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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20m

Jean Harlow chats up Richard Barthelmess, Mervyn LeRoy, and Paul Muni at Warner Bros during a luncheon held for the U.S. Naval Affairs Committee ninety-three years ago today, October 6, 1933. Loveeee the footwear here from LeRoy’s socks and sandals to the Barthelmess cowboy boots

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13h

Chevret (in beret, hiding her telltale widow’s peak, pointing across RKO’s Forty Acre backlot) and Nadine Dore (following Lita’s finger) survey the props to be used in the filming of Cimarron (1931) during its production in the fall of 1930. From my collection.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sheila Terry in Deco sweater and overalls “high-hats Duke, the [Warner Bros] studio policeman”, Screen Book, 1933

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 27/09/2026

strip mall, san bernardino, california, 2003

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Jim Leeke @jimleeke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Sportsmen penetrate the wilds in their Travel Airs." A Travel Air biplane with a Wright Whirlwind engine, from a company ad, 1930. Artist unknown. #avgeeks

Illustration of open cockpit biplane in flight, side view.

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SilentFilmTitle @silentfilmtitle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Irene (1926). #SilentFilm

Intertitle from 1926 film ‘Irene’ which reads “Madame Lucy - whose business motto is "Pay cash — look what happened to the Light Brigade - they charged!”

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like how these are always misidentified as being from Wings when they’re not. Anyway here are Wellman and Jean Arthur on the set of Young Eagles with Leo Nomis, Lieutenant R.H. Robinson and pilot Frank Clarke (all photos by Clifton L. Kling)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I haven’t made it out to UCLA to see Young Eagles yet, so it and the early archival silents like Big Dan are the last Wellmans haven’t seen. I know it’ll just be underwhelming Wings 2: Electric Boogaloo but it has Jean Arthur!

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with plane-mounted camera on the set of the underseen Young Eagles in 1930. Most of us have probably seen these shots and not the film)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nancy Carroll and Buddy Rogers make faces behind director Victor Fleming’s back during the production of Abie’s Irish Rose (1928). Keep seeing this labeled as a photo of Clara during Wings so maybe if we post it with the correct information enough times the truth will persevere

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty funny, sensational tale of various complaints as told by Jean Hersholt about von Stroheim and the production of Greed (1924), published in Screen Book magazine, June 1933:

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worth mentioning Edith Head was the Banton assistant here and has Bow’s entire Wild Party film wardrobe attributed to her, though whether she did these identical pieces worn by Clara *and* her girls, I’d love to know as I don’t. Though I do think of this.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Adrienne Doré in her Travis Banton lightning-strike one-piece, photographed by Eugene Robert Richee for The Wild Party (1929). Shocking!

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday slash Lauren Bacall’s birthday

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Talked about good ol’ research and Drew Barrymore-Jean Harlow parallels with the awesome Drew historians who run the How Do You Drew podcast. Listen below! open.spotify.com/episode/7wsC...

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138 – Jean Harlow: Drew Barrymore's Connections to the Iconic Star

How Do You Drew | The Drew Barrymore Fan Podcast · Episode

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (caricature by Al Hirschfeld, 1929)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was lucky enough to receive a fabulous tour of Jean Harlow’s 1932 custom-built mansion on South Beverly Glen Boulevard, now listed for the first time in decades. Read about the history of this well-preserved, idiosyncratic property and take a walkthrough: vitaphonezone.substack.com/p/inside-jea...

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Inside Jean Harlow’s “Platinum Palace”

A peek at what was better known as “The Whitest House in the World,” a 1.3 acre achromatic wonderland built for Hollywood’s crowning “Platinum Blonde” in the early 1930s. You can buy it for $16.8M

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Talked about good ol’ research and Drew Barrymore-Jean Harlow parallels with the awesome Drew historians who run the How Do You Drew podcast. Listen below! open.spotify.com/episode/7wsC...

open.spotify.com

138 – Jean Harlow: Drew Barrymore's Connections to the Iconic Star

How Do You Drew | The Drew Barrymore Fan Podcast · Episode

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 15/09/2026

stevens motel, yulee, florida, 1978

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sept. 15, 1926: Actress Gay Sheridan takes her pet seal, Flipper, for a waddle in Long Beach, Calif.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For once NOT in my collection. Someone actually uploaded this image I’ve never seen before to Pinterest and claimed it was Constance Talmadge. Flabbergasting. Here’s the short Adrienne wears this outfit in… astonishingly not lost and on YouTube youtu.be/BM4aJi7f4gA?...

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ADAM'S EVE (1929) - JOHNNY ARTHUR, FRANCES LEE

YouTube video by Geno's House of Rare Films

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Adrienne Doré in a publicity portrait for the Christie two-reeler sound short, Adam’s Eve (1929)

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Josh Bell @signalbleed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know that I follow the right people here when one of them is celebrating William Wellman Wednesday and another is celebrating Wallace Shawn Wednesday.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with Barbara Stanwyck on the set of So Big, 1932)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Russ Columbo performing "You're My Past, Present and Future" in Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember to pour one out for Russ Columbo today guys

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jean Harlow, Joseph Calleia, director J. Walter Ruben, and cinematographer Ray June film a scene from Riffraff (1936) ninety-one years ago in September 1935

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cover photo of the house courtesy photographer Ryan Lahiff (not my photo)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Inside Jean Harlow’s “Platinum Palace”

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"A bat-shaped night light, circa 1930, now housed at the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles in France."

A bat in metal , with its wings extended, and the middle portion is a caged lantern.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thought-provoking article on the up-and-coming Production Code from Broadway and Hollywood Movies, July 1930 (!). Things would only get hairier from here!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/08/2026

The Walking Tree Maurice Tabard, 1947.

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a woman with an upside tree, looking like the lower half of her body

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with a lion cub during the production of Young Eagles in January 1930, photographed by Clifton L. Kling)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cute and sad to me that Stu Erwin and June Collyer died a couple of months apart from each other after decades of marriage. I think this may be the best photo of the couple taken

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 16/08/2026

santa fe railroad station, 7th street, riverside, california, 1977

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Mel Stefaniuk @melstefaniuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Pictures aren’t working on Bluesky because I tried uploading a nude pic of Yoda in such graphic high fidelity the servers exploded. They called me up and said I owe them $400,000 but I told them to take it up with the artist who made the picture (I’m the artist but they don’t know that)

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jean Harlow photographed by Virgil Apger “playing” tennis on her currently-for-sale mansion’s lawn ninety-two years ago today, August 15, 1934

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Love the Carole cover on the table in this ‘33 photo of James and William Cagney. This photo, too, is from an issue of Screen Book. Love me a “candid” with product placement as well 😁

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You’re one of a handful of people who keep me coming here!

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This resonated with eighteen people on Twitter so once again boy do I have the piece for you

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Abstract Speed + Sound by Giacomo Balla, 1913 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome

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