Lady Snowblood

Esther Williams, the swimming champion who became the star of MGM’s “aqua musicals” in the 1940s and 1950s, has died at 91.
Here, a look back at her glamorous career. (with never-before-seen LIFE images)
(Edward Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

rikdorl:

Gwynplaine’s (Conrad Veidt) fixed grin and disturbing clown-like appearance was a key inspiration for comic book talents writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane in creating Batman’s greatest enemy, The Joker.
“Bill Finger had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, “Here’s the Joker.” Bob Kane (x)
This gif is kinda creepy…

wehadfacesthen:

via gregorypecks:
RIP Esther Williams | 8 August 1921 - 6 June 2013
I was just a swimmer who got lucky.

tyronespower:

Favourite Classic Films (in no particular order)
Holiday (1938), dir. George Cukor
When I find myself in a position like this, I ask myself what would General Motors do? And then I do the opposite!

mudwerks:

(via The Fly (1986) David Cronenberg | the Movie title stills collection)

_{the front page of New York’s Daily News, from 1937, with a headline about the death the previous day of starlet Jean Harlow. Harlow was world famous, and her passing, which came suddenly, or at least seemed to, triggered wild speculation in the tabloid press because of confusion over what had killed her. Left to fill the fact vacuum, the tabs claimed she had died variously of alcoholism, complications from an abortion, over-dieting, sunstroke, poisoning due to her platinum hair dye, and VD. Eventually doctors realized she had died of kidney failure, and had actually been ill for a long time. She had been fatigued for weeks, and the previous year had suffered a bout of septicemia and sustained a bad sunburn—both indicators of kidney dysfunction. But a correct early diagnosis probably would have made little difference, since there was no treatment for kidney related illnesses in 1937—penicillin wasn’t in commercial usage yet, and dialysis was a decade away. Harlow was twenty-six when she died.}