“Ken had the fish so Barbie had to land the plane.”
Butterflies Are Free
I remember this as one of several Blind People Are Inspiring movies of the 1960s-1980s. There were endless commercials for “Butterflies Are Free” when it came out, with all the signifiers that this was an Important, Serious Movie.
Voight-Kampff
Merrill’s Marauders. South East Asia. 1944.
Help keep your school ALL-AMERICAN, 1950
Delicious rum. Have some
I absolutely did not expect the hat.
Kirk Douglas broke the Hollywood blacklist single-handedly – according to Kirk Douglas
The end of the blacklist took more than a decade, and involved a lot of people, including President John F. Kennedy. The process also weakened the production code and dissolved the studio system. Afterward, some victims of the blacklist struggled to move on. www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com
Lucille LeSueur Goes to Hollywood
Lucille LeSueur, raised in midwestern poverty, was brassy and beautiful, tough and smart. She traded sexual favors on the path to becoming movie star Joan Crawford. When she arrived in Hollywood, the town was ruled by a king and queen: Lucille’s future future in-laws Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com
Ray Harryhausen
David Essex singing “Rock On” on the Midnight Special is very, very 70s
Crying
On Reddit: “That time my parents took me to the photographer in the 80s and I wouldn’t stop crying but they bought the picture anyways 😂😂”
Nebraska, 1935
On Reddit: “My dad, far right, with brother and parents”
“Good Heavens Myrtle!” CBC TV, 1965
Mannington, 1975
Galaxy Magazine, 1952
Battlestar Galactica
Electrohome thinks about tomorrow to give you the best today
Vintage_ads says this post was blocked by Tumblr’s overzealous porn filter
“I mean, we were all thinking it, but tumblr had to go and make it awkward”
Ford Prefect, 1955, England
Scot tissue towels ad, early 1930s
The Blacklist: Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her first starring film role, “Born Yesterday.” She was idiosyncratic and unique, which made her memorable, but it also made for a short career at a time when conformity was equated with safety. www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com
