Memorandum

All Employees Must Show Identification upon entering the factory.

Thank you,

Harry Cohn, President

I'm With Blanche!

Sometimes 'I don't want reality, I want magic'.  For example:

When I first saw the picture below, my initial thought was, "How nice that Glenn has such a pretty mother."

 

When I finally realized that it is of course, his wife Eleanor Powell, I kinda gasped.  Out loud.  Now I never thought of her as a big, sexy glamour puss.  But when ever I think of

Powell, I think of a gal covered with everything MGM could throw at her:

Of course that top picture isn't really fair.  Glenn's hair is tousled, making him look younger, and the style of her dress is rather matronly.  Not to mention the fact that the fabric ( a knit boucle?) is adding a few pounds.

"Well anyway," I thought, "no matter what a few years and childbirth did to her, there never was a  caucasian that could touch her when it came to tap."  Even Fred Astaire thought so.

Then, as if the interweb gods were trying to calm my frayed nerves I found this:

 

And that's more like it!

Smoke Dreams.....

Claudette Colbert

Dirk Bogard

Frances Farmer

Burt Lancaster

Lucille Ball

Glenn Ford

Ida Lupino

Lupino Lane (Ida's uncle!)

Joan Bennett

Peter Lorre

Paulette Goddard

Yul Brynner

The Fabulous Glenda Farrell

Clark Gable

Miss Kay Francis

There Never Was A Girl Like.....

Virginia Van Upp!  Child actress, turned scenarist, turned ace screenplay writer, and finally one of the only women executives of her time in Hollywood.  She held the #2 spot at Columbia when Harry Cohn made her Head Executive Producer.

For all her extraordinary accomplishments, I am most thankful to her for presenting us with the most smoldering dame of all time:

Gilda "If I'd been a ranch, they would have called me the Bar Nothing" Mundson Farrell!

Hayworth and Ford loving their work.



BTS of Hayworth, Ford and Van Upp.