Four For Friday - Traditional - Old Hollywood
#1 - This A+ list mostly movie actor for most of his career almost didn't go to the premiere of his biggest movie, which some consider to be the best movie of all time because one of his co-stars was not invited. She did win an Academy Award for her performance though.
#2 - This A= list mostly movie actress who probably has a thousand books published about her life once slept with this A list mostly movie actress who was an awful mother. The awful mother basically stalked the A+ lister afterwards but could never get another night with her.
#3 - This actress, who some say lived a fairy tale life before she died still young was dating the man she would later marry and live with until she died. While dating she found out she was pregnant with the baby of one of her married co-stars but had an abortion without telling the co-star or her future husband.
#4 - This A lister died at a very young age. Had a great last name that most people use as a first name now. She died due to an infection from an abortion her frequent A list co-star (multiple Academy Award winner/nominee) and the studio made her get.
1) james Dean/nat wood
ReplyDelete2)Joan Crawford/ Kate kephurn
4-Jean Harlow
ReplyDelete3) Grace Kelley
ReplyDelete4)Jean Harlow
4) Harlow/cary grant
ReplyDelete3) Audrey Hepburn/Mel Ferrar
ReplyDelete1.) Clark Gable/Hattie McDaniel
ReplyDelete2.) Monroe/Crawford
3.) Grace Kelly
4.) Jean Harlow ?
1) Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel for "Gone With the Wind". All the black actors in the cast were barred from the premier, but McDaniel won a supporting Oscar for her role.
ReplyDelete#1. Clark Gable. Hattie McDaniel recieved the award fpr Best Supporting Actress in Gone With The Wind, but did not attend the premiere because it was in Atlanta and she felt her presence would cause trouble she didn't want.
ReplyDelete#2 is definitely Monroe/Crawford. Marilyn had said something about Crawford's unwanted attention, which then caused Joan to go off in the press about the vulgar stars of today, and insulted Marilyn in the process.
ReplyDeleteOnly trouble with Gable is that the BI says "A+ list mostly movie actor." I'd say Gable is a lot higher than A+, and to my knowledge never did anything on TV. Although it could refer to theater I suppose; I'm pretty sure he did a lot of local theater before breaking into movies.
ReplyDelete5000 young women a year died before Roe B Wade.
ReplyDeleteYep, Monroe & Crawford is actually really well known.
ReplyDelete1. Clark Gable / Hattie McDaniel / Gone with the Wind
ReplyDelete2. Marilyn Monroe / Joan Crawford
Aww poor Harlow, if true. Abortion is usually the rumor for the real reason of death of every young actress/model.
ReplyDelete#3: Harlow and Gable (6 films), he was a rapist who got Loretta Young pregnant
ReplyDeleteEr, #4.
ReplyDeleteI see Enty is using Wikipedia for inspiration. How are these even blinds, these are well known facts, particularly the first one?
ReplyDelete3) Grace Kelley and Bing Crosby as the co-star? "High Society"
ReplyDeleteI didn't know a couple of these, and I love OH blinds.
ReplyDeleteEspecially #3 whoever it is:(
Due to Segregation laws, Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to be in a White Theater. She could not, by law, attend the premiere
ReplyDeleteHey@Topper I think it may be Kelley/frank sinatra(oops sorry I forgot tocome back to it :(!
ReplyDeleteBut High Society for sure---
@ Chris 627 Excellent Job !!!
ReplyDeletequick thinkin' @ Tricia! nice!!! I didn't get the Harlow being a great last name being used as a 1st name now 'til my 3rd read of it- I thought Enty meant everyone refers to Jean Harlow as just 'Harlow' now *derp--not like Nicole Richie's daughter's name Harlow
ReplyDeleteSo Clark Gable was a pretty kool guy in #1 but a real Bastard in #4...hmmm,amany layered onion with very bad breath, this one.
ReplyDeleteI,for one,am one of these obviously naive ones who thought that Jean Harlow really DID die from Kidney Disease (& i've read & loved all the old Hollywood Bios since I was young)
ReplyDeleteYes. She did win an award. Gable was fond of her. Liz Taylor has more books than anyone. Her and Crawford is 2nd one
ReplyDeleteGrace Kelly 3rd. ???
Not to mention the drunken driving death Gable committed that was covered up by the studios.
ReplyDeleteHattie's IMDB page is misrepresenting it then:
ReplyDelete"When the date of the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind (1939) approached, McDaniel told director Victor Fleming she would not be able to make it, when in actuality she did not want to cause trouble due to the virulent racism that was rampant in Atlanta at the time."
Everything else does cite Georgia law at the time.
Back Again, I'm with you 100%.
ReplyDeleteRumors of a botched abortion were contemporary when Jean Harlow died in 1937. So this is hardly a new item, and at this point, probably not even a "blind".
Its also not a particularly surprising rumor. If an attractive, otherwise healthy 26 year old Hollywood starlet dies suddenly, of course botched abortion is one of the things people will speculate about.
But no, its not true. Harlow had a history of serious illness, and was sick on and off for two months during filming before she died. That's not simply not the story that goes with infection after surgical abortion. Hospital records from the time indicated she had renal failure.
My personal favorite Gable story is his much older first wife who paid for his acting ambitions and then he pretended she never existed. The old lady made a surprise appearance in the papers - it was quite the scandal in the day
ReplyDeleteTells you all you need to know about his character right there