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Dora Carrington & Lytton Strachey, Ham Spray, Wiltshire

#dora carrington #bloomsbury group #wiltshire #aesthetic

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Sissinghurst, June 2017

#sheshootsfilm #sissinghurst #aesthetic #bloomsbury group #travel #spirituality

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This beautiful film must’ve been so hard for Jane, so complicated for her to act in as well as produce. Such a complicated relationship. Forever grateful that it was made.

“The first words Katharine Hepburn said to me were; ‘I don’t like you.’ and the last thing she said to me, when I called her the day after she won her Oscar to congratulate her was; ‘You’ll never catch me now.’ In other words, she was prickly. She didn’t like me and she was extremely competitive. You have to understand, she was old and I was in my 40s, so I was a bigger box office star than her, and I was producing the movie for my father, and she actually thought I was going to try to get billing above her and all kinds of things, which never occurred to me.

However, there were times when I ran into trouble because of my father; like, there was a scene where we were having an intense, angry exchange about parcheesi and beating people, and they shot my close-up first and there was so much light in my eyes that I couldn’t see his eyes, and so I had the cameraman put some light on his face so that I could see him. When the camera turned around and it was now on him, before we shot, I said, ‘Is it okay, dad? Can you see my eyes?’ He said, ‘I don’t need to see your eyes. I’m not that kind of actor.’ and the way actors are, half of me was demolished. I just felt so hurt and awful. The other half of me was saying, ‘Yes! This is so great, this is just like the character.’ But the bad part took over and, at the end of the day when everybody was leaving, I was just immobile on the couch, I was so wiped. Suddenly, Katharine came up and just put her arms around me; nobody knew it but she just did. She said, ‘He doesn’t even know that he hurt you. You don’t take it personally. Spencer used to do that all the time to me. He’d say, I don’t need you to be here for the love scene. Go. I’m not that kind of actor. They don’t know that they’ve hurt you.’ and it meant the world to me. That kind of thing, she would do.” - Jane Fonda

#on golden pond #jane fonda #katharine hepburn #henry fonda #aesthetic

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Katharine Hepburn photographed by Len Tavares (1981)

#katharine hepburn #on golden pond #1980s

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Champagne at sunset with sweet Erica 🤍 @yourbelovedfae

#champagne #citygrammers #knoxville #oldcity #sunsets #dark academia

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell playing cricket at Talland House, 1894

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Bring it baaackkk 😭😭😭

For most of my life, I’ve had to fight the idea that I’m nothing more than someone to throw away, or pass around as needed, or that I’m not capable of being of real help because I’m a girl. But I came to understand that I was the same person the whole time. I’m loved now, but when I wasn’t, it didn’t mean I wasn’t worthy of it. No one but you is allowed to dictate what you’re worth.

#anne with an e #aesthetic #awaeedit #annewithaneedit #awae

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EMMA 2020; ▐ Emma & Knightley; overwhelmed by feelings.

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“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Austrian National Library