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« Last Edit: August 08, 2007, 10:24:42 pm by atz75 »
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2007, 01:08:21 am »
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2007, 01:41:35 am »

Lilly Wust (Aimée) and Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) in a photo taken in 1944.  Lilly was the wife of a Nazi officer and Felice was a Jewish woman who was ultimately killed in a concentration camp.  The women had a famous love affair, which amazingly, they documented with photographs they took of themselves.

Their story has been turned into a book and a really wonderful movie that addresses the topic of lesbian life in Germany under the Nazi era and Holocaust.

Here are some posters and stills from the film:










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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2007, 02:32:44 pm »
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« Last Edit: August 08, 2007, 10:29:26 pm by atz75 »
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2007, 09:00:00 pm »
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2007, 09:04:01 pm »



p.s. Thanks for the great link Elle!
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2007, 11:06:59 pm »

This one reminds me some of the scenes in "Tipping the Velvet" .  Bob and I recently watched all the episodes on Logo and really enjoyed it.
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2007, 11:36:29 pm »
That's an awesome film (and book) Bud!





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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2007, 08:24:18 pm »
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2007, 10:39:23 pm »
A little classic Betty Paige for you Amanda

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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2007, 11:08:09 pm »
a little vintage 60's

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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2007, 11:08:26 pm »

Djuna Barnes and Natalie Barney, c. 1930
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2007, 11:10:38 pm »

Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks (a famous expatriate lesbian couple in Paris, c. 1920s)


This is a recent book about them and their society in Paris
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #28 on: August 14, 2007, 12:18:03 pm »
These are awesome!  Cheers for starting this, Amanda!!  ;)

Can I post my Tipping the Velvet wall here?  I know that some pics from the movie have been posted already, but more can't hurt, right?  :)




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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2007, 10:10:37 pm »
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/1934590-ff5.jpg" border="0" />


<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/1934569-50a.jpg" border="0" />


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Lucise!!!
  Of course you can post Tipping the Velvet pics here!!!  I love that book and mini-series!

I think we can count movies and/or mini-series with a vintage flare within this thread as "on topic."  ;D :D


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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #30 on: September 10, 2007, 10:29:54 pm »
Hey, and have you seen the mini-series of one of Sarah Waters' other books Fingersmith?

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<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/1934748-9f0.jpg" border="0" />


The mini-series is really very good.  But, it's not as good as Tipping the Velvet in my opinion.  But, the book of Fingersmith is spectacular... I highly recommend it.  It's a really complex story and really good in lots of other ways too....
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2007, 10:38:00 pm »
And... Tipping the Velvet always makes me think of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco... If anyone can find a picture from the scene in this movie where Marlene kisses the girl... I'll send them a can of beans!
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<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/1513705-2a0.jpg" border="0" />

It's really amazing how a woman in a top hat can be such a hot look!  It's a pretty recurrent theme in a lot of great lesbian films/ books.
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #32 on: September 10, 2007, 11:50:50 pm »
Here's another film on a vintage topic, Mrs. Dalloway, with an amazing lesbian subtext.  There are better scenes than this one where the two women have intimate moments... but I can't find them online at the moment.  It's a great film and an even better book (I'm a huge Virginia Woolf fan).

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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2007, 12:50:33 am »
Hey Amanda!

Lovely pictures! 

I have a few walls I made for Tipping the Velvet ... Can't say enough about that film.. :)




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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2007, 12:51:15 am »




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« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2007, 10:39:13 am »
Is anyone else here besides me a fan of the classic 1975 Australian feature Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir and adapted from the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay? Set in Victoria in 1900, the story has a distinct yet understated lesbian undertone. This was the first Australian film to really have a significant critical impact internationally.

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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #36 on: September 11, 2007, 03:13:12 pm »
Hey Bud!
I'm not familiar with that film (to my shame!).  I'll definitely have to look it up!  Thanks for mentioning it.
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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #37 on: September 15, 2007, 06:37:42 am »
Hey Bud!
I'm not familiar with that film (to my shame!).  I'll definitely have to look it up!  Thanks for mentioning it.
:)


Here is a link to Amazon.  http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-1631067-3688757?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=Picnic+at+Hanging+Rock&Go.x=18&Go.y=11

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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #38 on: October 17, 2008, 06:02:56 pm »

A portrait of Michael Field..



Katherine H. Bradley & Edith Cooper.
They published poems/plays together in the late 18th and early 19th century, under the name of 'Michael Field'..


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Re: Vintage female/female affection
« Reply #39 on: October 17, 2008, 06:05:19 pm »

I posted this in the Strong, gorgeous women thread..


Mary Rozet Smith & Jane Addams






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