#roy d'arcy

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such a lovely fan letter to photoplay, 1927

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Roy D'Arcy and Lillian Gish - ''La Boheme''

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John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, and Roy D'Arcy in Bardelys the Magnificent (King Vidor, 1926)

Cast: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore, Emily Fitzroy, George K. Arthur, Arthur Lubin, Theodore von Eltz. Screenplay: Dorothy Farnum, Marian Ainslee (titles), based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: James Basevi, Richard Day, Cedric Gibbons.

This entertaining swashbuckler was long thought to be lost, apparently because of a contractual agreement between MGM and Rafael Sabatini, author of the novel on which it was based. When the studio failed to renew the rights to the novel in 1936, it destroyed the negative and all the prints it could get its hands on. Fortunately, 70 years later a print surfaced in France, missing only one reel that the restorers pieced together with production stills and footage from the original trailer. It was a good save, especially for the legacy of its director, King Vidor, and its star, John Gilbert. Vidor stages several lively swordfights and a memorable love scene in which Bardelys (Gilbert) woos Roxalanne de Lavedan (Eleanor Boardman) in a boat as it passes through the overhanging branches of a willow tree. But the film's highlight is a spectacular escape from the gallows, in which Gilbert (almost certainly with the help of his stunt double) outdoes Douglas Fairbanks in swinging from ropes and curtains, climbing walls, and fencing with pursuers. The story is romantic nonsense in which Bardelys, a womanizing marquis at the court of Louis XIII (Arthur Lubin) makes a wager that he can win the hand of Roxalanne, who has spurned the advances of the very hissable villain, Châtellerault (Roy D'Arcy). To win the bet, Bardelys finds himself assuming the identity of a man he finds dead, Lesperon (played by Theodore von Eltz in the missing reel), an enemy of the king. Sure enough, he and Roxalanne fall in love under the willows, but his imposture not only turns her against him when she finds proof that Lesperon is engaged to someone else, but also puts him in danger of being hanged for treason, especially after Châtellerault turns up and refuses to disclose that Lesperon is really Bardelys. Dorothy Farnum adapted the novel, and the cinematography is by William H. Daniels. The cast supposedly includes the 19-year-old John Wayne as a guard, in only his second film appearance, but good luck spotting him. 

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[unateoriadegliautori]

the merry widow (1925)

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beverly of graustark is mostly just adequate as a movie, but i appreciate a man who serves enough cunt to have it resonate 98 years later.

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Succession The Musical Hypothetical Casting

I’m doing this in one shot and off the top of my head, so I will be missing characters, I do also welcome suggestions.

Logan Roy: Patrick Page

Is this the obvious first choice? Yes. Is it the correct one? Also yes.

Kendall Roy: Lucas Steele

Kendall is just Anatole if he didn’t have a close relationship with his sister.

Roman Roy: Brandon Uranowitz

He played a nice neurotic freak in Falsettos, let's see him play an evil neurotic freak.

Shiv Roy: Eden Espinoza

I'll be honest, if I was genuinely casting a Succession musical as a real casting director, I would look for a more unknown performer to play Shiv, because I firmly believe that Shiv Roy should be an alto part, heavy in the lower range (like basically a tenor). Shiv's plot revolves around trying to push past her gender to be taken seriously, and I think having her being an alto who stays in her lower register would really highlight how hard she's trying to be taken seriously. That said, I would not at all be disappointed to have Eden Espinoza in the part. She's insanely talented, and I would love to see her interpretation of Shiv.

Connor Roy: Josh Groban

So there's a clip of The Opera from "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" where the ensemble sings "Pierre, the cuckold, sits at home", and then Pierre pops up saying "No, I am enjoying myself at home this evening" while giving a sad little thumbs up, while his wife is off banging another man? That's the energy I want for my Connor Roy.

Tom Wambsgans: Brian D'Arcy James

Is he maybe a little old for the part? Sure. But age onstage is fucky, and Brian D’Arcy James would absolutely kill it as the combination ass-kisser and ruthless bastard that is Tom Wambsgans. Also he gives Minnesota.

Greg Hirsch: George Salazar

I kinda don’t feel like I have to explain this one.

Gerri: Bernadette Peters

Icons playing icons.

Frank: Mandy Patinkin

Sunday In The Park With George reunion!

Willa Ferreyra: Samantha Pauly

I rewatched her All You Wanna Do again last night (and cried again) and when I thought about Willa, that popped into my head. (Not in the sense that I think Willa is a victim like Katherine Howard, she’s a consenting sex worker, more the fact that in the succession world, women, like Willa, are only valued for their sexuality.) Anyway, Sam Pauly also just kills every part she’s in so…

Stewy Hosseini: Tony Yazbek

He’s played Billy Flynn on Broadway, so he’s good at being a smarmy yet charming asshole (I say this with love, I love both Stewy and Billy Flynn)

Lukas Matsson: Aaron Tiveit

He’s hot but can also be scary.

