My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

obsidian-sphere:

Whoa! Step back on the wild science fiction imagery there Yankee Science Fiction, you’re blowing my mind with you Buck Rogers tomfoolery! 

Bear Alley: “The oddly named Yankee Shorts series was published by Gerald G. Swan in the early 1940s at a time when paper was in short supply. There was also a ban on new periodicals appearing, so the title changed regularly from issue to issue. To try and fool readers into thinking that the magazine was American, Swan put a 10 cents price tag on covers but sold it for 3d. for 32 pages.”

atompunk:

thegildedcentury:

True Confessions, August 1941

Secrets of a Career Girl

‘In March read the books you’ve always meant to read’

March 25, 1941, WPA Art Project Chicago (HT Brainpickings)

k-a-t-i-e-:

Sharp Dressed Man

1940

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my-beloveds-key:

gloria vanderbilt, age 17

by horst p. horst

new york

1941

Gene Tierney in Shanghai Gesture (1941). A film noir starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson.

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books0977:

Gene Tierney reading a script (1941).

Sundown. United Artists, 1941. With Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders.

Tierney was featured on all the posters, but you’ll have to wait a good long time to see her. Like many of her films, the emphasis here is on her otherworldly beauty at the expense of her performance. She’s a beautiful blank, her exotic looks enhanced by the makeup crew to make her more believable as a half-French, half-Arab temptress.

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moronicalake:

Veronica Lake in Sullivan’s Travels, 1941

vogueaustralia:

From the archive: a Vogue model photographed in a camel-coloured wool skirt accessorised with a wide red belt, a fringed scarf and pearls, 1941

horst

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