I'm twice Academy Award nominee (but not winner) Ruth Chatterton
Let's be Old Hollywood names
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 21, 2019 10:20 PM |
I was the Jennifer Lawrence of my time!
Or the Ernest Borgnine.
It's been a long time.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 13, 2019 4:21 AM |
I'm Janet Gaynor ... the first MRS. NORMAN MAINE
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 13, 2019 4:30 AM |
Spring Byington anyone?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 13, 2019 4:41 AM |
Una Merkel
Blanche Yurka
Nina Mae McKinney
Helen Twelvetrees
Bunny Sunshine
Zasu Pitts
Agnes Ayres
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 13, 2019 7:16 AM |
Helen Twelvetrees - my favorite actress
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 13, 2019 9:23 AM |
Mary Miles Minter.
Mary!!!
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Debette Goldry
Gaye Fontaine
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Hedda Hopper
Louella Parsons
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Gale Sondergaard
Alice Brady
Stu Erwin
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Mildred Harris
Lilyan Tashman
Mary Eaton
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Anna Q. Nilsson
Claire Windsor
Alla Nazimova
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 13, 2019 10:13 PM |
I'm Marie Dressler.
And I'm Louise Dresser.
And I'm Louise Closser Hale.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 13, 2019 10:31 PM |
David Manners
Kent Douglass, then Douglass Montgomery
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 13, 2019 11:26 PM |
Snitz Edwards
Daphne Pollard
Raymond Griffith
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Sam De Grasse
Francis X. Bushman
Nita Naldi
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 13, 2019 11:38 PM |
I'm homo Nils Asther, who was pressured into a beard marriage by MGM!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 13, 2019 11:46 PM |
Ann Sheridan
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 13, 2019 11:48 PM |
I'm Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers sharing a tender moment toward the end of *Wings*.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 13, 2019 11:56 PM |
Rock Hudson
Tab Hunter
Chad Everett
Nick Adams
Guy Madison
Troy Donahue
Rory Calhoun
Yale Summers
Clint Walker
Doug McClure
Dack Rambo
Ty Hardin
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 14, 2019 12:15 AM |
R20, you forgot me!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 14, 2019 1:03 AM |
Anita Louise Theda Bara Clara Bow Dorothy Sabastian Agnes Morehead Dolores Costello
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 14, 2019 1:13 AM |
I’m Jean Arthur.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 14, 2019 1:13 AM |
Minerva Urecal
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 14, 2019 1:14 AM |
I forgot Lya De Putti .
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 14, 2019 1:31 AM |
Cary Grant
Joan Crawford
Fred Astaire
Judy Garland
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 14, 2019 1:39 AM |
Skelton Knaggs
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 14, 2019 1:40 AM |
Van Nest Polglase---Look it up.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 14, 2019 1:44 AM |
Vilma Banky and Rod LaRocque
Hollywood's first lavender marriage.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 14, 2019 1:50 AM |
Edith Head
Orry-Kelly
Jean Louis
Travis Banton
Adrian
Irene
Irene Sharaff
Even the Costume Designers had exciting names!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 14, 2019 1:53 AM |
Beverly Roberts
Glynis Johns
Jean Arthur
Ann Richards
Gladys George
Jean Peters
Penny Edwards
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 14, 2019 1:56 AM |
Lina Lamont
Sugarpuss O'Shea
Norma Desmond
Vicky Lester
Norman Maine
Don Lockwood
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 14, 2019 1:59 AM |
Googie Withers here!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 14, 2019 1:59 AM |
Pola Negri
Jobyna Ralston
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 14, 2019 2:02 AM |
Gustav von Seyfertitz
Doro Merande
Tempe Piggot
Evelyn Venable
Adeline deWalt Reynolds
Victor Mature
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 14, 2019 2:05 AM |
Jetta Goudal
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 14, 2019 2:10 AM |
THEDA BARA = ARAB DEATH
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 14, 2019 2:12 AM |
Lupe Velez
Edna Purviance
Anita Page
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 14, 2019 2:15 AM |
G.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 14, 2019 2:19 AM |
Jeanette MacDonald
Nelson Eddy
Marjorie Main
Gene Raymond
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 14, 2019 2:23 AM |
Vivian Vance
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 14, 2019 2:31 AM |
In case you forgot, “The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life!”.~ Edith Massey
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 14, 2019 2:44 AM |
Rod Le Roc
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 14, 2019 3:05 AM |
Hi I’m Molly Wemple! I just arrived in Hollywood straight off the Greyhound from Sioux City, Iowa. My mama always said I should be in picture, so here I am!
