Sophia D’Aurelio

Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:04 UTC

Ann Pennington, a Broadway star of the early 20th century

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Hearst Castle, 4/1/24

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Today’s sheet music.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

I have another biography on a forgotten Hollywood actress queued up as well, and it might actually be more involved than the Jean Lorraine story. More on what to expect here: vitaphonezone.substack.com/about

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

So I launched a Substack, and my first post is an essay on Jean Harlow and two 1936 films slated for her that were made without her: SMALL TOWN GIRL and LOVE ON THE RUN. You’ll have to subscribe to read this one, but there’ll be free stuff where this came from: open.substack.com/pub/vitaphon...

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

She definitely didn’t go bald (or that close to it, really), contrary to popular rumor; you can spy her wet head of hair during the storm scene in CHINA SEAS. Just FYI.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

Jean Harlow in a lovely, unusual publicity pose for CHINA SEAS, taken early 1935; this braided updo, accomplished with a wiglet, came to Harlow’s rescue after years of bleaching took its toll on her locks.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

Remembering Jean Harlow, who passed eighty-seven years ago today at just 26. A once-in-lifetime shooting star that left behind not only short but wonderful filmography, but a platinum blonde legacy to boot. Photographed candidly during a 1934 central California vacation:

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

Thinking of Jeanne Crain—born on this day ninety-nine years ago in Barstow, CA (something that makes me happy as another desert gal). A treat in every film (nodding to LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, MARGIE, STATE FAIR…). This is my all-time favorite photo of her, taken by William Mortensen in 1942.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

LMAO

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

Must be awesome to sit around and make money off posting other people’s photos all day. Couldn’t be me.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

I love when big braindead Twitter Blue content mills take watermarks off photos that belong to people they follow that actually own the photo, which proves the reasoning for having the watermark there to begin with. 🤷

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 17:00 UTC

Based off this glowing portrait of Harlow in her Beverly Glen pool, taken by none other than Clarence Sinclair Bull on July 20, 1933; one of her best and most prolific photographers.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

The current late-May summery feeling seems best visualized by this Marland Stone illustration of Jean Harlow for the cover of Movie Classic magazine, July 1934. The ‘STARS IN LOVE MAKE BETTER PICTURES’ heading is almost a slightly ironic portent of the coming, more stringent Code.

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Sophia D’Aurelio @vitaphonezone.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

Evalyn Knapp in a Columbia publicity portrait for Air Hostess (1933)

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