She's the Greatest Star

And Debbie Reynolds noses it.

Goodness Geisha

Rosalind Russell in A Majority of One (1961, Warner Bros.)

Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha (1962, Paramount)

Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in "The Ricardos Go to Japan" from The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1959)

Girlfriends

Diana Ross and Mary Wilson (with Florence Ballard reflected in mirror) backstage at The T.A.M.I. Show, 1964

Female impersonators, 1964

In both instances, we're fairly certain someone got bitch-slapped shortly after the shutter clicked.

Pink on Parade

Robbie Ross of the Jewel Box Revue, ca. early 1960's (via Queer Music Heritage)

British fashion designer Enid Boulting, 1961

Balenciaga, 1965

TJB, Easter Sunday, 2011

Blonde Alley

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Jayne!

JAYNE MANSFIELD
April 19, 1933 - June 29, 1967

Poor Butterfly

"Mae West had a screw loose, and she also had a great publicist -- herself!" - Sylvia Sidney

No Love Lost

"Miss Hayward was very unkind to me on the set of Where Love Has Gone [1964]...I didn't know until later that she had been called 'The Poor Man's Bette Davis.'" - Bette Davis

Charlotte Rues

"I'm glad -- she needs a good picture!" - Joan Crawford, on being replaced in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) by Olivia de Havilland

Gypsies, Tramps and...

Back to Black

Juarez (1939, Warner Bros.)

Beyond the Forest (1949, Warner Bros.)

(as Margo Channing in Aged in Wood) All About Eve (1950, 20th Century Fox)

We'd Like to Propose a Toast

"She was drunk. She showed up at ten o'clock in the morning for the first read-through, and she was bombed. She was drinking straight vodka from this silver flask, and she was drinking it in front of the kids. She was saying all the words, but it was like she was a robot. About lunchtime, Joan passed out cold, and that did it. As soon as she woke up, I fired her." - Lucille Ball on Joan Crawford

Dark Ladies

"And people have the nerve to call me a bitch...!" - Joan Crawford on Lucille Ball

Blonde Ambition

"She's a legend in her own mind." - Jayne Mansfield on Mae West

Three Little Wiggies

I Wish I Were a Princess

Instead of Queen of Denial!

Afro Puff

Soulful hair knows no color.

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