Muriel Gardner is another one of those elusive, forgotten performers of the past. Described as a “blond easy to look at” and “one of the finest dancers west of Chicago,” Gardner’s film work was sparse; however, she was employed by Fanchon & Marco quite often in the late 1920s through the early 1930s as a performer […]
“Meet every obstacle with a smile. Oh, yes, it can be done. There have been times in my life when I didn’t laugh – when I felt I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, and as a result I have had to go to bed and receive medical aid. But that time […]
“You see I don’t know much about acting. I’m an entertainer, or that is how I have always thought of myself in the past. So what I do in a film…is to try to react as honestly as I can to what people say to me in each situation.” — Ann-Margret Source: Stephen Franklin (1964) […]
“I am the captain of my ship. I take suggestions and listen to what everyone has to say, but the final decision is mine.” — Michael Jackson Photo taken in 1974 when he was barely 16 years old. “He’s putting himself in a dangerous situation. It should not be given under a private setting […]
“Even now I feel furious with myself because whenever there’s a camera pointed towards me my MGM training makes me smile. I don’t like it. You can see it on all the people who came from that era because there was no question of them not smiling for the camera. Even Katharine Hepburn — and […]
“Offers to come to Hollywood have been many. But I always refused unless I could play an important dramatic role. I did not wish to be just the dancer in a picture.” — Tilly Losch, pictured here in 1929 while in Great Britain.
“I like pictures better. It was different when we first started in. Then it was a novelty. Now debutantes and grandmothers are rivals in learning new steps, and all enjoy dancing themselves more than watching other people do it.” — Irene Castle Source: Nance Monde (1917) Like the photo above? Purchase your Fine Art America […]
“My Salome costume seems to me far more decent than those directoire dresses, or the bathing garments worn by respectable women – who have no intention of bathing in them – on the beach. And I am sure, quite sure, it is more decent than some of the gowns worn in opera houses. I feel […]
“I’d like to correct one impression created by the pictures generally taken of me. I really do have and do wear clothes.” — Gilda Gray Source: Wayne Weishaar (1926) Photo: Aloma of the South Seas (1926) Photo: Charles Sheldon “Fortunate to have blonde hair? Yes, I suppose I am but I can’t understand […]
The lives of few entertainers have ever matched that of actress/dancer/vaudevillian Valdeo Lord Parker and her mother, Maude. Both performed under many aliases throughout their lives, which requires a lot of reading between the lines to understand who they were and what happened to them. According to U.S. Census records, Valdeo was born in Lincoln, […]