Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Charlotte Rues
"I'm glad -- she needs a good picture!" - Joan Crawford, on being replaced in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) by Olivia de Havilland
No Love Lost
"Miss Hayward was very unkind to me on the set of Where Love Has Gone [1964]...I didn't know until later that she had been called 'The Poor Man's Bette Davis.'" - Bette Davis
That Continental Touch
"If she'd been American, I think the...audiences would have thought her sort of dykey." - Gale Sondergaard on Greta Garbo
Poor Butterfly
"Mae West had a screw loose, and she also had a great publicist -- herself!" - Sylvia Sidney
Deceptive Appearances
"My God! With your face, I didn't think you had a thought in your head." - Diana Barrymore, "complimenting" Hedy Lamarr
Heads and Shoulders Above the Rest
"Ava was down. I felt more warmth from her than from, say, Lana. Lana was a litle more aware of being a 'star'." - Lena Horne on her fellow MGM goddesses
Friday, April 15, 2011
Lush Life
Elizabeth Taylor, photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue, 1967
This is one of our favorite photos of La Liz: well past the ingenue stage; into her uber-glam Jet Set period; but not yet at the "I'm only 36 but act 56, I'm sauced by 10 a.m. and, yea, why not have another helping of Peach Melba?" (as the brilliant JungleRed put it) crisis mode. She looks grown up, assured and lovely here; and doesn't she remind you all of a certain gorgeous lioness over at Stella's Roar? Have a glamorous weekend, darlings!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Grand Greer
"If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast." - Greer Garson
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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