presentinglilymars

About Me:
22 years old. Blonde and blue-eyed.

Things I Love:
Old Hollywood.
Classic novels.
Quotes.
The sea.
Animals.
Scenic landscapes.
Instrumental film scores.
Black and white photography.
European history.
Ancients.
Dresses.
Jewelry.
Film.
Foreign languages.
Attractive men.
Fictional characters.

My Favorite Films:
The African Queen (1951)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Anna Christie (German version) (1931)
Anna Karenina (1935)
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Camille (1936)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Desk Set (1957)
The Divine Woman (1928)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Graduate (1967)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Holiday (1938)
I Love You Again (1940)
It (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jane Eyre (1944)
Libeled Lady (1936)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Little Women (1933)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Male and Female (1919)
Morning Glory (1933)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Public Enemies (2009)
Pygmalion (1938)
Quality Street (1937)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Stardust (2007)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
The Thin Man (1934)
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
Way Down East (1920)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Woman of the Year (1942)

My Favorite Actors:
Cary Grant
Charles Boyer
Clark Gable
Conrad Nagel
Franchot Tone
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
John Gilbert
Lars Hanson
Melvyn Douglas
Rex Harrison
Robert Taylor
Spencer Tracy
William Powell

My Favorite Actresses:
Katharine Hepburn
Greta Garbo
Lillian Gish
Gloria Swanson

My Favorite Books:
1984
The Age of Innocence
Anna Karenina
The Awakening
Candide
Crime and Punishment
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels
The House of Mirth
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Madame Bovary
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Mill on the Floss
Moby Dick
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Man and the Sea
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
The Professor
The Scarlet Letter
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
This Side of Paradise
The Time Machine
The Touchstone
Utopia
War and Peace
Wuthering Heights

My Favorite Quotes:
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"I don’t want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering."

"We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion, for the moment, that we are not alone."

"Life would be so wonderful if we knew what to do with it." - Greta Garbo.

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn.

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant.