Are you under contract to Warners?

Nope, I'm a Goldwyn Girl!

Not anymore, JL!

No, I'm stuck on Poverty Row.

I still am, after 84 years.

Good grief! Joan in the OP looks like the Joker from Batman.

Right there with ya, R3!

Yeah, I'm the kept girl of Harry Cohn ... what of it?

Warner's has us right where we want them!

I half kontract vit Republic Picturez!

I’ll call my lawyer and get back to you.

One of those Brothers sucked me off, I forgot which one. But I only got to do 3 pictures, damn it!

I never got a callback. Fuckers.

I thought that was Sonja Henie at R9.

They're fat.

R13 Excuse me, I was signed to 2Oth Century Fox!!!!

This thread has had me cracking up for 24 hours, so I'm bumping this motherfucker.

Not me, no-sir-ee! I'm poised to become the new Doris Day, if only I can shove Carl Laemmle's heaving, gasping corpulence off me before I asphyxiate!

I was its resident Pin-up Queen.

What are you, a carhop or a dress extra?

Not I, Op. And as long as I know where all LB Mayer's skeletons are buried, there's always going to be a supporting role in an MGM feature, and a byline with the Los Angeles Times!

Poll at 50/50.

Yes, and I'm pissed that Jack Warner wouldn't even consider me for My Fair Lady.

Those cheap bastards at Warner Bros signed us to their television division and put us in feature films with no increases in salary! No share of the profits. Nothing. Bastards!

We're stuck with that asshole Harry Cohn.

They labelled me box office poison!

Mayer should know the price I pay.

Warner Brothers, Puhlease:

"They were grooming me to be the new Vera Miles,”

“The new who?”

“I was supposed to replace somebody the audience didn’t even know was missing!”

Doris Day was under contract to Warner Brothers for 7 years and was overjoyed to leave them. They had her do a lot of fluff movies and she almost refused to do one of them toward the end. Her best movie while under Warners was Calamity Jane.

Was watching Merv years ago, and some actor of yesteryear (Victor Mature? Burt Lancaster?) referred to his studio as Penitentiary Fox - I found that amusing and quite telling....

I was for a little while. Then Warner Brothers stopped making musicals, and they let MGM buy my contract.

“Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.”

I love Bette's outfit in OP's picture.

I was once Queen of the Warners' Lot.

Shit, my movies made more than Kay's and Bette's, and I was the highest paid actress on the Warner lot!

Why yes. Yes I am.

Zdravstvujtye, DL!. I just signed an exclusive contract with Samuel Goldwyn. Watch out bitches, in a few years I'll become the New Garbo!

No, I'm at MGM where they have more stars than the heavens.

Wanga-wanga!

I thertantly am, thweet thtuff.

No, but it's got my initials!

No, I'm a free agent.

No.

I'm the girl who works at Paramount all day and Fox all night!

RKO and Paramount made the best movies of the golden age. Fact.

I only played supporting roles in A movies but I starred in B films (Heat Lightning, HELLO!)

Hell, at least I had fun!

The big money is at Universal.

Although Bette gets all the credit for fighting with Jack Warner, I was pissing him off YEARS before she was under contract. The Warner Brothers (né Eichelbaum) all tried to make me slip my panties down, but I fucked men because I wanted to; I wasn't attracted by the Warner Bros. Lilliputian dicks and over-weening egos, not to mention their utter lack of artistry or talent.

Just inked a deal at Metro!

Congrats, R46!

Absolutely!

Only for about 7 years, OP. Then I became Mrs. Alfred N. Steele and conquered the business world as Pepsi-Cola's brand ambassadress, while still finding time to raise a loving family and make some of my greatest filmic triumphs!

Trog, R49?

I was only ever contract to my PIMP!

you bitches slay

Sad to say that I’m not.

JUUISH!

Who is the script girl on this production?

Ith’s a theven year non-ethcluthive contwact!

Where she goes, I go ... so, yeah.

R42, I think you meant RKO and Warners.

James Cagney grew up on the lower east side of New York in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and picked up Yiddish from the local kids he hung with. When he was having contract problems with the Warner's, Jack said to his brothers in Yiddish in a meeting with Cagney some disparagement like, "tell him yes but we'll screw him over later." Cagney understood every word and cursed up a storm, in Yiddish, in response. The brothers were absolutely astonished.

Well are you?

That horrible Strickling at Goldwyn is pressuring me into ANOTHER abortion. A lady should only have one abortion per lifetime, otherwise, they will brand me a harlot! Should I leave for Warners? Maybe they will let me keep this one.

I may as well have PROPERTY OF MGM tattooed to my backside!

R61, give Warners a call. Give it a try.

Well you see Warners Brothers, although they were Jews, alway gave me a fair shot.

Was Kirk Douglas ever under contract to Warners?

I would like to have been, I'm still awaiting their call, everyday I sit by the telephone waiting with bated breath.

Movie-tone News.

If I hadn’t taken them to court over their suspension clauses, I would STILL be under contract to them.

DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS .

Yeah, I’m at Warners... [italic] face down in the mud for twenty takes![/italic] Still, John Garfield was kind enough to request me after my snooty Broadway career tanked. Welcome home, I guess.

GOD, I need a drink - -

Joan has crazy eyes in OP's pic.

Sold by S.O.B. Hawks to JackASS Warner, suspended 12 times,had to BUY myself out. Damm!