Old Hollywood Stars: Before and After

[W-D Forties]

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac

with sister Francoise.

Catherine became a blonde at age 17. She became famous as Catherine Deneuve.

Wow, before I scrolled down fully I expected that to be a young Natalie Wood!

 

[Miss Golightly]

Wow, before I scrolled down fully I expected that to be a young Natalie Wood!

Me too - they are so alike!

 

[HadleyH]

Let's post some pictures of him, shall we?

"I know, I know! - Some are gorgeous from the cradle on! I can't help it!"~~~lol~~~:first:

 

[cashun]

Let's post some pictures of him, shall we?

"I know, I know! - Some are gorgeous from the cradle on! I can't help it!"~~~lol~~~:first:

Wow! Oh my, those are some very luscious lips. You're right gorgeous right from the start. What is that clip from?

 

[cherry lips]

^Wow what a beautiful boy! Those getty watermarks annoy me.

 

[HadleyH]

I agree with you cashun , gorgeous from the start!
Sadly, I don't know what that clip is from



I know cherry lips, watermarks are annoying grrrr.... nevertheless, something is better than nothing!

 

[dmoran227]

Thank you all I adored this thread Marlon made me about swoon

 

[Miss Golightly]

I agree with you cashun , gorgeous from the start!
Sadly, I don't know what that clip is from

Is it by chance from The Men?

 

[AmateisGal]

Marlon was SO yummy...

 

[cherry lips]

Beauty Queen

All beauty bottled up in one woman.

 

[cherry lips]

and the years just made her more and more beautiful after that...

 

[cherry lips]

A favorite Silver Screen star of mine, especially her earlier movies. See if you can guess before you get to the end.:
As a little tyke, circa 1915:

As a budding young lady,circa 1922:

As a Jazz Age baby, circa 1923:

As a Hollywood hopeful, circa 1925:

And circa 1944, please pass the eyebrow pencil... Joan Crawford, here in "Mildred Pierce"

More Joan!

"I have known Joan Crawford for more than thirty-five years. I still don't know her at all..She is the only star I know who manufactured herself...She drew up a blueprint for herself and outlined a beautiful package of skin, bones and character and then set about to put life into the outline. She succeeded, and so Joan Crawford came into existence at the same time an overweight Charleston dancer, born Lucille LeSueur, disappeared from the world. It took me a long time to realize this. I believed, for some time, that Lucille existed under the skin." - Louella Parsons

Lucille LeSueur 1924

her first film

Joan Crawford, (Lucille LeSueur) in The Unknown

"Some movie stars don't seem like stars when you meet them, and some seem more like stars off the screen than on. I don't know which type is better, but Miss Crawford [is] definitely the latter type." - Marilyn Monroe

Nicknames growing up: Billie Cassin, Cranberry
more here http://www.meredy.com/joancrawford/bio.html and here http://stirredstraightup.blogspot.com

 

[dhermann1]

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and the years just made her more and more beautiful after that...

Mehhh!!! Eating canned fruit cocktail! So much for those ultra glamorous Golden Age venues!

 

[HadleyH]

adorable!

Lucille Ball was blonde????

 

[magnolia76]

adorable!

Lucille Ball was blonde????

Wow Lucy!! This is a much glamorous side of her.

 

[HadleyH]

Wow Lucy!! This is a much glamorous side of her.

Oh yes, magnolia! During the 1930s/ early 40s she was quite a dazzling lady!

 

[HadleyH]

Adorable tiny tot with beautiful eyebrows!

with sister

Tyrone Power

 

[Mae Croft]

Lucy was always glamorous! I think, though, that by the time the late 40s came around (after the New Look) there was a sort of hokey, kitschy factor to what I guess you could call domestic glamour. It didn't unmake glamour (reinvented it, I should say) but you have hairstyles like the poodle vs. styles like fingerwaves and there's an obvious difference in silhouette. But she was always a very glamorous lady!

 

[rue]

He is one beautiful man, isn't he Hadley? Every time he walks into a movie he steals the show (sigh)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Here's Joan Crawford singing and dancing in Hollywood Revue of 1929

[video=youtube;W3tAsM_tMRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3tAsM_tMRQ[/video]