Chorus girls in a publicity photo for “Footlight Parade”(1933)
Lillian Roth wants you to sing-a-long to ‘Ain’t She Sweet?’ [watch], for Fleischer Studios’ Screen Songs, distributed by Paramount Pictures, February 3, 1933
this played before Hold Your Man tonight at Film Forum, and the crowd actually sang along! SWEET! NEAT!
“Most actresses outgrow their public; they think of them as morons. But ever since I clicked, I’ve worked with one realization: that in me, whether I could define it or not, was something the public wanted.”
-Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937)
Lucille Ball has a ball, and a lot of hair, and not much else in 1933’s Roman Scandals
[2nd pic via]
Happy Birthday, Adolphe Menjou (February 18th, 1890 - October 29th, 1963)
“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”
Happy Birthday today to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (December 9th, 1909 - May 7th, 2000). He acted in many Pre-Code films including “A Woman of Affairs” (1928), “The Jazz Age” (1929), “Our Modern Maidens” (1929) during the filming of which, he began to seriously date co-star Joan Crawford, and went on to marry her, “Party Girl” (1930), “The Dawn Patrol” (1930), and “Little Caesar” (1931), among many others.
“I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.”
