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Happy, happy birthday to my man, the one and only Dean Martin (sigh), born on this day in 1917. ♥️

Ida Lupino by Scotty Welbourne, 1941.

Gloria Swanson at her house in the south of France, 1956.

Billy Wilder at home with some of his art collection, 1960

Carole Lombard by John Engstead, c1940.

One of the sweetest marriages in Hollywood, Frederick Brisson and Rosalind Russell, out at the Stork Club in September 1945. Cary Grant fixed them up. Roz was #BornThisDay in 1907, in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Myrna Loy

Simone Simon by George Hurrell, 1936.

Bonjour (Margaux Hemingway)

Chuckling at Miriam Hopkins taking credit for her ex becoming a successful playboy. From Modern Screen in January, 1941.

Suzi Quatro (born #otd) photographed by Bob Gruen, in NYC, 1974.

"Bars of Illusion Study of Nazimova by Rice", Shadowland magazine, December, 1922.

Paulette Goddard in "The Women" - BOTD

Larry McMurtry (with scenes from the Peter Bogdanovich film "The Last Picture Show". McMurtry coauthored the screenplay with Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's 1966 novel of the same name) - BOTD

The female characters in The Last Picture Show are formidable. Adding Eileen Brennan as Genevieve to these three.

Born today. Penelope Wilton, photographed by Cornel Lucas, 1968. Source: NPG.

Anita Loos, "Paulette is one of the most complicated, intelligent, fascinating people I've ever met in my life, and she and I became great, great friends from the time she came to Hollywood. She is an absolutely astounding woman."

The Paulette Goddard glamour.

Happy Paulette Goddard Day. Born 3 June. On the studio questionnaire, under date of birth, she wrote: Oscar Wilde and Goddard say that "any woman who tells her age tells anything". From Photoplay magazine, 1943.

Greta Garbo by Earl Christy for Photoplay magazine, 1929.

Charming little sketch of Jean Arthur by Henry Major. From Hollywood with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major, 1938.

If Paulette Goddard had done film noir.

Born today. George Hurrell, who created some of the most glamourous and iconic Hollywood portraits. Gilbert Roland, 1939. ⬇️

Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, 1934.

Patricia Morison by George Hurrell, 1937.

Paulette Goddard by George Hurrell, 1935.

Myrna Loy by George Hurrell, 1932.

Born today. George Hurrell, who created some of the most glamourous and iconic Hollywood portraits. Gilbert Roland, 1939. ⬇️

Gloria Swanson playing herself in Airport (1975) mentions her two pals Carole Lombard and Grace Moore. 🎬

Born today. Marilyn Monroe with her Basset Hound, Hugo, by Sam Shaw, 1957.

Mood. Carole Lombard in Hands Across The Table (1935).

Joan Blondell, Lilian Bond, Evelyn Knapp, and Marian Marsh during a photo shoot for Warner Bros. (1932)

Dorothy Mackaill by Richard Burke, Photoplay magazine, 1923.

Watched this the other day. A classic #albertfinney

Paulette Goddard by Max Munn Autrey, 1936.

#BOTD Howard Hawks, Victor Killian y Jean Arthur en el plató de Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

Happy Howard Hawks day.

Ella Raines and Howard Hawks on the set of Corvette K-225 (1943).

Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, Germany, c1930.

"I'm in the woods without a dog" is pretty good.

Five Favorite Black-and-White Films Made in 1960 or Later Billy Liar The Last Picture Show Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid The Spy Who Came In From The Cold The Apartment