not dead, so have some icons!

[praiseofshadows]

In honour of the summer storm (which involved me watching the local weather -- aieee! I have become old!), have some icons! Otherwise known as Femke has been amusing herself thus far this summer by playing DS and rereading every Scarlet Pimpernel book Project Gutenberg has online...

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days:

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[pronker]

Howard and Oberon are/were gorgeous people and your icons do them justice. Some said he was too old for Ashley Wilkes, but who could have done better with the role in that Hollywood era?

[praiseofshadows]

I know!!! He was the PERFECT Ashley!!!.as was Olivia has Melanie Other than Pygmalion and Pimpernel Smith, I really haven't seen much of Leslie Howard (besides obv. the Scarlet Pimpernel and Gone with the Wind), and the only other thing I've seen Oberon on was this weird movie where she was an ingenue actress and Jack the Ripper was stalking her??? So yeah, if you have any movie recommendations with either her or Leslie, I am all ears! :D :D :D

Yeah, okay, I'm just rambling now! So, let me close with a THANK YOU for liking the icons! ♥

Old movies, *sigh* how good they could be ...

[pronker]

Okay, I liked him in these, especially: drama/Intermezzo; comedy/It's Love I'm After; action/biography/ Spitfire. deHavilland was with Bette Davis as costars in It's Love I'm After, and Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo.

And Oberon, um. well, she was George Sand in A Song To Remember, but I liked her better in Dark Angel, because it was less campy --- I think the drama for Dark Angel was good, even though some of those thirties' movies creak a bit. I remember her more for being very mysterious about her parentage and for being gorgeous into her 70's and having Robert Wolders, who was something like 30 years younger, as her boyfriend when she was busy being a socialite in her late midde age.

Re: Old movies, *sigh* how good they could be ...

[praiseofshadows]

Ohhhhh....I shall be getting these as soon as I can commender the father' s netflix queue!!!! Thank you! ♥ ♥ ♥ And Oberon was George Sand??? Really? I assume the movie was about her romance with Chopin? (I might have to see that -- campy or not it's like Chopin's 200th b-day year or something)

And yeah -- she was amazing -- having all those younger boyfriends/husbands. And I read somewhere they used to put really heavy make-up on her to disguise her Anglo-Indian heritage (along with re-training her how to speak?). I've also heard (though I don't know if this is substantiated) that he was in some really old movies from India, before she went to England. All I have to aay is that despite the book stating that Marguerite is red-blonde, she will always be a brunette to me. :D

Turner Classic Movies may have some of these on ...

[pronker]

How neat; I didn't know she was in any Indian movies -- and yes, her parentage, at that time in the world, woud have given her publicist fits. How different are things today? Well, the exotic is played either up or down; I guess there are examples of people gaining fame and doing their best to hide how they got to where they are ... we humanoids are a funny bunch.

Yes, she was Sand and Cornel Wilde was Chopin.

Re: Turner Classic Movies may have some of these on ...

[praiseofshadows]

Ohhhh...I shall have to check the tv guide! And the Indian thing -- it's just something I read in an old movie star bio book. I'm not sure if they were shorts or silents or whatever, and I'm not sure how much of them are still in existence?

We totally are a funny bunch -- yeah, I mean, even people who weren't that exotic had to change their names. I mean look at Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland -- now siblings always seem to keep their same names, not make ups stories about how they are not related! LOL!