Historical hearsay dictates that Jean Harlow was meant to be the original Maisie, a role that fell to Ann Sothern's feet in 1939. I wrote about why it's not that cut and dried on Vitaphone Zone. Link below:
Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the folk rock group The Mamas & The Papas...
Michelle Phillips #botd
Great passage on William A. Wellman disagreeing with Walter Wanger over the star quality of Rosalind Russell #BOTD during the production of The President Vanishes (1934):
Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Stephen Bogart on location in San Francisco’s East Bay during the production of Blood Alley, 1955)
There are still some tickets available for the TO BE OR NOT TO BE screening that I’ll be introducing next week! If you live in London and want to see one of the best film comedies ever made, please join us!
Jean Harlow with director Sam Wood, bandleader Abe Lyman, beau Hal Rosson, costume designer Irene, and Johnny Weissmuller at the Cocoanut Grove 93 years ago today (June 3, 1933) for the opening of Lyman’s Ambassador orchestra engagement:
If Steyer places worse than second tonight, I am moving to Canada. I do not want to live in a country where a white male billionaire (with hair no less) cannot buy an election against candidates as mid as his opponents are in the California governor primary.
really sick of filmmakers and creatives that will never have to feel the ramifications of AI taking their jobs tell us we need to be open to it! like thats so easy for YOU to say
Beautiful gag in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) where Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall are fantasizing about marrying a wealthy man and then it cuts to Betty Grable who is just dreaming about a delicious sandwich