dangermousie | 1930s fashion plates and movie stars...

First off, apologies to anyone who joined this lj for BSG and Bollywood. I have obviously not abandoned them but I have a tendency to go off on mini-rambles. And right now, I am all about old movies.

Anyway, this post is largely pic spam about two very fashionable 1930s stars.

Robert Montgomery was quite a popular actor in 1930s and 1940s. His most famous movie "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" about a boxer who dies prematurely and is sent back has been remade twice, once with Warren Beatty (shudder) and once with Chris Rock (also shudder).

Anyway, he's a good actor and made some movies I enjoyed quite a lot, but the real reason the picspam is here is because of 1930s elegance. He really looks as if he'd just stepped out of the pages of Wodehouse (and appropriately he was the lead in an adaptation of "Picadilly Jim," one of my Wodehouse favorites). Basically, I just love the look and the style. You can just imagine the cocktail glass in one hand, and a fancy cigarette in the other.

aliterati will be glad to know he played a dapper and charming psychopath in "Night Must Fall."

I love the look of the poster:

Dapper:

1930s fashions!

And then there is Merle Oberon. One of my favorite 1930s actresses, she was gorgeous, and British, and always well-dressed, period movies or not. She was Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" (which is so the version you should watch. She and Laurence Olivier are amazing together), she was Marguerite in "The Scarlet Pimpernel," she was in two not as well known but excellent angst-o-ramas "Beloved Enemy" and "Dark Angel." And she was one of the two schoolteachers accused of lesbianism in the earliest adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour" which was (because of controversy) retitled "These Three" for the movie version. I could totally see her as one of Wodehouse's capable, madcap girls.

My favorite pic of hers: