Thursday, March 31, 2011

Debbie Does Hollywood

Debbie Reynolds and Judy Garland

Debbie Reynolds, producer Robert Weitman and Tahitian starlet Tarita

Buddy Hackett, Tom Jones and Debbie Reynolds

Cher, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor

Debbie Reynolds and Liberace

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Fasten Your Seat Belts

"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life." - Bette Davis

Girlfriends

Ethel Merman, Mae West and Judy Garland

Irene Dunne and Barbara Stanwyck

Susan Hayward and Ingrid Bergman

Dorothy Lamour, Gracie Allen and Betty Hutton

Jane Powell, Noel Coward and Zsa Zsa Gabor

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ann, Man!

Anne Baxter in Fools' Parade (1971, Columbia)

Ann Sothern in Sylvia (1965, Paramount)

Off to the Races

Lupe Velez in East is West (1930, Universal)

Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, MGM)

Dorothy Lamour (with John Howard) in Disputed Passage (1939, Paramount)

Ona Munson in The Shanghai Gesture (1941, United Artists)

Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed (1944, MGM)

Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha (1962, Paramount)

Eleanor Parker (as Marjorie Lawrence) in Interrupted Melody (1955, MGM)

Through Four Decades...






...Dinah, and her hair and teeth, were a Shore thing on television.

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Girl Next Door





If, of course, you live next door to San Simeon.

Eye of the Beholder





"The most beautiful woman stars are Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Dolores Del Rio and Hedy Lamarr. Not in any special order." - Flora Robson