The Silver Screen Oasis

Birthday boy Roy Rogers shows off his stetson which he modified himself

Birthday boy Joel McCrea in a 1934 portrait by Ernest Bachrach “That era provided a profusion of wonderful actors and actresses to admire—and not always the ones remembered by posterity. Take Joel McCrea, for instance, a real cowboy and a good actor who could excel in westerns like Union Pacific or The Virginian, but who was also wonderful in comedies like The Palm Beach Story for Preston Sturges—and comedy is the hardest thing an actor can do.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SELENA ROYLE (1904 - 1983)


FRANCIS LEDERER (1899 - 2000) lived till 100

It's Mr, & Mrs, Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester, of course)

Bette Davis catches the brass ring at the 1937 costume party at Hearst Castle
(or is that Marion Davies?)

Husband and wife Henry Fonda & Margaret Sullavan share a birthday

Carmen Miranda getting ready to wear a bowl of fruit on her head

mongoII wrote:
Birthday boy Joel McCrea with wife Frances Dee in their twilight years

Thanks for the wonderful pix of Joel McCrea, Joe. He is one my my favorites. I enjoy him in comedy (still love "The More The Merrier") and anything when he's on horseback. By any a pound I've ever read, he was a real cowboy at heart and a very fine man all around.

Your quite welcome, Susan, It was my pleasure.

DEAN JAGGER (1903 - 1991)


LUCILLE LA VERNE (1872 - 1945)

mongoII wrote:
It's Mr, & Mrs, Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester, of course)

I did not know this Joe and they were married from 1929 to 1962 - for 33 years! ... I was surprised to see him marrying the "Bride of Frankenstein"

But then again, Erik, Elsa married the Hunchback of Notre Dame

Birthday gal Lucille La Verne also excelled in the films "A Tale of Two Cities" as the Vengeance,
and in "Little Caesar" as Ma Magdalena, among others.

It's Marlene Dietrich and Mrs Jack Warner (Ann) up close at the Trocadero in 1939

mongoII wrote:
It's Marlene Dietrich and Mrs Jack Warner (Ann) up close at the Trocadero in 1939

Wouldn't you have loved to have been privy to that tête-à-tête?