—Barbara Stanwyck upon first meeting Robert Taylor.
—Grace Kelly
—Brigitte Bardot
—Gene Tierney
—Rita Hayworth
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Barbara Stanwyck upon first meeting Robert Taylor.
—Grace Kelly
—Brigitte Bardot
—Gene Tierney
—Rita Hayworth
What? No Edward Hopper this week? Intriguing selections, as usual, although I’m not terribly enamored of the Anzeri piece.
Thanks for … well, for everything you’re doing here. I read and enjoy, but don’t generally comment.
Stoutcat:
I was giving Hopper a rest. He’ll be back. And thanks so much for your kind words.
Found the BB photo fascinating in that all those photographers crowd around to the point of stepping on each other, but the one who gets the best shot stands out from the crowd. Isn’t that always the way.
I was so surprised to see that the August Sander, Dora, photo was taken in the late twenties. I was sure it was some contemporary fashion model in a fashion spread.
Such a timeless piece. And that photo of Grace Kelly? Such a natural beauty.
Ariel Chaim is the best model…as are the other three mini girlses you often feature in your Friday photo sequences.
Good Shabbos.
Pearl:
Yes, the Dora photo is amazing. The camera loves Ariel Chaim. Have a good Shabbos.
My mother told me the story that Tierney was OK until a WAC sergeant snuck out of the hospital in North Africa where she was confined with rubella to meet the star and transmitted the virus to the pregnant actress. Her psychological problems followed the birth of her rubella syndrome baby. I don’t know if it is true.
She was on a USO tour to entertain troops.
I had forgotten that Michael and I’ll bet there is a lot of truth to it
Tierney was almost certainly bipolar. Her child’s tragic condition was not the cause of her mental illness.
Of course not.
Huh?
Yes, that’s the story I read long ago, too. Tierney met the woman, a Marine, at a USO canteen who told her the story of how she broke rubella quarantine two years earlier — while Tierney was pregnant on the USO tour — just to meet Tierney. Tierney could not speak. Agatha Christie used the incident in her Marple novel, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side.
Wonderful pictures as usual Robert. I also noticed your nocturnal habits seem as nuts as mine. You have to wonder what the girl was doing in that decrepit house. Some of the best photos are as artwork – didn’t I learn here that they were pieces of time?
The thought I had with the other BB was that while she may have thought of men as beasts she also tried to bring that out in them to promote her stardom – in that photo she does seem to enjoy the attention.
With Gene Tierney I suspect that if you were a star – unless you had your feet on the ground – Hollywood would make you nuts!
Good night all.
Why would a generic Hollywood be responsible for anyone’s mental health — or lack of it.
Bill:
Thanks so much. I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately.