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Actors Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper — all in costume, March and Cooper dressed in white tie and tails, Hopkins in a light-coloured sparkling gown — captured together facing the camera, Hopkins sitting on a director's chair while flanked by March and Cooper, who perch on either side of her, all smiling broadly, Cooper holding a lit cigarette in his left hand, in a full-length black-and-white shot taken during a break from filming on the set of Design for Living (1933)

Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper between takes on the set of Design for Living (1933)

Marie Dressler

It’s Marie’s birthday tomorrow.

A man hitting a hammer against a wall with graffiti, behind him people and a man holding a camera.

A young kind with a green jacket looking through the hole in a wall. Behind the wall two men with uniforms.

People standing on a wall and holding hands, in the back a monument with the German flag.

A man with a baby on his back holding a hammer and hitting a wall with graffiti.

36 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed overnight.

This moment marked an important milestone in EU history, paving the way for democratic change and future EU enlargement.

A lasting symbol of hope, unity and the power of freedom.

#mauerfall

Kay Francis by Elmer Fryer, 1938.

Zbigniew Cybulski in Andrzej Wajda's ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958)

Cybulski was BOTD in 1927

Ginger Rogers by John Miehle, 1937. (Thread)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)
dir. Charles Laughton

𝘏𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨. 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦.

My Dinner with Andre (1981) Directed by Louis Malle written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn.

Goodbye to marvelous Diane Ladd.

❤️

A quite fabulous alt-movie poster for 1992’s Batman Returns by Johrice.

[photo by Kenn Duncan]

Happy Jeremy Brett's birthday!

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1933, in Berkswell, England

Pantsuit Girlboss

today's random theater photo:

Marie Dressler as Tillie Blobbs ("a boarding house drudge") in Tillie's Nightmare (1910)

Fingers crossed, dat D66 slim genoeg is, om zich dàt niet te laten aanleunen. Dat ergerlijke handenwringen van de media ten spijt, dat VVD "kingmaker" zou zijn oid: Yesilgos heeft zichzelf in deze kluwe gedraaid, en wordt, mag ik toch hopen, onder maximale druk gezet, straks.

Chapeau, heren. Prachtige aflevering. En inderdaad. Mevrouw Koekkoek is een fors verlies voor de TK. Dank, weer, voor de duiding.

3 men, all laughing

Christopher Lee, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Cushing on the set of “One More Time”, 1970.

Christopher Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Dr.Frankenstein, the roles were uncredited.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #258: Halloween Trio Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Could these three dapper elderly gentlemen ever scare the heck out of you?
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Actress Myrna Loy — in costume, dressed in a light-coloured gown and shimmering long-sleeved coat with exaggerated collar, puffed shoulder details and fur trim — captured facing the camera while reclining on a dark-coloured sofa, gazing ahead of her, a copy of the New Yorker magazine, cover up and resting on her lap, in a medium-length black-and-white shot taken during a break from filming on the set of After the Thin Man (1936)

Myrna Loy during a break from filming After the Thin Man (1936)

William Powell and Kay Francis show off their hot/adorable chemistry in JEWEL ROBBERY (1932).

It's on TCM tonight at 9:30pm, part of a night of 7 Pre-Code films - five of which are not on any streaming service. #FilmSky

Het mooiste verkiezingsprogramma van Nederland. ❤️

There hàd to be a Rent joke. Mandatory ;)

Six Damn Fine Degrees #257: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

"All these media and forms of expression make some things concrete and leave others open to interpretation: the difference between the media lies in where the blanks are that we, the audience, get to fill in."

Ja. Supergoed dat hier nou eens over wordt gesproken.

Het is echt kwalijk hoe gekleurd zo'n debat wordt opgezet. Het leek in het begin wel de "Geert en Genee" show: Wilders mag eerst eens ongehinderd feitenvrij gillen. En als de (overige) lijsttrekkers manmoedig proberen nìet door elkaar heen te toeteren, toetert Genee maar door hèn heen. Potsierlijk.

In ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ (1957)

Today is Una O’Connor’s birthday.

The multi Academy Award nominated 🇺🇸 American romantic drama film “NOW,
VOYAGER” directed by Irving Rapper, starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper premiered #OnThisDay in 1942 at the Hollywood Theatre, in Manhattan, New York City

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Louise in a still from The Canary Murder Case (1929).

A Damn Fine Espresso: October 2025 We’ve spent a lot of this year talking about the sadly departed David Lynch – but surrealist film doesn’t begin and end with Lynch, so we’re dedicating the October espresso …

“Surrealist film doesn’t begin and end with Lynch, so we’re dedicating the October espresso podcast to one of the greats of experimental filmmaking: Maya Deren.”
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With Gary Cooper, Fredric March, & Ernst Lubitsch on the set of ‘Design for Living’ (1933)

Today is Miriam Hopkins’s birthday.