Hard Cuts/ Impossible:

Edward Herrman as Karl

Would he be fun in the role? Yes. Is he dead, and therefore incapable of doing it? Also yes.

Daniel Radcliffe as Roman

Barrett Wilbert Weed as Shiv

Mandy Patinkin as Logan

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2023: A YEAR IN REVIEW

thanks for tagging me @padme-amidala & @singularities !!

january most popular: din and grogu favorite: d'arcy carden

febuary most popular: luke skywalker favorite: stevenat + catws

march most popular and favorite: natasha romanoff + tropes

april most popular: natasha romanoff + sacrifice (also a fav) favorite: alicent hightower

may most popular: anakin skywalker favorite: stevenat + otp

june most popular: black widow (also a fav) favorite: wanda maximoff

july most popular: din djarin favorite: anidala + ao3

august most popular: the phantom menace favorites: yennefer of vengerberg & alicent hightower

september most popular: anakin skywalker + castles crumbling favorite: alicent hightower + guts

october most popular: the ladies of friends (also a fav) favorite: yennefer and triss

november most popular: star wars + red favorite: remake of a yennefer set

december most popular: everlark (also a fav) favorite: yenralt + ao3

tagging some friends (no pressure ofc) <3 @morgana-pendragon @richardgrimes @edwards-teach @buckysbarnes @siobhans-roy @simoneashley @rebecca-weltons

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AFC Richmond, you will always be famous.

Rapper Lil Yachty tagged Brett Goldstein showing off his Roy Kent kit.

LeBron was seen wearing an AFC hoodie the day after the Sam and the "shut up and play" episode aired.

Last year W magazine tasked their subjects to dress up as their favourite TV characters. Juno Temple went with Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven from STRANGER THINGS and Quincy Isaiah of HBO's WINNING TIME went with our beloved gaffer.

Last year James D'arcy (AGENT CARTER) and Gal pal channeled Ted and Rebecca.

People just love them. Can't blame them.

I read a fic where Higgins talked about his son in seminary school. How did I miss it's a real thing!

-Apropos of nothing. Street Style James Lance edition. This video reminds me of a TikTok of a guy who interviews the stylish older ladies of New York. Ladies who look like they may have had sex with a Kennedy or two. I guess I'm saying is James is a fancy older lady, not unlike one of Truman Capote's Swans.

[unitybalfour]

𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Name: Unity Alvilde Balfour née Mitford

Title(s): The Honorable Lady Spencer (former hereditary title)

Referred to as: Lady Balfour

Nickname(s): TBD

Age: 29 (22 December 1894)

Gender: Cisgender female

Sexual orientation: Bisexual

Occupation: Wife to Lord Edwin Balfour (current); it-girl (former)

Nationality: English

Religion: Catholic; Jewish (matrilineal, non-practising)

Class: Upper

Place of birth: Sandringham House, Norfolk

Hometown: As above

Faceclaim: Emma D'Arcy (Mothering Sunday)

𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Height: 5'8 (172 cm)

Weight: Average, slender

Build: Unity lives a life of leisure, and it shows. She would be plump were it not for her disordered eating and reliance on cigarettes; her current diet is one she read in Mademoiselle, and it consists of cucumber salad and mint water.

Distinguishing marks: She has a rather unsightly birthmark on her stomach. It is round as a penny and dark brown. When she was younger she used to pick at it in the hope that it could peel off. The result is an ugly, scarified blemish on her otherwise lean and pale body.

Hair colour:  Dark and thick, tending to auburn in the right light.

Hair style: Bobbed in the fashion of the day and set in finger-waves.

Eye colour: Quite clear and blue. Her eyes are remarkable mainly for the contrast provided by her dark hair; were she fair, she would look quite ordinary.

Clothing: Unity dresses splendidly, usually in rich colours: red, sky blue, ivory. She is striking purely because her clothes are clearly so expensive and beautiful. Mink, fox fur, pearls. Her fondness for silk gives the impression that she is slippery, a shimmering, poised figure.

Scent(s): Her perfume is strangely vegetatious, crisp as a new leaf; her body creams are equally masculine in scent, quite a far cry from the powdered sugar concoctions most women wear.

Accent: Received Pronunciation (RP)

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

Summary: The only daughter to a baron of minor repute, Unity was raised with a copy of Debrett's in one hand and a silver spoon in the other. She had singing lessons, dancing tutors, and learned the modern languages of the day. So curated was her existence that it should be no surprise to learn how hateful she became. Unity is a cold, judgemental person, with a litany of prejudices that can, at times, seem eccentric. Indeed, those few able to see past her veneer of respectability would not find the daughter of a baron, but a spoiled child with a frighteningly short temper and a wicked tongue. Her remarks can be so harsh, one can only hope that deep within there is a heart of gold, or a girl seeking protection. Anyone who thinks this is a fool. Unity Balfour is empty; hollowed-out. Any individuality was scooped out long ago. Instead, she plays her role: dutiful wife, pillar of society. It matters not that she beats with disdain for anything and anyone... except, perhaps, sometimes, Edwin.

