Johnny Depp in full Captain Jack Sparrow regalia? Nothing quite like it, eh?!?!
Marilyn Monroe Poster
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A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. – Marilyn Monroe
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. – Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. – Marilyn Monroe
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. – Marilyn Monroe
Dogs never bite me. Just humans. – Marilyn Monroe
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. – Marilyn Monroe
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live. – Marilyn Monroe
First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress. – Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. – Marilyn Monroe
I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. – Marilyn Monroe
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. – Marilyn Monroe
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I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. – Marilyn Monroe
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. – Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it. – Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one. – Marilyn Monroe
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. – Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I’m alone. – Marilyn Monroe
I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. – Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe – Grand Central Station Poster
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I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time. – Marilyn Monroe
I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in. – Marilyn Monroe
If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. – Marilyn Monroe
If I’m a star, then the people made me a star. – Marilyn Monroe
It’s all make believe, isn’t it? – Marilyn Monroe
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. – Marilyn Monroe
It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. – Marilyn Monroe
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. – Marilyn Monroe
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. – Marilyn Monroe
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. – Marilyn Monroe
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t. – Marilyn Monroe
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. – Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. – Marilyn Monroe
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. – Marilyn Monroe
There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights. – Marilyn Monroe
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I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. – Marilyn Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. – Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. – Marilyn Monroe
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James Dean Giant Poster
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Here’s the Giant James Dean poster – love the quote! There’s one other James Dean poster (a great head shot). Click through to see both.
Marilyn Monroe Giant Poster
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The Colossal, giant, enormous Marilyn Monroe poster above features what’s probably my all-time favorite Marilyn Monroe picture.. top 3 at the very least.
This “giant” Marilyn Monroe poster is 55 in x 39 in. There are various other celebrities with giant posters as well – just click through the link and browse away. I can’t help thinking how gorgeous Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and James Dean would be hanging around together in a room.
The ridiculously beautiful Elizabeth Taylor and the (as described by Elizabeth Taylor, herself) love of her life, Richard Burton, had an epic love affair. The kind of love affair that simply MUST be made into a movie.
Hollywood is putting together just such a movie and several A-list names are apparently interested in playing the legendary couple.
Angelina Jolie and Catherine Zeta-Jones each know a thing or two about having a larger than life love life in front of the world. Each gorgeous actress has expressed interest in playing Elizabeth Taylor, while Russell Crowe, Clive Owen and Colin Farrell have their eyes on Richard Burton.
Mike Nichols has expressed interest in directing and all the major studios would apparently love to be a part of this film.
The film will be based on the book, Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century, written by husband and wife team Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger. The book tells the story of Taylor and Burton’s legendary tale of love, divorce and remarriage.
Furious love? What a great title!
Elizabeth Taylor, herself, gave access to never-before-seen materials to the duo during their book research, including Burton’s personal love letters to her. They were also given an unpublished first draft of Taylor’s 1965 autobiography, plus a portfolio of the screen icon’s favorite personal photographs, which are reproduced in the book.
The legendary actress and beauty also allowed interview questions about her and Burton’s long love affair, during which she commented on how he was the great love of her life, the partner in her longest — and shortest — marriages.
The book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century is out now.
Wow. A set of three X-rays of Marilyn Monroe’s chest taken during a 1954 hospital visit have sold for $45,000 (£29,900) in Las Vegas, sold at a movie memorabilia auction at Planet Hollywood.
A chair from Marilyn Monroe’s final photo shoot sold for $35,000 (£23,250).
A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in musical Funny Face fetched $56,250 (£37,360). I am all about Audrey Hepburn, so this makes perfect sense to me – if I had that kind of money in my bank, I’d have given at least as much for something that’d been worn by Lady Hepburn.
I’m not so sure about X-rays, though. That might be a bit much even for me!
There’s nothing funnier than Lucy when she’s on top of her game – and, in this clip, she’s totally and completely on her game!
In the video, the starstruck Lucy has the tables turned on her by William Holden (or Bill Holden, whichever you prefer). The episodes where Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel are in Hollywood are definitely some of my favorites – I never get tired of watching them.
Classic stuff!
“I believe that the actress who wears her profession on her sleeve, as it were, outside of her work, is, as a rule, merely dramatizing herself. When she acts off-stage as well as on, she is wasting her talent. It is like using nectar to quench a casual thirst.” - Ann Harding
Ann Harding, was born Dorothy Gatley on August 7, 1901 in Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
You may remember her as Mae Priest on “Dr. Kildare” or as Edith Sommers on Ben Casey. Ann Harding also had a very impressive film career – even though she never received the acclaim she truly should have.
An exciting new biography has been written about this talented and beautiful actress. I say exciting because any “old Hollywood” biography is wonderfully exciting!
Press Release for Ann Harding: Cinema’s Gallant Lady:
When Ann Harding opted for an acting career, her Brigadier General father, George Grant Gatley, told her that she had taken “the inevitable road to Hell.” He banished her from his home. The year was 1921. The father and his equally strong-willed daughter did not reconcile until he was on his death-bed ten years later.
Ann proved her father wrong.
Her integrity as an actor – her commitment to her profession, allowed her to create a sensation on and off Broadway in such hits as Inheritors, Tarnish, and The Trial of Mary Dugan. When Ann and actor-husband Harry Bannister settled into Hollywood, she took the motion picture industry by storm. Film fans and critics were transported by her honest, natural portrayals. The microphone loved her. One critic referred to Ann as having the “Voice of Temple Gongs.”
