Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Bust Up

Shirley Eaton

In 1964, Goldfinger briefly made a sensation out of Shirley Eaton, whose nude, spray-painted body remains an iconic screen image. With typical British reserve, Miss Eaton gave her opinions of her fellow sex symbols to columnist Earl Wilson. Hollywood's bombshells must have been eager to send this bundle back to Britain after hearing these cheerful little earfuls:

"I don't want to be a sex symbol, or anything stupid like that...I mean perfectly terrible symbols like...Jayne Mansfield. [She's] laughed at."


"Anita Ekberg's even worse... She has a hard, brittle face -- and I don't think she's conspicuously talented."


"Carroll Baker? If that's going to be the new American sex symbol, I feel sorry for the American woman!...She wears a low dress and a big fur, but she's like a little housewife."


"People have been...saying really terrible things about Elizabeth Taylor. How she shouldn't wear bikinis, things like that. I can't bear people who are always downing people, can you?"

Monday, March 5, 2012

Someone Please Revive Jerry Herman


Lucy is Mame-ing another of his scores, and croaking out an audition of "I Won't Send Roses."

Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Good Sister

Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950, 20th Century Fox)

The Story of Molly X (1949, Universal)

Brewster's Millions (1945, United Artists)

Intrigue (1947, United Artists)

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943, United Artists)

Friday, June 10, 2011

OK, Boys...




Who wants to administer the birthday whacks?

GARDNER MCKAY
June 10, 1932 - November 21, 2001

Monday, May 23, 2011

Everything's Coming Up Rosie




ROSEMARY CLOONEY
May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Ménage à Fab

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jack Paar and Jayne Mansfield

Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Betty Ford

Debbie Reynolds, Lana Turner and Ruta Lee

Ida Lupino, Ann B. Davis and Vivian Vance

Julie Christie, Ursula Andress and Catherine Deneuve

Joan Crawford, Gypsy Rose Lee and Pearl Bailey

Elke Sommer, Ross Hunter and Constance Bennett

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Constant Craving


"But really, dahlings -- sixty apples a day!" - Tallulah Bankhead, after being advised by a doctor to eat an apple each time she craved a drink

Nature's Call


...[Tallulah] had to go to the john, but found when she was settled in for the duration that there was no toilet paper at hand. "So I looked down and saw a pair of feet in the next stall. I knocked very politely and said: 'Excuse me, dahling, I don't have any toilet paper. Do you?' And this very proper Yankee voice said: 'No, I don't.' Well, dahling, I had to get back to the podium for Adlai [Stevenson]'s speech, so I asked her, very politely you understand, 'Excuse me dahling, but do you have any Kleenex?' And this now quite chilly voice said: 'No, I don't.' So I said: 'Well then, dahling, do you happen to have two fives for a ten?'" - from People Will Talk by John Kobal

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

"Del-la, Del-la, Del-la! The let-tah!"

Barbara Hale and Bette Davis in "The Case of Constant Doyle" on Perry Mason (January 31, 1963)

Friday, March 25, 2011

Sunday, March 13, 2011