bansi4 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY ZERBE is 77 today CONSTANCE TOWERS is 80 today DAVID HEDISON is 86 today EDITH FELLOWS (1923 - 2011) JAMES STEWART (1908 - 1997) LYDA ROBERTI (1906 - 1938) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 Audie Murphy having a soda with wife Pamela and sons Skipper and Terry Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Lovely Jane Greer admires her collectables in her home Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAY KENDALL (1926 - 1959) RICK JASON (1923 - 2000) RAYMOND BURR (1917 - 1993) BILL WILLIAMS (1915 - 1992) LOLA LANE (1906 - 1981) ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1904 - 1981) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Bruce Cabot and wife Adrienne Ames were two of many film stars who thronged Agua Caliente, Mexico, on New Year?s Eve. January, 1934 Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 From everything that I have read, William Powell really loved Jean Harlow. They had been dating for two years and were engaged when she died. They both were extremely busy making movies during those two years before her death. Her death devastated him; he had a breakdown as a result. Do you have more info on this, Dothery? I am truly interested - this seems like a very sad love story. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL SARRAZIN (1940 - 2011) SUSAN STRASBERG (1938 - 1999) LAURENCE OLIVIER (1907 - 1989) SID MELTON (1917 - 2011) ALLA NAZIMOVA (1879 - 1945) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Dears in the headlight, Humphrey Bogart and Merle Oberon dancing Link to post Share on other sites
Dothery Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 From everything that I have read, William Powell really loved Jean Harlow. They had been dating for two years and were engaged when she died. They both were extremely busy making movies during those two years before her death. Her death devastated him; he had a breakdown as a result. Do you have more info on this, Dothery? I am truly interested - this seems like a very sad love story. My information comes from "Love, Laughter and Tears," by Adela Rogers St. Johns, who knew both of them very well. That part of the book is one of the saddest things I ever read, and stuck with me. Here it is; I dug the book out. It took place at Hearst Castle, where they were all to be guests. Adela arrived at 3:00 AM and was told that Jean had asked that she be told as soon as she got there, no matter what time it was. A little while later Jean came in with Bill. In front of Adela, she asked him to marry her. He groaned and said, "Baby, don't ... what's the use of this?" She told him she loved him, that she had never loved anyone else. She asked, "Do you love me?" He answered, "More than I've ever loved anything. You know that." She said, "Then why won't you marry me?" He told her, and Adela, why ... he was getting older, his hair was thinning, soon he'd have a pot; she was 20 years younger; he wanted the kind of life where he could come home in the evenings and take his shoes off and rest; he'd been married to a blonde bombshell once and didn't want to go through it again. He mentioned Paul Bern and the fact that he had killed himself. He said even if a man started out sane he couldn't cope with being married to the world's sex symbol. "I don't want to be married in my declining years to a girl men kill themselves over." He was adamant. After a while she said she'd have a nap on the couch and he left, and Adela went upstairs to her bed. She came down again later and found Jean sobbing. She said, "I never saw a girl cry like that." There's a good bit more about that in the book, but it's three or four pages. These are the important parts. This is all I know about it. Jean Harlow didn't live long after that, and Adela says her heart was torn out, and she didn't think she got it back before her death. She says, "They were so sincere I could hardly stand to watch them. That scene made me know forever how much people do feel, can feel, how powerful emotions are. I have never from that day sold feelings short." Bill Powell was completely devastated when Jean died. He bought her tomb and for years there were flowers on it from him. Later he married and had a very happy life with his wife, so I think his judgment was right. But how sad a story. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Don't think me rude, Mimi. I must cut in to continue the CANDIDS thread. Sorry. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift chew the fat on the set of "From Here to Eternity" Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Great picture of two stars that never appeared in a movie together. I can see the caption; Don't look now but Lauren is coming! Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on May 22, 2013 6:25 PM Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Producer George White and Eleanor Powell watch Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson do the Ringtangtoe Link to post Share on other sites
cinemafan Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 mongo - that picture of Sir Laurence is hilarious! I think he would get a kick out of it. Thanks for my daily dose of great photos. cinemafan hope this works - Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Thank you, Cinemafan. I thought it was a hoot too. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN COLLINS is 80 today BETTY GARRETT (1919 - 2011) FRANK McHUGH (1898 - 1981) HERBERT MARSHALL (1890 - 1966) JAMES GLEASON (1882 - 1959) Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 What an interesting picture of Joan Collins. I know she is British but I couldn't find anything but her ethnic background. I wonder if she was like Merle Oberon in that she had relatives from India. Of course maybe it was just how they did her make up. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Her father was Jewish from South Africa, her mother, English. Link to post Share on other sites
Dargo2 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Yep, word is her Boer War veteran father taught her how to throw that vicious right-cross she landed on Linda Evans in that pool! Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 You're in top form today. LOL After his stint in the Boer War LOL, he was actually an agent, Represented Shirley Bassey, The Beatles and Tom Jones! Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Bette Davis and Paul Henreid lighting up again on the set of "Now, Voyager. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 STEVE FORREST (1925 - 2013) R.I.P. Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Sorry but "was Jewish from South Africa" doesn't tell me anything specific about her father's ethnic background. Instead it just tells me his religion and the country he came from. One could be black and be 'Jewish from South Africa' (e.g. I have a friend that is Jewish and from West Africa and he looks very similar to Denzel Washington). Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 What are you looking for? btw, her father was white. Why not try the Joan Collins site, you might find the info you're looking for. Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 If you read my initial post related to Joan I wondered if she was like Merle Oberon. i.e. someone that was born in England but had a parent from India due to how she looked in this picture. Since India was a colony of England that wouldn't of been too unusual. I did google Joan Collins and I couldn't find anything specific about her parents. I guess that photo makes her look very exotic because of her make up, how they did her hair and just how the photo was taken. i.e. to me she doesn't look like the offspring of two english parents. Link to post Share on other sites
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