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.

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

Holy Sh*t!

Is it Friday already???

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A Diva's Best Friend

George Cukor
July 7, 1889 - January 24, 1983

"Don't MENTION smoked oysters, they turn me positively GREEN!"

Miss Phyllis Povah (July 21, 1893 - August 7, 1975)

We love her! George Cukor must have loved her, too: after directing her in The Women (1939), he cast her again, a dozen years later, in The Marrying Kind and Pat and Mike (both 1952). In between, Povah scored several successes on Broadway, most notably the hit play Dear Ruth (1944-46). She and Marjorie Main also held the distinction of being the only two performers from the original stage production of The Women (1936-38) to be asked to reprise their roles for the film.

Miss Povah's birthday seems as good an excuse as any for us to watch The Women for the umpteenth time. As if we needed any.