CRASH KILLS SCREEN STAR Dorothy Dell in Auto Tragedy Dr. Wagner, Noted Pasadena Surgeon, Driver of Car, Also Meets Death Speeding Machine Strikes Curbing on Curve and Hits Several Trees Los Angeles Times – June 9, 1934 – To the little Mississippi town which she left only a few years ago on the road to […]
Chili Williams‘ bio is taken from HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD (April 24, 1944) Chili Williams – the girl in the blue and white polka dot bathing suit – is very sorry, boys, but she just can’t send you those photographs you requested by letter, wire, airmail special delivery, V-mail and carrier pigeon. At least not […]
Anaheim — looking very much like an Old West town in 1887. (LAPL: 00050047)
“When I was a kid I’d buy piles and piles of movie magazines and pore over the hairstyles of the big stars. When I read that Constance Bennett bumped every night to keep her shape you can be sure that Chapman bumped every night for the same reason.” — Marguerite Chapman Source: Virginia MacPherson (1945) […]
“I’ve seen more wives suddenly remember when I’m talking to their husbands that they lefy the gas on at home.” — Adele Jergens Source: 1948 Photo: 1944
“I’ve never been on the country charts in my life. I don’t even sing with any sort of country sound or inflection. I think it’s just that people know I live near Nashville which is the country capitol and they get confused.” — Roy Orbison in 1967. Photo: The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967) […]
“It seems that I was destined to act. At the tender age of three I danced across the stage in a sort of vaudeville show at Brighton, one of England’s seaside resorts, faintly related to Atlantic City. In a cunning little skirt of stiff tulle, and wearing tiny silver wings, I was Cupid with a […]
“Vivian was born in Hollywood, was graduated from Hollywood High School, loved in Hollywood, and acted in the Bliss-Hayden Miniature theater, also in Hollywood. They discovered that she was 22 years old, five feet, four, weighed 110 pounds and could do all kinds of dancing, tap, toe, ballet, acrobatic, ballroom and comedy.” — Des Moines […]
“I can always have just as happy a career as a model – a model housewife!” — June Vincent Source: 1944 Photo: 1944
“I did cinema and theater. Maybe the first things I did. When, for example, I did The Housekeeper in Rome, I was very happy with the cinema. Then I managed to make the theater show Madame Bovary in Italian and I was soaked by the enthusiasm and joy. For me, they were like great victories.” […]