Sophia D’Aurelio Adair
@vitaphonezone.bsky.social
Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.
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June, not Jean: Harlow's Nicest 'Niece'
A particularly relevant and refreshingly inarguable fact about Jean Harlow is that she was an only child.
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I wrote a bit about June Harlow, a 1950s burlesque queen and film hopeful who built a solid career based partially off her resemblance to her ‘aunt’ Jean Harlow—showing that being a fake Nepo Niece can carry you pretty far. open.substack.com/pub/vitaphon...
A belated Harlow Valentine from the February 15, 1935 cover of one of the harder-to-find fan magazines, The Hollywood Low-Down.
February 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
A belated Harlow Valentine from the February 15, 1935 cover of one of the harder-to-find fan magazines, The Hollywood Low-Down.
Intro to California (1947) is the best part of the film.
February 18, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Intro to California (1947) is the best part of the film.
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On this date in 2022, I told the story of Kathleen Sully, the working-class self-taught novelist whose books are stunning in their violence, outsiderness, odd comedy, and originality. Sadly, her copyrights are now in the hands of the Church of Scientology.
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February 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
On this date in 2022, I told the story of Kathleen Sully, the working-class self-taught novelist whose books are stunning in their violence, outsiderness, odd comedy, and originality. Sadly, her copyrights are now in the hands of the Church of Scientology.
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Bandits All
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Covers, Magazine, Rangeland Love Stories, Romance, Western, Wilbur Thomas
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Covers, Magazine, Rangeland Love Stories, Romance, Western, Wilbur Thomas
February 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Bandits All
via
https://pulpcovers.com/bandits-all/
Covers, Magazine, Rangeland Love Stories, Romance, Western, Wilbur Thomas
via
https://pulpcovers.com/bandits-all/
Covers, Magazine, Rangeland Love Stories, Romance, Western, Wilbur Thomas
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sanci apartments motel, hollywood beach, florida, 1990
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
sanci apartments motel, hollywood beach, florida, 1990
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Feb. 18, 1926: “Teaching old dogs new tricks:” a classic John Held Jr. cover of the humor magazine Life inspired by the Charleston craze.
February 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Feb. 18, 1926: “Teaching old dogs new tricks:” a classic John Held Jr. cover of the humor magazine Life inspired by the Charleston craze.
Patricia Morison models a ‘stole of cloud white fox’ in a publicity photo for Dressed to Kill (1946), as published in The Californian magazine (November 1946)
February 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Patricia Morison models a ‘stole of cloud white fox’ in a publicity photo for Dressed to Kill (1946), as published in The Californian magazine (November 1946)
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My Valentine!
February 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
My Valentine!
Watching Wuthering Heights (2026) last night was like taking a stroll down the Barbie aisle at a Target inside Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
February 15, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Watching Wuthering Heights (2026) last night was like taking a stroll down the Barbie aisle at a Target inside Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
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corner building detail, angle 2 (closer), 12th & park, paso robles, california, 1991
February 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
corner building detail, angle 2 (closer), 12th & park, paso robles, california, 1991
Hair, dress, and dress clip goals.
Feb. 14, 1926: Barbara Cameron, a singer, songwriter and Cincinnati radio personality who carved a place in TV cartoon history as the writer of the theme song of “The Road Runner Show,” is born in Dayton, Ohio.
February 14, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Hair, dress, and dress clip goals.
Jean Harlow-themed valentine, circa 1934, to add some spice to your day. 😁
February 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Jean Harlow-themed valentine, circa 1934, to add some spice to your day. 😁
Happy Valentine’s from Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, 1930 (in publicity for Paramount on Parade).
February 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Happy Valentine’s from Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, 1930 (in publicity for Paramount on Parade).
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Ethel Smith - Tico Tico
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February 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Friday the 13th feeling in this favorite 1931 advert for Bemberg stockings.
February 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Friday the 13th feeling in this favorite 1931 advert for Bemberg stockings.
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Law and Order (1932) is one of the best Westerns of all time. Everyone needs to see it, especially now that it's been restored and is available on an excellent Blu-ray from Kino Lorber:
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Oh wow that was really really good. A very morbid and unsettling western—The ending surprisingly unceremonious and pessimistic.
I’m watching Law and Order (1932) and omg it’s baby Andy Devine!!! I only recognized him because of the voice lol
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Law and Order (1932) is one of the best Westerns of all time. Everyone needs to see it, especially now that it's been restored and is available on an excellent Blu-ray from Kino Lorber:
kinolorber.com/product/law-...
kinolorber.com/product/law-...
Organist Helen Crawford of New York’s Paramount Theatre with her Wurlitzer, pictured in 1931 (the hardest image I’ve ever seen).
February 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Organist Helen Crawford of New York’s Paramount Theatre with her Wurlitzer, pictured in 1931 (the hardest image I’ve ever seen).
Gloria Swanson by Russell Ball for What a Widow! (1930), from the United Artists exhibitor’s campaign catalogue for 1930-1
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Gloria Swanson by Russell Ball for What a Widow! (1930), from the United Artists exhibitor’s campaign catalogue for 1930-1
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A San Francisco Chronicle story - www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
John Bengtson, Bay Area silent-movie expert and ‘Sherlock Holmes of film locations,’ dies
A Bay Area attorney who researched silent films as a hobby, John Bengtson spent decades tracking down the exact streets where Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin filmed.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A San Francisco Chronicle story - www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration! Erich von Stroheim’s silent film QUEEN KELLY (1929) starring Gloria Swanson is coming to the Egyptian on Sun. March 1st at 2 pm.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration! Erich von Stroheim’s silent film QUEEN KELLY (1929) starring Gloria Swanson is coming to the Egyptian on Sun. March 1st at 2 pm.
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
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Feb. 13, 1926: Movie star Gloria Swanson at the controls of a speedboat in Miami.
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Feb. 13, 1926: Movie star Gloria Swanson at the controls of a speedboat in Miami.
Shoutout to everyone else who knew what these were when they were five years old because of the Felicity American Girl doll.
#FridayFrocks #Embroidery - Stomacher, c.1725–35. Silver embroidered background with a flower pattern in colourful silks and gold thread. Stomachers were decorative panels worn at the front of a bodice to fill in the central gap between the two sides of a dress.
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Shoutout to everyone else who knew what these were when they were five years old because of the Felicity American Girl doll.
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin