I feel like Maureen O’Hara is still so underrated even in the old Hollywood fandom
Where her fans at
Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds pre 1959
Marilyn Monroe: Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I HAVE to be liked. But it's not, like, a compulsive need to be liked...Like my need to be praised.
Scientist 1: I never said anything about killing anybody. I am, however, considering the possibility of a device.
Scientist 2: A device.
Scientist 1: Yes, a small device. Say this device gets filed into evidence, now it is inside that room.
Hedy Lamarr: What about a magnet?
Scientist 2: You want to commit a whole other crime just to get this bomb into evidence?
Scientist 1: Who said bomb? I said a device.
Hedy Lamarr: Yo what about like a magn-
Scientist 1: An incendiary device. one quick fire is all it would take.
Scientist 2: You don’t think they have fire suppression? I’m not talking about sprinklers, I’m talking about Halon. Because Halon doesn’t destroy evidence.
Hedy Lamarr: A magnet though maybe like-
Scientist 1: So a bomb then. Maybe we plant a bomb outside,
Hedy Lamarr: ORRRR WHAT ABOUT A MAGNET?????
"We were [very different types]. I wish I had been as photogenic as she was, but she was very sweet, kind of far away, very self-involved, but no meanness. She was not bitchy, she was not strident in any way, she just always seemed a little lost to me — wistful, kind of, just kind of not quite there. A scene often went to 15 or more takes, which meant I'd have to be good in all of them as no one knew which one would be used. Not easy—often irritating. And yet, I couldn't dislike Marilyn. She had no meanness in her." - Lauren Bacall
Old Hollywood actresses + The Onion headlines
Marilyn with the thickness!
Old Hollywood stan language
- *in the voice of the girl holding the album from the JLo/Mariah video* “MARILYN CANT ACT!! MARILYN CANT ACT!!!”
- “Honestly you wish your fave was as relevant as James Stewart cannot relate”
- “SILENT FILMS ARE SUPERIOR BECAUSE THE ACTORS HAD TO DO MORE TO CONVEY THEIR FEELINGS THE GIRLS TODAY JUST ARENT DOING IT”
- “Anyway Audrey Hepburn has done more good for mankind than Ghandi himself”
- “Katharine Hepburn invented acting”
- “imagine willingly stanning someone who betrayed their best friend because they wanted to fuck her husband. choke. Elizabeth Taylor fans don’t interact”
"I'm a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign. Because I don't let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me they have spread word around town that I am not a woman-that I am a cold piece of marble statuary. I guess Hollywood won't consider me as anything except a cold hunk of marvel until I divorce my husband, give my baby away and get my name and photograph in all the newspapers. If that's Hollywood's idea of being a woman I'm ready to quit now." -Maureen O'Hara
Every time I watch a movie from Old Hollywood I come away with a new favorite actress because they’re all so fucking damn good
I think that Michelle would make a perfect choice to play Vivien Leigh in a biopic! What about you?