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Hollywood Leading Men - 1930's and 1940's - The Golden Age

1925 through 1940 marked the Golden Age of Movies and is said to have begun with the release of The Jazz Singer, the first movie to incorporate sound, ending the era of silent films. During this time period...

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Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, "Gone With the Wind"73

Manly Men of Hollywood

A certain very popular and talented Hubber of late has been maligning us manly men with outrageous claims that increasing numbers of us are wearing bras and silk panties under our three-button suits and Joe...

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Loretta Young, Sweet Beauty of Hollywood

Loretta Young will forever be remembered as the mother of Clark Gable's illegitimate child but this is doing a fine actress an injustice. She was the first and one the few top Hollywood stars who successfully...

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Born Lisa Marie Presley76

Famous Birthday Listings: February 1

Celebrity Birthday Listings. Find Out Which Celebrities You Share Your Birthday with!

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Gone With The Wind, Frankly My Dear, I Love It

Gone With the Wind is an unforgettable movie, and represents a major milestone in the art of movie-making. Conceived from the outset as the ultimate Hollywood movie, it became the benchmark for popular epic...

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Clark Gable The King of Hollywood

"His ears are too big and he looks like an ape." So said Warner Bros. executive Darryl F. Zanuck about Clark Gable after a screen test. Some ape. Clark Gable was to become an Academy Award-winning American...

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Vivien Leigh, English Southern Belle

She struggled with alcoholism and mental illness most of her life, was a heavy smoker, and died of tuberculosis at the young age of 53. She only made 20 films. Yet she won 2 Best Actress Awards playing...

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Irene Dunne with friend in "The Awful Truth" 193782

Best Screwball Comedies of the 1930s

Irene Dunne with friend in "The Awful Truth" 1937 The 1930s comes up in the media a lot these days, but usually in a kind of a downer sort of way. Ushered in by the infamous stock market crash of 1929, the...

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Author Margaret Mitchell77

The Inspiring Story of "Gone With the Wind" Author Margaret Mitchell

I subscribe to a number of email lists and one particular email caught my eye yesterday. It was from Daily Inspirations. Yesterday's quote was from Margaret Mitchell. I knew I recognized the name, but did not...

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Joan Crawford, Glamour with a Hard Edge

Joan Crawford survived decades in the movie business as a top ranking star, projecting, (as well as needing), an innate toughness, always with a sense of style. She was the American Dream incarnate, providing...

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