It’s Labor Day so apart from the Funnies (below), I’m giving my brain a rest. Enjoy all these beauties from the 1930s…
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Spider
Kay Francis
1939 Aston Martin Lagonda V12 Rapide
Sylvia Sidney
1938 SS-100 Roadster
Maureen O’Sullivan
1938 Mercedes 540K Cabrio A
Frances Dee
1936 MG SA Tourer
Mary Brian
See y’all tomorrow.
I think I first saw Dolores Del Rio in the Astaire/Rogers pic Flying Down To Rio, but even though she only had a small part, I was captivated — and I have no idea why it’s taken me so long to feature her on these pages.
Pretty as a young starlet, she blossomed into an astonishing beauty, and remained so until her death in 1983. Follow the link above to get her full story — it’s quite a ride.
…in which we continue to look at earlier, more innocent times. That said, some of the cartoons below were not so innocent — and probably couldn’t get published today.
Which. of course, is why I’m posting them.
From the H.R. files:
In Medical Ethics:
And in the Groves of Academe:
Another from H.R.:
In Sporting News:
And In Flagrante Delicto:
See you all next month.
Forgot to mention: if you want to see the first couple of these, use the “Search” function at the top of the page and just type: Innocent Times then hit Enter.
This is Tina O’Brien, who plays yesterday’s totty Lucy Fallon’s mother (!!!) on Coronation Street. (She is, by the way, only eighteen or so years older than Lucy in real life, so technically at least, the age difference isn’t that close– especially for the working-class Corrie.) Nevertheless:
And as an architect might say, the rear aspect is not too unpleasant either:
Lovely.
But as the old saying from Alabama goes: “With a Momma like that, you shoot yer Daddy and make yer own brothers and sisters.”
I report, you decide.
This is Lucy Fallon, who’s a Brit soap actress (I think Coronation Street, but whatever).
Very cute.
We’ll be looking at her TV mum later…
You have to ask the next question, in that in a village that looks like this:
…allowed construction of houses that look like this:
…that question being: “How much was the local planning committee bribed?”
I think we should be told.