The Silver Screen Oasis

Moira, You're not kidding about "The Sea of Grass"...a clinker.
I guess it was a good day when Spencer Tracy would lighten up.
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Jackie Cooper in 1989 and as a popular child actor.


Dean Stockwell at a nostalgia convention in 2005 and as a child actor.


An ailing Jack Wild and when he was the Artful Dodger in "Oliver!"


Beautiful starlet Elaine Stewart.


A fit Anthony Perkins headed toward the pool.


Glorious Joan Blondell during the pre-code days.


Audrey Hepburn expresses a slight wave...with eloquence.


Busby Berkeley & Micky Rooney cutting up in the commissary.


Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor during the good times.


Pals Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons.


Clark Gable with child wonder Margaret O'Brien.


Marlon Brando & Eva Marie Saint between takes of "On the Waterfront".


Marilyn Monroe between a Rock and a Heston at the Golden Globes.


Douglas Fairbanks Jr. back to back with wife Joan Crawford.


Lovely Maureen O'Hara in cashmere.

Mongo;

Forgive the tardiness, just trying to catch up:

Is the Glenn Ford/Ronnie Howard pic from The Courtship of Eddie's Father set?
Carmen Miranda's given me more joy & delight than perhaps any other female film performer . . but do you think she really kept her cocaine stash in her hollow heels?!
About Brenda in the boat: could the camera ever find a bad angle on this beauty? And what made her career so brief, and shallow? Maternity? Bill Holden? A so-so speaking voice? Bad luck?
Is it just me, or does the young Chevalier bear an eerie resemblance to future film star Paul Newman?
Ava topping the net: small wonder, as most angels can fly . . even the one with devilish appetites, evidently!

Hi Joe,

"The Lizard of Roz" - that's what Freddie Brisson was nicknamed in Hollywood. Not a very well liked man about town, even in New York City.
His father, Carl Brisson, was a very famous musician & opera star and was much nicer and better liked.
I think Freddie was jealous of him and Roz and that's what made him bitter....

Nice picture of Elaine Stewart.

Larry

I love the picture of Doug Jnr and Joan Crawford. I've seen it before, I like the pose very much.

Klondike, that image of Ford and Howard is indeed from the set of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father".
Truths and Myths (from the internet)
Carmen Miranda was in fact addicted to prescrption drugs, however, she did not use cocaine. Nor did she secretly "hide" cocaine in her platform heels as reported by Kenneth Anger's trashy book "Hollywood Babylon."

(from IMDb) Brenda Marshall wanted to be a film actress, all right; it's just that she didn't want to be Brenda Marshall. Throughout her years in Hollywood, she insisted that her friends and co-workers address her not by her studio-fabricated cognomen, but by her given name of Ardis Anderson Gaines. She made about 20 films, her last in 1950.
While Marshall & Holden remained married for 30 years, most of it was spent separated from each other while involved in various other romances.
I believe that William Holden was a successful and popular actor, whose voice really didn't matter.
As far as Chevalier and Newman go, perhaps around the eyes.

Larry, all I ever heard about Freddie Brisson was is that Roz adored him.

CCfan, thank you for your input.

Klonnie said

"Ava topping the net: small wonder, as most angels can fly . . even the one with devilish appetites, evidently! Wink

Is it just me, the avowed NON athlete, or does it look like she isn't going to make it. Her foot looks like it's going to catch the net. Eeeek!

Agreed on the Joan/Fairbanks pic.

Love the Joan Blondell pic too, though I've seen it many times before, and the Deborah Kerr/Jean Simmons one is cute too.

More Kerr and Simmons would be appreciated.

Oh and Claudette as Edith Head is strangely appealing.

This picture is by the great photographer Edward Steichen, probably taken for Vanity Fair.

Thanks for the info regarding the Crawford/Fairbanks image.

