Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Paulette Goddard on Home

Paulette Goddard


World traveler Paulette Goddard, to columnist Earl Wilson, about her Hollywood home:  "It's a wonderful place for my paintings and my loot."




[Source:  Quick Magazine;  November 17, 1952]

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Jimmy Durante's Dream Presidential Cabinet

Jimmy Durante


Jimmy Durante, on his dream Presidential Cabinet:




Rita Hayworth
State Secretary Rita Hayworth - "She'd clean up our foreign affairs - to say nuttin' of a few domestic ones, too!"




Ava Gardner
Labor Secretary Ava Gardner - "Any man would wantta form a union wit her.  I'd insist on a closed shop."

Corinne Calvet
Agriculture Secretary Corinne Calvet - "Why, da farmers wouldn't ask for subsidies.  They'd pay them!"

Marilyn Monroe
Interior Secretary Marilyn Monroe - "Her exterior ain't bad neither."

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Army Secretary Zsa Zsa Gabor - "Any man would fight for dis girl!"


[Source:  Quick Magazine; November 17, 1952]





Monday, December 12, 2011

Mae West on the new "Mae West"

Mae West with a "Mae West"


Mae West, viewing the Navy's latest "Mae West" life-jackets, now colored red instead of yellow:  "I understand they can be seen from a great distance.  That's another thing we have in common."




[Source:  Quick Magazine;  July 28, 1952]




Gotta love Mae West!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Orson Welles as Othello

Othello Poster


Orson Welles, on one of his recent films:  "I starred in Othello because I was the only star I could afford to hire."




[Source:  Quick Magazine;  July 28, 1952]

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Lionel Barrymore tells it like it is

Lionel Barrymore


Lionel Barrymore:  "Acting is acting.  It hasn't changed.  The only change has been in the audiences which, I must say, have gotten lousier and lousier."




[Source:  Quick Magazine; November 10, 1952]




I have to agree with the fabulous Mr. Barrymore, but I don't think there are that many actors left either.  We have celebrities - not actors.  I can count on one hand the number of people who "act" on film which I would consider actors.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Ursula Thiess's First Film

Ursula Thiess
Actress Ursula Thiess, telling columnist Earl Wilson about her forthcoming film in which she swims nube:  "It was my first picture and I did what they told me."




[Source:  Quick Magazine; January 5, 1953]


Ursula Thiess




Ursula Thiess (May 15, 1924 - June 19, 2010)  born in Hamburg, Germany.  RKO brought her to America for a test in 1952 and she was voted most promising newcomer by Modern Screen (along with Marilyn Monroe).  While starring in a mere 5 films, she is probably best known for her marriage to Robert Taylor.  They met on a studio-arranged blind date.  They fell in love and were married May 24, 1954 until Taylor's death on June 8, 1969.  She had 2 children with Taylor.  Ursula basically retired from the screen after she married Taylor and concentrated on her family.  Her last screen appearance was in 1972.


Robert Taylor and Ursula Thiess

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Superstitions of the Stars

Superstitions of the Stars


Rita Hayworth




Rita Hayworth would slip a shiny new dime under the garter of her left leg for luck before stepping on a movie set.


Mae West




Mae West made everyone who whistled in her dressing room stand in the corner and spit three times


Bette Davis




Bette Davis thinks whistling in a dressing room is bad luck too, and pushed Jack Warner from her dressing room he whistled Hallelujah


Edwin Booth as Hamlet




Rumor has it that the superstition about whistling in a dressing room originated from the urban legend that actor Edwin Booth was whistling Dixie in his dressing room when his brother, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.




[Source:  Point; August 1954]

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Clifton Webb on California

Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb, visiting New York City from balmy Hollywood:  "California is beautiful.  So is a rose.  But I can look at a rose for just so long and then I want to spit on it."  




[Source:  Quick Magazine; January 5, 1953]

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Bea Lillie on Television


Bea Lillie:  "Television has grown up to be just summer stock in an iron lung."




[Source:  Point;  August 1954]






Ouch!  Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989) is known as being an amazing talent.  She shined on stage. She is an amazing woman and entertained the troops during WWII - even on the day she found out that her only son had perished in action.  Best known for her Tony Award winning 1953 revue An Evening with Beatrice Lillie.  She retired from the stage due to Alzheimer's.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Anita Loos Remains a Brunette



Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, when asked why she remained a brunette:  "Personally, I don't prefer gentlemen."




[Source:  Point;  August 1954]
Anita Loos and Jean Harlow


Anita Loos was the author or contributor to some of my favorite films such as Red-Headed Woman, Another Thin Man, The Women, Susan and God, and When Ladies Meet.  


John Emerson and Anita Loos
Loos had two troublesome marriage:  First, to Frank Palma, Jr (from 1915-1919); and secondly to actor, writer, director John Emerson (married from 1919 to his death in 1956).  Emerson and Loos never officially divorced, but their marriage consisted of economic strife and Emerson's mental illness.  

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Elaine Stewart on Bachelors


Elaine Stewart:  "A bachelor I know decided to reform.  The first day he cut out cigarettes.  The second day he cut out liquor.  The third day he cut out women.  The fourth day he cut out paper dolls."




[Source:  Point;  August 1954]

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Fred Allen on Poise


Fred Allen:  "Poise?  That's the ability to continue talking while the other fellow picks up the check."




[Source:  Point;  August 1954]

Friday, December 2, 2011

Groucho on Skywriting



Groucho Marx, to a skywriter contestant on his TV show:  "When you're up there writing do you ever get the impression that someone is looking over your shoulder?"




[Source;  August 1954]




Jack Benny and Groucho Marx doing a 'You Bet Your Life' skit on 'The Jack Benny Show'

Thursday, December 1, 2011

What Bob Hope thinks of Bridegrooms


Bob Hope's definition of a bridegroom:  "A wolf who paid too much for his whistle."




[Source:  Point;  August 1954]

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