Smoking

Iconista has not smoked for fifteen hours.

It is Hell.

Pola Negri

Take a drag for me, Bette

Deneuve

Lemarr

Romy, bless her

Tallulah. Do you suppose she's waiting for someone to come lift her fingers to her lips?

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Something for the weekend

It's been days since Iconista's been properly kissed (the eager pecking of boys does not count). She must make do with a little vicarious smooching.

Robert Taylor and Lana Turner in Johnny Eager. Frankly, she looks a damn sight more eager than him.

Oh, go ahead. Guess.

To be honest, Iconista is bored of these two mugging for the camera, but one must get it where one can.

Coop and Neal. Nice work.

Angie Dickinson making hot with God knows who.

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Coop

Allow Iconista to indulge her passion for a long dead gent. According to Clara Bow he "was hung like a horse and could go all night."

Iconista's interest is merely aesthetic.

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Bebe Daniels

Iconista has always liked the name, though it must sound stupid in real life. Not a name you'd call a cat for the shame of yodelling it down the garden last thing at night. But for a film star, it's ok.

I googled Bebe today. Dullest life I ever researched.

Don't bother typing it into your search box.

Just look at the snaps. Iconista leica.

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Great Disapproving Looks #3

Iconista has survived Halloween. Dispensing candy to mendicant urchins is not my idea of fun. But any excuse to wear black is welcome, though I'd rather be marking the death of a rich husband than playing jellybean dispenser.

Enough chitchat.

OK, Kirk is more menacing than disapproving here. But the whole is-he-gonna-slap-her-or-kiss-her look always sizzles. At least it's more honest than patronising "tut-tut" sexual aggression...

...which is frankly condescending.

Of course, sometimes it's just plain cute.

Iconista is ambivalent about the battle of the sexes.

(Don't you just love how everyone is disapproving on that one?)

At the end of the day, for all their pouting, you know Lana and Joan could sock it to them easy.

They simply choose not to.

Mind you, I think Kirk's dame had better join in or get out before she gets hurt.

Too late, darling.

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Shy, They Ain't

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In Lieu of Great Disapproving Looks

I wanted to give you some more Disapproving Looks, but Disapproving Looks should be accompanied by withering comments. So my dears, you will simply have to wait. Iconista's diary is heaving.

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