Carole Landis (angelical actress & pin-up in Golden Age Hollywood)
Carole Landis was known in the 40's as 'The Chest', 'The Ping Girl' and 'The Blonde Bomber'
"I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me". -Carole Landis
A musical video ("Tonight in a Dream" by Phil Thornton) dedicated to the beautiful and talented actress Carole Landis (1919–1948). She'll always keep entertaining our minds and living in our hearts.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lady Gaga admits she has relationship issues!!!
Lady Gaga's known for her candor, so what kind of a transparent pop star would she be if she didn't curse and talk openly about her love life in her Vanity Fair interview?
During her shoot, Gaga posed nude for her "Lady Is A Tramp" collaborator Tony Bennett (?!) and admitted that her true place of happiness is when she sees a fan smile. Read below as Gaga invites us into her world of unending fame, staggering talent and crippling heartache.
+ On her past relationships: "I have never felt truly cherished by a lover. I have an inability to know what happiness feels like with a man...
It's a hideous place to be in when someone that you love has convinced you that you will never be good enough for anyone. I had a man say to me, 'You will die alone in a house bigger than you know, with all your money and hit records, and you will die alone.'"
+ On how she feels whens she's not onstage: "When I'm onstage, I'm so giving and so open and myself. And when the spotlight goes off, I don’t know quite what to do with myself."
+ On being proposed to after she's left a few men: “How f***in' romantic, you a**hole. Sure, pop a ring on my finger and make it all better. I can buy myself a f***in' ring."
+ On women's rights: "The problem is not women being irresponsible. The problem is everyone being irresponsible… How can you deny a woman the right to choose [whether or not] to have a child? It's completely outrageous."
+ On her "autobiographical" "Marry The Night" video: "Getting ready to relive the worst day of my life... It's chaotic and sad. But I don't want it to be safe."
The January issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and L.A. Dec. 1.
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Madonna Approached by Cougar Dating Site to be their New Spokeswoman!
Everyone knows Madonna is a cougar.
The 53-year old Material Girl is currently dating a 24-year-old dancer Brahim Zaibat, and also dated a then 22 year-old Brazilian model Jesus Lutz after she divorced Guy Ritchie, so if anyone knows how to snag a younger man, it's Madonna.
The 53-year old Material Girl is currently dating a 24-year-old dancer Brahim Zaibat, and also dated a then 22 year-old Brazilian model Jesus Lutz after she divorced Guy Ritchie, so if anyone knows how to snag a younger man, it's Madonna.
So anyways, the online dating site, Cougarlife.com that pairs older women with younger men has offered Madonna $300,000 to become the new face of their site.
The site is asking Madonna to record a song and video and refers to her as "without a doubt the queen of Cougars."
They ask that she record the song and release it by Valentine's Day and that if the song and video do well, she'll receive an extra $750,000.
What is defined as "doing well" for a cougar dating site?
Toddler boys are signing up? Ulch. Actually the site says that if Madonna's song for CougarLife enters a Top 10 chart she'll get another $200,000 and if the video gets more than a million hits on youtube she'll get another $550,000.
The website describes itself as "the premiere online dating service that pairs women in their prime with younger men and ends the double standard!"
and the site pitches itself at Madonna, "Therefore we at CougarLife are extremely interested in exploring a unique partnership with her."
The offer letter also says that Madge would "agree to perform the CougarLife Song at no less than one major award show in the 2012 calendar year."
That's embarrassing! It's one thing to record a PSA that says "hey, it's awesome to date younger men" but to record a song about being a cougar and then having to perform that song at say, the Teen Choice Awards, she's practically begging to be locked away on charges of jailbait.
The men that date cougars are called cubs and the site currently features a woman in her 50's who looks like Camille Grammar's doppelganger.
This cougar woman is lounging around in a white robe with a tagline that reads, "At our age, do you feel all the best men are taken? Join CougarLife.com and meet great young guys before they're snatched up."
Do you think that Madonna will
accept their offer??
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Carole Landis, a tragic life in Hollywood
"Don't make sarcastic and catty remarks. Kindness is the secret to true femininity". -Carole Landis
Some of the Radio Appearances of actor John Garfield were on April 14, 1941 at Lux Radio Theatre (CBS) "Dust Be My Destiny" with Claire Trevor, and on May 10, 1943 at Lady Esther Screen Guild Players, (CBS) "Johnny Eager" with Carole Landis.
Carole who was known as "The Chest" thanks to her 36DD rack, had been earlier been dubbed "The Sweater Girl" and "The Pin-Up Girl" names years later conferred on Lana Turner and Betty Grable.
Carole Landis circa 1943
Overdosed with Seconal, Carole's body was discovered by actor Rex Harrison, with whom she was having an affair and with whom she dined the previous night after a 4th of the July (1948) party. She was buried wearing her favorite blue dress and gold cross pendant. Hundreds of people attended Landis’ funeral service at the Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn in Glendale, including Rex Harrison and his wife Lilli Palmer. Landis’ family wanted a Catholic burial, but the church refused, insisting her death was a suicide. Carole’s mother and sister never believed that Landis committed suicide and tried for years to connect Harrison with the death. They never succeeded.
Deanna Durbin celebrating the completion of her film "I'll Be Yours", with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer (1947)
At the time, Harrison was married to actress Lilli Palmer. On the Official Carole Landis website, run by her great-niece, the Landis family is convinced that Rex Harrison murdered her to avoid scandal surrounding the affair they’d been having.
In the spring of 1947, Palmer was working on "Body & Soul" with John Garfield while Harrison shot "The Foxes of Harrow". Harrison was a chronic liar and womanizer widely disliked in Hollywood.
"Pride and sadness, pride in her extraordinary beauty, sadness in knowing that to live on this beauty is to degrade it. Carole Landis' extraordinary efforts for USO during WWII were the product of the generosity and graciousness witnessed by all who knew her. One Hollywood cliché is that Landis was "Marilyn before Marilyn", but the effect of her suicide was rather to avoid becoming "Marilyn", the postwar tease whose self-caricaturing sensuality was cheesecake of the mind. Landis' dignity would have been more consonant with the honestly assertive sexuality of today's post-feminist age". Source: www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu
"Before she was a glamorous actress, before she was a war-time pin-up star, even before she was Carole Landis, she was Frances Lillian Ridste, an insecure young girl from Wisconsin. She was strikingly beautiful, talented, and on her way to becoming a movie star, yet she spent her entire life searching for love. Though she appeared in more than 60 films during her short career, Landis was better known for her extraordinary beauty and many romantic relationships than for her acting or comedic timing in such films as Topper Returns (1940) and My Gal Sal (1942) over the course of her 11-year career. -"Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood" (2005) by E.J. Fleming
"Despite appearing in twenty-eight movies in little over a decade, Carole Landis (1919-1948) never quite became the major Hollywood star her onscreen presence should have afforded her. Although she acted in such enduring films as 'A Scandal in Paris' and 'Moon over Miami', she was most often relegated to supporting roles. This biography traces Landis's life, chronicling her beginnings as a dance hall entertainer in San Francisco, her career in Hollywood and abroad, her USO performances.
Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis in "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941) directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
A scene from "I Wake Up Screaming" 1941 starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress, Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. He succeeds only too well: she’s on the eve of deserting him for Hollywood…when someone kills her. Now Frankie gets the feeling that Inspector Ed Cornell is determined to pin the killing on him and only him. He’s right. And the only one he can turn to for help is Jill, the victim’s sister.
As a radio actress she reprised her her own performance in "I Wake Up Screaming" on April 10, 1942;
she took over Lana Turner's role in "Johnny Eager" with John Garfield in that of Robert Taylor". -"Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl" (2008) by Eric Lawrence Gans
Some of the Radio Appearances of actor John Garfield were on April 14, 1941 at Lux Radio Theatre (CBS) "Dust Be My Destiny" with Claire Trevor, and on May 10, 1943 at Lady Esther Screen Guild Players, (CBS) "Johnny Eager" with Carole Landis.
Carole who was known as "The Chest" thanks to her 36DD rack, had been earlier been dubbed "The Sweater Girl" and "The Pin-Up Girl" names years later conferred on Lana Turner and Betty Grable.
