#Gold Diggers of 1934

[renthony]

So I'm working my way through the book Pre-Code Hollywood by Thomas Doherty, and the author has made some fascinating observations about the way food and hunger were shown in Depression-era films:

"Work or starve. Fulsome evidence of one common experience in the Great Depression,the palpable pangs of hunger afflict screen characters across the genres, men and women alike living hand to mouth, propelled by the basic biological urge to eat, to earn not even a decent day’s wages but just a square meal. Food and eating are more than leitmotifs in pre-Code Hollywood; people literally faint from hunger. In the Warner Bros. blockbuster 42nd Street (1933), undernourished hoofer Ruby Keeler collapses from exhaustion. In the follow-up musical Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), chorines steal a bottle of milk for a spartan breakfast. In King Kong (1933), down-and-out Fay Wray reaches weakly for sustenance from a fruit stand. In It Happened One Night (1934), spoiled brat heiress Claudette Colbert flings a hearty meal into the ocean, an act merely impulsive in flush times but wastefully sinful now. Later, she suffers for the transgression. On the road and penniless, she feels true hunger for the first time. Forced to forage in the woods like an animal for carrots, she learns the value of a single chocolate bar and the pleasures of dunking doughnuts."

The author goes on for several more paragraphs, giving more examples. I thought it was a particularly interesting example of the way societal anxieties are represented in art even when the art isn't explicitly about that anxiety.

Now I'm just thinking about how fascinating it would be to study the way food is used and portrayed in film across decades, and what other things impact that portrayal.

#original post

[thesludgeofbabylon]

Top 100 Films

Just wanted to put this somewhere for the sake of documentation, might do this once a year to see how much the overall list changes.

Not ranked, but the list is done by release date, earliest to most recent. Includes short and feature length films (plus one TV series, and two serials, if you want to be specific):

• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), dir. D.W. Griffith

• Fantômas (1913), dir. Louis Feuillade

• Les Vampires (1915), dir. Louis Feuillade

• The Doll (1919), dir. Ernst Lubitsch

• Foolish Wives (1922), dir. Erich von Stroheim

• Sherlock, Jr. (1924), dir. Buster Keaton

• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924), dir. Fritz Lang

• Greed (1924), dir. Erich von Stroheim

• The Last Laugh (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau

• The Gold Rush (1925), dir. Charlie Chaplin

• The General (1926), dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), dir. F. W. Murnau

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

• The Docks of New York (1928), dir. Josef von Sternberg

• The Wedding March (1928), dir. Erich von Stroheim

• Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Dziga Vertov

• M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang

• Vampyr (1932), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy

• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy, Bubsy Berkeley

• L’Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo

• The Scarlet Empress (1934), dir. Josef von Sternberg

• The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke

• The Only Son (1936), dir. Yasujirō Ozu 

• Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles

• Now, Voyager (1942), dir. Irving Rapper

• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren

• Day of Wrath (1943), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

• At Land (1944), dir. Maya Deren

• Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), dir. Sergei Eisenstein

• Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

• Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder

• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953), dir. Jacques Tati

• The Wages of Fear (1953), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

• The Big Heat (1953), dir. Fritz Lang

• The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), dir. Kenneth Anger

• Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

• Ordet (1955), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

• A Man Escaped (1956), dir. Robert Bresson

• Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot (1958), dir. Sergei Eisenstein

• La Dolce Vita (1960), dir. Federico Fellini

• L’Avventura (1960), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

• La Notte (1961), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

• L’Eclisse (1962), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

• The Exterminating Angel (1962), dir. Luis Buñuel

• Mothlight (1963), dir. Stan Brakhage

• Red Desert (1964), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

• Gertrud (1964), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

• The War Game (1966), dir. Peter Watkins

• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), dir. Robert Bresson

• Daisies (1966), dir. Věra Chytilová

• Lemon (1969), dir. Hollis Frampton

• The Conformist (1970), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci 

• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), dir. Luis Buñuel

• F for Fake (1973), dir. Orson Welles

• Lancelot of the Lake (1974), dir. Robert Bresson

• A Woman Under the Influence (1974), dir. John Cassavetes

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). dir. Tobe Hooper

• House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi 

• Stalker (1979), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

• Nostalgia (1983), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

• L’Argent (1983), dir. Robert Bresson 

• Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch

• Heathers (1989), dir. Michael Lehmann

• Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), dir. Hayao Miyazaki

• Baraka (1992), dir. Ron Fricke

• Satantango (1994), dir. Béla Tarr

• A Confucian Confusion (1994), dir. Edward Yang

• Chungking Express (1994), dir. Wong Kar-Wai

• Ed Wood (1994), dir. Tim Burton

• Whisper of the Heart (1995), dir. Yoshifumi Kondo

• Showgirls (1995), dir. Paul Verhoeven 

• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki

• Gummo (1997), dir. Harmony Korine

• The Big Lebowski (1998), dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 

