You would think that dear Joan Crawford would be the most likely to cast stones at Norma Shearer; but, as per usual, being married to the boss had its perks, and Irving Thalberg took care of that -- check out the sparkler on Norma's wedding ring finger. All the better for her to see with, as the acid-tongued British actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell once venomously cooed to her Riptide (1934) co-star, "...your beautiful, little, tiny, tiny eyes!"
flawless beauty !
ReplyDeleteWhat amazes me is the individually made up eyelashes. Perfectly separated. My god, how long did that take??
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that Madame Thalberg had her own personal eyelash maid.
ReplyDeleteOh my, I do believe someone's candy is coming untucked in that last shot!
ReplyDeleteI go out of town for a couple of days and I come back and all this glamour is waiting for me! It almost makes living in Kansas bearable...
ReplyDeleteah...Norma!!! Gotta love her. Or your fired.
ReplyDeleteJoan's suspicion of Norma's motives always flew in the face of a key and immutable piece of logic.
ReplyDeleteAs the wife of MGM's head of production, and later his widow and a major stockholder, Shearer had everything to gain from every successful MGM release, Crawford's included. To make herself a sabotaging element toward a consistent revenue generator such as Joan, as Joan steadfastly maintained, Norma would have to be figuratively and knowingly shooting herself in the foot. It doesn't make sense.