Silver Screen, June 1931

ITS SO CUTE HOW EVERYONE HAS THAT ONE LIL THING THAT THEY CAN JUST TALK ABOUT FOREVER AND NOT GET TIRED ABOUT AND THEY’RE ALL SO DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER LIKE IT COULD BE LANGUAGES OR COWS OR PLANES OR COFFEE AND ITS JUST SO GREAT

SPENCER TRACY & KATHARINE HEPBURN in WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 │ dir. George Stevens

men get pegged

Summertime (1955)

“Greta Garbo’s quote to Jerry Zerbe at Valentina’s Russian Easter party was practically stop press. She told him: ‘I don’t dislike people. I love people. And I go to parties all the time!’” – Dorothy Kilgallen, Voice of Broadway, April 21, 1950

Elliot & Olivia

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She kissed so thirstily, said Kenneth Tynan, “cupping her man’s head in both hands and seeming very early to drink from it.” There were no retakes on the Garbo-Gilbert love scenes. “You can actually see these two terribly attractive people falling in love with each other on the screen,” said Gilbert’s daughter, and director Brown confirmed it:

It was the damnedest thing you ever saw. It was the sort of thing Elinor Glyn used to write about. When they got into that first love scene… Nobody else was even there. Those two were alone in a world of their own. It seemed like an intrusion to yell “cut!“ I used to just motion the crew over to another part of the set and let them finish what they were doing. It was embarrassing.

gender somewhere between Conrad “the prettiest girl in paris” Veidt and Greta “the ideal leading man” Garbo

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown