I post mostly old Hollywood and classic Disney with occasional adventures into more recent film and other bits and bobs that amuse me
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Five Favourite Norma Shearer Films
→ The Women (1939)
“I’ve had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red.”
Norma Shearer in a publicity photo for Smilin’ Through (1932)
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Norma Shearer and double Joan Crawford in Lady of the Night, 1925
In Two Worlds, a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Norma Shearer essayed a dual-role. Florence (at left) is the well-bred graduate of a finishing school. Molly (at right) is a reform school graduate. For over-the-shoulder shots director Monta Bell used the newly-arrived Lucille LeSeur, who was later known as Joan Crawford. ‘My first appearance in front of the moving camera was anonymous,’ wrote Crawford in 1959. ‘While Norma played the Tough Girl (full-front, close-up) I played the Lady (with my back to the camera).’ Shearer was smart enough to recognize Crawford’s talent, raw though it may have been. ‘I found myself sitting in a car,’ she remembered, ‘and in the other corner was a girl with the most beautiful eyes. They were the biggest eyes I had ever seen. But they didn’t trust me. I could see that. They never have.’
-Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of MGM
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Norma Shearer
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