• Outer Space (1999), dir. Peter Tscherkassky

• Beau Travail (1999), dir. Claire Denis

• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), dir. Harmony Korine

• Yi Yi (2000), dir. Edward Yang

• Dancer in the Dark (2000), dir. Lars von Trier

• The Piano Teacher (2001), dir. Michael Haneke

• Mulholland Drive (2001), dir. David Lynch

• What Time Is It There? (2001), dir. Tsai Ming-liang

• Memories of Murder (2003), dir. Bong Joon-ho

• The Matrix Reloaded (2003), dir. Lily Wachowski, Lana Wachowski  

• The Village (2004), dir. M. Night Shyamalan

• Caché (2005), dir. Michael Haneke

• Southland Tales (2006), dir. Richard Kelly

• Inland Empire (2006), dir. David Lynch

• Zodiac (2007), dir. David Fincher

• The White Ribbon (2009), dir. Michael Haneke

• The Turin Horse (2011), dir. Béla Tarr

• Five Broken Cameras (2012), dir. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

• The Master (2012), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

• Spring Breakers (2012), dir. Harmony Korine

• Song to Song (2017), dir. Terrence Malick

• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), dir. David Lynch

• The Favourite (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma

• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), dir. Jane Schoenbrun

(10/4/23)

#favourite films #top 100 #ranking #films #world cinema #classic hollywood #arthouse #list

[bubonicrogainecake]

Filmography to Love and Adore (1900 - 2022 AD)

1900:

-Joan of Arc

-The One-Man Band

1901:

-History Of A Crime

1902:

-The Coronation of Edward VII

1903:

-Life of An American Fireman

1904:

-The Impossible Voyage

1905:

-Esmerelda

1906:

-The Story of The Kelly Gang

1907:

-L'Enfant Prodigue

1908:

-Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

-Fantasmagorie

1909:

-Princess Nicotine/The Smoke Fairy

-The Golden Louis

1910:

-Frankenstein

1911:

-Little Nemo

1912:

-The Beautiful Leukanida

1913:

-The Adventures of Kathlyn

1914:

-The Squaw Man

1915:

-Are You A Mason?

-Carmen

-Barnaby Rudge

1916:

-Civilization

-The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1917:

-Charlie Chaplin: The Cure

1918:

-The Tenth Symphony

1919:

-Intoxication

1920:

-The Saphead

1921:

-L'Atlantide

-Charlie Chaplin: The Kid

1922:

-The Toll of The Sea

1923:

-The Unknown Tomorrow

-The Man in The Iron Mask

1924:

-Dante's Inferno

1925:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Pleasure Garden

-The Phantom of the Opera

1926:

-The Great Gatsby

-The Devil's Wheel

-The Devil's Circus

-The Golden Butterfly

1927:

-The Jazz Singer

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger (The Story of the London Fog)

-Metropolis

1928:

-Noah's Ark

1929:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Blackmail

-The Broadway Melody

1930:

-Hell's Angels

-Young Man of Manhattan

1931:

-The Man Who Came Back

-Bad Girl

1932:

-Smilin' Through

-Tarzan The Ape Man

-Strange Interlude

1933:

-Little Women

-Gold Diggers of 1933

1934:

-The Lost Patrol

-Riptide

1935:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps

1936:

-Reefer Madness

1937:

-Walt Disney: Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

-The Good Earth

1938:

-Jezebel

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes

1939:

-The Wizard of Oz

1940:

-Walt Disney: Pinocchio

-Alfred Hitchcock: Correspondent

-Walt Disney: Fantasia

-Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

-Boom Town

1941:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion

-Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

1942:

-Casablanca

-Road To Morocco

1943:

-For Whom The Bell Tolls

-Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of A Doubt

1944:

-Gaslight

-Double Indemnity

-Laura

-National Velvet

1945:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound

1946:

-The Best Years of Our Lives

-Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious

1947:

-Forever Amber

-The Egg And I

1948:

-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

-The Search

1949:

-I Married A Communist

-The Man From Colorado

-The Heiress

1950:

-Walt Disney: Cinderella

1951:

-Quo Vadis

-Awaara

-That's My Boy

-The Thirteenth Letter

1952:

-The Big Sky

1953:

-The Robe

-Walt Disney: Peter Pan

1954:

-Magnificent Obsession

-Godzilla

1955:

-Sissi

-The Man With The Golden Arm

1956:

-Francis In The Haunted House

-And God Created Woman

-Anastasia

-The Rainmaker

1957:

-The Bridge on the River Kwai

-Yellow Crow

1958:

-Gigi

-The Defiant Ones

-I Want To Live!

