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Mon, 28 May 2012 02:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://moviemorlocks.com http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:33:44 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=29512 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/feed/ 8 moirafinnie Ann-Harding-Cinema's Gallant Lady by Scott O'Brien Ann Harding with her hair worn in a characteristic style Ann Harding in the 1920s Ann Harding casually dressed off camera Ann Harding onstage in The Trial of Mary Dugan Ann Harding and Harry Bannister A postcard from Hollywood in the '30s of Ann Harding's home Ann Harding with her husband Harry Bannister and daughter Jane in the 1930s Peter Ibbetson (1935) with Ann Harding and Gary Cooper Ann Harding and Gary Cooper on location near Big Bear Lake during Peter Ibbetson (1935) Gary Cooper, Henry Hathaway and Ann Harding on the set of Peter Ibbetson (1935) When Ladies Meet (1933) with Ann Harding, Myrna Loy and Alice Brady Leslie Howard and Ann Harding in The Animal Kingdom (1932) Conrad Nagel and John Halliday Paris Bound (1929) with Ann Harding and Fredric March was directed by Edward H. Griffith Gallant Lady (1935) with Ann Harding and Clive Brook Ann Harding and Herbert Marshall mark the end of the pre-code period in The Flame Within (1935) Gene Fowler and friend at work Ann Harding with her husband Harry Bannister building their home Ann Harding as an aloof but well-dressed star Ann Harding with John Boles in The Life of Vergie Winters Ann Harding in Her Private Affair (1929) Union activists James Dunn, Lucile Gleason, Ann Harding, Boris Karloff and James Cagney discuss SAG business A cringeworthy advertisement allegedly emphasizing how Ann Harding's domestic skills ensure Harry Bannister's happiness at home Ann Harding with second husband, conductor Werner Jannsen Ann Harding with Reginald Denny in Eyes in the Night (1942) Ann Harding in The North Star Ann Harding in The Magnificent Yankee with Louis Calhern as Supreme Court Justic Oliver Wendell Holmes Ann’s daughter Jane, and her nieces Dorothy and Barbara in 1931 shivering next to the pool Ann Harding in the early years of her career http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/21/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-2/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/21/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-2/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:38:19 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=15323 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/21/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-2/feed/ 6 moirafinnie Gladys Cooper in her early California years Gladys Cooper, wondering who "that strange creature in the mirror might be" in her first Hollywood movie with Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940) Gladys Cooper around the time of Philip Merivale's death in the 1940s (Photo by Dorothy Wilding) John Buckmaster, the son of Gladys Cooper Cooper and Olivier in their confrontation in That Hamilton Woman (1941) Bette Davis and Gladys Cooper in Now, Voyager (1942) Cooper's hand tapping while her daughter seeks escape Cooper as the disbelieving nun who opposes Bernadette of Lourdes in The Song of Bernadette In Valley of Decision with Greer Garson and Marsha Hunt Love Letters poster In The Chalk Garden in 1955 Gladys Cooper as Britannia in the play in which she fell asleep on stage Gladys Cooper in My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn Rex Harrison and Jeremy Brett Cooper preparing to film "Nothing in the Dark" with the author George Clayton Johnson for The Twilight Zone series in 1962 Dame Gladys Cooper, standing in front of her portrait when young http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/14/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-1/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/14/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-1/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:08:59 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=15150 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/14/gladys-cooper-a-natural-aristocrat-part-1/feed/ 10 moirafinnie Gladys Cooper (1888-1971) as an unexpectedly popular child model Gladys Cooper in one of the many photos that made her the pin-up girl in the WWI trenches Gladys Cooper, continuing her modeling of post cards in her teenage years. Gladys Cooper in one of her sillier poses in a rain slicker birthday post card. Gladys Cooper as a young beauty letting down her hair and adopting a dreamy look for a post card Cooper as a young matron and stage star, looking noble and far too serious A playfully seductive and mysterious Gladys Cooper when she was a Gaiety Girl Gladys Cooper Around 1910 Gladys Cooper in a portait from the 1920s by Charles Buchel (Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London) Cooper as a bluff, dowdy, country lady with Nigel Bruce and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940) With her husband, actor Philip Merivale in the 1940s Gladys Cooper with the Falcon George Sanders, and Arthur Shields Gladys Cooper in The Black Cat (1941) chiding her on-screen son, played by Alan Ladd about 2 years before he became a star. Gladys Cooper: Judging by this image from the low budget The Black Cat (1941), she may be a heroine or a villain http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/13/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/13/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 06:33:43 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=10033 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/05/13/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/feed/ 13 moirafinnie A paperback of The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman, promising to tell all Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, & Gloria Holden in "The Hucksters" all trying to pretend they are really interested in Adolphe Menjou's pontificating Clark Gable, enjoying a quiet smoke George Washington Hill, the real life client portrayed by Sydney Greenstreet in "The Hucksters" (1947) Clark Gable dousing Sydney Greenstreet in "The Hucksters" Paul Henreid lighting Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager, one of the great smoking movies Constance Talmadge in one of the earliest smoking ads connecting Hollywood & cigarettes Carole Lombard praising the effect of cigarettes on her singing voice. This type of ad became more popular with the rise of the talkies Actress Ann Sheridan endorsing Chesterfields and advertising "Nora Prentiss" simultaneously Rosalind Russell in an WWII era campaign David O. Selznick must have made a package deal for the cast of "The Paradine Case". What no Hitchcock? Spencer Tracy, whose cigarette endorsements were among the most lucarative in his day John Wayne, who would endorse cigarettes and fight cancer more than once Maureen O'Hara, who never smoked, endorsing Camels The future POTUS participated in this campaign, common at the holidays, promoting the purchase of cigarettes as an appropriate gift for friends and family.