Propaganda
Lee Ya-Ching (A Poet From the Sea, Mulan Joins the Army)—actress and aviatrix! pioneer. legend. i see a vintage lady on a plane and brain goes brr
Bonita Granville (The Glass Key, Now, Voyager)—she started out playing Nancy Drew as a teenager (won't include any pics of that because she's underage in them, but look up the publicity pics—delightful), it's a shame she didn't become a bigger Star™™
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[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]
Lee Ya-Ching:
Bonita Granville:
Screenland Magazine, June 1929.
SAFETY LAST! (1923)
Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco, California
Bob Cronk
"Judy and I used to laugh all the time when we worked together so she used to be a very gay and gloriously funny girl ... i like to say that because everybody after her death is always calling me - some journalist - and say 'what a tragedy' but she usually brought joy to everybody, and in her early days was a glorious gay girl"
“We all got totally soused somewhere on the West Side, and I remember Monty shouting to Liz, ‘You are the only woman I will ever love,’ and Elizabeth slumped in a chair staring at him with those magnificent violet eyes and crooning, ‘Baby, oh baby,’ over and over again.” -Ed Foote on his last memory of Montgomery Clift.
Clara Bow, 1927
BETTE DAVIS as Julie Marsden in JEZEBEL — dir. William Wyler (1938)
Dream Job: lottery winner who spends all their time making documentaries with insane budgets
“Everyone has a right to privacy. It is both undignified and irrelevant to discuss one’s emotions and attitudes in public - unless they have some bearing on one’s work.” – Vivien Leigh