National Polka Dot Day

Natalie Wood 

Jean Harlow 

Loretta Young

Gene Tierney

Norma Shearer 

Clara Bow

Peggy Cummins

Bette Davis​

Susan Hayward 

Carrie Fisher

Fay Wray

Geraldine Fitzgerald 

Joan Crawford 

Elizabeth Taylor 

Grace Bradley

Lucille Ball 

Katharine Hepburn 

Ida Lupino 

Myrna Loy 

Gypsy Rose Lee

Marilyn Monroe

Kay Francis 

Barbara Stanwyck 

Claudette Colbert 

Ann Blyth 

🎬 Intermission

I’ve been a little MIA lately, and I’m sorry about that. Between healing up from an injury and wedding planning, I’ve been busy resting and signing things (okay, not autographs but plenty of paperwork! 😀). My days have been full… and my to-do list has felt endless.

 

Catching up on correspondence

This is me lately: pausing, regrouping, and conserving energy, something classic Hollywood rarely allowed its stars between pictures. Once the wedding is behind us, I’ve got a few road trips lined up, film reviews waiting to be written, and more ideas swirling around than previews before the main feature.

In the meantime, you can still find me over on Silver Screen Classics and Nostalgia on Facebook, catching up on movies I’ve always meant to see, and reading the new fabulous Joan Crawford biography by Scott Eyman (which suddenly feels very on-theme).

Thanks for sticking with me. This is just a brief intermission; the show isn’t over! 

⭐Actors on Actors: Joan Blondell on Clark Gable

"It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly."-- Joan Blondell on her Adventure (1945) co-star Clark Gable

🥛 Happy National Milk Day!

 

Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941)

Rita Hayworth on the set of The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Debbie Reynolds

Ava Gardner

Bonita Granville on the set of one of her four Nancy Drew movies.

Alexis Smith

Eleanor Parker

Mark Hamill in Star Wars (1977)

James Stewart

Jimmy Durante and Joyce Holden promoting their film The Milkman (1950)

Loretta Young

Shirley Temple

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Ann Sheridan & Jane Wyman at the Warner Bros. commissary during the filming of One More Tomorrow

Debra Paget

Joan Blondell

Brian Aherne & Bette Davis take a break from rehearsal for the CBS radio program Screen Guild Players, 1947

Carole Landis

Sophia Loren

Bing Crosby & Joan Blondell in East Side of Heaven (1939)

Jane Russell

Barbara Stanwyck in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1945)

Piper Laurie in The Milkman (1950)

Jason Patric in The Lost Boys (1987)

Adding condensed milk to Ian Holm's head on the set of Alien (1979)

Judy Garland on the set of Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)

Ava Gardner

James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)