Following an Academy Award Nomination for her role in Holiday (1930), Ann went on to further triumphs in Pre-Code hits such as The Animal Kingdom (1932), When Ladies Meet (1932), Gallant Lady (1933), and, one of her best, The Life of Vergie Winters (1934). As Vergie Winters, Ann immersed herself (and her audience) with such a realistic take on the shopworn topic of unwed motherhood, that her lovely, frank, open face easily displayed a raw vulnerability that was rare for the screen.
Noted author and film critic Mick LaSalle (who has written the foreword for the new biography release Ann Harding – Cinema’s Gallant Lady) refers to Ann Harding as an “overlooked master” – “one of the greatest actors in the history of American cinema.”
Theater visionary-director Jasper Deeter, Ann’s life-long mentor, attributed her success to her ability in hiding a childish, and stubborn temperament.
Ann’s personal life countered what many have referred to as her “noble” screen image. Her passionate, free-thinking spirit was something to be reckoned with. She fell out of love with her opportunistic husband Bannister, only to become involved with two of cinema’s “bad boys”: the avant-garde film director Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones), and the ribald and brilliant author and screenwriter Gene Fowler (Goodnight, Sweet Prince).
Both of them married men.
Ex-husband Bannister turned to blackmail in order to continue to get his share of Ann’s cinema earnings. A child custody battle over their daughter Jane went on for close to a decade. French surrealist, Luis Bunuel considered Peter Ibbetson (1935), which paired Ann with Gary Cooper, to be among the Top Ten All-Time Best Films. Critics felt that Ann’s role as the ethereal Duchess of Towers to be “the most complete revelation of her art.” However, Ann Harding was fed up with Hollywood moguls and scripts she felt unworthy. She told one writer in the 1970’s, “When RKO couldn’t find a script in the trash can for me, Harry Edington [her manager] would arrange a loan out.”
Fed up with battling Bannister and her film career, Ann abandoned Hollywood. She headed for England, and returned to the stage for a triumphant tour in Shaw’s Candida. The convoluted personal and professional life of Ann Harding didn’t stop after her cinematic peak. Ann Harding – Cinema’s Gallant Lady (BearManor, 2010), covers in depth her extensive career on stage, film, radio, TV, and pays homage to a woman who, according to Mick LaSalle, “pointed the way to an entirely new way of being on screen.”
For cinema aficionados the time is ripe for Ann Harding to reclaim her legacy.
On Amazon: Ann Harding – Cinema’s Gallant Lady
These beautiful Marilyn Monroe pictures are pretty rare and exceptionally gorgeous. My favorite pictures of Marilyn Monroe tend to be the more natural ones, like the first two pictures shown. Marilyn Monroe, even without makeup was simply breathtaking.
Oddly enough, an actress today who looked like Marilyn would diet and go under the knife for plastic surgery. Marilyn’s perfect figure would be considered too fleshy these days in Hollywood and her natural beauty would surely be ruined with lip injections, a nose job, and goodness only knows what else. She’d seek out the fat, bee-stung lips, skinny nose, and limbs so skinny you could see bones.
If that’s not a tragic sign of the times, I don’t know what it.
“People always ask me if I’m like Blanche. And I say, ‘Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta — and I’m not from Atlanta!’” - Rue McClanahan
One of my personal favorite entertainers ever, Rue McClanahan, passed away from a stroke on June 3. Best known as the sexy Blanche Devereaux on Golden Girls, Rue also appeared on Maude as Vivian Cavender Harmon and Mama’s Family as Aunt Fran Crowley. Another early role was on the hugely popular All in the Family.
This hilarious and talented actress was born in 1934 in Oklahoma. In addition to her wonderful work on television, Rue McClanahan was also very well known (and respected) for her charitable work. She lent her hand to organizations fighting against cancer, AIDS, and cruelty against animals.
She was married to her sixth husband, actor Morrow Wilson, at the time of her death.
Did You Know?
- In 1997, Rue was diagnosed with cancer. She had a lumpectomy and five months of chemotherapy.
- Was of Scot-Irish and Choctaw Indian ancestry
- Played the same character, Blanche Devereaux, on four different TV series: “The Golden Palace” (1992), “The Golden Girls” (1985), “Nurses” (1991), and “Empty Nest” (1988).
- Was a vegan.
- Oddly enough, Betty White was originally considered for the role of Blanche, on “The Golden Girls”. However, Betty had already been the sexy Sue Ann Nivens on “Mary Tyler Moore” while Rue had played the rather shy and unassuming Vivian on “Maude”. It was thought best not to typecast these two actresses by having them portray similar characters. So, Betty got the part of naive Rose Nylund and Rue played the sex-crazy Blanche! It’s impossible to imagine it any other way.
It’s pretty depressing that two of the past posts on Hollywood Yesterday are centered around stars we’ve recently lost. But that’s really the whole idea behind Hollywood Yesterday – I wanted a place where the stars, movies, and shows of yesterday could live on forever and continue to touch lives.
This way we never really have to say goodbye. Mostly just, “Thanks.” And to Rue, of course, we have to add, “Thank you for being a Friend.”