Virtues: Insightful, diplomatic, poised, cultured, ambitious, brave.

Vices: Unstable, obsessive, cold, sharp-tongued, judgemental, vulnerable.

Moral alignment: Neutral Evil

Natal chart: Capricorn (Sun), Aquarius (Rising), Scorpio (Moon)

Habits: Shopping, socialising, draping herself on various pieces of furniture, reading magazines, throwing glassware.

Character tropes: Siobhan Roy (Succession); Rebecca de Winter (Rebecca); Julia (1984); Beth Harmon (The Queen's Gambit); Caroline Bingley (Pride & Prejudice); Esther Denham (Sandition)

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

Parent(s): The Right Honorable Andrew Mitford (Lord Spencer) (dead, 1919); Lady Alvilde Marion Stein (alive)

Sibling(s): N/A

Spouse: Lord Edwin Balfour

Child/ren: None... yet

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

TBD

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬

TBD

[adrian-paul-botta]

1926 - duotone rotogravure of an ad for La Boheme directed by King Vidor and starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Gino Corrado and Roy D'Arcy

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Lillian Gish at MGM

John Gilbert and Lillian Gish in La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926)

La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926)

Cast: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy, Edward Everett Horton, Karl Dane, Mathilde Comont, Gino Corrado, Eugene Pouyet. Screenplay: Frédérique De Grésac; titles: William M. Conselman, Ruth Cummings; based on a novel by Henri Murger and an opera libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Cinematography: Henrik Sartov. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, A. Arnold Gillespie. Costume design: Erté. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

Bohème without Puccini, except for a few themes from the opera interpolated into the piano accompaniment for some contemporary prints. The screenplay by Frédérique (billed as Fred) De Grésac is said to be "suggested by Life in the Latin Quarter" by Henri Murger, which is also the source of the opera libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. But the librettists took liberties with Murger, combining several characters and incidents, that are copied in the movie, so it's pretty clear that De Grésac paid at least as much attention to the opera as he did to Murger. It's very much a vehicle for Lillian Gish, making her debut at MGM. She wanted John Gilbert to play Rodolphe to her Mimi, but sometimes seems to be playing an anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better game with her co-star. There is, for example, a scene in which Gilbert acts out the proposed ending to the play he is writing, with much swashbuckling. Then, a few scenes later, Gish acts it out again with similar verve for a potential backer for the play. Their courtship is a surprisingly hyperactive one, particularly in the scene in which they and their fellow bohemians go on a picnic that involves much running about. And Gish is not content to die calmly: On hearing that she won't live through the night, she makes a mad dash across Paris to be reunited with her lover, at one point allowing herself to be dragged along the streets while hanging onto the back of a horse-cart. Gilbert poses with feet apart and arms akimbo much too often, and the starving bohemians are given to much dashing and dancing. (Among them is the endearing and enduring Edward Everett Horton as Colline.) It's all a bit too much, and I have a feeling that the print I saw shown at the wrong speed, giving it that herky-jerky quality we used to attribute to silent films before experts corrected the speed at which they should be projected. The costumes are by the celebrated designer Erté, who is said to have had so much trouble working with Gish that he gave up designing for Hollywood.

Lars Hanson and Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)

The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker, Marcelle Corday, Fred Herzog, Jules Cowles, Mary Hawes, Joyce Coad, James A. Marcus. Screenplay: Frances Marion, based on a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Cinematography: Henrik Sartov. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Sidney Ullman. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

I'm pretty sure that any high school students who think they can get by watching Frances Marion's adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter instead of reading it are likely to be disappointed in English class. That said, no film version is going to reproduce the depth of characterization, the symbolic force, or the intellectual density of Hawthorne, so we should be grateful for what this one does give us: one of Lillian Gish's greatest performances. This was Gish's second film for MGM, after La Bohème, and it suggests that her talents were better suited to a contemplative director like Victor Sjöström -- or Seastrom, as MGM insisted on anglicizing his name -- than to King Vidor's more action-oriented style. If her Mimi in La Bohème was disturbingly hyperactive, her Hester Prynne is a marvel of understated acting. She uses her eyes and mouth and the tilt of her chin to convey a miraculous range of emotions, from stubbornness to fear, from strength to frailty. It's a pity that her Dimmesdale, Lars Hanson, doesn't match her in subtlety. He's more successful in this regard in their 1928 collaboration The Wind, which was also directed by Sjöström.