Twenty-five years or so ago, I used to eat my lunch in a little public plaza on West 58th Street off Fifth Ave., and every lunchtime during the warmer months Douglas Fairbanks would walk by. I don't think I can find the words to relate to you how utterly handsome he was. He almost always wore some kind of blazer, with an open-necked shirt and a silk scarf tied around his neck. He was so tall, so erect and strong looking, so blue-eyed, and so very beautiful. He was probably in his late 70s at the time. As you can imagine, he got a lot of attention (well, the NYC version of attention to celebrities, which is that we glance at them), especially from the ladies of a certain age. Small wonder Crawford fell for him, stories about her social climbing notwithstanding.

I have a book called The Fairbanks Album, it's full of pictures of father and son. It gave me a greater appreciation of Doug Jnr.

Thanks for sharing the Fairbanks recollection, Judith.
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James Cagney & Barbara Stanwyck getting together.


Judy Garland at the Toto audition for "The Wizard of Oz".


Crooner Tony Martin out and about with wife Cyd Charisse in 2004.


Attractive B-film actress Susan Cabot.


Susan Cabot & Charles Bronson in a still from "Machine Gun Kelly" (1958).


Susan Cabot with son Timothy (who suffered from dwarfism). Sadly at age 22 he bludgeoned his mother to death in 1986. She was 59.


Beautiful Dolores del Rio in her elaborate home with her pet cat.


Alan Ladd viewing son David's movie.


Alfred Hitchcock & David O. Selznick with the cast of "The Paradine Case".


Janet Leigh is sandwiched between husband Tony Curtis & Kirk Douglas.


James Stewart, Princess Grace Kelly & Bob Hope attend a gala affair.


Novelist Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper share a humorous moment.


Gloria Grahame rehearsing with husband director Nicholas Ray.


Lee Remick with director Blake Edwards on the set of "The Days of Wine and Roses".


Clark Gable & Myrna Loy on the other side of the camera.


Debonair actor Louis Jourdan. A one woman man married 64 years. He is now age 89.


Producer Irving Thalberg with Lon Chaney & Harry Earles discussing "The Unholy Three".


Norma Shearer taking a spin with Robert Montgomery.


A life-like statue of Mae West herself.


Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward getting comfy.


Scrumptious Tina Louise lying down on the job.


Producer David O. Selznick and a roly-poly director, Alfred Hitchcock.


Doris Day & Cary Grant in the dugout with Yankee players Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris.


President Reagan chatting with Cary Grant & Douglas Fairbanks.


Oscar winner Sidney Poitier and presenter Anne Bancroft in 1964.


Agnes Moorehead with her adopted son Sean.


Colonel Sanders & Joan Crawford cooking up a Chicken n' Pepsi combo deal?

Great pics Mongo, even if the whole Susan Cabot story totally creeps me out!

Btw, according to a new bio, Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman, the All American girl had a brief, torrid romance with one of the fellows in that dugout photo taken during the filming of That Touch of Mink...no, not Cary Grant, but Mickey Mantle! Is nothing sacred?

Hey Joe,

A few things:

1) Thanks for the wonderful picture of Tony Martin & Cyd Charrisse. They both look good and Anne will be happy to know - no cosmetic surgery!!!

2) Louis Jourdan is a good looking movie star who never had a breath of scandal about him and he is underrated as he could play most anything - romance, musical, cad, hero & villain... Give this man an Honourary Oscar (I'll have to add him to my list).... It grows, Joe!!

3) Wow, Mae West never looked so good - clothes on or off!!! And, we have to give her credit - she didn't have the sculptor shave off her little round tummy... What you see is what you get.....

4) Thanks for the Agnes Moorehead and Sean photo. It is good to see them in 'happier times'...

5) Only Joan Crawford could wear a hat like that!!! It looks like a Russian kokoshnik (a Russian headdress).
She should have played a Russian Czarina - she had a partial wardrobe!!

Larry

Hey, you know, that photo of Joanie C. & Harlan Sanders is more than a little ironic, as Joan's restaurant success in Mildred Pierce was largely due to her character's "secret" fried chicken recipe!