The Sewing Circle

[MsLead]

Fascinating thread Sally.....thanks!

 

[sally_sparrow]

Fascinating thread Sally.....thanks!

Thank you for stopping in MsLead.

 

[stickygirl]

Blue is the warmest colour 2013 is a modern ( and hot ) look at teenage infatuation, the price of falling into then growing out of relationships, that is surely a widely shared experience? Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and based on Julia Maroh's novel, the subtitled French film won a Palme d'Or at Cannes and is defo worth your time. Here's a couple of trailers that do more justice than my words

 

[Stillrandy]

Long ago I read Ecstasy and Me by the beautiful Hedy Lamarr who wrote about having several affairs with women

I guess most people know this, but in addition to her Hollywood movie career...

Hedy Lamarr was an amazing woman inventor:

"During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course.[42] She thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals.[31] They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.[43][44] Antheil recalled:

We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons ... and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established National Inventors Council.[22]

Their invention was granted a patent under US Patent 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey).[45] However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.[29] In 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis), an updated version of their design was installed on Navy ships.[46] Their contributions were formally recognized in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

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[sally_sparrow]

Blue is the warmest colour 2013 is a modern ( and hot ) look at teenage infatuation, the price of falling into then growing out of relationships, that is surely a widely shared experience? Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and based on Julia Maroh's novel, the subtitled French film won a Palme d'Or at Cannes and is defo worth your time. Here's a couple of trailers that do more justice than my words

Thank you for adding this stickygirl. I have never seen this movie and wow, what a powerful trailer. What I like best about that preview is no talking is necessary in capturing the emotion and evolution of the characters. I am going to have to begin a list of books and movies to check out

 

[sally_sparrow]

I guess most people know this, but in addition to her Hollywood movie career...

Hedy Lamarr was an amazing woman inventor:

"During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course.[42] She thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals.[31] They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.[43][44] Antheil recalled:

We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons ... and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established National Inventors Council.[22]

Their invention was granted a patent under US Patent 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey).[45] However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.[29] In 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis), an updated version of their design was installed on Navy ships.[46] Their contributions were formally recognized in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

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I looked her up last night and read about her inventing as well. What a woman! Thanks for stopping in Stillrandy and for this addition.

 

[sally_sparrow]

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"Lesbians in mainstream cinema have been alternately visible and invisible since the 1910s. Yet, even in those instances when lesbian characters or women who exhibit lesbian traits (such as sexually desiring or having an intense emotional bond with another woman) can be discerned, they are often white and middle-class. In fact, the majority of lesbian portrayals have been produced by Western filmmakers who depict white heterosexuality as the norm. Thus, in many films, the characters who seem to be lesbians also express sexual interest in men, or their passion for women are implied but rarely shown directly. In Sidney Drew's 1914 U.S. comedy, A Florida Enchantment, for example, a lesbian attraction is hinted at when Lillian Travers (Edith Storey) swallows magical seeds and becomes a man. Her sex-change leads her to court a number of women. The lesbian implications come less from the story line, though, than from the viewer's knowledge that the hero is played by an actress."

-From the Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman

 

[yukonnights]

Great thread! This is more than an interesting history of LGBTQ participation in cinema — it's a refreshing reminder that LGBTQ people are not some new fad, but have instead been a normal part of humanity forever. Thank you for this and all the work to find and post this information ~

 

[sally_sparrow]

Great thread! This is more than an interesting history of LGBTQ participation in cinema — it's a refreshing reminder that LGBTQ people are not some new fad, but have instead been a normal part of humanity forever. Thank you for this and all the work to find and post this information ~

Thank you for this comment! I am happy you found and took the time to look here

 

[Stillrandy]

A little noir...

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[sally_sparrow]

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"A slender body, hands soft and white, for the service of my delight, two sprouting breasts round and sweet, invite my hungry mouth to eat, from whence two nipples firm and pink, persuade my thirsty soul to drink, and lower still a secret place where I’d fain hide my loving face"

-Excerpt from a letter by Isadora Duncan to Mercedes de Acosta

 

[Jerseyshore]

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Greta Garbo Kissing Elizabeth Young



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The censors would not allow an undressing scene so they film makers showed Garbo dressing her sister instead. Neat touch

 

[puppett]

Blue is the warmest colour 2013 is a modern ( and hot ) look at teenage infatuation, the price of falling into then growing out of relationships, that is surely a widely shared experience? Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and based on Julia Maroh's novel, the subtitled French film won a Palme d'Or at Cannes and is defo worth your time. Here's a couple of trailers that do more justice than my words

the revelations about the scenes later by the actress make this one bad for me...

 

[stickygirl]

the revelations about the scenes later by the actress make this one bad for me...

I read bits of news that their filming conditions were pretty dire and one can't dismiss that ... I dunno, the actors deserve to be proud of the end result despite that, so... what are your thoughts?

 

[sally_sparrow]

The censors would not allow an undressing scene so they film makers showed Garbo dressing her sister instead. Neat touch

That's a fun fact, thanks for sharing!

 

[sally_sparrow]

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“The two ‘lesbian’ films that bookended the dates of the Production Code Administration’s reign―Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933) and The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich, 1968)―both evoke definitions of lesbianism as gender inversion (and thus as visible difference) that would largely disappear from Hollywood film during the intervening period. While these films can help us understand what the Code regulated, they are not evidence of some lesbian reality that existed "outside” censored Hollywood but are themselves very medicated representations whose censorship negotiations indicated what modes of lesbian representation the Code favored.“

-From Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability by Patricia White

 

[sally_sparrow]

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Lizbeth Scott in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946).

 

[sally_sparrow]

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I don't know how I missed this, but thank you for posting, it is lovely.

 

[vintagelady]

I haven't commented on the site for a while, but I saw this thread and couldn't resist. It's excellent, love the photos. I adore old cinema, especially the pre-code stuff. I nearly bought The Sewing Circle last year, but never got round to it. I am toying with going to Different From Others this week, as it's playing in my city. Not sure. Anyway classy thread from classy ladies

 

[sally_sparrow]

I haven't commented on the site for a while, but I saw this thread and couldn't resist. It's excellent, love the photos. I adore old cinema, especially the pre-code stuff. I nearly bought The Sewing Circle last year, but never got round to it. I am toying with going to Different From Others this week, as it's playing in my city. Not sure. Anyway classy thread from classy ladies

Thank you so much for your kind words. I am thrilled with the feedback I've received so far. I'm so glad you found the thread and that you commented on it. If you see the film I would love to know how you like it!

 

[vintagelady]

Thank you so much for your kind words. I am thrilled with the feedback I've received so far. I'm so glad you found the thread and that you commented on it. If you see the film I would love to know how you like it!

I definitely will Sally I love Weimar Cinema so I hope I get the opportunity to go. BTW I love your name.

 

[sally_sparrow]

I definitely will Sally I love Weimar Cinema so I hope I get the opportunity to go. BTW I love your name.

Thank you again That sounds like a great time!

 

[sally_sparrow]

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Adele Haenel & Noemie Merlant in Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)

 

[vintagelady]

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[nfrrdscnnr1]

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