"What are you giving me with the flying fish"

"May I be frank?" "Is that your name?" "No, my name is Godfrey" "Alright, be frank" Celebrating the sublime Jean Dixon and her wonderful deadpan delivery, who died today in 1981. With William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936). 🎬

Veronica Lake publicity for I Married A Witch (1942).

Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in a still from Morocco (1930).

Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday" - BOTD

Carole Lombard unusual publicity for one of her better pre-codes, as Mae in Virtue (1932).

'The Mermaid,' illustration by Howard Pyle, 1910

Oh wow! I was not expecting to ever see Bea Arthur looking like Zizi Jeanmaire.

Dancer, teacher, choreographer and artistic director Ninette de Valois founded The Royal Ballet. Born in Ireland in 1898, she died in London in March 2001 aged 102.

Soviet poster for the silent film, Potholes (1927). Artist unknown.

How's your Monday going. 🎬

The Uninvited (1944) #TheUninvited 🏰👻🌊🕯️💐 #HorrorSky #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia

Paulette Goddard by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932.

Ida Lupino, 1934.

Swedish poster for THE BLACK CAT (1941) Directed by Albert S. Rogell Starring Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi #Caturday

Missed her birthday yesterday so here's Lilyan Tashman rocking a look from 1931.

Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee for Man Of The World (1931).

Love Carole Lombard's look in publicity for Man Of The World (1931). I actually like this early film of hers, not so much for Carole, who's still quite inexperienced. But Powell as the exiled American in Paris who longs to go home, is rather moving, falling for her on film as well as in real life.

Friday Afternoon Mood: Bill Holden #williamholden

Mon Amour. René Vincent illustration for the cover of La Vie Parisienne, 1920.

"You know, I think you're about the nicest, drunken, no-good, two-timing, irresponsible scoundrel I ever met." Evelyn Brent sums up William Powell in High Pressure (1932). 🎬 Thanks to @tomsharpley.bsky.social for reminding me about this crazy little film.

Josef Fenneker poster art for Das Neue Paradies (1921).

William Powell and Evelyn Brent in a still from the lost film, The Drag Net (1928).

Also great together in the 1932 talkie HIGH PRESSURE, which is not lost, hurrah.

Veronica Lake publicity for I Married A Witch (1942).

Love this candid of cool cats, Tyrone Power and #botd Coleen Gray. From Screenland magazine, 1947.

Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - BOTD

Myrna Loy as a chorus girl in The Jazz Singer (1927).

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#botd Catherine Deneuve by Peter Lindbergh, 1991.

Catherine Deneuve by Jerry Schatzberg, 1965.

William Powell and Evelyn Brent in a still from the lost film, The Drag Net (1928).

Swedish poster for (The Girl From) Moulin Rouge (1934), starring Constance Bennett. Poster art by Gösta Aberg.

#botd Constance Bennett for Moulin Rouge (1934).

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable in NO MAN OF HER OWN (1932). 🎬

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in a still from No Man Of Her Own (1932).

Evelyn Brent in a lobby card for DARKENED ROOMS (1929), an early talkie about grifters who give psychic readings to the gullible Brent was BOTD in 1895

Greta Garbo publicity for The Temptress (1926). Portrait by Ruth Harriet Louise.

Paulette Goddard is a mood.

Soviet poster for The Man From The Forest (1928). Poster art by Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg.

Theda Bara in a promotional photo for the lost 1918 film Salome.

Evelyn Brent by Henry Waxman, 1925.

When you're Bull Weed's girl but you're in love with someone else. Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook in Underworld (1927). 🎬

Delicious side-eye from Evelyn Brent as Cleopatra. Photo by Otto Dyar, 1929.

And we're glowering into Evelyn Brent's birthday, with the best in the business #botd

Evelyn Brent sticking her chewing gum on the underside of another showgirl's skirt. Broadway (1929). 🎬

#botd English actress Anna Neagle. Photo by Cecil Beaton.

La Belle et la Bête. Georges Léonnec cover art for La Vie Parisienne, 1914.