The Silver Screen Oasis

a third one ...................

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

LILLI PALMER (1914 - 1986)

Watched over by Sid Grauman, the stars of "Tales of Manhattan" make their imprints: Henry Fonda, Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Charles Laughton and Edward G. Robinson. July, 1942

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Sterling Hayden registers for the draft. October, 1940

Esther Williams

That photo at the Chinese Theatre would been a better photo if CHARLES BOYER hadn't smoking a cigarette then. That's a legendary photograph of all the major players on TALES OF MANHATTAN ... a 1942 Anthology Film.

I also loved the HAT that Rita Hayworth was wearing ... she wore that hat in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (another 1942 Film) with Fred Astaire and Company.







With Fred Astaire and Adolphe Menjou in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER

Good pics to match the ceremony image, Erik.

Patricia Morison, Frank McHugh, Merle Oberon and Allen Jenkins talk to reporters at La Guardia Airport on their return from England after a two-month stint entertaining Allied soldiers. September, 1942

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JEANNE CRAIN (1925 - 2003)


STEVE COCHRAN (1917 - 1965)


BILL 'BOJANGLES' ROBINSON (1878 - 1949)

Joe, my heart melted at that photo of Jeanne Crain.

A perpetual sigh . . .

Here a pic of Cannes 2014 Best actress award winner, JULIANNE MOORE, who once was a terrific and brilliant Cathy Withaker in the remake
of ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, 1955, FAR FROM HEAVEN,2002, where she gave lifetime performance.
In Cannes , whe was awarded yesterday, for a DAvid Cronenberg film, MAPS TO THE STARS, a cruel,diting story about...HOLLYWOOD!
Doesn't she look like a forties-fifties movie star on this pic?
Congratulations , JULIANNE!!

I know just what you mean, Stone.

Swarms of admiring sailors press in to shake the hand of Gene Tierney. July, 1944

In a photo taken in October '53, Nejla is seen here bending over backwards for new boyfriend-actor, birthday boySteve Cochran, at a Washington DC nightclub.

That actress you featured, (one picture with Deborah Kerr) is,I think,Betta St John.