—Myrna Loy
Screenplay by Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert
Based on the novel “Tucker’s People” by Ira Wolfert
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz; studio head Louis B. Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper, Henry O’Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland.
—Bette Davis
Oil On Canvas
30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.
76.6 x 64 cm
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Plaid Sweater, 1931
Oil on composition board
29 1/2 x 24 1/8 in. (74.9 x 61.3 cm)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
—Deborah Kerr
Chimney and Water Tower, 1931
Chicago (Clark Street Theatre), late 1960s
That MGM publicity photo is amazing. Must have been taken right after the war.
Thanks so much for doing this array of photos each week, Robert. It is one of my weekly pleasures and I always look forward to it.
You’re very welcome.
I recognized most of those faces in the MGM photos. Another sign I’m getting old. About the Auburn roadster, we were coming back to the hotel from dinner and passed a showroom in Hermosa Beach with old cars for sale. They had a 1933 Ford roadster and a Model T. I would like to have gone back and looked some more but it was late and we were only in town for the day.
I too recognize almost all the MGM faces. We’re not old… just well educated.
After posting that comment, I looked up prices on restored 1933 Ford Roadsters. They sell for between $ 70 and 100 thousand. I know a young man in Oregon who, as a hobby, restores them. He has six, three restored. Pretty good business plan. His real work is building winery equipment in the “wine country” of Oregon.
No college degree, of course.
Point well taken — especially the last line.
I’ve noticed, over the years, how those who once looked so adult and mature now look so young to me. “Time like an ever-rolling stream …”
That Myrna Loy quote is on the nose; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought it myself. And I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a photo of Hitchcock smiling!
That photo of Livia is so sweet.