Movie History Film Clips
Ava Gardner Hooks Up With Frank Sinatra (Modern Screen, 1951)
Back in the day, some wise old sage once remarked: "It's Frank Sinatra's world; we only live in it." -in 1951, Nancy Sinatra certainly thought these words were double-dipped in truth; married since 1939 and saddled with three children, she was served with divorce papers in order that "Ol' Blue Eyes" could go keep house with the twice-married starlet Ava Gardner (1922 – 1990). The attached article will tell you all about it; it's a juicy one - filled hearsay, innuendo and the knowing words of a Vegas odds maker as to whether the marriage will last: "Will Frank turn out to be a better husband than Mickey Rooney or Artie Shaw? Will Ava have more luck with him than Nancy had?" (they divorced in 1957)
| That Barrymore Brat (Collier's Magazine, 1942)
When LIFE MAGAZINE ran a cheese cake picture of Diana Barrymore (1921 – 1960) on the cover of their July 31, 1939 issue, the quick-witted editors at COLLIER'S were not to be outdone, so they ran this lukewarm interview three years later. A color photo of the actress is provided in which she sports that remarkable Barrymore chin:
"Diana Barrymore is the daughter of John Barrymore (1882 - 1942) and his second wife, Blanche Oelrichs, who writes poetry under the nom de plume of Michael Strange. The child's real name is Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe - Blythe is the Barrymore's real cognomen. John's wit and noble rhetoric did not descend to his daughter. She has a nervous, quick intelligence, with a talent for pinning back a citizen's ears and a bad way of saying what she thinks, which is considerable."
Sadly, she died by her own hand in 1960.
| Nancy Davis: The New Mrs. Ronald Reagan? (Modern Screen, 1951)
Published in a Hollywood fan magazine some months prior to her engagement with Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) was this 1951 profile of the actress Nancy Davis (born Anne Frances Robbins; 1921). A gossipy yet informative article which covers her days at Smith College, her relationship with capitol "H" Hollywood stars Alla Nazimova and Walter Houston, the eight films in which she had acted in up to that time and the various assorted reactions she instilled in such directors as William Wellman and Dore Schary.
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| Rita Hayworth (Script, 1946)
A 1946 article from "Script", a chic Beverly Hills magazine (it went belly-up in 1949), explaining just how it came to pass that a sweet, little Brooklyn girl named Margarita Carmen Cansino became Rita Hayworth (1918 – 1987):"Then came reincarnation. Rita discarded her Spanish name, gave away her dancing costumes, did something to her hairline, stuck a y into her mother's family name (Joseph Haworth, same family, toured with Edwin Booth) and so on to the big time and 'Cover Girl' and 'Tonight and Every Night'." "So the girl with a Spanish father and an Anglo-Saxon mother becomes the typical American girl to thousands of American soldiers abroad, and that, too, is as it should be."
| One of the First Katherine Hepburn Interviews (Collier's Magazine, 1933)
It was 1933 interviews like this one that made the studio executives at RKO go absolutely bonkers; what were they to do with Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)? She simply refused to take all matters Hollywood with any degree of seriousness; although she hadn't been a movie actress for very long at all, Katherine Hepburn was downright impious and goofy when reporter's questions were put to her:
"'Is it true that you have three children?' asked the interviewer.""'I think it's six,' she answered." Such responses served only to frustrate the members of the fourth estate to such a high degree and it seemed only natural that the fan magazine journalists would want to have the final word as to who Katherine Hepburn really was...
| Edwige Feuillère Gets Liberated (Collier's, 1946)
A 1946 article in which the beloved French actress Edwige Feuillère (1907 – 1998) is personified as the epitome of wounded French Glamor returned to it's rightful place following the hasty retreat of those nasty Huns from the boulevards of lovely Paris:"Edwige Feuillère, France's Number One actress, is wearing evening clothes again - and all fashionable Paris rejoices. It is a sort of symbol, the blooming of the lovely Edwige into full-panoplied formality. For she, along with most women of France, abstained from festivities and the clothes that go with them throughout the war."
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