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cinderella: a merry christmas for mice book scan (2000) 🐭🎄

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Lana Turner in a publicity photo for Ziegfeld Girl  (Robert Z Leonard, 1941) wearing a gown by Adrian.

1941 was an important year for Turner. She starred in three successful pictures for MGM: Johnny Eager, Ziegfeld Girl and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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Lana Turner, 1940, not yet a star but on her way. That year she made two films for MGM. The next year she starred in Ziegfeld Girl which Turner said was the first film that got her really interested in acting.

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Lana Turner, 1945

“Let’s be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man’s mind and soul and heart, that’s icing on the cake.”

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Kim Novak and Debbie Reynolds enjoy banana splits at the Schwab’s Drugstore soda fountain in Hollywood, photo by Frank Worth, 1958. Schwab’s is famous in old Hollywood lore as being where Lana Turner was discovered (except she wasn’t…it happened at the Top Hat Malt Shop across the street from Hollywood High where Lana went to buy a Coca-Cola after she skipped typing class). The urban legend of Lana’s discovery took root, however, and Schwab’s became a hot-spot for Hollywood stars and those wishing to see and be seen. Marilyn Monroe was a frequent visitor during the early part of her career, and gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky had an office at the back of the pharmacy where he often spotted who was doing what and with whom.

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Lex Baxter and Lana Turner where married for four years, 1953 - 1957

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Linda Darnell creates a pastel of Lana Turner, c. 1940s.

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They Say | Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra 

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Cinderella and Prince Charming dancing in the clouds in these early explorations of the song sequence "So This Is Love" by Mary Blair

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HARRY POTTER MEME   ⋙   hogwarts houses

GRYFFINDOR.

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A platinum blonde Joan Crawford in a publicity portrait shot by George Hurrell for the MGM/Nick Grinde pre-code drama This Modern Age, 1931. Miss Crawford's form fitting panne-velvet gown was designed by Gilbert Adrian. According to the 2002 book Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography by William Schoell and Lawrence J. Quirk, the reason Crawford went from a redhead to a blonde for this movie was because "the actress who was originally to play the part of the mother, Marjorie Rambeau (who'd played her mother in Laughing Sinners), was a blonde. When Rambeau became ill, the part was recast with a brunette actress, Pauline Frederick, whom Joan greatly admired. Joan's scenes had already been shot, and the difference in hair color was not reason enough to re-shoot them. Besides, there was no reason why a brunette mother couldn't have a blonde-haired daughter - or maybe she was just into peroxide."

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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA 1965, dir. Charles S. Dubin

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THE BRADY BUNCH (1969-74) created by Sherwood Schwartz

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Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse

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Elizabeth Taylor choosing some magazines from a newsagent desk next to the Excelsior Hotel in Lido, Venice, 1950

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Elizabeth Taylor, 1950s

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Elizabeth Taylor in her hotel room, Paris, 1950