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#tooreal

Dunya Mikhail, ‘The New Year’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)

[Text ID: “There is a knock at the door. How disappointing… It is the New Year and not you.”]

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carole lombard, date unknown 🎞

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The couple that tumbles together... um... tumbles together. 

Holiday (1938) dir. George Cukor

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Cinemaspast 1K Celebration: Favorite Movie Per Member: Airam (@magnusedom)

→ SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

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TIL that the Spirit of Christmas was a real person and his name was Toshiro Mifune.

A merry one to those who celebrate!

#toshiro mifune #christmas #akira kurosawa #scanda #classic movies #christmas tree

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She had the look of a martyr, a tragic heroine, which worked in melodrama but provided an even more satisfying counterpoint in comedies. 

Happy Birthday Irene Dunne! Born Irene Marie Dunn, December 20th, 1898

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#tooreal

#robert benchley #algonquin round table #onwriting #unfortunately true

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Judy Holliday’s bio in the playbill for Bells are Ringing

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Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea in The More the Merrier (1943) dir. George Stevens

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The career of African American artist Augusta Savage (February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was fostered by the climate of the Harlem Renaissance. During the 1930s, she was well known in Harlem as a sculptor, art teacher, and community art program director. Her work is now in the permanent collections of major museums across the world.

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Vaslav Nijinsky in different ballets ~ illustrations by George Barbier (1910-1912)

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Portrait of Ingrid Bergman by David Seymour, 1952

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This song is anything but empty sentiment. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has created something and wondered if it was actually a worthless piece of dreck until, voila, another person says they like and believe in it. That moment can be world-changing. 

#muppets #jim henson #just one person

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“I didn’t look like a storybook princess. I wasn’t a lace paper valentine, I was the comic variety.” - Myrna Loy

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Letter written to his sister Ludmila, 1905