—Rita Hayworth
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth
—Rita Hayworth
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; 1917 – 1975)
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Gloria Grahame
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I don’t like to talk to people because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.”
—Greta Garbo
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Independence Day: Once Upon A Time Hollywood Loved America
A long time ago, in a universe far far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who flourished in those dream factories, celebrated their love of America and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism.
L.B. Mayer (b. Lazar Meir) the powerful head of MGM, was a pioneer of the motion-picture industry, and the man who invented the star system. Mayer adopted July 4th as his birthday. Scores of Hollywood historians get all snarky about Mayer’s birthday, claiming that he conveniently changed his birthday in order to cash in on a public identification with America.
What these historians fail to recognize is that Mayer probably did not know the date of his birth.
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