Normally a movie star known the world over as the woman who is “too beautiful” is not all that relatable. But when I came across the story of silent
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Love Hollywood? Love History? Then “You Must Remember This”…
For someone like me, who’s spent most of her life obsessed with the stars, stories and minutiae of Old Hollywood, something like You Must Remember This is a godsend.
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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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Jean Harlow: Blonde Patron Saint of Hollywood Dames
Sexy blondes from Marilyn to Madonna owe 1930s movie superstar Jean Harlow a huge debt. (As does Clairol.) It may be hard for contemporary minds to understand, but blonde
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The Secret History of Hollywood is God’s Work
Just when you think the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, from behind the dark clouds drifts to Earth a radiant angel, dressed in a resplendent robe
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Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 2
Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames being dames.
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Top 10 Classic Dame Movies
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out of her shell
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I Was Totally Wrong About Teresa Wright!
I always thought Teresa Wright was talented and sweet, but kind of an ineffectual limp noodle. She plays the good girl well, and I guess that was my problem.
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The Scandalous Suicide of Hollywood’s Carole Landis
Carole Landis is known primarily as the bosomy blonde movie star who offed herself over Rex Harrison. Of all the schmucks who’ve driven ladies to leap, the idea of
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Ann Sheridan: The “Oomph Girl”
Look, one doesn’t get called the “Oomph Girl” for nothing. Ann Sheridan was fairly busting with oomph. Lots of classic Hollywood stars are cast as the tough but tender
