So said Darryl F. Zanuck after viewing Mr. Gable’s screen test for “Little Caesar”, and the rest is history. What can I say, but film executives have their ups and downs. Film making is a funny, as in odd, endeavor. From the studio system’s inception top spots in the business…
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A young actor anxious to establish his heterosexual cred strolling to Stage 4 at Warner Brothers recently spied a young starlet, of similarly scrumptious attitude. Networks and producers and attorneys were consulted and the fortunate two exchanged numbers. After some highly publicized outings to the Skybar, the Vanguard, and the…
Do you think the attitude reflected toward women in Busby Berkeley’s films might have had something to do with the fact he was married six times? I’m just asking…
Look, babies. Nothing to be frightened of. This is how we grow old gracefully. I give you Gladys Cooper. From bombshell of the teens to Henry Higgins’s mother in “My Fair Lady” (with one short stop in middle-age in between). The whole furor over various older actress at the Academy…