“This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.” — Lionel Barrymore
“Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.” — Lionel Barrymore
The art deco movie set is from the film Unseeing Eyes in 1923.
Night Flight (1933). With Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, and Myrna Loy.
A caricature from the Ambassador Hotel’s Field and Turf Club, circa mid-1930s.