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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“If there’s anything I hate it’s a goddamned phony, and Hollywood’s filled with them, pretending to be what they are not and some of them never were.”
—Barbara Stanwyck

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I loathe acting. I loathe what it does to my life. It cancels it out; you cannot live while you are working. You are a person completely surrounded by unbreachable walls.”
—Margaret Sullavan, via Haywire, one of the finest, if most depressing Hollywood memoirs I have ever read

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”
—Orson Welles

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The bad girls were so much fun to play… The critics always said I acted best with a gun in my hand.”
—Audrey Totter

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Friday Photos, True Hollywood Secrets: How to be Beautiful

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Audrey Hepburn’s doe-eyed look was her trademark. Along with a strong brow, and efforts to keep the rest of her makeup neutral, Hepburn focused on her lashes to draw attention to her eyes. To ensure separation of each lash, her makeup artist used to apply mascara — and then painstakingly separate each lash using a safety pin.
“Audrey Hepburn’s doe-eyed look was her trademark. Along with a strong brow, and efforts to keep the rest of her makeup neutral, Hepburn focused on her lashes to draw attention to her eyes. To ensure separation of each lash, her makeup artist used to apply mascara — and then painstakingly separate each lash using a safety pin. ”

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