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 14, 2019 4:02 AM |
Ramon Novarro
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 14, 2019 4:12 AM |
We're the Joans. Crawford, Bennett, Leslie, Caulfield, Davis
We're the Powells. William, Dick, Eleanor, Jane
We're the Jeans. Arthur, Harlow, Parker
We're the Genes. Tierney, Kelly, Nelson
We're the Rogerses. Will, Ginger, Roy
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 14, 2019 4:29 AM |
WE'RE the Jeans: Simmons, Peters, Gabin, Marais, Negulesco
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 14, 2019 4:58 AM |
I am Republic Pictures superstar Vera Hruba Ralston.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 14, 2019 5:40 AM |
Florence Lawrence - the first film star known by name. Forgoten and impoverished munched on ant paste as her last supper.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 14, 2019 5:58 AM |
Greta "I van't to be alone and minge munching" Garbo
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 14, 2019 6:02 AM |
Louise Fazenda
Flora Fiinch
John Bunny
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 14, 2019 6:02 AM |
Ramon "I have not chocked to death on antique bronze dildo" Novarro
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 14, 2019 6:04 AM |
R52 BUT William Mann wrote a novel based on her life, "The Biograph Girl," that tells a different story. Very entertaining.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 14, 2019 6:05 AM |
I'm Gustav von Seyffertitz.
Even I'm not sure how my last name was pronounced, but I had a Hollywood career from 1917-1939. I died in 1943 at the age of 81.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 14, 2019 6:23 AM |
I'm Peg Entwistle. I jumped to my death off the H in the Hollywood sign at the age of 32. The Who wrote a song about me.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 14, 2019 6:31 AM |
Archie Leach, "I'll be with you in a minute!"
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 14, 2019 6:36 AM |
I am Virginia Rappe, if you don't remember me ask Fatty Arbucle...
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 14, 2019 6:39 AM |
I'm Sonja Henie. I was once engaged to noted heterosexualist, Liberace.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 14, 2019 6:58 AM |
Shame on you, R31 - you forgot Omar Kiam!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 14, 2019 7:06 AM |
Billie Burke
Margaret Hamilton
Edward Everett Horton
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 14, 2019 7:15 AM |
Butterfly McQueen
Hattie McDaniel
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 14, 2019 9:16 AM |
Norma Desmond
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 14, 2019 9:23 AM |
Anna May Wong Bitches.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 14, 2019 9:28 AM |
Laura Hope Crews
Boris Karloff
Norma Shearer
Shirley Temple
Cantinflas
Paulette Goddard
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 14, 2019 9:32 AM |
Astrid Allwyn
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 14, 2019 3:04 PM |
I don't know why the OP is greyed out. Are trolls at work? I haven't seen a Ruth Chatterton movie yet but her reputation doesn't call for a F&F response.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 14, 2019 3:48 PM |
I'm Richard Barthlemess and all I do is stare.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 14, 2019 4:06 PM |
RIN TIN TIN
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 14, 2019 5:48 PM |
R70 Ruth was quite a gal. Became an aviatrix. When Mary Astor endured that custody case that involved her racy diary, Ruth attended, for moral support. She was married for a while to noted pussyhound George Brent, who co-starred with Davis in 78 movies.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 14, 2019 5:51 PM |
I was screwing Archie Leach ... jelous bitches?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 14, 2019 6:07 PM |
Steffi Duna
Elissa Landi
Adrienne Ames
Ilona (that's "i" then "l") Massey
Lya de Putti
Rafaela Ottianol
Jinx Falkenberg
Milizia Korjus (They called her "Gorgeous Korjus")
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 14, 2019 6:15 PM |
I was relatively unknown in the Land of Free - due to your censorship bitches, but quite famous everywhere else in the 1910s
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 14, 2019 6:18 PM |
Lya de Putti? Please .... she makes to many faces.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 14, 2019 6:21 PM |
But not too many faces
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 14, 2019 6:46 PM |
Constance and Joan Bennett
Norma and Dolores Talmadge
Priscilla and Rosemary Lane
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 14, 2019 7:47 PM |
Vera-Ellen
Ann-Margret
Margo
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 14, 2019 7:48 PM |
Mary Miles Minter
Olive Thomas
Miriam Hopkins
Beulah Bondi
Faye Bainter
Mildred Dunnock
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Marion Davies
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 14, 2019 8:20 PM |
Edna May Oliver
Marcia Mae Jones
Nigel Bruce
David Bruce
Virginia Bruce
Virginia Van Upp
Harry Von Zell
Theodore Von Eltz
Elisha Cook, Jr
Elissa Landi
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 14, 2019 9:05 PM |
Someone with more energy than me should really do a list of all the stars with alliterative names, like Marilyn Monroe.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 14, 2019 10:42 PM |
Anna Sten
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 14, 2019 11:32 PM |
Maria Montez
Turhan Bey
Sabu
Acquanetta
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 14, 2019 11:46 PM |
Belita
Sir Lancelot
Zorina
Vera-Ellen
Nazimova
Gregory Gaye
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 15, 2019 12:03 AM |
Some favorite off camera names
Rex Wimpy
Gaetano Gaudio (Tony)
Anton Grot
Milo Anderson
Natalie Kalmus
Darrell Silvera
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Hal Pereria
And a particular fave...Farciot Edouart
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 15, 2019 12:10 AM |
I used to confuse Farciot with Travis Banton.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 15, 2019 12:21 AM |
Clark Goebbel
Betty Graebel
In their home country spellings.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 15, 2019 12:26 AM |
Carole Lombard
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 15, 2019 12:29 AM |
R1 fun fact: Marie Dressler was a good friend of gay and much-younger actor Richard Cromwell, who was the first husband of Angela Lansbury. Briefly
by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 15, 2019 12:30 AM |
I'm Louise Fazenda! Charm and character wit personified, but I'm married to Hal Wallis so ultimately being a rich society woman is more interesting than pursuing my career.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 15, 2019 12:33 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 15, 2019 12:53 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 15, 2019 2:46 AM |
Margo (Mrs. Eddie Albert)
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 15, 2019 3:05 AM |
Eric Blore
Erik Rhodes
Alice Brady
Helen Broderick
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 15, 2019 3:37 AM |
I'm Wini Shaw!
