Low-Fat Angela Lansbury

For those of you who only remember
actress Angela Lansbury as the plump and
elderly Jessica Fletcher from the television
show Murder, She Wrote, here are some
pictures of her in younger, thinner days.

Above is from Samson and Delilah (1949),
where Angela Lansbury's figure puts Hedy
Lamarr's figure to shame.


Angie with Victor Mature in S&D.

These vidcaps are from the thriller A Life at
Stake (1954), which along with Please Murder
Me (1956), is public domain and can probably
be watched online somewhere.

I think the portrait above is from The Picture
of Dorian Gray (1945).



Who knew, right?

Saturday Is Bath Day!

Cool Dresses #5

OUCH!

Girl-Girl #5

Cross-Category Pictures

Smokers & No Pants.

Girl-Girl & Car Girls.

Groups & Gun Girls.

Telephones & No Pants.

Girl-Girl & Silvery.
This last one is a still from Josef von Sternberg's 1941 film The Shanghai Gesture, which people tend to really love or really hate. You decide. Me, I liked it. It's very smoky and very black & white. The New York Times reviewer said it "reminds me of an argument I once had with the mother of my second wife" and described Gene Tierney's performance as "a fair imitation of a second lead in a boarding-school play." Another critic said something like, "Miss Tierney's performance has all the intensity of a teenage girl shouting for another milkshake at Schwab's" or words to that effect. Anyway, the movie is about gambling and depravity and whores and sin and ruin and intense clouds of cigarette smoke, and everybody should watch it at least once.

Hollywood Harem #7

It's been another tough day at work.
G'night.

Roxie Hart's Black Bottom

Assuming YouTube is up and running, here are
two clips of Ginger Rogers from Roxie Hart.
They aren't the highest quality videos, so
I'm making them run in smaller frames, so that
they won't look so washed out. The dance in
the first clip is called the "Black Bottom."

Ahhhhh, that SWAYYYYYYYY.

Sweeeeet!

Stone Cold Hot Chicks

Take a moment and examine these phrases:
HOT SEX

IN HEAT

HOT CHICKS

HOTTIE

HAVE THE HOTS FOR...

HOT TO TROT

HE'S HOT/SHE'S HOT

HOT DATE

Now take a look at these:
STONE COLD
ON A COLD SLAB
COLD-HEARTED
COLD-BLOODED
I HAVE A COLD
COLD B!TCH
SHUT HIM/HER DOWN COLD
COLD AS ICE

Where would YOU rather be???
(I am SO tired of this winter.)

Reading Room #5

Susannah York Day!

This is British actress (and writer of children's

books) Susannah York. If you only remember

her from the two Superman films of the 1970s,

you should definitely check her out in The Battle

of Britain (1969), They Shoot Horses, Don't They

(1969), and Images (1972). These photos are from

that era.

(Frequent search term misspellings include Suzannah

York, Susanah Yorke, and Suzanna York.)

Bathing Your Heart in Orgasms

Folks who don't smoke, don't understand it.
They don't know the feeling of having hundreds
of microscopic orgasms going on inside their
lungs. It has to do with blood vessels and stuff.
And, of course, it's actually poisoning that's going
on, not lung sex. But that's not the point. The
point is that it feels like you're bathing your
heart and lungs with tiny orgasms. And folks
who don't smoke will never understand that.
So it will be our little secret.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.