Thursday, December 23, 2010

Just Another Silly Queen...



...who lost her head over a basket.

6 comments:

  1. really, was irving hung? is that what the "humanitarian" award is all about?

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  2. Dear Norma - I was just blogging about her and Marie Antoinette the other day - MGM's version was surely more opulent than the real Versailles !

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  3. That flash-back at the end- "Oh, mama, think of it... I shall be queen... I shall be queen of France!"- leaves me in tears.

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  4. In Marion Davies autobiography,"The Times We Had" she wrote that Norma wore the Marie Antoinette gown to a costume ball at Hearst Castle and when she arrived everyone gasped because William Randolph Hearst was recently kicked out of France.

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  5. what about marion's
    rosebud? didn't WRH gasp at it?

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