1959:

-Ben-Hur

-The 400 Blows

1960:

-Mughal-E-Azam

1961:

-The Misfits

1962:

-The Manchurian Candidate

-Sundays and Cybéle

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Bellboy & The Playgirls

1963:

-Nurse On Wheels

-Shock Corridor

1964:

-The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

-Mary Poppins

-Becket

-My Fair Lady

-Seven Days in May

-The Time Travelers

1965:

-The Sound of Music

-The Beatles: Help!

-The Spy Who Came in From The Cold

-The Shop on Main Street

1966:

-A Man for All Seasons

-Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac

-La Battaglia di Algeri

1967:

-The Graduate

-The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour

1968:

-Psych-Out!

-Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey

-The Girl on A Motorcycle

-Roman Polanski: Rosemary's Baby

-Candy

-Wild In The Streets

1969:

-The Night of the Following Day

-Psychout for Murder

-Medium Cool

-The Arrangement

-Easy Rider

1970:

-Donkey Skin

-I Drink Your Blood

-Night Slaves

-Patton

1971:

-Harold and Maude

-Billy Jack

-Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange

-Frank Zappa: 200 Motels

-Dirty Harry

1972:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather

-Slaughterhouse-Five

1973:

-The Hourglass Sanatorium

-The Crazies

-American Graffiti

1974:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

1975:

-Satanico Pandemonium

1976:

-Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver

1977:

-Rituals

-Blue Sunshine

1978:

-Deathsport

1979:

-Mad Max

-Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now

1980:

-Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

-The Exterminator

-Stanley Kubrick: The Shining

-Altered States

-The Octagon

1981:

-Christiane F.

1982:

-Silent Rage

1983:

-Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi

1984:

-This is Spinal Tap

-Dune

-The Killing Fields

-Red Dawn

1985:

-The Emerald Forest

-Invasion U.S.A.

1986:

-Gus Van Sant: Mala Noche

-What Every Frenchwoman Wants

-Platoon

1987:

-The Girl

1988:

-Zombi 3

-Brain Damage

1989:

-Drugstore Cowboy

1990:

-Hardware

-Jacob's Ladder

-Les 1001 Nuits

1991:

-Oliver Stone: The Doors

-Richard Linklater: Slacker

1992:

-Batman Returns

1993:

-In The Name of The Father

-12:01

1994:

-The Stand

-The Crow

-Leon The Professional

-Pulp Fiction

1995:

-Before Sunrise

-The Basketball Diaries

-Billy Madison

1996:

-Mike Judge: Beavis And Butthead Do America

-Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket

-Beautiful Girls

-Mission Impossible

1997:

-Conspiracy Theory

-Harmony Korine: Gummo

-Lost Highway

1998:

-The Truman Show

-Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

-The Big Lebowski

-Wes Anderson: Rushmore

-Vincent Gallo: Buffalo 66

1999:

-Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut

-Fight Club

-The Matrix

-American Beauty

-The Blair Witch Project

2000:

-American Psycho

-Mission Impossible II

-Scary Movie

2001:

-Studio Ghibli: Spirited Away

-Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums

2002:

-Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones

-Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil

-Demonlover

-Equilibrium

-Panic Room

-Spun

2003:

-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

-Oldboy

-Just Married

-Vincent Gallo: The Brown Bunny

-Party Monster

-Gus Van Sant: Elephant

2004:

-Before Sunset

-Fahrenheit 9/11

-The Day After Tomorrow

2005:

-Gus Van Sant: Last Days

2006:

-Jet Li: Fearless

-Candy

-Children of Men

-Little Miss Sunshine

-The Science of Sleep

2007:

-Hot Rod

2008:

-Tropic Thunder

-Batman: The Dark Knight

-Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

-The Love Guru

-Be Kind Rewind

-Gonzo: The Life And Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2009:

-The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

-Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers

-Enter The Void

-Zombieland

-District 9

-We Live In Public

2010:

-My Joy

2011:

-The Sitter

-Drive

2012:

-Dredd

-Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus

-Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe Standup Comedy

-Artificial Paradises

-Cloud Atlas

-Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

2013:

-A Field In England

-3096 Days

2014:

-Saint Laurent

2015:

-The Road

2016:

-The Love Witch

-Dernieres Nouvelles Du Cosmos (Latest News From The Cosmos)

2017:

-Low Life

2018:

-Mandy

-Waco

-Climax

2019:

-Joker

-1917

-Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

2020:

-Borealis

2021:

-Fear And Loathing in Aspen

-The Beatles/Peter Jackson: Get Back

-Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss

2022:

-Everything Everywhere All At Once

[littlelioncub43]

What are your favorite movies?? I'm very interested bc you often put me on new stuff that i didn't know before.

