Ida Lupino poses on a diving board at Arrowhead Springs resort, ca. 1943. Photo by Bert Six for Warner Bros.

#IdaLupino #OldHollywood

Betty Field in Silver Screen, Nov. 1940

“Betty's latest film is ‘Victory,’ the immortal Joseph Conrad story of the islands of the Java Sea, in which she is co-starred with Fredric March. It's the most dynamic role she's yet played the stage or screen.”

#OldHollywood #BettyField

Jean Rogers, June Gale, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell in “Hotel for Women” (20th Century-Fox, 1939)

Darnell’s first film—she does pretty well in the lead role until the film turns dramatic and her performance stays light and airy.

Based on its release date of August 4, 1939, this was likely the last picture Sothern filmed before the runaway success of “Maisie” (1939), released in late June, transformed her career.

#OldHollywood #LindaDarnell #AnnSothern

Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in “Brigham Young” (20th Century-Fox, 1940)

#OldHollywood #TyronePower #LindaDarnell

Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in “Brigham Young” (20th Century-Fox, 1940)

#OldHollywood #TyronePower #LindaDarnell

Color portrait of Ida Lupino in Movie Play, winter 1945.

“Lovely Ida Lupino's fans are anxiously awaiting release of Warner Brothers’ ‘Devotion’”

#OldHollywood #IdaLupino

THE STRUGGLE (’31): Before watching this I thought, could this possibly be as bad as its reputation suggests? Sadly the answer is “yes and then some”. Poverty Row production values employed for D.W. Griffith’s swan song about alcoholism. I mean, seriously, this is terribly staged and photographed, worse than some early Biographs. Not all that well acted either, Zita Johann (kinda) excepted, although much of her performance muffled by lousy production. #PreCode #oldhollywood

Ida Lupino and a woman I don’t recognize in a photo that seems to have been meant for a refrigerator ad, ca. 1936. Photo by Charles E. Bulloch.

Anyone up for some Knudsen’s Old Fashioned Luncheese?

#OldHollywood #IdaLupino #VintageAd

Ida Lupino, 1943

“A weird yarn which has no foundation was recently circulated. The story that I don various wigs so I will not be recognized. Silly! I am seldom recognized in public. I confess to a childish delight when it does happen. Excited and elated, I am almost as eager to sign an autograph as the recognizers seem in securing it. Their enthusiasm reassures me when I suffer my agonies of uncertainty over my performance.”

#OldHollywood #IdaLupino

Leslie Brooks, Glenda Farrell, Linda Darnell, Doris Dudley and Margaret Hamilton in “City Without Men” (Columbia, 1943)

#OldHollywood #GlendaFarrell #LindaDarnell

🎥 Retro Post Alert! Check out this supreme melodrama, "Random Harvest" (1942) directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Greer Garson and Ronald Colman shine in this amnesia-filled romance. The electric slide in every stride! 🎞️📼📚 https://thestopbutton.com/2014/12/01/random-harvest-1942/ #ClassicCinema #OldHollywood #VintageVibes

I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

Ginger Rogers’ head emerges from a colorful Easter egg on the cover of the May, 1949 issue of Modern Screen

#OldHollywood #GingerRogers #Magazines

“Week-End Marriage” (1932) — excellent performance from Loretta Young as a skilled personal secretary married to a pathetic whiner. Alas, at the end she is shamed by a doctor into giving up her lucrative career to play housemaid to the whiner. The photo on the poster symbolizes the message of the movie.

#OldHollywood #LorettaYoung #PreCode #TCMParty

Ida Lupino with Harry Harvey in a scene from the thriller, “Woman in Hiding” (1949)

#OldHollywood #IdaLupino #WomanInHiding

Joan Blondell (1906-1979) was nominated for two Emmys on HERE COME THE BRIDES.

Here she is in 1968, as stunning as ever. 💕

#BornOnThisDay #JoanBlondell #OldHollywood

For the birthday of Joan Blondell (#BOTD 1906), here is a fascinating 1964 interview where she reminisces about her days at Warner Brothers, compares that era with 1960s television, and more.

“Miss Blondell has one ambition which she has kept secret, confiding only to her dogs. ‘I'd give my shirt to direct,’ she says, finally coming out with it. ‘Of course, I'm going to have to grow a beard to do it. What chance does a woman director have?’”

#JoanBlondell #OldHollywood #ClassicTV

Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly and Ruth Hussey in “Within the Law” (1939). Hussey plays a woman jailed 3 years for a jewel theft she had nothing to do with who spends her prison time learning the law and plotting her revenge. Another entertaining picture from July’s B movie lineup on #TCM.

#OldHollywood #TCMParty