Fashion icons for the year included Josephine Baker, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Mary Eaton, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Dolores Del Rio, and Thelma Todd. Timemagazine’s “Person of the Year” was American industrialist Owen D. Young, Consumer products introduced in...
The star’s last movie, the B-level shocker, was released in 1970, after which she did a few TV roles and then retired to her Manhattan apartment. She became a Christian Scientist and, according to some sources, stopped drinking. It was due to her faith that she refused aggressive treatm...
most notably in the classic Ninotchka. His performance in the film earned him critical acclaim and cemented his place in Hollywood history. His portrayal of the suave and sophisticated Count Leon d'Algout was a perfect fit for the role, and his chemistry with co-star Greta Garbo was undeniabl...
Marlene was reportedly bisexual and is said to have had an affair with Mercedes de Acosta, who was previously linked toGreta Garbo. Hitler really liked Marlene, but his Reich Minister of Propoganda Joseph Goebbels was especially a huge fan. He tried to get Marlene on their side for years, ...
Her favorite actresses: Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Marie Dressler, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland Did she wear underwear? Depends on who you ask Social Security Number: 563-32-0764 Phone Numbers at 5th Helena Home: 476-1890 and 472-4830 Back to top of page Schools Atten...
But unlike in the days of Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo, we know that it isn't really that chic to be puffing away in a cloud of nicotine. In fact, we now know all the dangers that go with smoking. Our reasons for lighting up are far more to do with lifestyle and in particula...
It is said that Laurence was to star in Queen Christina next toGreta Garbo, but that she refused him as a co-star. Instead she wanted her former lover John Gilbert and Laurence never forgave her. Laurence was the first person to direct himself to a Best Actor win (for Hamlet). ...
Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and her favourite, Clark Gable. Outside her window she could see RKO Studios and would cry as she knew her mother had worked there. She would also lose herself in daydreams of what it must be like to work there & having people know you and love you. In 193...
Asked about her inspiration as she got into character, Hathawaytold MovieWeb, "Unless you are playing a real life person it will be inspired by other things. For the White Queen there were a lot of different sources. I was looking at silent films withGreta Garboand looking at ...
For one, Greta Garbo famously hated him as her co-star in 1931’s Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise). Garbo thought he was a bad actor, and when Gable found out about it, he had some choice words for Garbo, shooting back that she was a snob. Getty Images History's most fascinating ...