Also bc of fashion Friday i started caring a lot more about my 'fashion' bc i realized i can't just go out in basketball short and t-shirt and call it fashion

Oo so so many. But! Let's go! I added some Halloween favorites hehe

Simon Birch

Tombstone

Under Wraps

Dracula (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Black Cat (1934)

The Raven (1935)

Ravenous

The Edge

Labyrinth

Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire

Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost

The Phantom of The Opera (1943 and 2004)

Gigi

Fanny

What About Bob

Uncle Buck

The Great Outdoors

Harry and The Hendersons

The Blues Brothers

Meet Me in St. Louis

Singin' In The Rain

Little Women (1994)

Hook

Peter Pan (2003)

Gold Diggers of 1933

Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: the Movie (1995)

Leon: The Professional

Some Like It Hot

Trouble With Angels

The Green Mile

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 and the 1986 made for TV film)

I'll leave it at that for now hehe 🥰 but these are some of my faves and some basic suggestions! 😄

Aww! I hope I didn't make you feel self conscious or anything bad like that, I hope it was a positive influence! Im sure you rock those basketball shorts tho 👀 you look gorg.

#sweet nonnie who asks good questions #i love movies

[braineyboxd]

My Carole Lombard snow day mini-marathon continues with a delight of a film. To set the mood, please enjoy Russ Morgan and his orchestra's rendition of the hit 1934 song "Hands Across the Table."

This lovely tune is played over the opening credits of the correspondingly titled Hands Across the Table, a screwball romantic comedy vehicle for Carole that became the first of four successful pairings with Fred MacMurray for Paramount.

Like a great deal of 1930s comedies, Hands Across the Table deals with class consciousness and the relationship between money and happiness. It's about a pair of gold diggers--a man and woman--looking to marry into wealth to guarantee personal and financial security in such trying times. They connect in the salon where Carole's Regi gives Fred's Ted a manicure. Hands across the table, indeed. (Also please normalize men getting manicures again.)

Ted is engaged to a wealthy snob while Regi gives daily manicures to Ralph Bellamy's rich and adoring Allen, but the spark between the leads is undeniable, bolstered by both a fantastic script and the real life chemistry between Carole and Fred. Although Carole and director Mitchell Leisen had to drag Fred's comedic performance out of him almost literally kicking and screaming, the begrudging affection between Regi and Ted appears effortless thanks to how well our stars just click. Leisen (pictured below in the preppy shorts, which we should also normalize for men again) even reported that Carole and Fred's uproarious laughter in the telephone scene was 100% genuine and unscripted. Personally, I'm inclined to believe him.

Even the promotional stills--depicting a high-class nightclub scene that regrettably never occurs in the film--sizzle with laughter, love, and life.

There's a buoyancy enveloping the whole production. It teaches a little-known cure for hiccoughs. It features two old timey cosmetic death traps. It has a cute cat named Whitey. It's delightfully irreverent. It's irresistibly intimate. It's insatiably happy.

Even thrown-over Allen has to laugh at the end! (Which is actually kind of sad. Pour one out for Allen tonight.)

Speaking of laughs, a flipped coin gets the last one.

My last entry in the Carole Lombard snow day mini-marathon will be another collaboration with Fred MacMurray. Until then, check out my star rating for Hands Across the Table and extend your hand to me across the digital table on Letterboxd.

#hands across the table #carole lombard #fred macmurray #ralph bellamy #1935 #mitchell leisen #comedy #screwball comedy #romance #paramount #classic film #classic movies #old movies #classic hollywood #old hollywood

[brookston]

Holidays 12.28

Holidays

BiCreators Day

Brobdingnagian Proboscis Day

Call a Friend Day

Congress Foundation Day (India)

Cross Day (Ireland)

Dysemas Day (Northhamptonshire, UK)

Eat a Vegetarian Day

Els Enfarinats (Flour Fight; Ibi & Valencia, Spain)

Endangered Species Act Day

End-of-Year Days (EU)

Fourth Day of Christmas

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Holiday Breather Day

International Cinema Day

Kashmiri Homestead Day

King Taskin Memorial Day (Thailand)

Kullubi (Ethiopia)

Manure Day (French Republic)

National Call a Friend Day

National Card Playing Day

National Download Day

National Short Film Day

National Stan Lee Day

National Tim Day

Pledge of Allegiance Day

Proclamation Day (South Australia)

