Good Advice

Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy in The Rains Came (1939, 20th Century Fox)

In the event of a torrential downpour, head for higher ground, maintain calm, and always use water-proof tropical makeup.

Off to the Races

Lupe Velez in East is West (1930, Universal)

Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, MGM)

Dorothy Lamour (with John Howard) in Disputed Passage (1939, Paramount)

Ona Munson in The Shanghai Gesture (1941, United Artists)

Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed (1944, MGM)

Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha (1962, Paramount)

Eleanor Parker (as Marjorie Lawrence) in Interrupted Melody (1955, MGM)

The Good Wives

"It was a role no one could live up to, really." - Myrna Loy on being typecast as "The Perfect Wife"

"There always was a broom or a vacuum cleaner in my fist, or I was at the sink, scrubbing away for dear life." - Claudette Colbert on her screen image

"Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg." - Myrna Loy on real life vs. reel life

"I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy -- period." - Claudette Colbert on being a real life doctor's wife

Dancing Lady

"[Joan Crawford] was learning all the new dances, Black Bottom, Charleston, and urging me to go down to the Ambassador and do them with her. Being such a snob about dance, of course, I wouldn’t have any part of it. But that’s what made her a star, later on, in Our Dancing Daughters...Joan and I became friends and stayed friends, which is the most that came out of my first MGM experience." - Myrna Loy

Size Matters

You Realize What This Means

Somewhere, there's a photograph of William Powell in a Dolly Tree evening gown.

Make Your Own Kind of Music

Sing your own special song.

The Occidental Tourist

Myrna Adele Williams, from Radersburg, MT!

Puff Piece

Spot the 'mo!

Why, it's birthday boy Roddy McDowall, of course! A favorite escort for many Hollywood divas, when Roddy wasn't squiring them around town, he was appearing with them in practically every other film made in the 1960's and 1970's. For instance: with Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963); Lauren Bacall in Shock Treatment (1964); Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Jennifer Jones in Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969); Angela Lansbury in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); and Barbra Streisand in Funny Lady (1975).





Besides being an in-demand ladies' man, McDowall was a "well known bachelor" who liked to hang with the boys.



We miss Roddy McDowall, and the elegance he always brought to even the most indistinguished project (Rabbit Test, anyone?). Like so many others, it seemed that not only was Roddy everywhere - if not on film, then on nearly every television series ever produced - but that he would be here forever. And, in many ways, he will.

RODDY MCDOWALL
September 17, 1928 - October 3, 1998

Please visit A TRIBUTE TO RODDY MCDOWALL

Two Wongs

...one white.

A Grand Tradition

We were just discussing Miss Loy at le bar de homosexual last night (quelle surprise!), while over at Cafe Muscato, we were enamored by the charms of Mr. Abraham. Et voila!