retro movies that never were 35
What if someone wanted to put Baby in a corner in 1944?
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inktober52: spaceship
DCS: joanna lee
For the better part of six years, Joanna Lee struggled through an unfulfilling acting career, landing few roles of little significance. She appeared uncredited in the Frank Sinatra film The Joker is Wild, as well as Ed Wood’s notorious sci-fi schlockfest Plan 9 from Outer Space. A serious car accident sidelined Joanna’s acting career, but …
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What if the wedding massacre took place in 1938?
inktober52: powerful
DCS: marvel rea
Seventeen-year old Marvel Rea joined up with the Keystone Film Company, landing a spot among the famed Sennett Bathing Beauties, a celebrated group of young ladies assembled by producer Mack Sennett. The Bathing Beauties made promotional appearances for the movie studio and were well received where ever they went. Marvel made her film debut in …
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What if there were Griswolds before National Lampoon?
inktober52: egg (part 2)
One day, a New York City couple dropped several of their ten children off at an orphanage and left… never to be seen by their abandoned children again. One of those kids was Edith Massey. Edith wound up in a foster home, where she endured cruel treatment. She put up with it as long as …
inktober52: egg (part 1)
DCS: william dorsey swann
Almost a century before Stonewall, William Dorsey Swann — known to his acquaintances as “The Queen” — fought for gay rights. Born into slavery around 1860, William grew up in a tumultuous time in American history. He was freed under Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation, but the Ku Klux Klan were a rising power in the …