Les Machines à Écrire

Musique - "Pas si simple" by Yann Tiersen

I don't care how trendy typewriters are nowadays, I still love them! I even have my great-grandfather's old Smith Corona:

I'm not luddite enough to actually use it (maybe I would if it had a new ribbon!), so I just put it out on display in my home.

Typewriters just conjure up images of days gone by and sassy stenographers and wisecracking reporters for me, so that's why I heart them. And speaking of days gone by and sassy stenographers and wisecracking reporters, here are some pictures of some of my favorites from the past (and some from the present) with their typewriters.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren on the set of Marnie
Anaïs Nin
Angela Lansbury, promo picture for Murder, She Wrote
Cartoon of Anita Loos
William Holden and Audrey Hepburn in Paris When it Sizzles

Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, publicity still for Meet John Doe
Barbara Stanwyck in Christmas in Connecticut (seriously SO excited to watch this again soon!)
The Beatles
Bette Davis
Bing Crosby
Carole Lombard
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell from His Girl Friday
A cat!
Cyd Charisse from Silk Stockings
Dorothy Parker
Emma Stone, from The Help
Ernest Hemingway
Glenda Farrell
Gloria Swanson
Grace Kelly
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (again)
Gypsy Rose Lee (yet again!)
James Cagney
James Stewart
James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (again)
Jean Harlow (and again!)
Jeannette Macdonald
Joan Crawford, publicity still from Grand Hotel
Keira Knightley
Margaret Mitchell

 Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon in Ready, Willing and Able
Ruby Keeler
Tina Fey
Vivien Leigh
Walt Disney
I got these pictures from various places around the internet like here, here, and here.