Yes, Tara was worth fighting for, and she accepted simply and without question the fight. No one was going to get Tara away from her. No one was going to set her and her people adrift on the charity of relatives. She would hold Tara, if she had to break the back of every person on it.
Tag: old hollywood
Fred Astaire in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).
This is some serious old school tricking/parkour/freerunning (or whatever you want to call it). LOLZ!
Jean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Fred Astaire being completely enamored with Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
#same
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Dir. Elia Kazan
”[…] Fred Astaire is all about sex, really – the kind women most dream of. He had a way of seeming as if he were trying to please his partner as much as himself, an intensely ardent and affectionate way of looking at her. He also was forceful and gentle at the same time; he dominated without being domineering about it and the result was unique […]” (x)
“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge (1940)
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