Shirley Temple
“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. 2
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Category: Female Stars
An homage to the Hollywood female stars with lots of celebrity photos and quotes.
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Stella Stevens – photos and quotes
“You need something more than good looks to have a good life.” — Stella Stevens “I didn’t apply myself at school and at 17 I was married. The day I discovered how uneducated I was, I decided to do something about it and it changed my life. As long as I live I never […]
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Letitia Wright – photos and quotes
“I was born in Guyana, South America. An acting career is not really something that’s seen as making a living. I don’t come from a creative background. I don’t know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It’s a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.” — Letitia Wright […]
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Gypsy Rose Lee – photos and quotes
“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: […]
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Jane Wyatt – photos and quotes
“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 […]
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Simone Simon – photos and quotes
“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) “I decide I cannot be crazy in Hollywood because […]
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Sharon Tate – photos and quotes
“My whole life has been decided by fate. I’ve never planned anything that’s happened to me.” — Sharon Tate “You see, I always wanted to be an actress. But my parents disapproved. Several people told me I should be in the movies. I really wanted to, but then so do thousands of other girls, […]
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Zoe Saldana – photos and quotes
“I wish there were more genres in which women could have more opportunities … We can be the heroes and we can save everyone.” — Zoe Saldana “It is human condition for us to be prone to vanity – especially actors. But I feel this role has been the best role ever to cross […]
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Olivia de Havilland – photos and quotes
“The first day of making a film I feel, ‘Why did I ever get mixed up in this profession? I have no talent. This time, they’ll find out.’” — Olivia de Havilland Source: Doris Barclay (1985) Photo: 1939 “Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. […]
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Thelma Todd – Ice Cream Blonde
“I always think of blondes as soft and pliable, ready to cling to the nearest male for support and protection, just waiting to be taken care of, and very sweet and easy to live with because they are so amiable. None of which qualities belong to me. I am a fighter. I have made my […]
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