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Hollywood History Film Clips  - from Amazon:
"For three consecutive years, 1946 through 1948, Betty Grable was the highest salaried woman in the world. For the past ten years she has never left the list of the nation's ten biggest box office attractions. She also gets more fan mail (from 3,000 to 10,000 letters a week) than any other star in the motion picture industry. Oddly enough, most of it comes from women hungering for the Betty Grable beauty secrets." This is a 1940 article that recalls William Powell's climb to the top of the Hollywood pantheon:
"When the talking pictures came in, the transition didn't bother him at all. Many of the silent stars turned out to have voices that squeaked like the brakes of a 1914 automobile. Powell had been training his voice ever since the fateful days of high school." Here is a short, well illustrated article about the love shared between Grace Kelly and Prince Rainnier III:
"I don't think I've ever seen two people who looked more in love. Every time I turned around to change film or grab another camera, they'd start whispering, holding hands... like any just-engaged couple. Pretty romantic." "Motion picture studios manufacture motion pictures. Motion pictures are shot from scripts. Scripts are developed from stories. Stories are written and sent to studios by undertakers, gamekeepers, chocolate dippers, steamfitters, pretzel-makers, judges, dentists, trapeze artists, carpet layers, parachute jumpers, nurses, tea tasters and amateur winders. It is a platitude that everyone owning a pencil fancies themselves a writer." Here is an article about one of the most innovative minds in the nascent world of Hollywood makeup design; it belonged to a fellow named Jack Dawn (1892 - 1961). Dawn was under contract at MGM for decades and worked on over two hundred films, his most being the film that is discussed herein: The Wizard of Oz (1939, MGM). The article briefly touches upon the "thin, rubbery" masks that he created after having made numerous in depth studies of human bone and muscle. This interview with Barbara Stanwick (b. Ruby Catherine Stevens 1907 – 1990) will give you a genuine insight to her character, its a wonderful read. |
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