A collection of photos and quotes of male stars. Because this is a work in progress, you may want to check back regularly for updates.
RUSS COLUMBO DIES FROM ACCIDENTAL GUN WOUND Radio and Screen Singer Succumbs as Condition Balks Operation; Witness Tells of Tragedy Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1934 Russ Columbo, 26 years of age, radio and motion picture singer, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital last night from a bullet wound in his brain which he received […]
“Humor is reason gone mad.” – Groucho Marx “I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get into trouble, you will never be much of an actress.” – Groucho […]
“I’ve been in this game long enough to realize there’s no such thing as a new quip….The object is to make a quip sound fresh by giving it a new turn, or tying it up with modern slang or situations in the news.” — Bob Hope Source: Irving Wallace (1940) Photo: 1939 Marlene Dietrich, Bob […]
“Looks are good or bad, according to taste. My appearance doesn’t fascinate me. But I’m not the one who has to be pleased either. It’s a big help to an actor if people like to look at him but it has nothing to do with acting.” — Robert Taylor Photographer: George Hurrell “I’m an […]
“I don’t want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I’m an actor – I guess. A journeyman actor. I think ‘star’ is what you call actors who can’t act.” — Paul Muni Photographer: George Hurrell Scarface (1932). With George Raft. Purchase your Fine Art America Print, Coffee Mug, T-Shirt, etc. […]
“If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.” — Robert Montgomery Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are involved in a slapstick domestic dispute the 1931 precode comedy PRIVATE LIVES. Night Flight (1933). With John Barrymore, Clark […]
“The working class people like to think of us as being a real part of them. The middle class enjoys our work because they don’t dig opera and art and they think they’re better than we are. The few upper class people who watch us like to see what happens on the other side of […]
“I don’t think there are many other businesses where you can be paid good money and not know what you’re doing.” — Sterling Hayden on acting in Hollywood. Here is how he looked in 1941, the year after he was signed to a movie contract with Paramount Pictures, who billed him as “The Most Beautiful […]
“I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.” — Van Johnson
“Well, folks, they got me in the market just like they got everybody else. In fact, they’re not calling it the stock market anymore. They’re calling it the ‘stuck’ market.” — Eddie Cantor in 1929. Scene from Palmy Days. With George Raft. “Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a […]