Cant Let Bela Lugosi Go Down Without More Of A Fight

Can’t let Bela Lugosi go down without more of a fight

This is a three-way poll. Only one of these men will continue to the third round of the bracket.

Propaganda

Turhan Bey (The Climax, Arabian Nights, Prisoners of the Casbah)—Turkish matinee idol who actually got to break out of the mold of "sinister racist villain parts" to play romantic leading men

Bela Lugosi (Dracula)—no propaganda submitted beyond this link to a Tumblr gifset and this link to a Tumblr photo

Michael Redgrave (The Lady Vanishes)—my beautiful bisexual hot linguist geek dandy nerd. I'm specifically nominating him for "The Lady Vanishes," but how can you not love him in this—it's a strikingly modern performance, not a whiff of old school macho masculinity; he starts the movie as a bit of a cad, thoughtless and self-absorbed, but the second our heroine's in trouble he's attentive, he's helpful, he's running around speaking languages and helping her with international spycraft shenanigans and just being so funny and warm and JOYOUS. (and again. he is SO bisexual. see the picture [attached below]). he's hot in the debate club twink kinda way and i've never wanted to smooch an idiot more

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[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

"BISEXUAL."

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

Masculine Women, Feminine Men - a multifandom Hollywood history fanvid

Masculine Women, Feminine Men, which is the rooster which is the hen? It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today.

As warned yesterday, here is my vid to this classic song of gender confusion. The vid is an exploration of the gay and lesbian characters and tropes of (mostly) pre-Code Hollywood. It is cross-posted on AO3 with much, much more historical information, including suggested further reading and viewing. There is also a list of sources used on Letterboxd. I’m hoping this will be the beginning of a series exploring different eras and tropes in queer film history (aside from all the lesbian horror movie vids @periru3 and I have already been making).

This is a three-way poll. Only one of these men will continue to the third round of the bracket. Choose wisely.

Propaganda

Harold Nicholas (Stormy Weather, The Pirate)—it makes me so mad that he never got a chance to be a proper leading man in his own right!! watch his dancing with his brother in "Stormy Weather" [video below] and tell me this man shouldn't have been leading full on musicals on the regular!

Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night)—GWtW is an epic stretching across years so Clark has a chance to show off a whole bunch of different sides, from Hot Outsider to Husband to Father and so on. But his most attractive is his final line of the movie, made only better by the story that he lobbied the Film Industry to ‘Let Rhett Curse!’ And who is more classic 30s Hollywood than this man?

Guy Madison (5 Against the House, Till the End of Time)—no propaganda submitted

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[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Harold Nicholas:

Submitted: this gifset

Submitted: also this gifset

Clark Gable:

No propaganda was submitted for Guy Madison.

'Distress by Sea' (from James Thomson's poem 'The Seasons') Henry Thomson (1773–1843) National Trust, Stourhead

Propaganda

Paul Newman (Paris Blues, A New Kind of Love)—those blue eyes! that cleft chin, that jawline! plus his company makes that really good organic salad dressing!!!!!

Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music)—you can't tell me your sexual awakening was NOT this man staring julie andrews down in a dark garden somewhere in 1940s austria

This is round 2 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.