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Starter Calls ; Memes ; Promo ;

Rules & Muses below ;

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Please DO NOT rush me with replies. i am kind of slow with replies from time to time. i try to get better with that buttttt. xD

2. Note that this is not my only blog so i may not be on here everyday.

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4. this blog WILL have NSFW themes on here & yes i do write NSFW threads.

5. i am a shipping whore, 9/10 i'm gonna like the same ship as you.

6. ALL muses will be written as Bi.

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House of the Dragon Muses ;

Rhaenyra Targaryen FC ; Emma D'Arcy

Daemon Targaryen FC ; Matt Smith

Aemond Targaryen FC ; Ewan Mitchell

Alicent Hightower FC ; Olivia Cooke

Helaena Targaryen FC ; Scarlett Johansson

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Sansa Stark FC ; Sophie Turner

Cersei Lannister FC ; Lena Headey

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Jamie Lannister FC ; Nikolaj Coster

Daenerys Targaryen FC ; Emilia Clarke

Sandor { The Hound } FC ; Roy McCann

Joffrey Baratheon FC ; Jack Gleeson

Margaery Tyrell FC ; Natalie Dormer

Oberyn Martell FC ; Pedro Pascal

[themonotony]

i feel once again, and i rejoice, that i am not busy dying—i am still busy being born. –– a multi-muse, consisting of a developed amalgamation of characters derived from all forms of media, among my own personal lore &. explorations. blog is on a friends only basis for the time being. #themonotony.

quote from @/theoptia.

canon muses.

alina starkov. from leigh bardugo's grishaverse. [sankta alina, the sun summoner – beautiful, terrible.] book based, visual inspiration from the show. face: jessie mei li. primary. “light exploded from me; pure &. unwavering.”

ginger fitzgerald. from ginger snaps i. [i am a goddamn force of nature.] first movie inspired, extremely headcanon reliant. face: katharine isabelle. primary. “i get this ache – and i thought it was for sex... but it's to tear everything to fucking pieces.”

roxanne 'roxy' morton. from mark millar's kingsman. [agent lancelot of the kingsman secret service. intelligent, adaptable, incredible.] movie based, headcanon reliant. face: sophie cookson. secondary. “manners. maketh. woman.”

katniss everdeen. from suzanne collins' hunger games. [the 74th victor.] book based, visual inspiration from the movies. face: devery jacobs. secondary. “i am not pretty. i am not beautiful. i am as radiant as the sun.”

aemond targaryen. from hbo's house of the dragon. [the kinslayer.] headcanon influenced, main inspiration from the show. face: ewan mitchell. secondary. “i may have lost an eye; but i gained a dragon.”

elizabeth swann. from potc. [the pirate king.] movie based, inspired by headcanon. face: tbd. secondary. “you like pain? try wearing a corset.”

gwendolyne stacy. from marvel comics. [the masked vigilante of new york, earth 65.] comic based, visual inspiration from the animated spider-verse movie. face: hunter schafer. secondary. “i chose to be a hero. i let them call me a villain.”

asuka sohryu. from neon genesis evangelion. [one of the second children, wielder of unit 002.] series based, inspiration from headcanon. face: animated. secondary. “it's simply the duty of the elite to protect the ignorant masses.”

daphne blake. from scooby doo. [self-proclaimed mystery solver.] comic based, visual inspiration from the animated spider-verse movie. face: savannah smith. secondary. “love? love fades away. things? things stay forever.”

req: shiv roy from succession. envy adams from scott pilgrim. lo'ak and tsireya from avatar. tatum riley from scream (prev. cutcasper). karen-karen from daisy jones and the six. sandie from lnis. jessica riley from until dawn. amy pond from doctor who.

* none of the canon muses here are 100% true to canon. there is always a divergence somewhere. questions are welcomed.

original characters.

maeve fraser. inspired by the 80s-90s rock scene. lead vocalist of a legendary rock band, drawing lines from unadmitted satanic rituals and the 'final girl' trope. face: anya taylor-joy. “and when you hear my voice remember, you ruined me whole.”

reimaris sommer. situated within high fantasy worlds – a lawful, obsolete dragon-rider... the last of her family. inspired by the goddess of childbirth, Juno. face: emma d'arcy. “i engulf all that becomes me – in anguish and blood i engulf it. i live in the cracks between your world and theirs. i am no longer i woman weaving. i am a dragon.”

laurence freight. daughter to a corrupt dynasty she does not want to receive. the exploration of regressing to childhood, and learning to overcome fear. face: savannah lee smith. “you'd be sat here waiting for me to make the next move until eternity ends.” affiliated with @theburning.

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beverly of graustark (1926)

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Love Bound (1932) Robert F. Hill

August 11th 2021