"If she had a neck, I would wring it." - Noel Coward on Claudette Colbert
Friday, February 25, 2011
Eat Your Heart Out
"Too thin is too thin, especially when you get older and all the veins show...Diana Ross looks like she just arrived from Ethopia." - Dame Judith Anderson
Grace Under Fire
"She couldn't act, she was arrogant, anti-Semitic, and alcoholic, and talk about social climbing!" - Anne Baxter on Grace Kelly
Easy to Be Hard
"Roz Russell is hard as nails...She came up the hard way, and it shows." - Ann Sheridan
Business as Usual
"Miss Dunaway is not a professional at all! She's always late and doesn't know her lines. No, she is impossible and everyone in the industry knows it." - Bette Davis
We'd Like to Propose a Toast
"She was drunk. She showed up at ten o'clock in the morning for the first read-through, and she was bombed. She was drinking straight vodka from this silver flask, and she was drinking it in front of the kids. She was saying all the words, but it was like she was a robot. About lunchtime, Joan passed out cold, and that did it. As soon as she woke up, I fired her." - Lucille Ball on Joan Crawford
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Battle of the Bulges
"In comes Lollobrigida, in August, with a copy Chanel suit. Black. Wool. And boots. In August. And lots of jewels. I always call her a Christmas tree." - Anita Ekberg
Tale as Old as Time
"All the energies that used to go towards her husbands now go into preserving her own legend." - Ava Gardner on Lana Turner
The Lady in Question
"Miss Wyman looks like a mystery nobody has bothered to solve." - Marlene Dietrich
Face Value
"Her face was her talent, and when it dropped, so did her career -- right out of sight!" - Bette Davis on Constance Bennett
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Wong and White
Anna May Wong in Dangerous to Know (1938, Paramount)
Jane Fonda in In the Cool of the Day (1963, MGM)