An homage to the Hollywood female stars with lots of celebrity photos and quotes.
“Even the big stars had to chase around and audition; it seemed like a rat race to me, with no security.” — Billy Thomas, who played Buckwheat. Here he is posing with a photo of Clark Gable. Stage Fright (1923) “I went on vaudeville tours that kept me working and traveling day and night. I […]
“When I was a child, I was made to feel that black was not beautiful. I suppose I felt that by the time I was four years old. The old formula for success was how close you could come to the white singer and the white actor, for the big night clubs and the important […]
“The lady who wear my turban, my funnee shoes and my treek jewelry, she gotta have the skinny face and the big-a-mouth like me, eh? After all, how would I going to look in hoop-skirts and Watteau hats, huh?” — Carmen Miranda Source (and accent): Duncan Underhill (1941) Photo: 1941 “Call me Carmen. I […]
“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any.” — Jane Russell “They held up The Outlaw for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.” — Jane Russell “I don’t think the people who saw the picture were offended. It was […]
“I may bite my lower lip and I may wiggle my hips a bit, but I’m not a carbon copy of anyone. And as far as Monroe is concerned, I don’t think there’s any need to defend my reputation. She has nothing that I don’t have.” — Mamie Van Doren in 1953. “I was […]
“I loved acting, but my agents never brought me scripts. I was worth a lot more to them on the road.” — Peggy Lee
“As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934. Picture is from the film, Baby Take a Bow (1934). With Warner Baxter.
“Strip teasers are not born, they are made by hard practice. Proper timing is what makes the act. You have to make each move on a carefully planned schedule. There are fast strippers and slow strippers. I belong to the slow stripping school. I think slow tempo suits my personality.” — Gypsy Rose Lee Source: […]
“I honestly don’t look back to the past. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and tend to get annoyed at myself if I think about them. I don’t even like to look at myself in my old films. I hate my face. It’s so round. I remember my mother telling me not to worry about […]
“What I’m trying to get at is that I was a creature of the publicity department. The press agents decided I was temperamental, before I came to America. They went overboard with stories about me and my tantrums.” — Simone Simon Source: Fred Othman (1941) “It’s the language. I get so mixed up, sometimes, […]