#marlene fontaine

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Marvel Spotlight (1971) #29

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“Homecoming,” Moon Knight Annual (Vol. 3/2022), #1

Writer: Jed MacKay; Artist: Federico Sabbatini; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

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Heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended the PACKED Lobotomy Room film club presentation of ultra stylish romantic comedy Desire (1936) at Fontaine’s on 15 February 2024! What a perfect conclusion to “Valentine’s Week!” I suspect everyone present has a raging crush on both Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper now (assuming they didn’t have one already). Some final thoughts (and stuff I really should have included in my introduction!):

If you were wondering whether Cooper and Dietrich had “intimate knowledge” of each other – the answer is yes! The duo famously had a fling when they made the movie Morocco (1930) together. I’m unsure if they resumed their affair during production of Desire six years later – but their sexual chemistry was genuine!

I was wrong! I assumed that any time we saw Dietrich and Cooper “in Europe” it was probably Californian locations masquerading as Paris or the Spanish riviera (and let’s face it – there was loads of rear projection whizzing past every time they got behind a car!), but according to Wikipedia, “The film was shot at Paramount Studios and at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California and, unusual for its time, on location in France and Spain.”

Desire is truly a movie to luxuriate in. Those lavish production values! The Art Deco art design right down to the last detail (note those incredible glass cups Dietrich sips from every time she drinks coffee)!

Speaking of which: Dietrich travels with a modest amount of luggage but seems to have an infinite wardrobe of spectacular Travis Banton creations!

I love British character actress Zeffie Tilbury’s guest star appearance as criminal gang boss lady “Aunt Olga” towards the end!

Remember – the Lobotomy Room club is third Thursday of every month, so the next installment is 21 March 2024. I’ll announce the featured movie soon!

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THE 100 MOST POPULAR AMERICAN ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME ! (BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGHEST INFLATION-ADJUSTED WORLDWIDE GROSSING AMERICAN FILMS OF ALL TIME !) (1900-2022)

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http://www.imdb.com/list/ls520967383/

1. .Elizabeth Taylor 2. .Vivien Leigh 3. .Julie Andrews 4. .Marilyn Monroe 5. .Grace Kelly 6. .Audrey Hepburn 7. .Olivia de Havilland 8. .Norma Shearer 9. .Greer Garson 10. .Lindsay Lohan 11. .Faye Dunaway 12. .Natalie Portman 13. .Diane Keaton 14. .Jessica Lange 15. .Barbra Streisand 16. .Anne Bancroft 17. .Uma Thurman 18. .Ingrid Bergman 19. .Catherine Zeta Jones 20. .Joan Fontaine 21. .Natasha Richardson 22. .Emily Blunt 23. .Doris Day 24. .Winona Ryder 25. .Salma Hayek 26. .Ashley Judd 27. .Laura Linney 28. .Barbara Stanwyck 29. .Julianne Moore 30. .Shirley Temple 31. .Shirley Maclaine 32. .Sandra Bullock 33. .Meg Ryan 34. .Susan Sarandon 35. .Sophia Loren 36. .Gwyneth Paltrow 37. .Lauren Bacall 38. .Emma Thompson 39. .Helen Hunt 40. .Goldie Hawn 41. .Holly Hunter 42. .Sharon Stone 43. .Helen Mirren 44. .Audrey Tautou 45. .Greta Garbo 46. .Lillian Gish 47. .Claudette Colbert 48. .Carole Lombard 49. .Mary Pickford 50. .Gene Tierney 51. .Kristen Stewart 52. .Drew Barrymore 53. .Hilary Swank 54. .Agnes Moorehead 55. .Ava Gardner 56. .Jean Harlow 57. .Catherine Deneuve 58. .Katharine Hepburn 59. .Jean Simmons 60. .Helena Bonham Carter 61. .Susan Hayward 62. .Judy Garland 63. .Emma Roberts 64. .Greta Gerwig 65. .Jane Wyman 66. .Cameron Diaz 67. .Rita Hayworth 68. .Michelle Williams 69. .Julia Roberts 70. .Rachel McAdams 71. .Joan Crawford 72. .Carrie Fisher 73. .Deborah Kerr 74. .Geena Davis 75. .Laura Dern 76. .Maggie Smith 77. .Mary J. Blige 78. .Ginger Rogers 79. .Bette Davis 80. .Annette Bening 81. .Kate Winslet 82. .Cate Blanchett 83. .Ellen Burstyn 84. .Zoe Saldana 85. .Geraldine Page 86. .Marlene Dietrich 87. .Jane Fonda 88. .Joan Cusack 89. .Kathy Bates 90. .Carey Mulligan 91. .Sissy Spacek 92. .Renee Zellweger 93. .Marisa Tomei 94. .Penelope Cruz 95. .Liv Tyler 96. .Angela Lansbury 97. .Vera Farmiga 98. .Jessica Chastain 99. .Jennifer Aniston 100. .Jullianne Hough

