Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Franz Waxman - Main Title (Rebecca: The 1940 Film Score by Franz Waxman)

James Murray in The Crowd (1928, dir. King Vidor) (via) “We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is…until we get out of step with it.”

James Murray in The Crowd (1928, dir. King Vidor) (via)

“We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is…until we get out of step with it.”

Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann in Song of Love (1947, dir. Clarence Brown) (via)

Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann in Song of Love (1947, dir. Clarence Brown) (via)

Michel Legrand - Theme (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. (1924, dir. Buster Keaton) (via)

Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. (1924, dir. Buster Keaton) (via)

Liza Minnelli in Cabaret (1972, dir. Bob Fosse) (via)

Liza Minnelli in Cabaret (1972, dir. Bob Fosse) (via)

Luis Enríquez Bacalov - Django Theme (instrumental) (Django: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Emperor Waltz (1948, dir. Billy Wilder) (via)

The Emperor Waltz (1948, dir. Billy Wilder) (via)

Guilt Is My Shadow (1950, dir. Roy Kellino) (via)

Guilt Is My Shadow (1950, dir. Roy Kellino) (via)

Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974, dir. Bob Fosse) (via)

Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974, dir. Bob Fosse) (via)

Charles Aznavour - La Bohème

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968, dir. Karel Reisz) (via) “I give myself to my parts as to a lover. It is the only way.” -Redgrave, quoted in Time magazine (1967)

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968, dir. Karel Reisz) (via)

“I give myself to my parts as to a lover. It is the only way.”

-Redgrave, quoted in Time magazine (1967)

Blow-up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) (via)

Blow-up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) (via)

Herbie Hancock & the Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - Theme From “Blow Up”

“I just want [people] to remember me a hundred years from now. I don’t care that they’re not able to quote any single line that I’ve written. But just that they can say, ‘Oh, he was a writer.’ That’s sufficiently an honored position for me.” -Rod Serling (1975, via) (Syfy’s July 4th Twilight Zone marathon schedule here)

“I just want [people] to remember me a hundred years from now. I don’t care that they’re not able to quote any single line that I’ve written. But just that they can say, ‘Oh, he was a writer.’ That’s sufficiently an honored position for me.”

-Rod Serling (1975, via)

(Syfy’s July 4th Twilight Zone marathon schedule here)