Art deco lobby set for Grand Hotel (1932, dir. Edmund Goulding) Set design by Cedric Gibbons.
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Art deco lobby set for Grand Hotel (1932, dir. Edmund Goulding) Set design by Cedric Gibbons.
James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt ) (via)
Buster Keaton on the MGM sound stage used for Speak Easily (1932) (via)
Sylvia Sidney & Henry Fonda in You Only Live Once (1937, dir. Fritz Lang) (via)
Sylvia Sidney in Sabotage (1936, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) (via)
Alla Nazimova & Montgomery Clift in publicity still for the Broadway production of The Mother (1939) (via)
Son of Frankenstein (1939, dir. Rowland V. Lee) Expressionistic set design by art director Jack Otterson.
(via)
Frank Skinner - Monster’s Rampage (Son of Frankenstein: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Elsa Lanchester on the set of Bride of Frankenstein (1935, dir. James Whale)
On her maternal instincts:
“I held a baby once. It felt like a bag of hot snakes.”
(via)
Louis Armstrong - I’m In The Mood For Love
Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer) (via)
Duke Ellington - Rhapsody in Blue
Composed by George Gershwin.
Al Bowlly & the Ray Noble Orchestra – Midnight, the Stars and You
“I am, at heart, a gentleman.”
-Marlene Dietrich (photographed on the set of Morocco, 1930) (via)
Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein (1935, dir. James Whale) (via)
