North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)

1910’s-era movie theater etiquette Public Service Announcement (via)

Eager to expand their profits, early movie theaters, or “nickelodeons”, often put up slides between reel changes encouraging women to attend films (e.g. “Ladies and children are cordially invited to this theatre, no offensive pictures are ever shown here”), as theaters were not considered entirely respectable places.

1910’s-era movie theater etiquette Public Service Announcement (via)

1910’s-era movie theater etiquette Public Service Announcement (via) 

A unique feature of early films was the projection of slides onto the screen while reels were being changed. Some of these slides attempted to teach proper movie-going manners to those in attendance.

Mental health is a type of health:

“I started smoking during the war. I have kept it up ever since. It keeps me healthy.”

-Marlene Dietrich

Jeanne Moreau in La Notte (1961, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

Patti Smith: I’m still pretty dumb about girl stuff. For a while I said, “Ah, girls are stupid.” But after seeing all these Jeanne Moreau movies, I think being a girl is where it’s at. Like when I’m about thirty-five I’m gonna start wearing black cocktail dresses and become a real cunt.

Penthouse: Do you get a kick out of being sexy?

Smith: I guess I like it. Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and I read that this guy’s watching this woman walk and he can tell she’s a good fuck by the way she walks. It’s a whole passage. He’s telling Allison McKenzie, “I know you’re a virgin.” And she says, “Well, how?” And he says, “I can tell by the way you walk.” And I thought, Uh-oh, everybody knows! I was ashamed to be a virgin, so I tried to cultivate a fucked walk. I tried to figure out what it looked like. I figured I’d watch any hot woman I could. I mean, look at Jeanne Moreau. You watch her walk across the street on the screen and you know she’s had at least a hundred men.

-excerpted from 1976 Penthouse interview by Nick Tosches

Spies (1928, dir. Fritz Lang)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964, dir. Richard Lester)

“I didn’t get where I am following the mundane habits of the masses.”

-Joan Crawford

“A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”

-Norma Shearer

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Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)

“The day was quiet and serene but I didn’t notice, for I was deep in thought, and not even thinking about how to slip off. The world was like a faraway planet to which I could never return. I thought what a fine place it was, full of things that people can look into and enjoy.”

The great Edith Piaf in French Cancan (1954, dir. Jean Renoir)