Writer, researcher, and film historian focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.

Joined January 2019
I was lucky enough to receive a fabulous tour of Jean Harlow’s 1932 custom-built mansion on South Beverly Glen Boulevard, now listed for the first time in decades. Read about the history of this well-preserved, idiosyncratic property and take a walkthrough with me at link below:
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I wrote about the life and times of the president of the first Official Jean Harlow Club, Minnette Shermak, who singlehandedly proves fan circles have been around a lot longer than we think. Link below
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Nice candid color (not colorized) portrait of Groucho at Sardi's restaurant for the Tony Awards after-party in April of 1968. Groucho was a presenter that year; not a nominee. (Photo by Oscar Abolafia)
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Maggy Rouff has not received the attention she deserved as an important designer. Alongside her creative outputs she was also head of the most important anti-piracy association in Paris which sought to protect the work of fellow artists. Here, one of her dresses c1950 #bonhams
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Enjoying my sneak of @thescrewballgrl's upcoming #VirginiaGrey bio 🤩 Shown here rehearsing with #GeorgeCukor & new friend #JoanCrawford for the perfume counter scene in #TheWomen. IRL the independent Grey definitely had opinions about her rather controlling new pal. 😉 #TCMParty
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From Canto V of the epic poem "Orlando Furioso", Illustration: Gustave Doré, 1877.
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I have this on my fridge.
Al Buell (American, 1910-1996). Golden Beauty. Oil on canvasboard not.pulpcovers.com/post/8312…
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Joan Crawford by Salvador Baguez, 1934
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This looks Paleolithic until you’ve seen the toxic 1930s screen star fan spaces or the silent comedy Facebook groups
They are having Paleolithic stan wars on TikTok
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Do people move like this with 19th century theater?
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This is how arguing about the 1955 Oscars looks to me btw
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I start a new job today. any donations help so I can get to and from work
unemployed again. having a terrible time mentally. pausing my patreon for the month of october to try and reset myself mentally and hope I can get a job. im not retitling my gofundme but I guess retweet if you can? I don’t know. im so tired. gofund.me/b2bd791aa
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Scarlet Range pulpcovers.com/scarlet-range… Covers, Full Issue, Magazine, Ranch Romances, Romance, Western
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Autocorrect gets worse the longer I go without updating my iPhone 12. Someday something terrier is going to happen.
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One of the most beautiful and unforgettably named women ever put to film, in my humble opinion (von Stroheim gets me). Sad she died so young and now rests out of view in the basement vault at Chapel of the Pines: such is life!
Patricia “Boots” Mallory and Alexander Kirkland for Humanity (1933).
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Olive Thomas featured in Cosmopolitan, 1915
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Happy William Wellman Wednesday I’m forwarding this great Frank Thompson Facebook post as I have nothing better to share
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