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💄Happy National Lipstick Day!

  Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, Esther Williams,Toby Wing, Lucille Ball, Jean Harlow, Adrienne Ames, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth

🍦Happy National Vanilla Ice Cream Day!

Bette Davis    

🎆 4th of July Sparklers

 

🌟Star Quote: Betty Hutton

  “I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn’t realize that I really couldn’t do anything.”    

🎥 Review: Three on A Match (1932)

 “I suppose I should be the happiest woman in the world. Beautiful home, a successful husband, and a nice youngster, but . . . somehow, the things that make other people happy leave me cold. I guess something must have been left out of my makeup.”   Today marks the 90th anniversary of the enforcement of the Production Code on this day in film history. The Hayes Code, or Hays Code as some like to call it, was established in 1930 but didn't start cracking down on those filmmakers until 1934. Its main goal was to keep films squeaky clean and avoid government interference. But before mid-1934, some movies were rebels who didn't care about those guidelines. This era gave us some raw and unfiltered cinema that truly captured the essence of the time. I'm low-key obsessed with pre-code flicks, there's just something so refreshingly honest about them.  I recently introduced the pre-code classic Three on a Match from 1932, to my boyfriend, who had never seen it before...