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For the last month I've been lazy about posting to my silent film tumblr blog, and I'm not sure if I've done one silent film-related post on this blog all month, which is rare for me.  I'm not really sure why . . .  TCM temporarily stopped its traditional Silent Sunday Nights for Oscar month, so I guess I just got out of the habit of silent-film-watching and searching for '20s film star photos on Ebay.
But last night Silent Sunday Night came back, so at midnight I closed my laptop (I'm kind of internet-addicted) and sat down to watch a Harold Lloyd movie called Girl Shy.  It was a pretty silly movie--lots of slapstick and very predictable situations--but I couldn't help but love it and wish that I could go back in time and live in a small town in the 1920s . . .  I hope that people back then were as corny as they are in Harold Lloyd movies; everybody and everything is so simple, and the naive but nice characters are the ones who win out in the end.  And of course the heroines have long hair and the bad girls (the flappers and the vamps!) have their hair cut short.  Watching the movie made me want to grow my hair long again so I can wear it like Jobyna Ralston's.


Watching Girl Shy also got me back into the habit of looking for silent film photos on Ebay.  But the best things I found yesterday weren't photos but silent film magazines, which for some reason I've never thought about looking for.  But I think I may have to buy a copy, if the covers of these old '20s Movie Weeklies are any indication of what's inside . . .  Gorgeous photos and silent film star gossip?  Mabel Normand scandals and weird stories about over-attentive men?  I wish I could be a subscriber!