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Posts Tagged ‘film’
Vamps & Tramps: A Black and White Ball
On Sunday, August 28th, join us for a very special evening, as Vintage Vivant teams up with the Alamo Ritz theatre for dinner, a silent movie and dancing. It’s a perfect night for a date! Reese Gray, Stride pianist At 7pm, the Alamo Ritz in downtown Austin will play the silent screen classic, “It,” starring Clara Bow, and [...]
Search for Beauty (1934)
Search for Beauty (1934) begins with Jean (above) and Dan’s release from jail. Teaming up with their crony, Larry, the three hatch a plan to make money by launching a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. It’s a very cute movie, and assembles some incredible young specimens of [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 29
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! These are from the pre-code film Murder at the Vanities (1934). Close your eyes and think of me. This blondie is the little cutie who stars opposite from Dick Powell in the “Young and Healthy” number from 42nd Street (1933). I’m unsure of [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 28
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! I live near a giant discount grocery store that carries a strange selection of $1 double feature movies. I bought a stack of them on a whim and I’ve been slowly going through them when I’m waiting for my Netflix to arrive. For [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 27
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! A surreal kiss planted on a boy wearing a paper mache mask. These are all of Marlene Dietrich from The Glamour Collection DVDs. Not even a sweater can come between this kiss. Kissing while holding an empty wine class in Morocco.
Kissing Film Still, pt. 25
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! Ever since I met Stella Polaris earlier this year in Paris, I’ve been obsessed with watching Marlene Dietrich movies. Both women possess a remarkable grace and mysterious air about them. These kissing scenes come from two movies: “The Devil Is a Woman” and [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 24
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! Here is Greta Garbo starring as the sultry and mysterious Mata Hari (1931). This story is loosely based on the persona of the real Mata Hari, a German exotic dancer who was convicted and executed as a spy during World War I. Garbo [...]
Prix De Beaute (1930)
This is not my uploaded video, but I love LOVE in these old movies when lovers sing operatic solos loudly into their lovers’ faces. I’ve captured some quiet, overlooked snippets of the 1930 French film “Prix de Beaute.” The majority of these were panning shots or captures from a series of montages: Louise Brooks mournfully [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 22
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! Last week I watched Prix de Beauté (1930) with Louise Brooks. This film was planned as a silent, and Brook’s voice was dubbed by a French actress. I suppose one could refer to it as a “Creaky Talkie.” Brooks plays a secretary in a [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 21
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Forbidden kisses: captured through the gauzy curtains. Captured between gentlemen. Marlene Dietrich in a tux and top hat, Morocco (1930). Queen Christina (1933) starring Garbo as the queen. Queen Christina, also. Lean over that fruit bowl, baby girl! A kiss between servicemen, in [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 20
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! This week’s theme is passionate, uncomfortable kisses The kind where the teeth clank together. Where faces are obscured by the light. Wherein hands clasp backs of necks, And noses press into noses, And the smells of fish dinners, of champagne, comingle And the [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 19
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Welcome to this week’s series: the awkward third. Here is a typical awkward-third-party on the dance floor who are looking at the lusty couple. Can we take this out to the veranda? This is the ultimate voyeur shot: the guard on the left [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 18
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Don’t muss Ms. Davis’s hair, she’s watching! Now, that’s better. Cowboy kiss from “Two Fister” (1927) – notice gun pointed at enemy. A kiss from behind the curtain (Unknown movie).
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 16
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! I wonder if the men were kept from running their fingers through the perfect curls? Imagine stopping the kisses so as to swat hands away! I would have to resist boinging the sausage curls.
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 15
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Alice Fay in Tailspin (1939) Cary Grant in Kiss and Make-up (1934) I like the smile/smooch. Cary Grant plays a successful plastic surgeon in a Pygmalion-scenario where his creation, Eve, turns on him. Although this is a comedy about the lengths women go [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt 14
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Returning the gaze. I think he is wearing a dressing robe, from the silky collar and the funny print. Also, this is Joan Crawford (I can tell by the eyebrow). Red Headed Woman (1932). I love this movie because she kisses so many [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt 10
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Bonjour tout le monde! Je suis en Paris this week but I shall keep you up to your ears in kissing film stills, nonetheless! Louise Brooks pulling back from an embrace. I think that’s a balloon she’s holding! A kiss captured among decomposing [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt 8
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Unknown, 1930s I’m pretty sure this is James Cagney Oh so sweet! Lookit their chicken dinner and her apron. Face Smoosh! Unknown, 1930s
Kissing Film Stills, pt 6
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! The Sheik, mid 1920s Unknown, late 1920s Unknown, 1920s Unknown, 1930s
Kissing Film Stills, pt 5
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Unknown, late 1920s Clara Bow in It, 1927 Unknown, early 1920s Rudolph Valentino, early 20s Unknown, 1920s Okay, okay, this week I cheated! These aren’t my standard 1930s kisses, but they ARE preCode kisses, nontheless! These are gleaned from “Why Be Good?: Sexuality [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt 3
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Why Change Your Wife (1920) Dames (1934) They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Red Headed Woman (1932) This was from an “extra reel” on the Dames DVD, where Dick Powell is judging the kissing of the new campus cuties. I think Dick Powell [...]
