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In sickness and in health: Successful Hollywood marriages
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Feb 14, 2013
Last Valentine’s Day I reviewed the many unsuccessful relationships of actress Lana Turner. This Valentine’s Day, I wanted to look at some of the successful Hollywood relationships. As I started making my list of couples I was dumbfounded to find I had a list of over 60 long Hollywood m read more
Love Hollywood Style: Ray Milland.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 13, 2013
Ray Milland, stayed out of the Hollywood party scene, instead staying at home with his wife of 54 years, Malvina Webber. They married on September 30, 1932, and remained together until his death. Together, they raised a son, Daniel and adopted daughter, Victoria. Milland, died in California on M read more
Love Hollywood Style: Robert Taylor.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 13, 2013
After three years of dating, Taylor married actress Barbara Stanwyck on May 14, 1939 in San Diego. Zeppo Marx's wife Marion was Stanwyck's matron of honor and her godfather, actor Buck Mack, was Taylor's best man. Stanwyck divorced Taylor (reportedly at his request) in February 1951. The couple read more
The Hollywood Sign
Timeless Hollywood Posted by Michele on Feb 12, 2013
The Hollywood Sign was erected in 1923 at a cost of $21,000 by the Hollywoodland Real Estate Group. It was used as an ad campaign for a housing development called Hollywoodland. The Sign was originally 50 feet tall with 4,000 lights that would flash in segments “HOLLY”, “WOOD”, “LAND”. read more
Love Hollywood Style: Joan Blondell.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 12, 2013
Blondell was married three times, first to cinematographer George Barnes in a private wedding ceremony on 4 January 1933 at the First Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona. They had one child, Norman S. Powell, (who became an accomplished producer, director, and television executive) and divor read more
Love Hollywood Style: Harold Lloyd.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 11, 2013
Harold Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis(d.1969), on Saturday, February 10, 1923. Together, they had two children: Gloria Lloyd (1924–2012), and Harold Clayton Lloyd, Jr., (1931–1971). They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in September 1930, whom they rename read more
Love Hollywood Style: Gregory Peck.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 10, 2013
In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen (1911–2008), with whom he had three sons, Jonathan (1944–75), Stephen (b. 1946), and Carey Paul (b. 1949). They were divorced on December 30, 1955, but maintained a very good relationship.
On December 31, 1955, the day afte read more
Love Hollywood Style: Gary Cooper.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 9, 2013
My favorite actor, Gary Cooper, had been one of Hollywood's favorite leading men for over 30 years and had several high-profile relationships with actresses:
Starting with in 1927 Gary was chosen by the silent movie star Clara Bow, to play a reporter in her film, "IT"(1927). Clara, fell in lov read more
Love Hollywood style: Fred MacMurray.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 8, 2013
MacMurray was married twice. He married Lillian Lamont, his first wife, on June 20, 1936, and the couple adopted two children, Susan (b. 1940) and Robert (b. 1946). After Lamont died on June 22, 1953, he married actress June Haver the following year.
He and Haver adopted two more children, t read more
Are they 'Made For Each Other'? On marriage and Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 7, 2013
The challenges of married life, such as that experienced by Carole Lombard and James Stewart in 1939's "Made For Each Other," haven't been a frequent topic of Hollywood -- whether it was during the classic era of the '30s and '40s or in later decades (and this includes television as much as film). T read more
Love Hollywood Style: Constance Bennett.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 7, 2013
Constance Bennett was married five times and it all began with her first marriage in 1921, when she eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, the son of a surgeon. The marriage was annulled in 1923.
After which Bennett, eloped with millionaire Philip Morgan Plant in 1925. They divorced in read more
Love Hollywood Style: Claudette Colbert.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 6, 2013
Colbert, was best known for her confident, intelligent style and her subtle, graceful acting and in 1928, married Norman Foster, an actor and director, who performed with Colbert in the Broadway show, The Barker. They never lived together, supposedly because Colbert's mother disliked Foster and read more
Love Hollywood Style: Cary Grant.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 5, 2013
Cary Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She was best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). She divorced Grant on 26 March 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her.
In 1942, he married Barbara Hutto read more
Love Hollywood Style: Carole Lombard.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 4, 2013
In October 1930, Lombard met William Powell. They had worked together in the films: Man of the World and Ladies' Man. Unlike many of Lombard's other suitors, Powell was sophisticated.
He loved her humor and charm. They married on June 26, 1931. Lombard commented to fan magazines that she did no read more
Love Hollywood Style: Carlton Heston.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 3, 2013
Married for sixty-five years, Lydia Clarke was Carlton Heston's first and only love. Carlton and Lydia met at Northwestern University where they were both students taking a theater course.Carlton Heston, a 19-year-old college student who enlisted in the Air Corps, asked Lydia Clarke to marry him read more
Love Hollywood Style: Bette Davis.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 2, 2013
Bette Davis's personal life was as dramatic as her acting. She was married four times:
Harmon Oscar Nelson, August 18, 1932 (divorced).
Two-time Oscar winner, Bette Davis believed that she created the term Oscar to describe the golden trophy.
“I am convinced that I was the first to g read more
Love Hollywood Style: Audrey Hepburn.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 1, 2013
English actress Audrey Hepburn, well known for both her film and fashion icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, became engaged in 1952 to James Hanson, a English Conservative industrialist who built his businesses through many buyouts through Hanson plc. She had known Hanson since her L read more
The Hollywood Revue Turns 3!
Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on Feb 1, 2013
Three years ago today, The Hollywood Revue was launched! It’s hard to believe that it’s already been three years since I started blogging. I have so much fun writing things, it’s easy for the time to fly by. This past year, I participated in some awesome blogathons such as Comet read more
What Price Hollywood? (1932) (1)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 25, 2013
(Image: moviecovers.com)
Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) is a waitress with aspirations of making it in Hollywood, but she realizes it’s rare to make it big in a town full of people who have the same goal.
But while working at a diner, she befriends Max Carey (Lowell Sherman), a director who gi read more
Out & About--Celebrating Loretta Young's Centennial at the Hollywood Museum
GlamAmor Posted by on Jan 14, 2013
This month marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Loretta Young and it seems that all of Hollywood is celebrating. To kick off the Centennial, Turner Classic Movies made Loretta their TCM Star of the Month and the Hollywood Museum now hosts its eagerly anticipated exhibition for Lore read more