A Tale Of Two Tarzans

Modern Screen, Jan 1936

Photoplay, July 1932

How do you prefer him, darlings? Swinger or city slicker?

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Two Faced Woman

For those of you in need of last minute Halloween costume ideas.

Everything Old Is New Again

Some things never change.

We Never Will Forget Jeanette MacDonald

Just to think of her, it gives our heart a pang.

Candy Kane

Kane Richmond, ridiculously handsome star of movie serials of the 1930's and 1940's.

Thank Heaven...

...the week is Dunne!

June's A Bust All Over?

Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (Columbia, 1934)
 

June Allyson in You Can't Run Away From It [remake of It Happened One Night], (Columbia, 1956)

Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey (Universal, 1936)
 

June Allyson in My Man Godfrey (Universal-International, 1957)
 

Norma Shearer in The Women (MGM, 1939)

June Allyson in The Opposite Sex [remake of The Women], (MGM, 1956)



Compare and contrast, darlings.

Give The Lady A Hand

"Kisses on your opening." -- A telegram allegedly sent by Tallulah Bankhead to Bette Davis, at the premiere performance of one of the latter's stage shows

T.G.I.F.

Theda

 

Gail

Isa

Frances


Start the weekend with a smolder, darlings.

Over The Edge

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable, turning down the meaty role of the doomed, drunken Sophie in The Razor's Edge (1946), for which Anne Baxter eventually won an Oscar

Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (20th Century Fox, 1946)

"I'm an actress, not a personality. It's more successful to be a personality." -- Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter in Carnival Story (RKO, 1954)

"Are you kidding? Fans would expect me to rise up out of the water with lily pads in my hair, singing 'Hooray for Hollywood.'" -- Betty Grable, referring to Sophie's dipsomaniacal demise at the bottom of the Seine in The Razor's Edge

Betty Grable in Three for the Show (Columbia, 1955)

Role Play

Today, we're inaugurating a series of posts which take some quick peeks into "what might have been" -- the stars who were originally intended for some of our favorite films. These posts are tailor-made for lots of commentary and fun hypothesizing, so we encourage audience participation (and also welcome suggestions for future posts)! Have fun, darlings!

Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind (Paramount, 1942)

"The longest and most extensive search for a screen heroine ended today when Paulette Goddard was signed to a long term contract by David O. Selznick, producer of Gone with the Wind..." -- Louella Parsons' column, February 3, 1938

"Who's going to play Scarlett in Gone with the Wind? Paulette Goddard, and worry no more about it..." -- Buck Herzog's column, December 4, 1938

"Vivien Leigh, the young English actress who will play Scarlett O'Hara in the screen dramatization of Gone with the Wind, was 'terribly nervous'...but at the same time 'grateful beyond words.'" -- Associated Press, January 15, 1939

Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (Selznick International/MGM, 1939)

Losers, Weepers

"Darling, couldn't you have waited until next year?" -- Gloria Swanson to Judy Holliday after losing the Oscar

You Take The High Road...

"There is no feud. I have never had a feud with anyone. But if I ever considered having a feud, it would be with one of the stars of the film." -- Dorothy Lamour on being "replaced" in the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope film, Road to Hong Kong (1962), by Joan Collins

Eight Ball

LUCILLE BALL

August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989