Most dame stories are essentially happy stories. This one is not. This story talks about one of the worst, most cruel and heartbreaking periods in human history. But this
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Why Aren’t You and I Gertrude Lawrence?
Growing up, I was under the impression there were glamorous actresses who could do what they want, buy what they want, seduce whom they want. They began sentences by
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Dorothy Lamour’s “Jungle Princess” Rocked My World
Be honest, what part of the phrase “Jungle Princess” do you not like? When I was in 4thgrade, I chanced upon a movie where a young girl and tiger cub
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Barbara Nichols Wasn’t a Bosomy Bimbo
Barbara Nichols was THE go-to woman when you wanted an actress whose very casting spoke volumes about the character. Why use exposition or the script to communicate that a
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I Want Thelma Ritter To Be My BFF
If there’s some kind of cafeteria in heaven, I want to sit next to Thelma Ritter. She’ll give me the low-down, tell me who’s full of it, and, the
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Barbara La Marr: Too Beautiful, With a Pretty Crazy Life
When a woman is tagged “too beautiful”, my first instinct isn’t one of pity. So normally Barbara La Marr’s soubriquet – “The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful” – would
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Valerie Harper, Rhoda and Me
I cried when Valerie Harper died. It felt like losing a mother, a sister, a mentor, a friend. I met her just once – I had an on-air gig
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Paulette Goddard Collected Jewels AND Geniuses
Paulette Goddard had this whole dame thing down pat. Wrapping a genius around her little finger, becoming a major movie star, marrying a millionaire — it all came as
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Meet Lulu: Vintage Clothing Entrepreneur and a Very Stylish Dame
I’ve been obsessed with vintage clothes my entire life. In those hoary days before the Internet, my best source for 40s frocks were the vendors I’d haunt at flea
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Gypsy Rose Lee: Burlesque Queen of Dames
People who think Madonna invented reinventing herself have clearly never heard of the equally versatile, equally scandalous no-last-name-needed sexual iconoclast who rose to national attention more than three-quarters of
