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Someone told me to go read an article today so I could learn more about a subject. I am the author of said article.
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Classic Blondes
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Classic Blondes
@classicblondess
Author • Mum • Historian • TCM 2018 • Sporadic Podcast Guest • All views are my own • ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿BLM • She/Her • PhD Student •
Oklahoma, USA Katılım Eylül 2010
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Had to change who can reply cause the British transphobes found this post. Crisp was a trans woman, wikipedia refers to her with she/her pronouns, she even referred to herself a woman trapped in a man's body. Argue with the wall. Trans people have always been here. Accept it.
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@catchypiccolino It’s a 1957 movie with John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
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Pretty sure you’d love The Conqueror
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Taya Bass@travelingflying
Imagine the outrage if a historically non-White character like Pocahontas were made White in a movie. Yet it’s considered acceptable to make all historically White characters non-White in movies. This is racism against White people.
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the levels of attractiveness were so disproportionate between men and women in old hollywood that saying "wow you look like an old hollywood star" can be interpreted as a compliment for women and an insult for men 😭
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@thescrewballgrl @Adam_Maunder I wish I had enough time in my day as he does to think about other people’s sex lives.
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@classicblondess @Adam_Maunder Sorry we’re not all prudes!
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Wow, very edgy and cool of you to call Grace Kelly a tramp! But unless you were in bed with her and her boyfriends, I’d hardly think it’d be possible to provide readers of the esteemed DM with a “first hand account” of her sexual dalliances.
Moreover, who cares?
Jean-Pierre Dorléac@spclsmthin
Check out @DailyMailUS for another scandalous disclosure of who was the most notorious celebrities to pull the wool over your eyes as they bedded all the big names in Hollywood. First hand accounts the film world has covered over for decades. dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Grace Kelly died 43 almost 44 years ago yet some people are still obsessively bothered by her allegedly having sex with some of her costars 70 years ago. For some reason.
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@thescrewballgrl @emilynesbitt96 Glad this misogynist blocked me
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@sexyanimemilfs Honestly the best part of the film, and I’m somebody who adores Betty Grable and her films. I think I’ve watched it maybe twice in part to help date a costume that one of the extras wore that Monroe wore later in Ladies of the Chorus.
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@classicblondess Yeah I downloaded it for the cosmetics number that I’d seen screenshots of. Now I know why I never saw screenshots of anything else.
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The 50s offered a lot of schlock, but it also saw a rise in female-led production companies, Black stars marketed to white audiences beyond supporting characters, and a steep decline in the code.
tabitha 🌪️@sl33p2dreamy
also the 50s were #Maybe one of the worst decades in representation of minorities and women.. you guys need to Calm down no one’s saying You can’t enjoy the decade’s films
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@sexyanimemilfs Especially being it’s a number caricaturing Black children (won’t use the term here). The idea is that it’s dated and based off what the real Dolly sisters were doing, but that doesn’t make it less offensive.
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@classicblondess And it feels so crazy cause even if you assume we wouldn’t be watching no acknowledgment at all just makes me think they’re okay with it. Or able to ignore it, when it’s genuinely beyond infuriating for me to see.
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@sexyanimemilfs Yeah, I was in no way expecting it when I went through her filmography. It sucks because it has one of the most beautiful numbers relating to cosmetics, but the blackface number is 🤮. It’s also not just her and June Haver; the extras are all in blackface too.
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@classicblondess Oh wow I’m glad I saw this before I watched The Dolly Sisters. I’ve somehow managed to mostly avoid films with blackface / egregious antiblackness but nobody really warns for it, even on TCM.
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@PeekabooBrian Yes! HUGE strides for portraying Black performers. So funny you brought that up because I JUST read a piece on that a few weeks ago. Black Americans really ushered in TV.
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@classicblondess And TELEVISION! Black people literally in the homes!
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@TheTimBurgess Consider yourself lucky you’re not in the Marilyn Monroe community because it’s pretty common over there 😭
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This busts so many Marilyn-related myths😭
Nancy Sinatra@NancySinatra
Frank Sinatra was a registered Democrat all of his life. Occasionally he voted for a republican: for Nixon because of his stand on China and Reagan because they were lifelong friends. He never "became disgusted" with the Democratic Party. Nice try but you didn't research before posting.
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@bapaig01 Yes, and it still occurred in the 1950s as well. Betty Grable famously does an extremely offensive number in 1945’s The Dolly Sisters. Decline most likely ties to white people actively working with Black people for the first time for many of them during World War II.
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@sl33p2dreamy Yeah sorry for all the replies. Was diving. Tony Curtis is notably the one who gets shot in The Defiant Ones, not Sidney Poitier.
Yes, it’s never linear. Each decade has it standout, but I think when talking about them as a whole, I would still say that the 1950s beats 30s & 40s
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@classicblondess There were blips of good representation like for Theresa Harris in Hold Your Man and Baby Face, but Hold Your Man still had its scenes with a Black pastor cut and refilmed for censorship in the south. Pre-code revisionism is hilarious lol
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I love 1930s film more than any other decade, but it’s also a decade that has Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor doing the most heinous blackface acts I’ve ever seen, so saying it was a particularly liberating time is hilarious lol
Classic Blondes@classicblondess
Sidney Poitier received his Oscar nomination for best actor, the first for a Black man, in 1958. Dorothy Dandridge received hers in 1954. Blackface had a steep decline in popularity. Horrible decade for a shit ton of reasons, but one of the worst for minority representation?
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@sl33p2dreamy That makes sense. 1930s musicals tended to just throw in random ass blackface numbers for no reason other than the perceived comedic value of the stereotypical caricature of the Black body. It was a horrific time. 50s sucked in a lot of ways, but the 30s make it look great.
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@classicblondess and obviously the 30s were a horrible time for racism, no one can really say that it wasn’t. i just think that there were big highs and lows for almost all decades of film. but again, i agree with a lot of your points! i’ve seen more 50s movies than 20s-30s 😭
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@sl33p2dreamy I’m mostly stuck on the idea of maybe one of the worst for minority representation? Like 1930s and pre-WWII 1940s films are significantly more racist than probably 75% of what came out in the 1950s if you’re looking at it as a whole? Not attacking you, trying to understand?
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@classicblondess I agree a lot! the 50s are one of my favorite decades of film, but i think that while there were obvious social advances, things improved far more later on, and most earlier representation was flawed but at certain points better than mid-century—
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