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Got a favorite dwarf? Adriana Caselotti replies: "Grumpy. See he really wouldn't let anybody know, but he really loved Snow White but he was the one that was going to show that he hated the whole world...but he always had a wink in his one eye, and I knew that wink was there."

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) — Dir. David Hand

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“Not long after Vivien’s death, Gertrude and Jack received letters from Consuelo Langton-Lockton, who had cast Vivien's horoscope as early as 1938. She was anxious to ‘expose herself’ as a channel for any messages Vivien’s spirit might wish to convey from across the divide….Vivien returned to her. This proved a highly emotional session, during which Vivien continually asked how Larry was…it was Olivier who was drawing her back to earth. She was begging for forgiveness and wanted Olivier to know she loved him still. The channel concluded, 'If he should 'go’, she will be waiting. Love is stronger than death- and things get sorted out on that side. Thank God.”

THE OLIVIERS in THAT HAMILTON WOMAN — 1941

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Helen Bennett and Lyla Zelensky in dresses by Maggy Rouff and jewellery by Mauboussin photographed by Horst, 1938

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Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco

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Betty Grable in Down Argentine Way (1940) dir. Irving Cummings

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Valentine Pin-Up Betty Grable.

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“‘Your eyes, your remarkable eyes.’ If he ever looks into my eyes again, he’ll really see a storm over the pampas!” BETTY GRABLE as Glenda Crawford in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (1940) dir. Irving Cummings

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Betty Grable

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Betty Grable

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Stay cozy.

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Betty Grable in Down Argentine Way (1940) dir. Irving Cummings

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Bert Lahr and Betty Grable in the 1939 Broadway production of Cole Porter’s “Du Barry Was a Lady”

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The Nanny – 6.13: The Yummy Mummy

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The child is in love with a human. And not just any human. A prince!

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"Many people can quote Shakespeare, but more people can quote Brady. That’s not something that is meant as self-aggrandizement, but it’s just true. And among the things that people can quote is, ‘Oh, my nose!’ This might be the signature moment in The Brady Bunch. Everybody seems to know about it. I got a call from author Joe Garner who writes beautiful books on media history. He has put together titles on news events and spots events which come with CDs or DVDs. They sell very well, and he decided to write one about television called Stay Tuned: Television’s Fifty Unforgettable Moments. He had determined that of the fifty moments, thirteen were from entertainment television. The others were non-entertainment moments like the Kennedy Assassination and the Mexico Olympics, plus others from news or sports. Of the thirteen entertainment moments, Marcia getting hit in the nose by the football was included. ‘Oh, my nose!’ ranks up there with an I Love Lucy moment and Sammy Davis Junior kissing Archive Bunker in All The Family and The Beatles’ first American appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Amazing.” -Lloyd Schwartz

MAUREEN McCORMICK, the original Marcia Brady, in THE BRADY BUNCH — 1969-74

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Disney found her when he went looking for someone with a child's voice for the lead role in his animated movie "Alice in Wonderland." "Basically, I was sort of right under his nose," Beaumont, who had worked on a Disney TV episode for the year before, recalls with a laugh. "Walt Disney was looking for a voice that would be pleasing to American ears and British ears, something that wouldn't be too American for the British or too British for the Americans. And oddly enough we were already out here." What's more, she knew the whole story of Alice, as well as Peter Pan. "Just from being British in the first place," she says, "Those are the things you tend to read as a child." So she was cast in both movies. And off she went each day to Disney Studios, getting her schooling in the three Rs as well as in songs about never growing up and imaginary Wonderlands, and in fighting off hungry crocodiles and comically evil pirates. But after "Alice" and "Peter Pan" came out in 1953, Kathryn Beaumont grew up. After making two of the biggest animated movies of all time, she left Hollywood and never went back. "I just went into another career," she says matter-of-factly. "I was just very young when I did these roles, so I went back to school and I had other ideas of things I wanted to do." She went into teaching generations of second-graders the animation experiences she had as a child.

film: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, released in 1951

voice talent: KATHRYN BEAUMONT, filmed in 1951

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Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

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Lindsay Lohan on how she clapped back at Disney's CEO when she was just 12 years old!