Republic Day (South Sudan)

Return a Gift for Cold Hard Cash Day

Shaheed Sabha (Punjab, India)

Stanley Races begin (Falkland Islands)

Take a Drive and Enjoy the Christmas Lights Day

Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Yule Log Day (UK)

National Box of Chocolates Day

National Chocolate Candy Day

National Eat Chocolate Day

4th & Last Thursday in December

National Betty Day [4th Thursday]

Independence Days

Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846)

Lundenwic (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Mexico (Date Recognized, 1821)

Republic of Ut Pace (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Yusienia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abel (Coptic Church)

Bruma IV (Pagan)

Caterina Volpicelli (Christian; Saint)

Childermas (a.k.a. Feast of the Holy Innocents; Christian)

Day of the Holy Innocents (Spain)

Excelsior Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of Fools, Day 3 (Holy Innocent's Day)

Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. Childermas; Christian)

Félix Vallotton (Artology)

Fool’s Day (Dis de los Inocentes; Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela)

Inocentes (Mexican December Fool’s Day)

Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)

Lamarck (Positivist; Saint)

Mike ’The Bike’ Hailwood Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Only 4 Pasta-eating Days Left This Year Day (Pastafarian)

Simon the Athonite (Christian; Saint)

Theodorus, Abbot of Tabenna (Christian; Saint)

Twelve Holy Days #3 (Gemini, the hands; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #4; Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

The Whispering Log (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Bairns' Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year; Scotland)

Dyzymas (Medieval Unlucky Day; Bad Day to Start Anything)

The Sexiest Day of All the Days (in Ted Lasso)

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 60 of 60)

Unluckiest Day of the Year

Premieres

Black Hawk Down (Film; 2001)

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (TV Special; 2018)

Bright Eyes (Film; 1934)

Cyrano de Bergerac (Play; 1897)

The Deep Six or It’s Tough to Fathom (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 331; 1964)

1st Commercial Film Screening (Lumber Brothers; 1895)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (Film; 1936)

The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Book; 1973)

I Am Sam (Film; 2001)

Match Point (Film; 2005)

Mother, by John Lennon (Song; 1970)

The New Delhi-Cateseen or Judgment at Bloombergs (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 332; 1964)

On the Town (Broadway Musical; 1944)

Poor Richard’s Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin (Magazine; 1732)

Portrait in Jazz, by Bill Evans (Album recorded; 1959)

Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1923)

To Beep or Not to Beep (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, by Samael Aun Weor (Spiritual Book; 1953)

Where the Boys Are (Film; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Donna, Mattea, Unschuldige Kinder (Austria)

Mladen, Nevenka (Croatia)

Bohumila (Czech Republic)

Piia, Piiu (Estonia)

Piia (Finland)

Gaspard (France)

John, Unschuldige Kinder (Germany)

Domna, Mygdonios, Theofili (Greece)

Kamilla (Hungary)

Donna, Dorma, Innocenti Martiri (Italy)

Inga, Ivita, Jonatans, Mierins (Latvia)

Ema, Kamilė, Kantvilas, Vaidilutė (Lithuania)

Une, Unn, Unni (Norway)

Antoni, Dobrowiest, Emma, Godzisław, Teofila (Poland)

Ivana, Ivona (Slovakia)

Abel (Spain)

Benjamin (Sweden)

Aspen, Caspar, Gaspar, Innocent, Jasper, Kasper, Woodrow, Woody (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 362 of 2024; 3 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 16 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 16 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 2 Fest; Twosday [2 of 5]

Julian: 15 December 2023

Moon: 97%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Bichat (13th Month) [Lamarck]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 8 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 7 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.28

Holidays

BiCreators Day

Brobdingnagian Proboscis Day

Call a Friend Day

Congress Foundation Day (India)

Cross Day (Ireland)

Dysemas Day (Northhamptonshire, UK)

Eat a Vegetarian Day

Els Enfarinats (Flour Fight; Ibi & Valencia, Spain)

Endangered Species Act Day

End-of-Year Days (EU)

Fourth Day of Christmas

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Holiday Breather Day

International Cinema Day

Kashmiri Homestead Day

King Taskin Memorial Day (Thailand)

Kullubi (Ethiopia)

Manure Day (French Republic)

National Call a Friend Day

National Card Playing Day

National Download Day

National Short Film Day

National Stan Lee Day

National Tim Day

Pledge of Allegiance Day

Proclamation Day (South Australia)

Republic Day (South Sudan)

Return a Gift for Cold Hard Cash Day

Shaheed Sabha (Punjab, India)

Stanley Races begin (Falkland Islands)

