The Silver Screen Oasis

Cary Grant and pal, birthday boy Randolph Scott relax in their man cave

Hi Joe,

Thank you for posting a picture of Theda Bara - rare indeed.....
She looks like she has her clutches into Tony Curtis!!

Although I never knew her, I have seen her (across a crowded room - restaurant) a couple of times and she always seemed to have that veil on....
She was, from all accounts, a proper lady and hostess; she was one of a half dozen hostesses in LA in the early fifties. And, married (just once!!) to an English gentleman - Charles Brabin. Her grand "vamping" days were long over...
I remember when she died and she had just as large a funeral as Marion Davies and Louise Fazenda had years later.

It was largely because of her funeral and TV's old movie showings that I started knowing that some of the people I knew were "in the movies".....

Brava Theda!!

Larry

Thank you, Larry, of all the images I posted, one of my favorites is that of Theda Bara. Looking prim and proper with a I don't give a crap attitude, and very much the movie star. ala Norma Desmond. Bless her.

Hi Joe,

There's that veil again!!!!!

Isn't that Anna Q. Nilsson with her? Not sure.....
I understand that they were good friends.

Don't know if Theda was asked to play 'Norma Desmond'; but Mae Murray, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Mae West all were. They all turned it down, as we all know.
But, when the movie came out, everybody who knew all the inuendoes in the film agreed that Norma Talmadge should have plaed the part, as it was her story to a great degree - witness the monkey burial in the backyard!!! That was a Talmadge fact.....

Thanks again for Theda!!!!

Larry

Hi, Larry I think it"s her, Anna Q Nilsson...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ERNEST BORGNINE (1917 - 2012)

Glenn Ford and Birthday boy Ernest Borgnine have a friendly chat on the set of The Fastest Gun Alive

Today's birthday boy W. Somerset Maugham wrote many
stage plays and novels which have been adapted successfully
for the silver screen, including Of Human Bondage,
The Letter, and The Razor's Edge.

Thank you, PT. I for one liked his stuff and enjoyed the films you mentioned.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DEAN JONES (1931 - 2015)


MILDRED DUNNOCK (1901 - 1991)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ANNE JEFFREYS is 93 today


PAUL NEWMAN (1925 - 2008)

Birthday boy Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward fooling around

The late Ann Rutherford out with her pal birthday gal Anne Jeffreys

ABE VIGODA (1921 - 2016) R.I,P,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TROY DONAHUE (1936 - 2001)


DONNA REED (1921 - 1986)