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Myrna Loy: “I’m a Helpless Prisoner!” — 1930

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on December 3, 2017
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Experience the sheer giddiness of an exclamation-mark-filled 1930 ad for cosmetics, “a whole ensemble of gay toiletries!”

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“Vampire a la Mode” — 1928

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on July 18, 2017October 21, 2017
  • 1920s

Movie poster for a saucy, pre-code spoof of late-’20s Hollywood. “Big-shots,” look out.

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