Actresses calling on the phone (3)

Ava Gardner, Debra Paget, Joan Crawford ("The women", George Cukor), Julie Delpy ("Trois couleurs : Blanc", Krzysztof Kieslowski), Dorothy Malone, Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Sylvia Sidney, Bette Davis, Anne Shirley, Elina Lowensohn, Grace Kelly ("Dial M for Murder", Alfred Hitchcock), Jeanne Moreau ("Ascenseur pour l'échafaud", Louis Malle), Sherilyn Fenn, Elizabeth Taylor (via), Brigitte Bardot, Fay Wray, Lili St. Cyr, Norma Shearer ("The women", George Cukor), Priscilla Lane, Rhonda Fleming, Tippi Hedren.

Actresses calling on the phone (2) : http://dsata.blogspot.com/2010/06/actresses-calling-on-phone-2.html




Tamara de Lempicka - Telephone


Roy Lichtenstein - Oh, Jeff ... I love you, too ... but

Actors reading (3)

Cary Grant, Kieron Moore & Vivien Leigh ("Anna Karenina", Julien Duvivier), David Niven & Ginger Rogers, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Belmondo & Jean-Pierre Léaud (“Pierrot le fou”, Jean-Luc Godard), Claude Jade & Jean-Pierre Léaud ("Domicile conjugal", François Truffaut), Catherine Deneuve & Heinz Bennent ("Le Dernier Métro", François Truffaut).

Actors reading (2) : http://dsata.blogspot.com/2010/11/actors-reading-2.html




Edouard Manet - Portrait of Emile Zola




Auguste Renoir - Claude Monet reading (via petrus.agricola)


Lucien Jonas - La belle histoire

Marilyn Monroe, queen of heart

(via Lolita's classics)


"My heart belongs to daddy" (Cole PORTER) by Marilyn MONROE in George Cukor "Let's male love" / "Le milliardaire" , also starring Yves Montand

title of the post inspired by Tea with the Vintage Baroness

Monkey Business

Dolores Costello, Bettie Page, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Lamour, Doris Day, Margaret Livingston, Norma Shearer, Katherine Hepburn, Natalie Wood, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe.




Photographer unknown to me


Owl-Monkey-Music. Eng. 15th c. MS hatton 10 Bodl. Lib. (via)


Hugh Thomson, from The admirable Crichton, by J. M. Barrie


Balint Zsako - Untitled (via http://darksilenceinsuburbia.tumblr.com/)


Le douanier Rousseau - Tropical forest with monkeys


Le douanier Rousseau - Apes in the Orange Grove

Easy to recognize

Ava Gardner, Anna Karina, Deborah Kerr, Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth, Norma Shearer.