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retropopcult · 2 years

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Bourbon Street in New Orleans, June 1957

#vintage #1950s #burlesque #club #Sadie Thompson #Louisiana

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vintageinvogue · 2 years

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Gloria Swanson as Sadie Thompson, 1928 (Colorized)

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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60 Years of Vamps and Camps (1973)

Sue Lyon in Lolita, 1962.

Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemon in Irma La Douce, 1963.

Gloria Swanson in Fine Manners, 1926.

Sylvia Miles and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy, 1969.

Tallulah Bankhead in My Sin, 1931.

Elizabeth Taylor in BUtterfield 8, 1960.

Jane Fonda in Klute, 1971.

Shelly Winters and Michael Caine in Alfie, 1966.

Claudette Colbert in ZaZa, 1938.

Angela Lansbury in Mister Buddwing, 1966.

Joan Blondell and Ginger Rogers in Broadway Bad, 1933.

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celebratetheclassics · 1 year

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Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh, 1928)

#gloria swanson #sadie thompson #raoul walsh #classic film #silent film #silent era #intertitles #my screencaps #1920s

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goryhorroor · 2 years

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gloria swanson in sadie thompson (1928)

#gloria swanson #sadie thompson #1920s #20s #movies #vintage #old hollywood #silent era #actresses

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thorrnapple · 1 year

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Rain (1932)

#Joan Crawford #Rain #1932 #Pre-Code #Sadie Thompson #Walter Huston #MGM

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byneddiedingo · 10 months

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Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore in Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh, 1928)

Cast: Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley, James A. Marcus, Sofia Ortega, Will Stanton, Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner Sullivan; based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham and a play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph. Cinematography: George Barnes, Robert Kurrie, Oliver T. Marsh. Art direction: William Cameron Menzies. Film editing: C. Gardner Sullivan.

It's sad that most people know Gloria Swanson only as the gorgon Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1957). Or that Swanson's deft parody of silent movie acting in that film constitutes many people's impression of what it was like. The survival of Sadie Thompson, even though it's missing its last reel, which the restorers piece out with old stills and title cards, shows what a formidable force Swanson could be on screen, generating enough heat that it's surprising she didn't ignite the nitrate film stock. The story is the familiar one of the San Francisco prostitute who comes to Pago Pago, where she clashes with a bluenose reformer who threatens to return her to San Francisco and the hands of the police. The reformer is Alfred Davidson (Lionel Barrymore in full ham), who was a clergyman in Somerset Maugham's short story, "Miss Thompson," and the play, Rain, that was based on it, but becomes a layman here to please the Hays Office. Fortunately, Sadie has the support of a sturdy young Marine sergeant, Timothy O'Hara, played by director Raoul Walsh, who before turning director full-time had been an actor in the early days of silents; he played John Wilkes Booth in The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915). This brief return to acting was a one-shot: Walsh was planning to direct himself again in In Old Arizona (Irving Cummings, 1928), but lost his right eye in a freak auto accident while on location preparing to shoot the film; Warner Baxter took over the role and won an Oscar for it. Swanson was nominated for an Oscar for Sadie Thompson, as was cinematographer George Barnes, whose nomination included his work on two other films: The Devil Dancer (Fred Niblo, 1927) and The Magic Flame (Henry King, 1927). In fact, Barnes did only a week's worth of filming on Sadie Thompson before Samuel Goldwyn insisted he fulfill a contractual obligation to him; he was replaced by Robert Kurrle and Oliver T. Marsh.

#Sadie Thompson #Raoul Walsh #Gloria Swanson #Lionel Barrymore

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peggy-elise · 2 years

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Gloria Swanson in Sadie Thompson 1928 🗺

#old hollywood #beauty #silent film #1920s cinema #gloria swanson #sadie thompson

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tani-b-art · 1 year

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Black women who fought for reparations.

Àbáké Matilda McCrear (she was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the infamous Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to America. She died in 1940 at the age 82, making her the last known survivor of the last known slave ship.)

...Matilda had walked the 17 miles to Selma to request that she receive some compensation, too, for being kidnapped and brought to the country as a toddler. As proof that she was from Africa, she showed the marks on her cheek.

The judge denied her any reparations just as Timothy Meaher, the slaveowner who organized the illegal Clotilda journey, had denied reparations to the ship’s survivors back in 1865.

McCrear made a claim for herself and Redoshi.

Redoshi, also known as Sally Smith, was the second to last living, African-born survivor of North American slavery, and the only female survivor of the transatlantic slave trade known to have been recorded on film. Born on the coast of West Africa in what is present day Benin, Redoshi was one of about 110 West African children and adults who were human cargo of the schooner Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the United States. She may have been 110 years old when she died in Alabama in 1937.

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In 1870, Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations—and Won

The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have.

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Callie House is most famous for her efforts to gain reparations for former slaves and is regarded as the early leader of the reparations movement among African American political activists. Callie Guy was born a slave in Rutherford Country near Nashville, Tennessee. Her date of birth is usually assumed to be 1861, but due to the lack of birth records for slaves, this date is not certain.

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Belinda Sutton [also known as Belinda Royal/Royall] was the author of one of the earliest known slave narratives by an African woman in the United States and a successful early petitioner for reparations for enslavement.

#Annie Param #Anna Angales #Elizabeth Berkeley #Sadie Thompson #Matilda McCrear #Redoshi #Henrietta Wood #Callie House #Belinda Sutton #Black History Month #reparations #HERstory #BHM

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ilikestuff69 · 3 months

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Actors I think would be good in a Knives Out movie (Part 3 of 4)

Steven Yeun

Ayo Edebiri

Daniel Radcliffe

Sadie Sink

John Boyega

Lupita Nyong’o

Will Poulter

Tessa Thompson

Nicholas Hoult

Daniela Melchior

#knives out #rian johnson #benoit blanc #daniel craig #steven yeun #ayo edebiri #daniel radcliffe #sadie sink #john boyega #lupita nyong'o #will poulter #tessa thompson #nicholas hoult #daniela melchior

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luckydiorxoxo · 6 months

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CHANEL Academy Luncheon

#Chanel #kristen stewart #sadie sink #Rita Wilson #tessa thompson #gina prince bythewood #sanaa lathan #claire foy #lucy boynton #nazanin boniadi #Janicza Bravo #kerry condon

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tenaciousarcadeexpert · 8 months

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Not that this had to be mentioned but for those questioning some of the posts in my blog that I have reblogged, yes, I do have plenty of lady crushes that happened to be redheads (natural or dyed)