#pre code era

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…April 14, 1924 “Sherlock Jr." has its U.S. opening in Boston ahead of the premiere in LA on the 26th.

[stars-bean]

Morocco (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg

[friendlessghoul]

The Illusion in Sherlock Jr. explained in Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

[ange331]

Quick doodle

[fleetingprose]

Buster Keaton and Marceline Day in “The Camerman” (1928). Despite being a silent film and having no intertitles during this scene, it’s possible to read Keaton’s lips as he directs Day’s character for her tintype portrait.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

I'm No Angel / Mae West as Tira

Coeli's comment: "Wowza!"

The pre-code era strikes again, with Travis Banton as the designer. The slinky, low-cut gown with spiderweb wrap in the bottom photo looks positively demure next to the costume she's almost wearing in the other photos. In Tira's defense, she is a circus sideshow performer. However, it's not too hard to see why this movie was cited as one of the factors leading to the implementation of the Hays Code.

Classic lines:

"Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape!"

"Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."

"When I'm good I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."

[zeeza-says-relax]

since I'm starting this new account and lost almost all of my moots on the process ..... hiiiiii my name is zelda I'm 22 years old plsssss if you like:

- ballet

- early 20th century art including films music etc

- dungeon meshi

- the sims 2

- literature

- history of art

- queer history

- hamlet

pls let's be moots I'm so lonely in those lands forsaken by the gods

[technicolor-times]

Not very nice Charlie

[001410]

Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House (1932)

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…March 14, 1921 "Hard Luck,” is released. Buster Keaton rated this impossible gag from his shorts as one of his best. He was still laughing about it in the 1960s.

[naldibutnice]

Anita Page in Gentleman’s Fate (1931) Dir. Mervyn LeRoy

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton The Cook (1918)

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…March 1, 1926 “Seven Chances,” with the title "Siete ocasiones,” opens in Spain.

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…February 27, 1921 The Arizona Republic reviews “The Saphead”: ‘Buster Keaton has been drafted from the slapstick comedy with Roscoe Arbuckle to play “The Saphead” and he brings to the part that wealth of laughter making ability which marked his comedies.'

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton The Cook (1918)

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…April 25, 1930 The Pasadena Post describes Buster Keaton as “the sphinx-faced comedian.”