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In 1938, Harmon “Oscar” Nelson ended his marriage with American actress, Bette Davis.

The reason?

He claimed she read too much. The New York Times reported that Harmon "usually just sat there while his wife read 'to an unnecessary degree." "She thought her work was more important than her marriage." "She even insisted on reading books or manuscripts when [Harmon] had guests. It was all very upsetting." Davis later in life mentioned other factors that led to the separation, including an emotional rift between the two and an affair with Howard Hughes, which was not mentioned in the article, but was referenced in the divorce proceedings.

Davis married 4 times and divorced 3 times during her lifetime.

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Such an amazing Audrey Hepburn interview.

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Old Hollywood - Actresses bloopers (1930-1950) Old Holliwood actresses cant remember their line- Актрисы не могут вспомнить свои реплики (1930-1950)

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Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and s*x symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades, known for her lighthearted b***y double entendres and breezy s*xual independence.

West was active in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress and writer in the motion picture industry, as well as appearing on radio and television. The American Film Institute named her 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.

Often using a husky contralto voice, Mae West was one of the more controversial movie stars of her day and encountered many problems, especially censorship. She bucked the system, making comedy out of conventional mores, and the Depression-era audience admired her for it. When her cinematic career ended, she wrote books and plays and continued to perform in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, on radio and television and to record rock and roll albums.

She was once asked about the various efforts to impede her career, to which she replied: "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."

Gene Kelly's first big breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Time of Your Life , which opened on October 25, 1939—in which, for the first time on Broadway, he danced to his own choreography. In the same year, he received his first assignment as a Broadway choreographer, for Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. He began dating a cast member, Betsy Blair, and they got married on October 16, 1941.

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There was a time in Buster Keaton's life were he started to go down hill. He began to drink and had depression. His first wife Natalie Talmadge who was an actress took all of his money when they divorced. He was unstable and he had to be put into an institution.

During this era of Hollywood, actors were starting to rely on stunt doubles. Even those who did their own stunts used camera tricks to seem more daring (this includes Harold Lloyd and his famous Safety Last clock scene).

Keaton was different. Not only did he perform all of his own stunts, he made sure they were real. In perhaps his most highly-acclaimed movie, The General, he spent $42,000 to shoot a real train crash, an unheard-of amount at the time.

Natalie & Buster were married for twelve years & divorced in 1933. Buster Keaton's second wife was Mae Scribbens . They were married for three years and divorced in 1936. Buster Keaton's third wife was Eleanor Norris. They were married in 1940.

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In 1963, when the highest-paid American business executive earned $650,000 and President John F Kennedy’s salary was $150,000, Elizabeth Taylor reportedly took home $2.4 million.

When Cleopatra producer Walter Wanger called Taylor on the set of her film Suddenly Last Summer to offer her the lead role through her then-husband Eddie Fisher, Taylor replied with a joke: “Sure, tell him I’ll do it for a million dollars.” While such a steep offer was all but unheard of at the time, it was granted, and in 1959 Taylor became the first Hollywood actress to receive $1 million for a single movie.

“If someone’s dumb enough to offer me $1 million to make a picture, I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down,” Taylor later said.

Source: Vogue
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Vintage Magazine Covers

"All magazines experiment with their design and learn what sells. And most other magazines — Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Vogue, TIME, and GQ — have pretty much converged to the same design: a photo of a person, usually an attractive female, prominently featuring her face and body — with text headlines designed to get you to want to read what’s inside. This is the formula that sells their magazines.

Survival of the fittest, capitalism edition.

But not The New Yorker. It takes discipline to zig when everyone else is zagging."

-Karen X. Cheng

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The Truth Behind Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Turbulent Love Story

' Even after the marriage and show ended, and they each married other people, Lucy and Desi remained close. Friends said neither one ever got over their breakup. "They spoke so lovingly of each other, you almost forgot they weren't together anymore," said Lucy's good friend, theater actress Carol Channing.

Before his death in 1986, Desi's last words to Lucy were, "I love you too, honey. Good luck with your show." '

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Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra in High Society with Bing Crosby

As noted in a February 5, 1956 Los Angeles Times article about producer Sol C. Siegel, arranging for the three top-billed stars, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, to appear in the same film was difficult, but resulted in MGM's highest grossing film of 1956. During pre-production, both Crosby and Sinatra were appearing in other films and had scheduled road tours, while Kelly had already made plans to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco and suggested she might be retiring. Although Kelly was scheduled to star in MGM's Designing Woman and had several years remaining in her MGM contract, High Society was her final film. Some modern sources have erroneously stated that The Swan, which was both produced and released prior to High Society, was her last film. For more information on Kelly, her marriage to Prince Rainier and death in 1982, please refer to the MGM Studios 1956 film The Swan

Joan Crawford gives tips on how to give an entertaining dinner party!

Joan Crawford's holiday tips - how to enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving with no hippies (h/t CONELRAD - All Things Atomic )

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"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
- Lucille Ball

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"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."
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The Women (1939) Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine.

ClarkGable and Hedy Lamarr
Lamarr's greatest long-term contribution to society was not as an actress but as an inventor. She and composer George Antheil co-invented early techniques for spread-spectrum communications and frequency hopping, technologies that were used for military communication for decades and which now form the core of many of today's most popular wireless devices.
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I love Old Hollywood. This page is a shrine to that.
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My favorites are Frankie, Audrey, Cary Grant, Katharine & Marilyn. Of course I'm a sucker for Bogie and Bacall as well as anything Jimmy Stewart.

"I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium." - Gene Kelly

Mae West selected Cary Grant to play her love interest in back-to-back films — She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel. The latter was a monster hit, but West was the main attraction; Grant was just window-dressing.

Born ArchibaldAlexanderLeach, spent the early years of his life in an unhappy home in Bristol, England. At age nine, Leach’s father put his mother in a mental institution. He soon remarried, abandoning young Archie to the care of the state. Leach was expelled from school at 14 and joined a traveling stage troupe, quickly mastering the art of stilt-walking. In 1920, at all of 16, Leach and the troupe left Britain for a two-year American tour, from which he would never return. He joined the American vaudeville circuit, spending a significant chunk of time on the St. Louis stage and refining the acrobatic, juggling, and miming skills that would serve him for the rest of his entertainment career.

Ella Fitzgerald

"Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do."
- Gene Wilder