Thanxxx King Rat. Just trying to make stuff a little interesting and playful here at the 0asis.kingrat wrote:Great topic and lots of fun! To add to Vienna's mention of Ida Lupino, some of you probably know Ida's quote about her career, that she changed from the poor man's Jean Harlow to the poor man's Bette Davis to the poor man's Don Siegel...Hair color is important. To use a Tyra Banks expression, when Joan Bennett becomes a brunette she "pops." Frank Capra wanted Jean Arthur to be a star, and had her hair dyed different colors until they found just the right shade. If you've seen her in earlier films as a platinum blonde, you'll probably say, "I know it's Jean Arthur because of the voice, but it doesn't look like her." Bette Davis as a skinny platinum blonde looks quite different, too.
IDA...I IDOLIZE YA:
There's something about Ida as a brunette. And then those roles came her way, "poor man's whosits or whatever."
Best to listen to a super-model, like Tyra says. Hair color does do it sometimes. Didn't they try to make Gene Raymond a brunette? You guys have it rough, Brother Rat. You can't just dye your hair. You have to grow a five o'clock shadow and get beat up a coupla times.
(( SPIT-TAKE! )) You had me at flapper. Joanieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! She was amazing. Her looks and types she played changed from the 1920's until "Trog." I admire her.Joan Crawford also changed her image, from the flapper to the shopgirl, then after a bad patch in her career, found her inner Mildred Pierce and then her inner Queen Bee, all the way to cartoon parody of herself in her last films.
I've got a good one for you guys tomorrow. That is...if you don't name the star before I do.