Carole Landis circa 1943
Overdosed with Seconal, Carole's body was discovered by actor Rex Harrison, with whom she was having an affair and with whom she dined the previous night after a 4th of the July (1948) party. She was buried wearing her favorite blue dress and gold cross pendant. Hundreds of people attended Landis’ funeral service at the Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn in Glendale, including Rex Harrison and his wife Lilli Palmer. Landis’ family wanted a Catholic burial, but the church refused, insisting her death was a suicide. Carole’s mother and sister never believed that Landis committed suicide and tried for years to connect Harrison with the death. They never succeeded.
Deanna Durbin celebrating the completion of her film "I'll Be Yours", with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer (1947)
At the time, Harrison was married to actress Lilli Palmer. On the Official Carole Landis website, run by her great-niece, the Landis family is convinced that Rex Harrison murdered her to avoid scandal surrounding the affair they’d been having.
In the spring of 1947, Palmer was working on "Body & Soul" with John Garfield while Harrison shot "The Foxes of Harrow". Harrison was a chronic liar and womanizer widely disliked in Hollywood.
"Pride and sadness, pride in her extraordinary beauty, sadness in knowing that to live on this beauty is to degrade it. Carole Landis' extraordinary efforts for USO during WWII were the product of the generosity and graciousness witnessed by all who knew her. One Hollywood cliché is that Landis was "Marilyn before Marilyn", but the effect of her suicide was rather to avoid becoming "Marilyn", the postwar tease whose self-caricaturing sensuality was cheesecake of the mind. Landis' dignity would have been more consonant with the honestly assertive sexuality of today's post-feminist age". Source: www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu
"Before she was a glamorous actress, before she was a war-time pin-up star, even before she was Carole Landis, she was Frances Lillian Ridste, an insecure young girl from Wisconsin. She was strikingly beautiful, talented, and on her way to becoming a movie star, yet she spent her entire life searching for love. Though she appeared in more than 60 films during her short career, Landis was better known for her extraordinary beauty and many romantic relationships than for her acting or comedic timing in such films as Topper Returns (1940) and My Gal Sal (1942) over the course of her 11-year career. -"Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood" (2005) by E.J. Fleming
"Despite appearing in twenty-eight movies in little over a decade, Carole Landis (1919-1948) never quite became the major Hollywood star her onscreen presence should have afforded her. Although she acted in such enduring films as 'A Scandal in Paris' and 'Moon over Miami', she was most often relegated to supporting roles. This biography traces Landis's life, chronicling her beginnings as a dance hall entertainer in San Francisco, her career in Hollywood and abroad, her USO performances.
Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis in "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941) directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
A scene from "I Wake Up Screaming" 1941 starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress, Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. He succeeds only too well: she’s on the eve of deserting him for Hollywood…when someone kills her. Now Frankie gets the feeling that Inspector Ed Cornell is determined to pin the killing on him and only him. He’s right. And the only one he can turn to for help is Jill, the victim’s sister.
As a radio actress she reprised her her own performance in "I Wake Up Screaming" on April 10, 1942;
she took over Lana Turner's role in "Johnny Eager" with John Garfield in that of Robert Taylor". -"Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl" (2008) by Eric Lawrence Gans
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Kirsten Dunst photoshoots: Txema Yeste, C magazine, Lucky magazine, etc.
Madonna Vs Lady Gaga! Visit my blog & Vote!!!
Many conversations and quarrels have been made between Lady Gaga & Madonna fans
about who is the most talented.
Madonna fans beleive that Lady Gaga is the worst Madonna copycat ever.
Lady Gaga fans beleive that Madonna is history.
There are others though who insist that they are both talented & others who dislike them both.
Who is the real Queen of Pop??
Madonna or Lady Gaga??Or someone else??
I have made this poll in order to put a light on this subject.
So, you can vote as many times as you want until 15 December 2011 at 12.00 am.
Please feel free to invite people to join. Spread the news!!!
ATTENTION: If you don't press the "Vote" button, you won't be able to view the results!
I hope you have fun with this!
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