Buster Keaton, via vintagephoto

Via abbyjean:

A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 items banned by the Hays Code into one image. (via Sociological Images)

Left to right: Alfred Hitchcock, James Gregory, Vincent Price

Via vintagephoto; more Hitchcock here

By Jef Aérosol; previously

James Cagney shows Ed Sullivan how to do a James Cagney impression.

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Man Ray (1921)

Passport Photos

Nag on the Lake

Shooting the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion (1924), via The Blog of Record; more MGM lions here.

Via killingbambi (again), via theblogofrecord

Photograph by Cecil Beaton; not sure who the model is. Via Preik.

Via apatientboy:

Rod Serling talks censorship, art vs. commerce, selling out, and more in this brilliant interview with Mike Wallace from 1959 (just before The Twilight Zone premiered on television).

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Greta Garbo’s bookplate, via DRB.

Via capriquarius, via abirdfriend

Alla Nazimova as the title character in her screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, 1923. John Coulthart writes: “Nazimova inaugurated the project, produced it and even part-financed it since the studios, increasingly worried by pressure from moral campaigners, regarded it as a dangerously decadent work. Nazimova had a rather colourful off-screen life and the stories of orgiastic revels at her mansion, the Garden of Allah, probably didn’t help matters.”

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“Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)” by Fritz Kahn, 1926; via { feuilleton }.

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