Somethink Blue, an international electronic magazine, also known as a zine, asked me to contribute to one of their issues…Nothing much, just random facts that everyone might not know about my favorite girls, trying to show that they weren’t just pretty faces, but talented hard working women who fucking rule :D So nice of them to ask me!!!
http://www.somethinkblue.com/article_detail.php?article_id=439
Top 10 Vintage Bombshells
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy turned down the leading role in 1942 in the movie “Casablanca”.
In 1933, she starred in “Ecstasy” which was know as “The Most Whispered About Picture in the World” since it featured fill frontal nudity, a first for its time.
Vivien Leigh
Vivien was paid between $25,00 and $30,000 for her role of Scarlett, while Clark Gable received $120,00 for his role as Rhett Butler.
Leigh had unusually large hands for a petite woman standing 5’3 tall. She wore gloves to conceal them.
Gene Tierney
While in production, no one could change the length or color of her hair, nor fix her slightly crooked teeth - her unique look.
Tierney contracted German measles from a feverish fan, which caused her first daughter, Daria, to be born prematurely and severely retarded.
Fox Studios “taught” Tierney to smoke ciggarettes as a “trick” to deepen her voice. She died at age 70 in 1991 of Emphysema.
Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich broke her ankle while filming “The Lady is Willing”, trying to break the fall of the baby she was holding.
Diana Dors
In the 1950s, Dors was promoted as the “English Marilyn Monroe”, even though Diana’s career began long before Monroe’s and was acclaimed as a better actress.
Jean Harlow
Harlow never wanted to be an acress, but was pressured by her mother after numerous calls from Central Casting.
She became the very first actress to grace the cover of LIFE magazine in 1937. (Many speculated Marilyn Monroe was the first.)
Known as the “Original Blond Bombshell”.
Lillian Gish
In her first two years as a movie actress, Gish appeared in over 25 short silent films and features, earnning her the title of “The First Lady of the Silent Screen”.
Mary Pickford
The first movie actress to receive a percentage of the film’s earnnings.
Pichford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were the first stars to officially place their hand and footprints in the cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in 1927.
Pickford, along with Charlie Chaplin, D.W Griffith and Douglas Ferbanks founded United Artists.
Greta Garbo
The same design of Greta Garbo is pictured on a commemorative 37¢ USA stamp and Swedish 10kr stamp, issued five days after her 100th birthday in 2005.
Carole Lombard
Lombard is listed as one of the American Film Institute’s greatest stars of all time and was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, earning almost $500,000 a year - five times the US President’s salary.
