Anyway, tell me about someone you're fond of ([personal profile] thisbluespirit I'm looking at you).
LOL! Mine aren't Old Hollywood people, though, and therefore not at all cool, even if I like them. XD
The nearest I come is Margaret Lockwood, the biggest female UK movie star in the 1930s, who was pretty awesome, and made something of a comeback in the 60s and 70s as well & was the wicked stepmother in The Slipper and the Rose.
She's great in The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty and Michael Redgrave (I'm confident you'd enjoy that one - it's an early Alfred Hitchcock with spies on a train across Europe and full on 1930s banter and shenanigans).
She played quite a few villains in Gainsborough melodramas (and some heroines), and The Wicked Lady is a lot of fun, as she dresses up as a man and takes to the highway with James Mason. (And Patricia Roc, who also turns up in three of her films and they are always v femslashy together, like so) and like so.)
I also like Carol Reed's Bank Holiday, although I'm not sure I can justify that as much, but I'm very fond of it anyway.
Some other 1930s UK Movie ladies I like include (obv) the very awesome Dame May Whitty (she went to Hollywood aged 70 and immediately set about winning Oscars; she helped set up Equity and she was the first actor to be made a Dame, for her work in hospitals in WWI), Nova Pilbeam (who is fun and also refused to change her name for the stage, because she didn't think it was any sillier than plenty of stage names anyway) and Victoria Hopper, subject of a rather baffling hatchet job of an Obit in The Stage that I suspect was undeserved (but idk). Ironically, her favourite role was one that was all about how women get written out of history and forgotten or maligned.
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LOL! Mine aren't Old Hollywood people, though, and therefore not at all cool, even if I like them. XD
The nearest I come is Margaret Lockwood, the biggest female UK movie star in the 1930s, who was pretty awesome, and made something of a comeback in the 60s and 70s as well & was the wicked stepmother in The Slipper and the Rose.
She's great in The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty and Michael Redgrave (I'm confident you'd enjoy that one - it's an early Alfred Hitchcock with spies on a train across Europe and full on 1930s banter and shenanigans).
She played quite a few villains in Gainsborough melodramas (and some heroines), and The Wicked Lady is a lot of fun, as she dresses up as a man and takes to the highway with James Mason. (And Patricia Roc, who also turns up in three of her films and they are always v femslashy together, like so) and like so.)
I also like Carol Reed's Bank Holiday, although I'm not sure I can justify that as much, but I'm very fond of it anyway.
But, yeah, she's pretty cool:
Being v eyerolly about the US censors and TWL
Some other 1930s UK Movie ladies I like include (obv) the very awesome Dame May Whitty (she went to Hollywood aged 70 and immediately set about winning Oscars; she helped set up Equity and she was the first actor to be made a Dame, for her work in hospitals in WWI), Nova Pilbeam (who is fun and also refused to change her name for the stage, because she didn't think it was any sillier than plenty of stage names anyway) and Victoria Hopper, subject of a rather baffling hatchet job of an Obit in The Stage that I suspect was undeserved (but idk). Ironically, her favourite role was one that was all about how women get written out of history and forgotten or maligned.