{"id":162737,"date":"2015-03-20T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/20\/afro-primadonna-oldfilmsflicker\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:10:38","slug":"afro-primadonna-oldfilmsflicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/20\/afro-primadonna-oldfilmsflicker\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afro-primadonna.tumblr.com\/post\/113133512638\/oldfilmsflicker-top-hat-white-tie-and-tails\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">afro-primadonna<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldfilmsflicker.com\/post\/113131594413\/top-hat-white-tie-and-tails-its-international\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oldfilmsflicker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/top-hat-white-tie-and-tails.tumblr.com\/post\/113104769804\/its-international-womens-day-and-id-just-like\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">top-hat-white-tie-and-tails<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day. And I\u2019d just like to take a moment to commemorate those Old Hollywood actresses, who put up with a lot of crap from the studio heads.<\/p>\n<p>The ones who felt oppressed and unable to fight back.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/6ca9239f83bd2a5aaac0c2eb4641cb46\/tumblr_inline_nkwy3fhNpo1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who did fight back, and who won.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/21628f6f7e56fac5940cfde67af89588\/tumblr_inline_nkwy2zrR0q1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who got abandoned by the studios.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/6e94bccdf2f7780e6b4fbd6b7d61ab76\/tumblr_inline_nkwy29VRiN1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who got paid $750 a week, when they were the biggest stars in the studio.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c119446e13f6dea5bca058475614e4b7\/tumblr_inline_nkwy154xvr1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who got paid less than male extras in their films.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/cfc938bad19f4d6f5f773daa900e479a\/tumblr_inline_nkwy024s3W1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who were forced into doing many movies they didn\u2019t want to do.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a12a9061aad00d08d5cf98abf87fed9d\/tumblr_inline_nkwxzj9o6Z1rmc49z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>EVERY ACTRESS IN HOLLYWOOD! EVERY SINGLE ONE SHOULD BE REMEMBERED TODAY FOR HER STRENGTH.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ones who weren\u2019t able to be the stars they were born to be<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2b05829b4e023ef26a309239982f9d30\/tumblr_inline_nkxcizIguW1qzsyre.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who were more often than not uncredited<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/aa3c2ede06cd972cdd5794f16c799724\/tumblr_inline_nkxcjcRF021qzsyre.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who had to sit at segregated tables while their film (and even themselves!) won all the Oscars<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a070a0f7ccd423eaca021ebf0ecc7568\/tumblr_inline_nkxcki5WMz1qzsyre.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who saw roles go to white actresses over and over<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7d192dfab7dd34e87fad9026f499f94d\/tumblr_inline_nkxcnpT8081qzsyre.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The ones who changed their outward appearance to fit Caucasian standards of beauty<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/1ab8bb9bf1dbfe32a4c7029d82d6664b\/tumblr_inline_nkxcpnQdsp1qzsyre.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Thank you <\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/ml-fopilfGrnpRyLshN5TXg\" target=\"_blank\">oldfilmsflicker<\/a><\/p>\n<div> for the additions!!!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>afro-primadonna: oldfilmsflicker: top-hat-white-tie-and-tails: It\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day. And I\u2019d just like to take a moment to commemorate those Old Hollywood actresses, who put up with a lot of crap from the studio heads. The ones who felt oppressed and unable to fight back. The ones who did fight back, and who won. The ones who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/20\/afro-primadonna-oldfilmsflicker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}