Current mood.  From Cine-Mundial, 1929.

Disappointing odds!  "A million to one you'll never be a star."  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

"It's fun to be foolish ... that's the joy of living!"  Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Joy of Living.  From The Film Daily, 1938.

From an ad for The Flaming Frontier, in The Film Daily, 1926.

The Marx Bros. as puppets pulling an ink volcano.  From The Film Daily, 1932.

Ann Forrest, in Motion Picture Magazine, 1922.

"She gets what she wants with ... hex appeal."  From an ad for I Married a Witch, in The Film Daily, 1942.

Reblog if you're holding on tightly to the edge of darkness.  From The Film Daily, 1943.

From Cine-Mundial, 1932.

From The Film Daily, 1934.

From The Film Daily, 1942.

Shum's conceptions of the film Scarlet Street.  From The Film Daily, 1945.

From The Film Daily, 1938.

We've had nights like the night of June 13.  From The Film Daily, 1932.

It's true that the very act of getting dressed can be wrought with suspense.  From The Film Daily, 1934.

Rhubarb Vaselino enters the arena of the ridiculous.  From The Film Daily, 1922.

"Love is an awful thing."  From The Film Daily, 1922.

"When the devil drives."  From The Film Daily, 1922.

We're not sure, but looked at one way, this could be a more exotic precursor to Eraserhead.  It's from an ad for Oil for the Lamps of China.  From Film Daily, 1935.

"The evil eye."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.