Sophia D’Aurelio
@vitaphonezone
Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.
I wrote a bit about June Harlow, a 1950s burlesque queen and film hopeful who built a solid career based partially off her resemblance to her ‘aunt’ Jean Harlow—showing that being a fake Nepo Niece can carry you pretty far. open.substack.com/pub/vitaphonez…
I was flipping through the Clark Gable biography “Long Live the King” and was reminded of this adorable candid shot of him and Carole.
hey the girls and I are gonna rouge our knees and roll our stockings down later if you’re interested
Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop, Steve Buscemi, and Jim Jarmusch attend a party for the release of John Water’s Serial Mom. 1994.
William A. Wellman on rain in his films and wind in John Ford’s films. Interview by Richard Schickel for The Men Who Made the Movies
It’s such an honor to be sandwiched between him and Stanwyck in the birthday twin club
I think about this wonderful scene with James Cagney (#BOTD) from William A. Wellman’s Other Men's Women (1931) often
Orson Welles called James Cagney the “greatest actor who appeared in front of a camera”
its @vitaphonezone’s birthday everyone go read her exceptionally thoughtful and astute writing on the wildly misunderstood Jean Harlow and other Old Hollywood stars and films vitaphonezone.substack.com/p/harlow-small…
sorry to everybody who follows me under the impression i am some sort of tradwife because of how i dress. this is the tallulah bankhead jean harlow katharine hepburn carole lombard 1930s flapper camp pre-code heathen stoner aesthetic i have been carefully curating for years