Take a Drive and Enjoy the Christmas Lights Day

Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Yule Log Day (UK)

National Box of Chocolates Day

National Chocolate Candy Day

National Eat Chocolate Day

4th & Last Thursday in December

National Betty Day [4th Thursday]

Independence Days

Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846)

Lundenwic (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Mexico (Date Recognized, 1821)

Republic of Ut Pace (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Yusienia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abel (Coptic Church)

Bruma IV (Pagan)

Caterina Volpicelli (Christian; Saint)

Childermas (a.k.a. Feast of the Holy Innocents; Christian)

Day of the Holy Innocents (Spain)

Excelsior Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of Fools, Day 3 (Holy Innocent's Day)

Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. Childermas; Christian)

Félix Vallotton (Artology)

Fool’s Day (Dis de los Inocentes; Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela)

Inocentes (Mexican December Fool’s Day)

Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)

Lamarck (Positivist; Saint)

Mike ’The Bike’ Hailwood Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Only 4 Pasta-eating Days Left This Year Day (Pastafarian)

Simon the Athonite (Christian; Saint)

Theodorus, Abbot of Tabenna (Christian; Saint)

Twelve Holy Days #3 (Gemini, the hands; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #4; Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

The Whispering Log (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Bairns' Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year; Scotland)

Dyzymas (Medieval Unlucky Day; Bad Day to Start Anything)

The Sexiest Day of All the Days (in Ted Lasso)

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 60 of 60)

Unluckiest Day of the Year

Premieres

Black Hawk Down (Film; 2001)

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (TV Special; 2018)

Bright Eyes (Film; 1934)

Cyrano de Bergerac (Play; 1897)

The Deep Six or It’s Tough to Fathom (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 331; 1964)

1st Commercial Film Screening (Lumber Brothers; 1895)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (Film; 1936)

The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Book; 1973)

I Am Sam (Film; 2001)

Match Point (Film; 2005)

Mother, by John Lennon (Song; 1970)

The New Delhi-Cateseen or Judgment at Bloombergs (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 332; 1964)

On the Town (Broadway Musical; 1944)

Poor Richard’s Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin (Magazine; 1732)

Portrait in Jazz, by Bill Evans (Album recorded; 1959)

Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1923)

To Beep or Not to Beep (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, by Samael Aun Weor (Spiritual Book; 1953)

Where the Boys Are (Film; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Donna, Mattea, Unschuldige Kinder (Austria)

Mladen, Nevenka (Croatia)

Bohumila (Czech Republic)

Piia, Piiu (Estonia)

Piia (Finland)

Gaspard (France)

John, Unschuldige Kinder (Germany)

Domna, Mygdonios, Theofili (Greece)

Kamilla (Hungary)

Donna, Dorma, Innocenti Martiri (Italy)

Inga, Ivita, Jonatans, Mierins (Latvia)

Ema, Kamilė, Kantvilas, Vaidilutė (Lithuania)

Une, Unn, Unni (Norway)

Antoni, Dobrowiest, Emma, Godzisław, Teofila (Poland)

Ivana, Ivona (Slovakia)

Abel (Spain)

Benjamin (Sweden)

Aspen, Caspar, Gaspar, Innocent, Jasper, Kasper, Woodrow, Woody (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 362 of 2024; 3 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 16 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 16 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 2 Fest; Twosday [2 of 5]

Julian: 15 December 2023

Moon: 97%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Bichat (13th Month) [Lamarck]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 8 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 7 of 31)

#Holidays

[ourflagmeansdeath-kinkmeme]

Stede/Ed — It Happened One Night AU

In an AU set anytime from 1934 to now, Stede's father says he intends to marry Stede off as part of a business deal. Having a bit more freedom than a 1717 gentleman, Stede packs his (too much) stuff and runs. He arranges to go meet Mary, his friend who's studying art inconveniently far off, and marry her so he won't have to marry a stranger.

Stede boards a bus (his father would never think to look there) and meets Ed. Ed figures out Stede's situation and offers to help him get to Mary in return for compensation. Stede needs the help, because his dad has sent Badmintons to try to find him, and Stede accidentally tipped off his location at a bus station, so they're on his trail.

As they deal with travel hassles and evade Badmintons together thanks to Ed's repertoire of fuckeries, Ed and Stede fall in love. Near the end of the trip they confess, but while Ed goes to get them a car/motorcycle/ticket, the Badmintons nab Stede and attack his insecurities, saying Ed's a gold digger who's taking a payoff from Bonnet Sr. to leave him. Then they take Stede to... Mary. She and Stede are shocked to learn they were the arranged match all along, and reluctantly agree to go through with it and marry in name only, like they'd planned.

