Hello, Kitty!

L-R: Ann Miller, June Allyson, Dolores Gray, Joan Collins, Ann Sheridan and Joan Blondell in The Opposite Sex (1956, MGM)

If only they had started a whispering campaign to get Helen Rose removed from the film.

For Felix

The other Joan, glamming it up in her own inimitably beautiful, blowzy, Blondellish way.

Do the Right Thing

Attack of the Mole People

Beauty is Pain

The next time that you're grumbling during your preparations for a night out on the town, simply remind yourself that the end result is so worth it.

Born on This Day

Elizabeth Ashley (August 30, 1939) and Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979), and their hair.

Monday Millinery

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Try to Remember

In the early 1970's, nostalgia suddenly became big business (not coincidentally, the concept of "camp" broke through the mainstream at the same time); big enough, in fact, that several decades past their heyday, even second-tier goddesses like Joan Blondell and Paulette Goddard were still considered famous enough to earn First Name Only status on the cover of Life.



What's so sad is that, even in today's retro-obsessed culture, where every lame duck television show is recycled into a multi-million-dollar flop motion picture, not a single modern-day youngster could name even one of these stars.

"Ruby who?!"

Ménage à fab

OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928)


THREE ON A MATCH (1932)


ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941)


HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953)


THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (1959)


VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967)


THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970)

It's better with three.