Mady Christians
“The more patiently you advance on that elusive thing called success, the more lasting and durable that success will be. To those crashing the gates of filmdom, I’d say to take it easy!” – Mady Christians 2
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Category: Celebrity Portraits
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Lena Horne
“My life has been about surviving. Along the way I became an artist. Music became first my refuge, and then – my salvation.” — Lena Horne Source: David Cuthbert (1996) Photo: Clarence Bull (1942) 2
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Virginia Dale
“Didn’t I ever tell you about my lamb’s foot? They started me off as a toe dancer when I was 9. I slaved and slaved at it, hating every minute. I tried everything I could think of to get out of it. Then I got blood poisoning in one foot –Imagine how wonderful. They had […]
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Rhonda Fleming
“I had a need to make contact with people. It was really a very loney life all those years in the business.” — Rhonda Fleming Source: 1983 Photo: Ed Cronenweth (1951) 2
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Sally Blane
“I try to like everyone, but if I don’t like a person, I just naturally can’t make a fuss over him no matter how much it might mean to me in a professional way.” – Sally Blane in 1930. Blane, real name Elizabeth Jane Young, had three sisters: Polly Ann, Georgiana and Loretta Young. Quote source: Newspaper […]
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Lupita Tovar
The Mexican film legend was the mother of ‘Imitation of Life’ star Susan Kohner and grandmother of screenwriters Chris and Paul Weitz. Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 13, 2016 by Mike Barnes Lupita Tovar, the Mexican actress who starred in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula that was shot concurrently with the famed Bela Lugosi version, has died. She was […]
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Barbara Worth
Barbara Worth’s fame was largely overshadowed by the popular novel and film, The Winning of Barbara Worth, which had no connection to her. She was born Verna Louise Dooley in 1906 but it is not clear where. Press releases and early U.S. Census records claim that she was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1906. Her death […]
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Doris Dawson
“A girl I had known was working at the Mack Sennett studio. I went to lunch with her one day and then went back to the studio to watch her work during the afternoon. It was the first time I had ever been inside of a studio and I was quite excited. They were ‘shooting’ […]
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Nina Quartero
Nina Quartero is a largely forgotten film player and there simply isn’t too much written about her. I’ll try, however, to put a few pieces together about her life. She was born Gladys Quarteraro on March 17, 1908, in New York City. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, both of her parents were Italian. She […]
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Olympe Bradna
“Because I be French, everybody thinks he can pinch me and say ooh-la-la.” – Olympe Bradna 2
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