*CANDIDS*

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Joan Crawford with director Robert Aldrich

Joan Crawford was the original choice to co-star with Bette Davis in "Hush, Hush...Sweet Charlotte". After she became 'ill' she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland. Here are a few scenes that were filmed with Miss Crawford before production came to a halt.


with Joseph Cotten


with Agnes Moorehead

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Joan Crawford with director Robert Aldrich

Joan Crawford was the original choice to co-star with Bette Davis in "Hush, Hush...Sweet Charlotte". After she became 'ill' she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland. Here are a few scenes that were filmed with Miss Crawford before production came to a halt.


with Joseph Cotten


with Agnes Moorehead

Wow! Joe, thanks for posting these great images. I've never seen these before. I love this movie and as much as I love De Havilland in it, I think Joan could have done the icy sweetness so incredibly well.

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Rudyfan, it was my pleasure. I'm glad that you enjoyed them.

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Greer Garson standing on one leg during her long speech, accepting the best actress Oscar for "Mrs. Miniver" as presenter Joan Fontaine waits

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AUGUST 11th. BIRTHDAYS


LITA BARON is 81 today


ARLENE DAHL is 82 today


JEAN PARKER (1915 - 2005)


LLOYD NOLAN (1902 - 1985)


HELEN BRODERICK (1891 - 1959)

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Grand character actor Edward Everett Horton out with his mom Isabella in 1954

[klondike]

Judith, are you sure Lita Baron's not related to you?

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Not sure -- who knows. It would be cool, only Baron isn't her real name, it's Castro. But maybe the choice of name means there's some long-lost connection there somewhere in my heavily cross-pollinated family.

It's a nice photo, anyway.

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Master makeup artist Jack Pierce works on Tom Tyler in "The Mummy's Hand" in 1940

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AUGUST 12th. BIRTHDAYS


GEORGE HAMILTON is 71 today


JOHN CAZALE (1935 - 1978)


DOUGLAS CROFT (1926 - 1963)


JOHN DEREK (1926 - 1998)


MARJORIE REYNOLDS (1917 - 1997)


CANTINFLAS (1911 - 1993)


JANE WYATT (1910 - 2006)


JOE BESSER (1907 - 1988)


OSKAR HOMOLKA (1898 - 1978)


PAULINE FREDERICK (1883 - 1938)


MARION LORNE (1883 - 1968)


CECIL B. DeMILLE (1881 - 1959)

[JackFavell]

Wow! Noah Beery is one of the best looking character actors there was. I love his gentle drawl.

And I adore Oskar Homolka beyond any reasoning. From his heartbreaking role in Sabotage, to Ball of Fire, to Mr. Sardonicus, and Funeral in Berlin, Skal, Uncle Chris.





"To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than."

"In Europe I played Othello, but in American pictures. . . . I am just the mean fellow who leers at the little heroine and dies hideously in the end."


- Oskar Homolka

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James Cagney & Jeffrey Lynn taking a break on the set of "The Fighting 69th" in 1940

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Director Mitchell Leisen surprises Marlene Dietrich with a bunny during the making of "Golden Earrings"

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AUGUST 13th. BIRTHDAYS


NEVILLE BRAND (1920 - 1992)


CLAUDIA McNEIL (1917 - 1993)


GLORIA DICKSON (1916 - 1945)


RITA JOHNSON (1913 - 1965)


KURT KASZNAR (1913 - 1979)


JOHN BEAL (1909 - 1997)


GENE RAYMOND (1906 - 1998)


CHARLES 'BUDDY' ROGERS (1904 - 1999)


CHUBBY JOHNSON (1903 - 1974)


ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899 - 1980)


REGIS TOOMEY (1898 - 1991)


BERT LAHR (1895 - 1967)


BERYL MERCER (1882 - 1939)

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ODDS & ENDS


Lovely snake charmer Vivien Leigh


Boris Karloff concocting a monstrous breakfast


Marilyn Monroe appears to be, uh, uh...huh