Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956, dir. Vincente Minnelli) I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful. I am not conscious of myself anymore, and the pictures come to me as in a dream.

Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956, dir. Vincente Minnelli)

I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful. I am not conscious of myself anymore, and the pictures come to me as in a dream.

Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (1951, dir. Vincente Minnelli) Art director Preston Ames designed the set in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting Chocolat Dancing In Bar Darchille. (via)

Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (1951, dir. Vincente Minnelli) Art director Preston Ames designed the set in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting Chocolat Dancing In Bar Darchille.

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Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in the “Wheatfield with Crows”: Lust for Life (1956, dir. Vincente Minnelli) (via)

Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in the “Wheatfield with Crows”: Lust for Life (1956, dir. Vincente Minnelli)

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