Old Hollywood gossip & stories

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thegirlscout said:
I think it’s also because even though they had plastic surgery in that area they still kept their unique features and they didn’t have those silly turkey teeth. Any nips and tucks were more refined and less obvious.
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Leave Her to Heaven is one of my favourite films. Young Vincent Price 🩷
I saw these photos of her on a YouTube video and I’m not 100% sure if it’s her because they wouldn’t look out of place in a beauty ad from the 90s. Never seen them before.
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it’s one of my favourites too! she was so so beautiful (and i loved that she had a slight overbite! like you say, it’s wonderful seeing how these actresses kept their unique features when nowadays they would surely be “fixed”). the left photo certainly looks like her to me, unsure about the right!

the saddest and maybe most infamous thing about gene t is that she contracted rubella from a fan who snuck out of a medical bay to meet her during an army bases tour. she was pregnant at the time and the virus meant her baby daughter was born with severe disabilities and was institutionalised for her entire life. howard hughes paid for her medical expenses.

the fan then met her again much later and apparently said “i knew i was contagious and had to stay with the medics but i just had to come and meet you!” and i don’t know how she didn’t slap her tbh.
 
LaBlonde said:
it’s one of my favourites too! she was so so beautiful (and i loved that she had a slight overbite! like you say, it’s wonderful seeing how these actresses kept their unique features when nowadays they would surely be “fixed”). the left photo certainly looks like her to me, unsure about the right!

the saddest and maybe most infamous thing about gene t is that she contracted rubella from a fan who snuck out of a medical bay to meet her during an army bases tour. she was pregnant at the time and the virus meant her baby daughter was born with severe disabilities and was institutionalised for her entire life. howard hughes paid for her medical expenses.

the fan then met her again much later and apparently said “i knew i was contagious and had to stay with the medics but i just had to come and meet you!” and i don’t know how she didn’t slap her tbh.
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Oh that sounds like ‘The Mirrors Cracked from Side to Side’ Miss Marple,Perhaps Agatha Christie used that situation for her book.
 
Clovis said:
That sad story became the plot device of an Agatha Christie novel, The Mirror Crack'd.
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so it was! i had no idea - just read the wikipedia article about the film version :(

i think i got muddled that it was the fan herself who met tierney again later. it appears it was another fan who recounted the story:

Sometime after the tragedy surrounding her daughter's birth, the actress learned from a fan who approached her for an autograph at a tennis party that the woman (who was then a member of the women's branch of the Marine Corps) had sneaked out of quarantine while sick with German measles to meet Tierney at her only Hollywood Canteen appearance. In her autobiography, Tierney wrote that after the woman had recounted her story, "I stood there for a very long minute. There was no point in telling her of the tragedy that had occurred. I turned and walked away very quickly. After that, I didn't care if I was ever again anyone's favorite actress".[19]
 
Clovis said:
Gloria Graeme driven out by Hollywood sexism? She fucked her 13 year-old stepson then later married him. The scandal finished off her film career.
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yep! her then husband (and father of the boy) was a fairly successful director - nicholas ray (he directed rebel without a cause among others). he allegedly caught gloria and his then-teenage son in bed together. like you say, i don’t think we can claim that it was sexism that finished her career!
 
Some of you probably know about this already but today I learnt about an actress who worked with Elvis who later became a Nun - Dolores Hart. She wrote a book and there was also a short documentary made about her which was nominated for an Academy Award. She attended the ceremony in her habit.
 
thegirlscout said:
Some of you probably know about this already but today I learnt about an actress who worked with Elvis who later became a Nun - Dolores Hart. She wrote a book and there was also a short documentary made about her which was nominated for an Academy Award. She attended the ceremony in her habit.
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She was engaged to be married but called it off. Her fiancé never married and visited her every Christmas and Easter.
 
thegirlscout said:
Some of you probably know about this already but today I learnt about an actress who worked with Elvis who later became a Nun - Dolores Hart. She wrote a book and there was also a short documentary made about her which was nominated for an Academy Award. She attended the ceremony in her habit.
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There was another actress he worked with in Jailhouse Rock called Judy Tyler. She was one of the 'It' Girls of the day and was known as a singer/actress and dancer. They got close on the set of JR and there are differing stories about whether they fooled around or not. Officially, nothing happened as she was married and he supposedly had a rule for him and the Memphis Mafia about staying away from married women. Those who knew her also denied it saying she only had eyes for her husband but others, including friends of his said something definitely went on.

She was seen as a rising star and many thought she would go on to have a big career, even appearing on the cover of Life Magazine alongside other up-and-coming actresses including Jayne Mansfield. Unfortunately, like Jayne, her life ended in a car accident. A few days after filming for JR ended, she and her husband were driving home from Hollywood to New York and had to swerve to stop hitting a car with a trailer but ended up crashing into another. Judy who was only 24, died instantly with the report being she was split in half. The passenger of the other car died as well, while her husband passed the next day in hospital. When he found out, Elvis was seemingly inconsolable and told a reporter 'Nothing has hurt me as bad in my life.' He couldn't face the funeral and for a while, he was unable to watch the film as it upset him so much. A song was also written about her called Goodbye Little Star.

 
shellie said:
There was another actress he worked with in Jailhouse Rock called Judy Tyler. She was one of the 'It' Girls of the day and was known as a singer/actress and dancer. They got close on the set of JR and there are differing stories about whether they fooled around or not. Officially, nothing happened as she was married and he supposedly had a rule for him and the Memphis Mafia about staying away from married women. Those who knew her also denied it saying she only had eyes for her husband but others, including friends of his said something definitely went on.

She was seen as a rising star and many thought she would go on to have a big career, even appearing on the cover of Life Magazine alongside other up-and-coming actresses including Jayne Mansfield. Unfortunately, like Jayne, her life ended in a car accident. A few days after filming for JR ended, she and her husband were driving home from Hollywood to New York and had to swerve to stop hitting a car with a trailer but ended up crashing into another. Judy who was only 24, died instantly with the report being she was split in half. The passenger of the other car died as well, while her husband passed the next day in hospital. When he found out, Elvis was seemingly inconsolable and told a reporter 'Nothing has hurt me as bad in my life.' He couldn't face the funeral and for a while, he was unable to watch the film as it upset him so much. A song was also written about her called Goodbye Little Star.

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Thanks Shellie so interested,I see JR soon as it was released a devoted Elvis fan,always have been loved Gracelands,actually really nice but not as big as it seems..☺
 
thegirlscout said:
Some of you probably know about this already but today I learnt about an actress who worked with Elvis who later became a Nun - Dolores Hart. She wrote a book and there was also a short documentary made about her which was nominated for an Academy Award. She attended the ceremony in her habit.
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FenellaTheWitch said:
She was engaged to be married but called it off. Her fiancé never married and visited her every Christmas and Easter.
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I love this fact 😇 🙌🙏 Nun power!
 
Jelly Bean said:
Omg I love Rear Window. Like the perfect film. Thelma Ritter (I think that is her name?) is marvellous. I always think being a good in demand character actor must have been the best Hollywood existence. A lot of the perks without so many of the drawbacks.
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I love Thelma. I often use her line when it's hot and raining, "all it did was make the heat wet".
 
cee-bee said:
Hollywood is like a scrubbed up romanticised version though - kinda like looking at how it could’ve been if it hadn’t been so corrupt and awful
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With Ryan Murphys latest in favour pretty boys in the cast as normal.

Wouldn't surprise me if stories come out about him at some point.

Hollywood could have been great but it was so disappointing. It didn't need the fictionalised, the real Hollywood was interesting enough
 
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