“As you see, I am a very busy man and find my happiness in my work – for I don’t do much playing. I believe that it is well to think and think carefully, but many people make the mistake of thinking too much at one time. A thinker is like a stomach: it can’t […]
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“George Ovey is a funny man. There are lots of men on the stage who are able to make people laugh, but the number of men who can raise a laugh naturally, without forcing it, may be counted upon the fingers of one hand. George Ovey is one of them.” — press release from 1911 […]
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“In the first place, I haven’t attempted to do anything I can’t do. For instance, I don’t try to tell an assortment of alleged funny stories, for I tell my audiences, they can probably tell me a good deal better and newer stories than I can tell. Then, again, I make apologies for any breaks […]
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“‘Mata’ in my language means ‘to kill.’ If someone should mispronounce, it would be veree bad luck.” – Maria Alba (real name: Maria Casajuana), expressing her unhappiness with Fox Studio’s attempt to rename her “Marta.” She was a stenographer from Barcelona who was signed by Fox in 1927 after winning a beauty contest. However, Fox had problems […]
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“A homely husband is the best husband. Imagine a husband so busy thinking of his own looks he would have no time to think of your comfort. Besides, what woman wants to find herself married to a man that every other woman is trying to get away from her? When a sensible woman married for […]
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“Mary Garden is jealous of no one. The world well knows who created the roles of Salome and Aphrodite. I may be getting old now, but these persons who have accused me of being jealous are amusing. Mary Garden has had nearly everything in her time that a star desires. Yes, even a voice.” — […]
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“Women are the most chronic hero worshippers. And because they persist in trying to make the man of their choice worthy of this worship there’s many a poor devil who could be happy as a floorwalker of a department store, but is forced to go through life accepting the hero’s homage for something he did […]
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“The only thing I want to be is a good actress. I am my own worst critic. I have done nothing yet that I can really say is good in my eyes. I always see room for improvement. But I believe that you can have anything in the world if you go after it hard […]
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EXPLOSION COSTS MOVIE STAR HER JOB; SHE’S SUING PRODUCERS FOR $118,500 New York, August 6, 1922 – (Central Press) – Beauty – of the feminine variety – is coming higher these days, at least in the estimation of its possessors. In fact the latest quotation on one fair face, including a more or less liberal […]
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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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