Citizen Screen

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Classic films, television and Hollywood's Golden Age - passions and obsessions.

Boast no expertise. Simply a fan who's enchanted by screens - the magic they portray and the gods and monsters they've featured. It's the stuff that dreams are made of. Ready for my close-up now...

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Ava Gardner photographed at home, 1948.

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Jean Harlow at home, c. 1930s.

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simplymagdorable:

Streisand fascination… A Star is Born 1976

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mariedeflor:

Barbara Stanwyck photographed on the set of Golden Boy, 1939

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deforest:

Buster Keaton in The Cameraman (1928)

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Humphrey Bogart winning Best Actor (by Oscars)

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

“I remember somebody at school once said something really mean about her: “Oh, Judy does too much of this or that, she drinks too much.” And I came...

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kennedylegacy:

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”

- Jacqueline Kennedy

Happy mother’s day

The...

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