During the ceremony the wedding venue fills with smoke, and Stede, recognizing Ed's favorite trick, gets Mary's blessing to go, and flees the wedding to run away with Ed.

+ Ed did end up grabbing the cash payoff from Bonnet Sr. anyway, because pirate.

Fill: None

#C: Edward Teach | Blackbeard #C: Stede Bonnet #C: Mary Bonnet #P: Edward Teach | Blackbeard x Stede Bonnet #AU: It Happened One Night #T: Arranged Marriage #T: Art of Fuckery #Fill: None

[gardeninghoe98]

Cleaning out my movie lists

SciFi List 👽

Barbie Movie List 💖

Barbie List Round 2 📝

Phone Gallery 📷

Off the top of my head ⭐

1920s deep dive 🎞

From an old Tumblr post ⏪

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The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920) 🎞

The Kid (1921)🎞

Häxan (1922)🎞

Hard Luck (1922)🎞

Norrtullsligan (1923)🎞

Aelita (1924)🎞

Sherlock Jr (1924)🎞

The Battleship Potemkin (1925)🎞

Gold Rush (1925)🎞

Body and Soul (1925)🎞

The Big Parade (1925)🎞

Strike (1925)🎞

Faust (1926)🎞

A Page of Madness (1926)🎞

Menilmontant (1926)🎞

Metropolis (1927)🎞

Sunrise (1927)🎞

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)🎞

Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)🎞

The Docks of New York (1928)🎞

The Man Who Laughs (1928)🎞

Jujiro (1928)🎞

Zvenigora (1928) 🎞

The Crowd (1928)🎞

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)🎞

Blackmail (1929)🎞

Finis Terræ (1929)🎞

Un Chien Andalou (1929)🎞

Twentieth Century (1934) 📝

Modern Times (1936) 👍

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) 📝

His Girl Friday (1940) 📝

Philadelphia Story (1940) 📝

Citizen Kane (1941) ⏪

Matter of Life and Death (1946) 📝

The Red Shoes (1948) 📝

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)👽

Tales of Hoffmann (1951) 📷

An American in Paris (1951) 📝

Earrings of Madame De... (1953) 📝

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 👽

Forbidden Planet (1956) is 👽

1984 (1956) 👽

Mon Oncle (1958) 📝

The Children's Hour (1961) 📷

The Ladies Man (1961) 📝

The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses (1963) 📷

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 💖

Dr. Strangelove (1964)👽

Young Girls of Rouchefort (1967) 📝

Playtime (1967) 📝

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 📝

Model Shop (1969) 📝

Solaris (1972) 👽

The Godfather (1972) 📝

The Wicker Man (1973) 📷

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Saturday Night Fever (1977) 📝

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 👽

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) 👽

Heaven Can Wait (1978) 📝

All That Jazz (1979) 📝

Wrath of Khan (1982) 👽

And the Ship Sails On (1983) 📝

Splash (1984) 📝

Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) 📝

Wings of Desire (1987) 📝

Akira (1988) 👽

Woman on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 📝

Troop Beverly Hills (1989) ⭐

Edward Scissorhands (1990)💖

Party Girl (1995)📝

Ghost in the Shell (1995) 👽

Watermelon Woman (1996) ⏪

Goodwill Hunting (1997) ⏪

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) ⭐

Big Fish (2003) 💖

Saving Face (2004) ⏪

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 📷

Waitress (2007)📝

Pariah (2011) ⏪

Inception (2010) 👽

Ex Machina (2014) 👍

Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 📷

Tangerine (2015) ⏪

Brooklyn (2015) 📷

Jackie (2016)💖

The Love Witch (2016) 💖

Lady Macbeth (2016)⭐

Handmaiden (2016) ⏪

Moonlight (2016) ⏪

Roma (2018) ⏪

Mama Mia 2 (2018) ⭐

Little Women (2019)💖

Greener Grass (2019) 💖

Knives Out (2019) ⭐

Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar (2021)💖

White Noise (2022)💖

Do Revenge (2022) 💖

Knives Out 2 (2022) ⭐

X (2022) ⭐

The Wonder (2022) ⭐

Nope (2022) ⭐

[laluna7]

   Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) ~ Joan Blondell & Etta Moten ~                                                                           Remember My Forgotten Man

#Gold Diggers of 1934 #Remember My Forgotten Man #Joan Blonedell #1933 #Etta Moten #classic movie stars #classic movies #classic musical numbers #classic musicals #classic Hollywood #pre-code Hollywood #pre-code musicals #pre-codes #musicals #vintage style #vintage women #vintage men #1930's #1930s #30's #30s #vintage Veteran's Day #Veteran's Day #thank you

