Joan Crawford, 1947
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The Sterling Screen
Sidney Poitier photographed by Dennis Stock
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Most histories of Marilyn’s career ignore her classes at the Actors Lab and her performances at the playhouse. Her achievements there show that she had stage experience and capacity to sustain a long performance as well as a facility for remembering lines and the power to project her voice to the back of a theater. People who knew her personally were aware of the breathy voice as a gimmick; Jim Dougherty, for instance, comments in his memoir upon this affectation. The whispery voice was Marilyn’s creation, along with several other trademarks that combined to produce her public persona.
-My Sister Marilyn by Berniece Baker Miracle
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Lana Turner by the pool, 1951.
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Henry Fonda, 1930s
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Prince Aly Khan and Gene Tierney, C.1950’s
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An eight-minute two-strip Technicolor sequence in “Hell’s Angels” (1930) remains the only surviving color footage of its star, Jean Harlow.
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Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy on the beach in New Jersey, c. 1941
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Rita Hayworth
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