put the same care into the next seasons of the actual bridgerton show cause that was fucking perfect

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Remembering Academy Award Winning actress Hattie McDaniel! ^__^

[departed-pronouns]

They'll pay Arielle for one little scene to say why she isn't around, and I assume to use her likeness in a picture but crop out Anirudh cause nah dude you're not even listed as a guest this season are ya.

They really didn't care about the character Ravi . . . at all . . . did they? Like they didn't need Lucy could have had Buck cheat with a rando or hell he could have kissed Ravi and yay bi Buck for everyone. But the writers really went - we don't care about Ravi. Why give the actor Anirudh a reason to stay or even reference him again. We've got our breath of fresh air Lucy! Just have to keep her off the screen long enough for the backlash against her to die down.

Still not sure what she brought to the show that made it fresh and better. I know I didn't hate the scenes she was in at least. That was another character lol. But I had already started thinking about Ravi being part of the 118 core group even if he wasn't a main character. I don't know if I trust the writers to be sneaking Lucy into things like this cause watch she gets forgotten to.

[oliveoomph]

Jeannine Gaspár

[littlequeenies]

Brochure from Demri’s memorial service, which was held on November 2, 1996. It has a yellow rose on the cover, a poem by Anne Lindgren Davison on the left side, Demri’s birth and death dates and other information about the service on the right. “Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free I’m following the path God laid for me. I took His hand when I heard his call I turned my back and left it all. I could not stay another day To laugh, to love, to work, to play. Tasks left undone must stay that way I’ve found that peace at the close of the day. If my parting has left a void Then fill it with remembered joy. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, Ah, yes, these things I too will miss. Be not burdened with times of sorrow I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow. My life’s been full, I savored much Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch. Perhaps my time seemed all too brief Don’t lengthen it with undue grief. Lift up your heart and share with me God wanted me now; He set me free”. 📸: shared by Marisi Sojit and posted by “Comunidad Alice in Chains Chile” Facebook group

From Memories of Demri instagram account

[finexbright]

I looked up that Brad Pitt Olivia Wilde article and the contents are honestly even more insane than the headline makes it out to be. It literally says at the end that Brad is supposedly dating a jewelry exec - like, "dating and happy" - and that Olivia is the one pursuing Brad. Like, " 'Brad’s playing it cool, but Olivia’s pretty keen. She’s dropping serious hints about getting to know one another better,' the source told Heat. ... The insider said Olivia wants to 'pull herself together' and find 'a hot new guy to date'." I don't know if it's to try to spin up more interest in Babylon or what, but I don't know how her team let this run. it sounds like the "source" is supposed to be from her side but it makes her sound awful.

"hot new guy to date" brad pitt after harry styles? 💀💀 okay i knew her taste was objectively bad but i thought at least when it comes to stunts she was doing better 💀 but also like it's the same storyline as harry like didn't they say that she was so giddy and happy and stuff? anyways i wish her luck in all her endeavours because nothing she does is gonna help her anymore she's just gonna be a washed up persona in the industry

[shewatchesandreadsthings]

At first I was mildly confused about the new season coz it felt like it had become an anthology series with all the same actors and one new one but...by episode 2 I was just as hooked as I was the first season.

It was always going to be tricky to switch from the body - when Mu-Deok was such a fun beloved character - to the soul.

The only other show I've watched that did the Soul switch plot was Big (2012) and they botched it spectacularly that it turned me off that storyline until Alchemy, so I'm glad that they're doing it right!

[dastardlydaemon]