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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I love this movie so much. Anyway, I think I made a mistake getting my movie in before 5PM, because now it’s pitch black and I already want to go to bed. Grandma season snuck up on me
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I love this movie so much. Anyway, I think I made a mistake getting my movie in before 5PM, because now it’s pitch black and I already want to go to bed. Grandma season snuck up on me
Some more about Harker (who just so happens to be the great-granddaughter of… Brigham Young!) on the ‘Stack: open.substack.com/pub/vitaphon...
Jane Harker and the Trope of Glamour by Glasses Removal
I love these 1945 Warner Bros publicity pictures demonstrating how actress Jane Harker apparently became a starlet overnight just by taking off her glasses, as ‘makeup experts found nothing else to do...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Some more about Harker (who just so happens to be the great-granddaughter of… Brigham Young!) on the ‘Stack: open.substack.com/pub/vitaphon...
Watch this for Benita Hume and for a baby-faced Cary Grant try to tackle a hardened Capone type while saying he’d ’kill some guys to enjoy his vacation’.
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Benita Hume by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1933
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Watch this for Benita Hume and for a baby-faced Cary Grant try to tackle a hardened Capone type while saying he’d ’kill some guys to enjoy his vacation’.
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Norma’s sweater seems a bit fashion forward for ‘23, agreed on The General!
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Norma’s sweater seems a bit fashion forward for ‘23, agreed on The General!
I like how the Talmadges aren’t included in the caption when Natalie and Constance are right there. Seismic image either way
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I like how the Talmadges aren’t included in the caption when Natalie and Constance are right there. Seismic image either way
Realizing I put Gold Diggers in the caption when this is actually publicity for 42nd Street (1933). Apologizing by posting a second angle.
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Realizing I put Gold Diggers in the caption when this is actually publicity for 42nd Street (1933). Apologizing by posting a second angle.
Any time! Thanks for enjoying them!
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Any time! Thanks for enjoying them!
