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Jane Frazee
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 18, 2011
“I wasn’t bad looking, but I was never a beautiful girl, and in those days you had to look great. I had a drive to do better things than I was doing, but not that great inner drive that every successful people have.” ~ Jane Frazee
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Mary Jane Frehse, known as Jane Frazee, was an A read more
Ginger Rogers – A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 16, 2011
“You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helpi read more
Olive Borden: “The Joy Girl”
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 14, 2011
“Almost any girl taken from obscurity and spot-lighted, highly paid and catered to, would go haywire. Precious few have escaped the stage of distorted viewpoint, unless they had very wise management.” ~ Olive Borden
Olive Borden was an American actress in silent and early talkies. Nick read more
“Gigi” – Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 10, 2011
“This story is about a little girl. It could be about any one of those little girls playing there. But it isn’t. It’s about one in particular. Her name is Gigi.” ~ Honore Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier)
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“Gigi” is a 1958 musical film produced by Arthur Freed a read more
Audrey Hepburn
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 9, 2011
Audrey Hepburn, born Audrey Kathleen RustonMay 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium, was a British actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian. She remains one of the world’s most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century. Redefining glamour with read more
Cathy O’Donnell
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 7, 2011
Cathy O’Donnell was an American actress, best known for her many roles in film-noir movies and for her role as Tirzah, sister of Judah Ben-Hur in “Ben-Hur” (1959). Cathy O’Donnell was born Ann Steely on July 6, 1923 in Siluria, Alabama. She attended Oklahoma City Universit read more
Madge Evans
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jul 1, 2011
Madge Evans was a child model, stage and movie star, appearing in many ads, stage productions, and silent movies before she was even a teenager. She continued her career as an adult starring in movies through the 1930′s before turning to television. All told she appeared in over 95 movies and read more
Susan Hayward – A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 30, 2011
“I never thought of myself as a movie star. I’m just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top… and never fell off.” ~ Susan Hayward Susan Hayward “I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was read more
“Unconquered” – Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 28, 2011
THEY LIVE AGAIN! DAUNTLESS MEN and WOMEN WHO KEPT AMERICA UNCONQUERED!
(original movie ad for “Unconquered”)
Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard – “Unconquered” (1947)
“Unconquered” (1947 – Paramount) is an adventure film produced and directed by the read more
Jeanette MacDonald
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 19, 2011
“I’ve been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.” ~ Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette MacDonald was born on June 18, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for he read more
Ona Munson
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 15, 2011
Ona Munson was an American leading and supporting actress in 1930s and 40s Hollywood, her background included both vaudeville and the Broadway musical stage. Munson was born Owena Wolcott on June 16, 1903 in Portland, Oregon. She first came to fame on Broadway as the singing and dancing ingenue read more
Paulette Goddard
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 13, 2011
“I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home.” ~ Paulette Goddard Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model, she appeared in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, an read more
“Joan Of Arc” – Ingrid Bergman
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 12, 2011
“All I have done, I have done by the command of my Lord… that is, all I have done well.” ~ Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman)
“Joan Of Arc” is a 1948 technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Ingrid Bergman as the young French Heroine. The story is set i read more
Judy Garland – A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 9, 2011
“If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?” ~ Judy Garland Judy Garland “Hollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.” ~ Judy Garland Judy Garland – Wizard of Oz – 1939 “I was born read more
Maria Montez – “The Queen Of Technicolor”
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 6, 2011
“When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!”
~ Maria Montez after viewing herself in Arabian Nights (1942).
María Montez, born Maria Africa Antonia Gracia Vidal de Santo Silas on June 6, 1912 in Barahona, Dominican Republic, was a motion picture actress who gained read more
Barbara Pepper
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 1, 2011
Barbara was born Marion Pepper in New York City in 1915. By age 16, against her parent’s wishes, she changed her name to Barbara and landed a show girl role in Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies. There she met Lucille Ball and the two became lifelong friends. Barbara soon began work in radio read more
Joan Caulfield
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jun 1, 2011
Joan Caulfield was a movie and Broadway actress and former fashion model. Hailed in her time as one of the screen’s great beauties, many of her cameramen said she was one of the few women in Hollywood whom it was virtually impossible to photograph badly.
Caulfield was born June 1, 1922 in East read more
Patricia Ellis
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on May 21, 2011
Patricia Ellis was born Patricia Leftwich on May 20, 1916 in Birmingham, Alabama. By her early teens, Patricia had left school and began a stage career. While appearing on stage in New York City, she was given a film test and signed a contract with Warner Brothers in 1932. After a couple uncredited read more
James Stewart – A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on May 20, 2011
“I would like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said.” ~ James Stewart 1948 James Stewart studio publicity shot Stewart loved to recount in self-mockery his marriage proposal to Gloria: “I, I, I pitched the big question to read more
Billie Dove: The American Beauty
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on May 14, 2011
“When you’re up there on that film, you are that person completely all the time. You think the way that person thinks, you do what that person does and you’re not acting. You’re actually living it.” - Billie Dove
Billie Dove was born Lillian Bohny on May 14, 1903 i read more