MANNISH ACTRESSES and possibly or possibly NOT REAL WOMEN

[Marc Chevalier]

Holy flying von sternbergs! It took 14 posts to get to Marelne Dietrich on this thread?

Erm, no. It took 3 posts:

Dietrich and Garbo obviously.

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[Dixon Cannon]

From 'Napoleon Dynamite'....

Carmen Brady who played 'Starla', the kick-boxers wife!

 

[jake_fink]

Erm, no. It took 3 posts:




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Okay, so I'm an English professor not a math professor (or was the problem reading comprehension?).

 

[skinnychik]

I thought you guys said that it counted even if someone led Marc off topic. I think that if he wonders if men are afraid to post he led himself astray.

I still question the relevance of his Berkeley ROTC comments within the Suffering for Vintage thread. I think he owes a tie.

Oh, and if he tries to defend himself as having been on topic within this thread, would THAT be off topic?


And for my tiny bit of on-topicness: Liz Kettle (Honoria Glossop in Jeeves & Wooster)

 

[Mike in Seattle]

The rumors were rampant through the Golden Age and up until her death in 1980...

Mae West

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Glenn Close.

 

[NewMexExpat]

Not based on this picture.

Marlene Dietrich.

[huh] Never mind the necktie and suit, I see nothing "Mannish" about her.

 

[J.B.]

Nancy Kulp (as Miss Jane Hathaway in the '60s TV series, "The Beverly Hillbillies".)
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I really loved Nancy Kulp's appearances in The Gale Storm Show -- Oh! Susanna during T.V.'s Golden Age..

IIRC, one of Nancy's interviews made it into a Boze Hadleigh's book posthumously (as are all his interviews?!) -- an author whose seemingly one-track "works" include...

• Conversations With My Elders (1986)
• The Vinyl Closet: Gays in the Music World (1991)
• The Lavender Screen: Gay and Lesbian Films - Their Stars, Makers, Characters and Critics (1993)
• Hollywood Babble On: Stars Gossip About Other Stars (1994)
• Hollywood Lesbians (1996)
• Hollywood Gays: Conversations with: Cary Grant, Liberace, Tony Perkins, Paul Lynde, Cesar Romero, Brad Davis, Randolph Scott, James Coco, William Haine (1996)
• Celebrity Feuds!: The Cattiest Rows, Spats, and Tiffs ever Recorded (1999)
• Sing Out!: Gays and Lesbians in the Music World (1999)
• Hollywood Bitch: The Snippy, Snotty and Scandalous Things Stars Say About Each Other (1999)
• In or Out: Stars on Sexuality: a Collection of Celebrity Quotes (2001)
• Celluloid Gaze (2002)

...well, you get the idea.

 

[G. Fink-Nottle]

I submit Mary Grace Canfield (Ralph Monroe from Green Acres).

 

[Story]

[huh] Never mind the necktie and suit, I see nothing "Mannish" about her.

It would depend on which way the wind was blowing, since Dietrich played both sides of the sexual and wardrobe coin. Supposedly, she was known as the 'best dressed man in Hollywood' and it's been written that throughout the 1930s, Dietrich was literally seen in pants everywhere she went. Asked to replace her in Blonde Venus, Tallulah Bankhead replied, "Oh Goodie, I always wanted to get into Marlene`s pants". [huh]


Now you too can get into Marlene Dietrich's pants (thanks to my Google-Fu).

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[jazzbass]

Hmmmmmm

I'm sure I'm alone on this but sometimes Jane Russell looked like a trannie with a boob job to me.



jazzbass

 

[BellyTank]

Bea Arthur...

...of course.

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