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catpartyletsgo · 8 months

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Jimmy the Raven

Jimmy the Raven (often referred to as Jimmy the Crow) was an expertly trained raven that starred in some of the most famous films of all time. Jimmy belonged to animal trainer Curley Twiford, and was “discovered” while Jimmy was riding on Twiford’s bulldog, Squeezit, along with two parakeets. Twiford once said training corvids were the easiest, and (of course) training cats were the most…

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#animal history #bird actor #birds in films #birds in hollywood #crow #famous animals #famous birds #frank capra #its a wonderful life #jimmy stewart #jimmy the crow #jimmy the raven #ravens in film #wizard of oz

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diana-andraste · 3 months

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Delores del Rio in Bird of Paradise, 1932

#movies #film #classic hollywood #pre code hollywood #pre code #delores del rio #bird of paradise #1930s #black and white #gif #animation #but it is so nice in the dark #squirmy

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retro-only-darling · 2 years

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Bette Davis with her knitting buddies circa 1941

#bette davis #classic hollywood #knitting #birds #1940s cinema

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whetstonefires · 7 months

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Underrated thing about The Crow (1994) is that ultimately it's a film about a guy utterly wrecking his shitty landlord.

Like yeah, Top Dollar is a spooky casually homicidal goth mob boss who ordered the brutal murders of the protagonist and his fiancee, and we get the whole classic revenge spree film slaughtering your way through the criminals to get to the top guy formula.

(With in addition to the whole revenant bit the interesting variant that Eric isn't even actually going for the guy at the top, he just interjects himself into the proceedings lmao.)

But also he's a slumlord, and the reason they died was Shelly formed a tenant's union in response to wrongful eviction proceedings. And Top Dollar would rather have his building sitting empty than put up with that shit.

Which will make it very funny if the remake that got greenlit for next year is deep-sixed by the studios' deranged collective refusal to come to terms with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

#hoc est meum #unionize #the crow #movies #evil landlord #with fantastic hair #arguably top dollar is not meant to be understood as the landlord #but T-bird sure as shit didn't own the place #and he referred to what she was organizing against as 'our tenant relocation program'#and he works for Top Dollar so #i'm pretty sure?#hollywood strike

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lovrwz · 9 months

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愛 — 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴 — 𔘓 ۫.𖦹

愛 — 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘶 𝘶𝘴𝘦!!

#margot robbie #margot robbie icons #barbie #barbie the movie #once upon a time in hollywood #suicide squad #the wolf of wall street #babylon movie #birds of prey #icons actress #actress icons #movies #icons #icons without psd #lovely #beauttiful girls #tumblr likes #reblog stuff

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stannisbaratheon · 1 year

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When monster meets monster, one monster has to give way, and it will never be me.

GERALDINE PAGE and PAUL NEWMAN in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1962), dir. Richard Brooks

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vintage-russia · 29 days

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Russian ballerina Vera Fokina in costume from the ballet "Thunder bird", Hollywood (1929)

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luckydiorxoxo · 4 months

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Danielle Brooks, Storm Reid, Quinta Brunson, Gabrielle Union, Jurnee Smollett, Taraji P. Henson, Niecy Nash and Ayo Edebiri at W Magazine’s Best Performances Party

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wildspringday · 1 month

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THE BIRDS + f a c e l e s s

#watched this movie for the first time recently and i had so many thoughts #movies: the birds #movies: alfred hitchcock #old hollywood #*mine #mine: edits #the birds #horror #horror films #horror movies #horroredit #alfred hitchcock

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artist-issues · 8 months

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Snow White and the Bluebird

Everyone sees Snow and the bluebird, the bird is on like every Hallmark statuette and Disney Princess sticker of Snow White. But I just want to point out that the bird in the movie is SO WELL-DONE.

I don't mean well-animated. Even though it is. I mean, what the bluebird brings out in the story besides Snow White's kind, loving attitude toward it.

When she first sees the bluebird its when she's about to be stabbed by the Huntsman. The blue bird is lost, and can't find its mother and father, and is crying.

And Snow White responds, "come on. Perk up. Your mama and papa can't be far. Won't you smile for me?"

What's that ladies and gentlemen? She comforts the bird by saying "the ones who love you can't be far?!" So then there's no reason to despair, even if you're a defenseless, fragile creature lost in a bleak and dangerous world?

Then there's the sound of a whistle--a short little melody--and there they are. The bird's parents. And it can fly to them happily.

Snow White was right. The baby bird's parents were never far; they were looking for their loved chick. So there was never any real reason to give up hope or cry. And this whole scene happens right before she has to flee for her life through the Dark Forest.

She despairs for a moment too. Everything seems dangerous and cruel in the Dark Forest, and she collapses in fear...but then the animals find her. And she's "ashamed of the fuss she made, all because she was afraid."

Then she says, "what do you do when things go wrong?" And out of all the hand-drawn animals in the clearing, the filmmakers have the bluebird family answer her. They sing the exact same melody that they sang when the parents found the lost baby. "Oh! You sing a song!" And then Snow White sings the same Lost But Found melody, too.

Why be ashamed of momentary fear? Well, because there was never any real danger. Why believe that things will turn out all right, when the ruler of the whole land and the only person who was ever supposed to take care of you wants you dead? Well, because she knows there's someone else out there who loves her and will find her--The Prince.

He promised her his heart. He's going to find her to fulfill that promise, no matter what else happens. That's why she can sing and smile and serve others even though to the outside eye it may seem like her life is in shambles. But she has faith that the one who loves her will come deliver her.

That's the point of the movie. That's the point of the bluebirds. Faith trumps fear. Focusing on the good truth rather than the darkness of circumstances is the whole superpower of Snow White's innocent, pure character. She's pure love, and she believes in pure love, and that's what makes her Fairest of All.

"Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up; it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered; it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things..." 1 Corinthians 13:4-7