Propaganda
Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette, The Women)— First Jewish woman to win an Oscar for her acting!! She pioneered stronger, more independent and complicated roles for women onscreen. One film historian described her as "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen."
Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner)— her smile and her voice are just so CHARMING. utterly besotted with her every time i watch "the shop around the corner." i would buy ten musical candy boxes from her.
This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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Norma Shearer:
She got into showbiz on a technicality, there was a line of 60 girls to pick from, the studio needed 8 and she was second from last. She coughed loudly and then stood up and grinned when the casting director looked over at her, and he let her in because it made him laugh. After that there was several years of hard work before she landed her first movie. Where she had been repeatedly put down for her face in silent film, he was praised for her voice when the talkies first came about. She was most in her element in the pre-code era, when she played the strong, graceful, self-sufficient type of woman and she won the academy award for best actress in The Divorcee in 1930. She directly competed with greats like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford for the rest of the 30s.
She just epitomizes Old Hollywood to me and seems criminally underrated these days
Short-haired, modern woman, pre-code queen
someone call the fire department because this woman is H-O-T HOT!! Three chilis and a warning label hot!! Ever-burning passion HOT!!! But also glam and elegant and gorgeous (the side profile portrait is the most beautiful picture of any person ever)... she has the range
Margaret Sullavan:
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Margaret Sullavan - James Stewart in The Shop Around the Corner, 1940.
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James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 (1940). The last of four films they made together and the second in 1940, the first being the Christmastime classic 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒑 𝑨𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓. Both films are excellent, and James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan a great romantic team.
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Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan at the charity ball of the Associated Actors and Artists of America in March 1940 #DailyStewart
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Propaganda
Lili Liliana (The Dybbuk)—nothing submitted beyond the video under the cut
Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner)— her smile and her voice are just so CHARMING. utterly besotted with her every time i watch "the shop around the corner." i would buy ten musical candy boxes from her.
This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]
Lili Liliana:
[editor's note: The Dybbuck is a 1937 Yiddish-language Polish movie relating the story of a young bride possessed by a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. TW if you're leery of death imagery/spooky stuff.]
Margaret Sullavan:
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