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@romanbone

• Laura she/her • mostly Old Hollywood films, photography, style, graphics • • someone on twitter once told me I posted too many Carole Lombard pics •

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He's looking at proofs of his wife Pamela's book, Del Palma, for which he designed the dust jacket artwork
Photos by Michael Rougier, 1948.

10.03.2026 20:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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James Mason's cats doing what every cat everywhere does - sitting on the exact thing on the floor you're trying to look at. ⬇️

10.03.2026 20:56 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I don't know if this is correct but I read it described as cel animation

10.03.2026 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Man Godfrey (1936) title sequence. Directed by Gregory La Cava #botd

Source: cult cinema classics on YouTube.

10.03.2026 16:56 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Closeup of Lupino under an arched doorway, looking up with eyes wide open and mouth open in an expression of enthusiasm.

Closeup of Lupino under an arched doorway, looking up with eyes wide open and mouth open in an expression of enthusiasm.

Ida Lupino in 1935 as the “heart interest of Harold Lloyd in ‘The Milky Way.’” Lupino had to drop out of this film due to illness.

07.03.2026 03:26 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Miriam Hopkins by Clarence Sinclair Bull, taken while on loan-out to MGM from Paramount for The Stranger's Return (1933).

10.03.2026 09:55 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Bringing this back for Gregory La Cava's birthday #botd

10.03.2026 09:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"May I be frank?"
"Is that your name?"
"No, my name is Godfrey"
"Alright, be frank"

Celebrating the sublime Jean Dixon and her wonderful deadpan delivery, who died today in 1981. With William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936). 🎬

12.02.2026 18:02 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Lupe Vélez and Ruth Etting in London for the play, Transatlantic Rhythm, 1936.

10.03.2026 09:25 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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10 March 1892 – 1952 Gregory La Cava, 59, US director, producer, screenwriter

The Affairs of Cellini (1934) * Private Worlds * She Married Her Boss * My Man Godfrey * Stage Door * Fifth Avenue Girl * The Primrose Path * Lady in a Jam * Living in a Big Way * One Touch of Venus (1948)

09.03.2026 00:35 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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BOTD: Juliette Binoche

09.03.2026 10:37 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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And recreated in colour by Marland Stone for the cover of Motion Picture magazine, 1934.

09.03.2026 18:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Constance Bennett photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull for Outcast Lady (1934). ⬇️

09.03.2026 18:16 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Preston Duncan portrait of Myrna Loy, 1928.

09.08.2023 08:06 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Barbara Stanwyck on the set of You Belong To Me (1941). Henry Fonda in the background.

09.03.2026 11:34 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dolores del Rio and Orson Welles, 1941.

09.03.2026 11:31 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Six images of different animals created by coloured and patterned collage in a fun styles.

Six images of different animals created by coloured and patterned collage in a fun styles.

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart

09.03.2026 11:21 👍 550 🔁 92 💬 2 📌 3
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William Powell and Kay Francis, One Way Passage (1932).

08.03.2026 16:23 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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#botd Claire Trevor's hair in Murder Mystery Sweet (1944), is a feat of modern engineering.

08.03.2026 14:02 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Ida Lupino, publicity for Moontide (1942).

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7 March 1946 – 2017 John Heard, 71, US actor.

Heart Beat (1980) * Cutter's Way * Cat People * The Trip to Bountiful * Big * Beaches * Awakenings * Home Alone 1/2 * Rambling Rose * Deceived * The Pelican Brief * The Sopranos * Prison Break * NCIS Los Angeles * The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)

07.03.2026 00:58 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Cover art by Charles Baskerville for Theatre Magazine, 1923.

07.03.2026 18:02 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Anna Magnani and James Mason at the Venice Film Festival, 1956.

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Ernesto García Cabral art from 1926, which appeared on the cover of Mexican magazine, Revista de Revistas. #caturday

07.03.2026 11:49 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Carole Lombard portrait by William E. Thomas, c1928/9 for Pathé.

07.03.2026 11:25 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Carole Lombard portrait by William E. Thomas, c1928/9 for Pathé.

07.03.2026 11:25 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Carole Lombard on the cover of CINEARTE magazine, 1930. Uncredited, but possibly by Fred Moulin and based on a Pathé publicity shot by William E. Thomas, c1929. ⬇️

07.03.2026 11:22 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Carole Lombard by William E. Thomas, c1928/29.

18.01.2026 13:47 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi

Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi

Summertime (1955)
Director: David Lean

#filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

05.03.2026 22:45 👍 50 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
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Madge Evans, 1931. Attributed to Edward Steichen.

06.03.2026 23:21 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0