Turning your dick into an orange is a pretty impressive magic trick, I admit. Read more
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.
Codpieces don’t freak me out as much as those old-timey curly shoes *shudder*
...for those of us who grew up on Ever After, this is not quite news.
She was a beauty, no doubt. Apropos of absolutely nothing, the monocled gent is Conrad Veidt (of Caligari and Casablanca fame), himself no slouch in the looks department.
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This may sound strange, but one of the things that struck me looking at the photo from 1938, then 1946, then 1953 and 1957 and 1964, is, holy shit, you actually see her age. She has forehead lines in 1946 (when she was 33 - I realize that her eyebrows are arched and she’s speaking, but she doesn’t look as young as she… Read more
It strikes me that in the 20th century we had a lot of roles for stone-cold hardcore ladies like Vivien Leigh, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck. Nowadays not so much. Granted lots of them were cautionary “don’t be a bitch” tales, but I think they were still written as very interesting,… Read more
Is he wearing a monocle???
Fun factoid: did you know that Vivien Leigh hated her hands? She thought she had a classic case of manhands. If you look at the photos above, you can see that in many of the 'candids' she is holding them in ways so as not to show how big she thought they were. And in two of them she is wearing gloves (in one of them… Read more
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In the first photo she’s wearing the sort of make up popular toward the end of the 1920’s, super rounded brows and an overdrawn lip with an exaggerated cupid’s bow. Read more
I've always liked this one.
PS I really, REALLY want this brooch.
“yeeeeeeeeee”
Top picture is literally my ideal life. Lounging in a glorious silk robe, reading? Sign me up forever. Read more
Thank you for this. She really was so exquisitely beautiful; incredibly sad that mental and physical illness didn’t allow her to live a longer, happier life. Read more
Look at this outfit! Just fucking look at it! I need to start dressing this way, minus the gloves.
This makes me so happy.
Lauren Bacall, because why not.
I vant to drinq your blahd.
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She looks like she’s having a blast. I wanna go to Rome with Laurence Olivier!