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two things: I hate change and having my routines interrupted. I hate things being the same it’s boring

#same #me #personal

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#black and white #eyebrows #fashion #classic film #classic movies #classic hollywood #greta garbo #dolores del rio #jean harlow #anna may wong #josephine baker #billie holiday #marlene dietrich #bette davis #1930s

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A reader makes predictions in the March 1928 number of “Picture Play”

#classic #classic film #classic movies #silent movies #1928

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#judy garland #movies #classic movies #the wizard of oz #classic film #a star is born

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i would like to share this sequence of events

Viennese Jewish actress Hedy Lamarr marries ethnically Jewish Austrofascist arms dealer (and purported party-thrower for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and then-biffles with Hermann Göring), Friedrich Mandl, who forces her to convert to Catholicism and have a Catholic wedding

Turns out he’s a controlling fuck (who was surprised) who hated that she simulated a climax on screen and kept her from her acting career so she fled and made a career in Hollywood, but as wartime approached she felt guilty for having a luxurious career as the state of the world became what it was, and wanted to do something about it

She comes into contact with American-born avant-garde composer, pianist and female endocrinology enthusiast George Antheil, of German heritage, because she wants suggestions for bigger tits, but they end up talking about torpedoes instead

The two of them invent a weaponized player piano, using a mechanism from one of Antheil’s avant-garde compositions and the knowledge Lamarr gained from her shitty marriage to a fascist arms dealer, which used frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology (which gave way to WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth) to encrypt torpedo torpedo attack signals by use of a piano roll, where all 88 keys matched a different frequency making it too difficult to jumble and send torpedoes off course

I reiterate, a conversation about wanting bigger tits led to the conceptualization of a torpedo encrypter controlled by a piano meant to defeat the Nazis

It got patented in 1942 but the US Navy was too hesitant to use technology from outside the military so it didn’t get used

Hedy instead sold kisses and a lunch even went for $4.5 million, for war bonds, and she dubbed herself “just a plain gold-digger for Uncle Sam”

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened, after which the patent had already expired, and the US Navy used her technology

She only ever got any recognition in 1997 for this, three years before her death. Her ashes are scattered in the Vienna Woods.

I know there are a ton of “all hail our mother of wifi Hedy Lamarr” posts out there but I don’t know if any of them quite capture the beautiful absurdity of how this genius ended up doing what she did, so

All Hail our Mother of Wifi Hedy Lamarr

and the scene that pissed off her fascist husband, may we all make fascists as uncomfortable as possible

#hedy lamarr

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Greta Garbo GRAND HOTEL (1932) dir. Edmund Goulding

#grand hotel #greta garbo #1932 #1930s #film #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit

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Lana Turner was born 100 years ago

#lana turner #classic hollywood #old hollywood #glamour #john garfield #the postman always rings twice

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Precious

my moms always complaining about how she “doesnt have any good pictures of gustavo!!!” so im like ok ill throw him a fuckin birthday party

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Cinematography by Jack Cardiff Black Narcissus (1947) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) The Red Shoes (1948) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

#jack cardiff #powell and pressburger #the red shoes #black narcissus #a matter of life and death

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P.S.: notice that Katharine Hepburn’s and Grace Kelly’s eyes are mislabeled

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#cinema #makeup #eyes #old hollywood #classic hollywood #ava gardner #rita hayworth #hedy lamarr #brigitte bardot #dorothy dandridge #anna may wong #marilyn monroe #lana del rey #sharon tate #greta garbo #vivien leigh #lauren bacall #grace kelly #marlene Dietrich #eva peron #sophia loren #elizabeth taylor #audrey hepburn #olivia de havilland #icons

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12 Delights of Christmas TAG

Thank you to darling Patricia from Caftan Woman for tagging me! Here are my answers:

1) A favorite Christmas tradition?

Putting up the decorations in late November and spending the Christmas Day watching Christmas movies.

2) Say it snowed at your domicile, would you prefer to go out or stay curled up inside?

Definitely stay curled up inside.

3) Tea or hot chocolate?

Both. Depends on the day.

4) Favorite Christmas colors (i.e. white, blue, silver, red and green etc)?

ALL OF THEM. The more colorful, the better.

5) Favorite kind of Christmas cookie?

All of them, too.

6) How soon before Christmas do you decorate (more specifically, when does your tree go up)?

Mid to early November.

7) Three favorite traditional Christmas carols?

I can’t choose only three! I love them all, especially if they are sung by Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra.

8) A favorite Christmas song (i.e. something you might hear on the radio)?

Last Christmas by Wham!

9) A favorite Christmas movie?

“The Lemon Drop Kid” (1951), the film that presented me to the tune “Silver Bells” and also the first film I watched with the #TCMParty group on Twitter.

10) Have you ever gone caroling?

No. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s ears.

11) Ice skating, sledding, skiing, or snowboarding?

None.

12) Favorite Christmas feast dish?

The dessert, preferably panetone, cake or pudding.

#christmas #xmas #santa claus #tag #answers #about me

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You will like this card. People other than you will like this. This is for clicks. Share it and watch what happens.

#christmas #xmas #weird #Space #santa claus

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Meirl

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I’m at the same place and having the same struggles from ten years ago - with the slight difference that now fascism is a threat and my country can turn into a dictatorship any day now and I’ll be a sure target.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand

#snow white #snow white and the seven dwarfs #disneyfilms #disney #animation