Letì­cia Romàin in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963, dir. Mario Bava) 

The Fairies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt) Additional stills here.

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

-Orson Welles (via)

Ann Blyth & Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce (1945, dir. Michael Curtiz)

Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton) (via filmforno)

“I’m out of patience children…”

The stand-off: Robert Mitchum & Lillian Gish in Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton)

Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929. dir. Jacques Feyder) (via)

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

-Roland Barthes, “The Face of Garbo”, Mythologies (1957)

The witches take flight in Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) (1922, dir. Benjamin Christensen) 

Burt Lancaster walks into a world of trouble in The Killers (1946, dir. Robert Siodmak, co-starring Ava Gardner)

Josette Day in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

The Fairies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;

lovers to bed;

‘tis almost fairy time.

“She was amoral. If she saw a stagehand with tight pants and a muscular build, she’d invite him into her dressing room.”

-MGM executive/busybody

“I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn’t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.”

-Lana Turner (via drmacro)

Seas Beneath (1930, dir. John Ford)

“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”

-Greta Garbo (1931, via)