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7 August 2017
As ever, Norma
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Here is a sweet little note from Norma Shearer to Brian Aherne, written in 1935. Shearer wrote to Aherne after doing a screen test togeth...
3 August 2017
Mae West and her fight for better prison life
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In April 1927, Mae West was sentenced to ten days in prison for having corrupted 'the morals of youth' with the 1926 Broadway p...
27 July 2017
I got it in the bathroom!
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With the leading role in Anastasia (1956) Ingrid Bergman made her American comeback after she had spent years in Italy making films ...
23 July 2017
George Hurrell: more than just a photographer
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A leading portrait photographer in the 1930s/40s, George Hurrell photographed every major star in Hollywood, including the incomp...
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13 July 2017
I have been stupidly loyal
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In the early 1950s, John Wayne made the worst decision of his film career. He decided to play the rol...
29 June 2017
The human mind cannot grasp it
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In 1942, in post-Pearl Harbor America, many Hollywood actors joined the army, including 28-year-old Tyrone Power who enlist...
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8 June 2017
Miss Leigh seems to be the best qualified
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In December 1938, a young unknown British actress named Vivien Leigh visited the set of Gone with the Wind accompanied by talent agent My...
27 May 2017
Please believe me it was not my doing
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Something's Got to Give (1962) was Marilyn Monroe's last (unfinished) film. Directed by George Cukor and co-starring Dean Martin...
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