
-Lupe Velez


-Humphrey Bogart


-Lauren Bacall


-Brigitte Bardot




—Myrna Loy


-Louise Brooks, Looking for Lulu


-Audrey Hepburn

![[On the positive reviews she received for her performance in Carnal Knowledge] “I’ve been rapped so many times. I stopped reading my reviews long ago. The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn’t accept any other. To them I was an exploited object, someone with no feelings, no emotions, no depth. I was a cartoon character. A joke…after ten years of working my head off, people now say I have talent. All along they’ve said the only thing I could do was shake my seat.” -Ann-Margret](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Annex-Ann-Margret_16.jpg)
-Ann-Margret


-Natalie Wood


-Veronica Lake

PH-247, 1951
Oil on canvas
117 x 192 in

-James Cagney


-Ava Gardner


-Spencer Tracy

Gold Marilyn Monroe
1962
Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas
6′ 11 1/4″ x 57″ (211.4 x 144.7 cm)
Gift of Philip Johnson
© 2004 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

-Susan Hayward (1949, photo by Ed Clark for LIFE)


-Ava Gardner



—Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Sculpture in Chicago: “A 26-foot-tall (8 m) sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in her famous Seven Year Itch pose was unveiled on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. It is made of stainless steel and aluminum, and weighs 15.5 tons, 2011.

Robert,
You and yours have a good fourth.
Never lose hope ever.
Ah… Myrna. 😉
The bit about Veronica Lake prompted me to look her bio up. I knew she was short, under 5 feet and that’s why she did those films with Alan Ladd. I didn’t knew she was schizophrenic. What a shame. I liked her looks and her movies a lot.
Wonderful pictures and quotes! Cagney’s is to me the most profound. Tracey has his head on straight. Lupe Velez” the funniest…..That book about Ava was wonderful wasn’t it?
Thank you!
Bill:
Glad you enjoyed the photos.
Lupe had a history of tempestuous relationships with men. While she was with Johnny Weissmuller their arguments were notoriously physical and loud. Ultimately, Lupe committed suicide while unmarried and pregnant. Raised Catholic I think she was unable to endure the shame.
Spencer Tracy always belittled the craft of acting, as if he did not consider it a manly occupation. He was a violent drunk who would disappear for days at a time going from bar to bar and picking fights with strangers.
And yes, the book about Ava was revealing in its honesty.
Except she would never mention Sinatra in the one I’ve seen.
Michael – I found this book on her through a review Robert gave. The making of the book – and the reason it was published – was fascinating. IIRC rumor was that Sinatra paid her off not to publish it. It was made and then not published for many years.
But this book, and the James Garner Autobiography (The Garner Files), oh, and a wonderful book (out of print) Sean Farrer wrote about his mother, Audrey Hepburn – are the best books I have ever read on Hollywood personalities
http://www.amazon.com/Ava-Gardner-Secret-Conversations/dp/145162770X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435969585&sr=8-1&keywords=ava+gardner
I have the Gardner book and the one by Audrey’s son.