“Would you pluck me, as one plucks a flower, if I leaned just a little closer?”

Golden Age actress Virginia Bruce, born 29 September 1909. {photo: Getty Images}

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On the healing potency of mere dabbling

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“Activities we do inconsistently can still have huge value for our resilience and mental health. It's good for your mental health to dabble—to engage in activities without expecting consistency or improvement.” {Psychology Today 28 September} 

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The characteristically sultry Lizabeth Scott, captured in a more unguarded, earthbound moment.

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On a carpeted stairway where morning light breaks into shafts of silver, actress Lizabeth Scott reclines with the casual majesty of a woman who knows both glamour and ease. Bare-legged and barefoot, she stretches like a cat between steps, her head tilted with a conspiratorial smile as she cradles a telephone receiver to her ear. The black top frames her luminous skin, while the pale shorts reveal the sculptural grace of her legs, all of it captured in a chiaroscuro that makes the scene part boudoir, part film noir. She is at once confidante and siren, a secret spoken down the line poised to change the course of an afternoon.

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A garden nymph rehearsing her scandal beneath the trees’ whispering applause: vintage photography by Elmer Batters.

A doll dressed for mischief, yet wearing the crown of poise. Suspended between girlish play and sovereign allure. Upon a shaded terrace where ivy trembles and late sunlight filters through the branches, a statuesque blonde reclines upon a child’s swing as though it were a throne of whimsy. Her floral frock, cinched yet loose, flutters like a captive garden about her hips, revealing the scandalous shimmer of dark stockings fastened by pale garters. A small hat tips rakishly over one brow, casting her wide eyes into pools of intrigue. She is at once ingénue and siren, a porcelain statue momentarily brought to life, poised between innocence and invitation, her heels anchored lightly upon the paving stones like punctuation marks to an unspoken poem.

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The eternal divinity, Anita Ekberg

Among the most photographed women in the world during the 1950s and 1960s, and this is easily one of the most circulated and iconic images: the Swedish screen divinity Anita Ekberg (29 Sept 1931 – 11 Jan 2015), here immortalised by photographer Peter Basch.

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The radiant Greer Garson, marked in remembrance with a heavenly birthday

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Time to get this blog back up and running in earnest, as relying solely on social media for anything is foolhardy and dangerous. Especially bloody Facebook. Screw that company to all Hell. 

“When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.” —the esteemed Greer Garson, with her eyes but lanterns — burning through shadow, and revealing both question and answer. She was born in Manor Park, now a borough of London, 29 September 1904.

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