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 15, 2019 3:48 AM |
What idiot just keeps listing names? Thanks so much, we could get that much out of wikipedia.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 15, 2019 3:49 AM |
I'm Baby Peggy!
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 15, 2019 3:52 AM |
Edward Everett Horton.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 15, 2019 7:08 AM |
R99 is super at kvetching.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 15, 2019 7:10 AM |
Donald Meek, diminutive character actor of the 1930s-40s who always played timid, fearful and hen-pecked roles. Meek was his real name.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 15, 2019 1:29 PM |
Bettina Dawes
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 15, 2019 1:45 PM |
Splangler Arlington Brough
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 15, 2019 2:50 PM |
Maria Ouspenskaya -queen of the on screen Gypsies!!!
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 15, 2019 7:32 PM |
I'm Gloria Stuart.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 15, 2019 7:47 PM |
I'm Anna Sten, Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo. He dropped me after three flops.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 15, 2019 9:03 PM |
I am Sigrid Gurie, another one of Samuel Goldwyn's failed attempts at launching a new Garbo. Billed as "The Norwegian Garbo" or "The Siren of the Fjords," I was actually born in exotic Brooklyn.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 16, 2019 2:54 AM |
I'm Franciska Gaal, another one of those European glamour gals brought over to be the next Dietrich or Garbo. Like Anna Sten.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 16, 2019 2:57 AM |
I'm Isa Miranda, the "Italian Marlene Dietrich." I briefly had a Hollywood career at Paramount. But, I guess one Dietrich was enough.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 16, 2019 3:01 AM |
We're Ona Munson and Osa Massen. We're not the same person.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 16, 2019 3:32 AM |
I'm Alice Faye. I was a box office superstar.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | March 16, 2019 4:58 AM |
I guess I should have posted a picture of Anna Sten.
Now I have.
By the way, Sten was from Germany.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 16, 2019 10:50 PM |
Barbara LaMarr
Hedy Lamarr
Dorothy Lamour
Bessie Love
Louise Lovely
Linda Lovelace
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 16, 2019 11:32 PM |
Tallulah Bankhead.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 16, 2019 11:43 PM |
I’m Bess Flowers, The Queen of the Hollywood Extras. I appeared in over 350 films and countless TV shows. Here I am on the left, in one of my most famous appearances. Have you seen any of my pictures?
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 17, 2019 12:41 AM |
R114 I think Sten had some Slavic ancestry. She was gorgeous (obviously).
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 17, 2019 12:59 AM |
Bess, honey, it would be hard NOT to see any of your pictures.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 17, 2019 1:01 AM |
R120 That's about all she was. Goldwyn signed her before knowing that A.) she couldn't speak English and B.) she couldn't act. He hired her strictly based on her looks.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 17, 2019 2:57 AM |
I'm Norma Varden. I made dozens of movies and to portrayed some memorable characters in classic films such as Casablanca, National Velvet, Strangers on a Train, Witness for the Prosecution, The Sound of Music and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I was also Mrs. Benson who belongs in another thread because I switched apartments with Lucy and Ricky.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | March 17, 2019 3:09 AM |
I'm Evelyn Varden, who SOME people confused with Norma, though I'm the the one who starred in The Bad Seed AND Night of the Hunter.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 17, 2019 5:01 AM |
Starred, Evelyn?
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 17, 2019 5:11 AM |
I’m Leona Richards. For 40 years I played such roles as "nightclub patron", "party guest", "restaurant patron", "court spectator", and in a memorable episode of "Murder She Wrote", "mourner." That’s me sitting just behind Lucy, playing the role of "audience member."
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 17, 2019 2:12 PM |
I’m must be getting senile, my name is Leoda, not Leona!
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 17, 2019 2:12 PM |
R114 Sten was a Ukrainian actress from Kiev.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | March 21, 2019 8:42 PM |
R128 I got my info from a book I have called "The Real Oscar" (now out of print) which said she was German. It could have been wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 21, 2019 10:20 PM |