Showing posts with label Betty Compson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Betty Compson. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2012

How to quit smoking when I love Hollywood so much?!

Don't worry, it's not for health reasons that I am trying to quit smoking; It's a damn expensive habit. Even though it makes me feel cool, I'd rather spend my money on clothes and make-up. You know, like a real woman. It's a girl thing.

But this interest of mine really doesn't help. I'm sitting here with my morning cup of coffee, trying to distract myself from the nicotine cravings that makes my whole body itch... by looking through a map of celebrity photos. Not wise at all:

 Basil Rathbone does it.

 Betty Compson does it.

 Brooke Shields does it.

 Buster Keaton does it.

Audrey Hepburn does it while having her hair fixed.

 Audrey Hepburn does it again, accompanied by Dean Martin. And it makes her feel carefree and happy.

Maggie Gyllenhaal does it before she even puts on any clothes.

Drew Barrymore does it before she even gets out of bed.

Fritz Lang does it with a monocle.

Gösta Ekman does it before snorting cocaine.

Hasse Ekman does it on Kungsgatan, before stealing a bicycle.


Isabella Rossellini does after slaying some zebras.

Mae West does before and after an enema.

Sigourney Weaver does it before slaying aliens.


It's perfectly clear. All cool people smoke at all times. They can't imagine a time when it's not cool to inhale the poisonous fumes of a Camel, Marlboro or a Lucky Strike. And I shouldn't have a cigarette to my morning coffee?! Even the dog in my previous post has a puff on the cancer stick! Strength, give me strength...

I have no strength.

This is my struggle, two hours into a day without a pack of cigarettes.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Smoking women - part 1

There's no secret that I find classic actresses' smoking habits romantic, sensual and classy. Therefore I've decided to share that fascination with you through a little mini series called "Smoking women" - containing both film clips and photographs. You might see it as a sequel to my Men and cigarettes post from February.
Enjoy!


Evelyn Brent smoking a "bomber" in The Last Command (1928), directed by Josef von Sternberg. Handing her the cigarette is no other than Emil Jannings
, the strict professor Marlene Dietrich entangles as Lola Lola in The Blue Angel (1930).





Anna May Wong leans backwards in a comfortable arm chair, smoking a cigarette while waiting for Mr. Holmes (Reginald Owen) in A Study in Scarlet (1933).





Loretta Young in Born to Be Bad (1934) to the tones of My Mama Done Told Me. I love when she blows smoke in Cary Grant's face, wonderfully rude!





A scene from another Josef von Sternberg film, The Docks of New York (1928). Betty Compson, rescued from a suicide attempt by a blue-collar worker (George Bancroft), gathers her strength with a cosy bed and a lot of cigarettes. She's a real vixen, isn't she?





And lastly, for this time, the lovely Clara Bow. Smoking scenes from Call Her Savage (1932).