[romanceisaplace]

tagged by @angelolsenwife to share 10 of my favorite songs with names in the title. tysm<3

Lauren - Men I Trust

Paul - Big Thief

A Perfect Day Elise - PJ Harvey

Gretel - Alex G

IGOR’S THEME - Tyler, The Creator

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith

Marlene Dietrich - black midi

Lydia Wears a Cross - Julia Jacklin

Stevie - Warpaint

Jackie Down The Line - Fontaines D.C.

(and shoutout to 2023 bangers: Nadja - UMO, Sally - gigi and Emily I’m Sorry - boygenius)

tagging @josefnewgayden, @futvredevil, @carossettetape, @percocet, @messerdanny, @maranello if you want to do this :-)

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Moon Knight & Marlene in Marvel Spotlight #29

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Vintage Celebrities on Set

Joan Fontaine & Roberts Taylor

Marlene Dietrich visits Mae West on the set of Klondike Annie (1936)

Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh playing Chinese Checkers on the set of “Gone with the Wind”.

Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly, on the set of 'High Society' at MGM Studios, 1950

Behind the Scenes of Leave her to Heaven, 1945, With Gene Tierney and Jeanne Crain.

1955: Married actors Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart laughing on set between takes of the Producer's Showcase live telecast of 'The Petrified Forest', in which they both star.

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Maybe I’m just biased because Marnie is my favorite Grand Theft Auto character (so far) but like...damn they all were so well done and the fact that most people can’t even name most of them

I just...

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"Cinema is public fantasy that engages spectators' particular, private scripts of desire and identification. Equally at stake in spectatorship are the way organized images and sounds psychically imprint us and the way they mediate social identities and histories. Because Hollywood films are part of public culture that addresses women, and because they do so through representations of Women invested with desire, they work with material—cultural and psychic―that engages lesbian fantasy. Without projecting our current experiences of lesbian identity and sociality onto the past, still we can recognize that mass culture spoke to women in ways influenced by the historical emergence of lesbian culture and the forms it has taken. Hollywood films have in part constructed our desire; the work of our readings of these films and the discourses and practices surrounding them is to construct the conditions of our own representability.

The retrospective dimension of spectatorship persists in a current mass cultural climate in which the terms of lesbian representability and of "membership" have shifted drastically. Not only have lesbian representations proliferated, the audience for them has itself become visible―at least as a consumer demographic. Today's unprecedented lesbian and gay media visibility illuminates the reading practices that formerly sustained viewers in the face of invisibility."

-Excerpt from Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability by Patricia White

[daydreamerdrew]

Marvel Spotlight (1971) #28

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[bitter69uk]

“As a glamorous and sophisticated Parisian jewel thief who makes the American naif Gary Cooper her unwitting accomplice in the heisting of a pearl necklace, Dietrich was at last allowed a chance to do more than pose statuesquely. “Permitted to walk, breathe, smile and shrug as a human being instead of a canvas for the Louvre,” ran a typical review, “[she] recaptures some of the freshness of The Blue Angel … Miss Dietrich is not dependent upon stylized photography and direction but has a proper talent of her own.” Her half-smiles hint at wily subterfuge, she sings [Frederick] Hollander’s “Awake in a Dream” with wry self-mockery and thus Dietrich effectively created a modern, credible character from an array of charmingly improbable situations.”

/ From Dietrich by Donald Spoto, 1992 /

Yes! Join us on Thursday 15 February when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club whisk you away to The Spanish Riviera for frothy romantic screwball comedy Desire (1936) in the appropriately Art Deco surroundings of Fontaine’s in Dalston! Starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper! Email bookings@fontaines.bar to reserve a seat! Full deets here.

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Wonders in the Suburbs (Merveilles à Montfermeil), Jeanne Balibar (2019)

[marcspectres]

Marlene Fontaine in Marvel Spotlight #28