The Nitrate Diva

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Classic movies. Vintage pop culture. Cats.

Myrna Loy in a sequined dancing costume with her arms raised in a provocative attitude
Myrna Loy wearing some kind of green sailor suit thing with a look of serene amusement as she instructs, "Now be a good by and vanish... quietly."
Clark Gable embraces Myrna Loy in a really chic black dress. She says, "I'm the best, aren't I?"
Veronica Lake, a knockout with long blonde hair, wears an oversized trench coat surround by a bunch of surly looking cops, including her plainclothes fiance.
Humphrey Bogart, lookin noir as hell, peers anxiously into a store windowfront decorated with Easter lilies and the image of a lady in a bonnet.
Humphrey Bogart in his pajamas says "You're a day early for Easter bunnies" to the detective in a suit. They're sitting on twin beds in a hotel room in a black-and-white film frame grab.
A shot of a newspaper from a black and white film. The headline reads: POLICE BAFFLED - PUBLIC AROUSED
Louise Brooks, in her trademark black bobbed hairdo, gazes meditatively into a candle's flame that makes one side of her face glow
Robert Young looks at some paper money while James Gleason looks on cynically
Still for THE TRUTH ABOUT MURDER: Bonita Granville in a sharp pinstripe suit scrutinizes a 1940s polygraph machine while some dude looks on skeptically
Text of a fan letter from 1946 enthusing about Robert Mitchum in THE STORY OF GI JOE. If you need the full text please comment and I will transcribe it <3
Protesters around Manchester's roundabout on a gorgeous autumn day. Several trees with yellow leaves and a red church steeple are visible. The vibe is very "wow you've even pissed off the cast of the Gilmore Girls, you fools"
Me, a brunette in jeans, holding a hand-drawn sign with a black cat dangling a dead snake wearing a crown and the caption I'LL TREAD WHERE I PLEASE, against a background of a quaint VT town's roundabout lined with fellow protestors on a beautiful autumn day
An autochrome photograph of an autumnal forest. A dirt path runs through the center. There are dry brown ferns and slender trees with leaves turning orange-brown.
In this black and white movie screencshot, Maj-Britt Nilsson, a lovely girl with windblown hair, looks into the distance and asks "Can you feel autumn in the air?" Her companion, a shirtless young man, replies "Yes"