Happy William Holden's Birthday to all who celebrate! (And Lucy Ricardo was a model of self-control compared to the way I would've been.)

That one is weight-activated, he sits on the edge. And I'm happy to feed him, his shenanigans are hilarious!

AAALVIIINN!

I remember the first time I saw this movie I was in college and had come home really late and it was just starting on television and I was super-sleepy but had to stay up until Henry Fonda got what was coming to him.

Oh I know, and I've seen this movie before. My point I guess was that Cabot Cove is my highwater mark for murder capitals...

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Watching Once Upon a Time in the West where the murder rate is almost as high as Cabot Cove's.

Can we combine the Murdoch bio and Ice Cream Man as the second feature.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Billie Holiday, here with her beloved dog Mister.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to my movie husband, Walter Huston! In my dreams, I'm Edith Cortwright, perched on the floor of my open-air Italian villa in my cotton shirtdress with rolled-up sleeves, my giant horse-dog at my side, ready to go through life on one suitcase with Sam Dodsworth.

Happy Heavenly Anniversary to Carole and Clark, who eloped to Arizona eighty-seven years ago today.

This was what I needed on my timeline today.

Lovely candid of birthday girl Joan, 1948.

She's Old Hollywood's easiest target for cheap shots, and one of the least deserving of criticism. It's like bullying the most vulnerable kid in school hoping it'll get you access to the cool kids' lunch table. But if they're really worth sitting with, chances are they love Joan. :)

Sometimes when I post about Joan Crawford I add a note that haters, or even mild dislikers, will be blocked to the sun and their comment deleted. I don't generally feel the need do that for anyone else. I wish she didn't still need protecting. But she does. Thank you for doing so!

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"She is our high priestess, our Holy Mother. All of us who split away from reality when reality came with punches and bruises look up to her for creating a new person, a new reality." -- Marlon Brando on birthday girl Joan Crawford.

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The first time I saw the #NoirAlley film #WhoKilledTeddyBear was on the ABC 4:30 movie when I was a kid. What programming genius thought that was a good idea?!?

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The first time I saw the #NoirAlley film #WhoKilledTeddyBear was on the ABC 4:30 movie when I was a kid. What programming genius thought that was a good idea?!?

Suddenly had a vision of a future archeologist digging through tons of rubble to find a tablet he hopes will hold the key to an ancient civilization and when he painstakingly translates it, it says "nah, bruh, fuck that shit "

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my Skymates! Flashback to 1999 when Maureen O'Hara was the best Grand Marshall of the parade ever.

Chock Full O' Nuts! Drink! #TheKingOfComedy #TCMParty

Betty and Veronica Keds, thrift store find. I couldn't resist.

Happy Heavenly Birthday George Brent, here on his yacht, The Southwind, in 1941.

Joan and Franchot on the day they were wed. Their pairing reportedly played a large role in the Bette/Joan feud, as Bette had become smitten with him when they filmed DANGEROUS. So silly and such a waste of energy from two fabulous women who could and should have been friends.

Brilliant in both, also in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and so many others. Also got a rare shot at light comedy in A touch of Larceny, available on youtube.

So happy to see Vera Miles, 95, still killing it, out and about in Palm Springs. Such a fabulous and underrated actress...

Happy Friday the Thirteenth to all my Skymates!!

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Happy 67th Birthday, Barbie!

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So International Women's Day collides with Daylight Saving Time, making it the shortest day of the year, which is somehow both horrible and perfect.

Love this snap of Suzanne. (Peter Basch, 1957)

Norma Jeane at the opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, March 1955.