1920's Mineralava Beauty Products, the company that hired Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova to travel the United States giving dance exhibitions and promoting it's products. At each stop they chose a queen of beauty and needless to say, it was a sell-out at every venue! From His Fame Still Lives, FB.
BETTE DAVIS as Julie Marsden in JEZEBEL — dir. William Wyler (1938)
“The big job in one’s life, it seems to me, is finding out what is important to you and what isn’t important. It’s a major tragedy to race after things you neither want or need.”
The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
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FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES
Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in NOW, VOYAGER (1942) dir. Irving Rapper
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Charlie Chaplin this, Buster Keaton that, Harold Lloyd blah blah blah. They’re all amazing comedians who contributed a lot to motion pictures and it’s not a competition.
Harold Lloyd in The Flirt (1917)
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Harlow was an actress who got along with everyone-with one exception: Wallace Beery. She had worked with Beery before in The Secret Six (1931) and the two had developed a dislike for each other that carried over into Dinner at Eight. Beery thought that Harlow wasn’t experienced enough as an actress and treated her rudely. Harlow found Beery gruff and boorish. Since the two were playing a husband and wife that can’t stand each other, the real-life feelings worked to the comic benefit of the characters. (x)