[rosalie-starfall]

Ginger Rogers 1930-1939

#Ginger Rogers #1930 #1931 #1932 #1933 #1934 #1935 #1936 #1937 #1938 #1939 #Queen High #The Tip-Off #Baby Face #The Thirteenth Guest #Gold Diggers of 1933 #Fay Fortune #Upperworld #Star of Midnight #Donna Mantin #Swing Time #Penny #Stage Door #Jean Maitland #vivacious lady #Francey Morgan #Bachelor Mother #Polly Parrish #my gifs #my edits

[entrehormigones]

#Vampiresas 1933 #gold diggers of 1933 #movie #film #old hollywood #1934 #Mervyn LeRoy

[hellostarrynightblr]

old hollywood + reacting to bs

Bedtime Story (1941) Personal Property (1937) Stage Fright (1950) Cafe Metropole (1937) Dames (1934) Along Came Jones (1945) The Princess Comes Across (1936) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Father of the Bride (1950) History Is Made at Night (1937)

#bedtime story #fredric march #personal proprty #jean harlow #stage fright #alastair sim #cafe metropole #tyrone power #dames #joan blondell #along came jones #william demarest #the princess comes across #carole lombard #gold diggers of 1933 #father of the bride #spencer tracy #history is made at night #charles boyer #1941 #1937 #1950 #1934 #1945 #1936 #1930s #1940s #1950s #oldhollywoodedit

[ducktracy]

Here's a challenge. Name your favorite Looney Tunes cartoon for each year!

that IS a challenge... keep in mind i haven't seen every LT cartoon yet and these are subject to change, and some favorites may be "i don't love this but it's better than the others or at least i've seen it period" but YOU'RE ON!

1930: The Booze Hangs High

1931: You Don't Know What You're Doin'!

1932: Ride Him, Bosko!

1933: Bosko in Person

1934: Those Beautiful Dames

1935: Gold Diggers of '49

1936: The Blow Out

1937: Porky's Duck Hunt

1938: The Daffy Doc

1939: Wise Quacks

1940: Porky's Last Stand

1941: The Henpecked Duck

1942: My Favorite Duck

1943: Porky Pig's Feat

1944: The Stupid Cupid

1945: Draftee Daffy

1946: The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

1947: A Pest in the House

1948: Dough Ray Me-ow

1949: Daffy Duck Hunt

1950: Boobs in the Woods

1951: A Bear for Punishment

1952: Fool Coverage

1953: Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

1954: Baby Buggy Bunny

1955: One Froggy Evening

1956: Barbary-Coast Bunny

1957: Three Little Bops

1958: Robin Hood Daffy

1959: Apes of Wrath

1960: Person to Bunny

1961: The Last Hungry Cat

1962: Quackodile Tears

1963: Transylvania 6-5000

1964: Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

1965: Corn on the Cop

1966: A Taste of Catnip

1967: Merlin the Magic Mouse

1968: Bunny and Claude

1969: The Great Carrot Train Robbery

1959-1969 i think i all pulled out of my ass LOL i actually CAN'T STAND A Taste of Catnip, but it's the only 1966 cartoon i can remotely remember well and it gets points for getting a visceral reaction out of me. i've seen every cartoon from 1930-1950 and every cartoon from 1966-1969 (as well as every Daffy and every Porky short), so these could be subject to change but. heavy duck bias here

#and some of these are my favorites for commitment reasons #like i actually like Rover's Rival more than Porky's Duck Hunt i think it's a very funny cartoon but i've loved Duck Hunt for SO LONG it'd #be blasphemous to put anything else... same w/ 1940 i think You Ought to Be in Pictures is better but Porky's Last Stand i've been a shill #for for so long and love it to pieces #Heckling Hare too i think is better than Henpecked Duck but i am loyal #choosing between Tom Turk and Daffy and The Stupid Cupid was grueling too #Corn on the Cop wins purely bc Daffy and Porky. making my way through the '65 cartoons now and. ugh. same w Person to Bunny i don't really #like it but it has Daffy in it #long post #anonymous

[vintage-every-day]

A 25-year-old Errol Flynn entertains some girls during a shooting break of “Gold Diggers of 1935″ (ca. late 1934 - early 1935)

#vintage #movie stars #movies #old hollywood #errol flynn

[trainstationgoodbye]

Kaleidoscopic Shots in Busby Berkeley Numbers Footlight Parade (1933) Dames (1934) 42nd Street (1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

#filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #ritahayworrth #usergina #useranais #userrobins #userdeforest #footlight parade #gold diggers of 1933 #dames #42nd street #* #comp