When Stars Collide

Marilyn and the Reagans

Michael Douglas, Angelica Huston, Mick Jagger, Babs and M.

Liz, Judy, Monty

Judy, Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt

Victoria Barkley meets Vera Charles

The two best Joans

Jane thanking Barbara for turning down the role of Angela Channing. If Barbara had played Angela, Lana Turner would have been turned down as a guest star.

Joan, Judy, Jane

Lady Kier and Anthony Kiedis (although this might have been around the time they did their magazine cover together) so sexy the both of them

Lucy looks like she did her own makeup or skipped it altogether in OP’s pic.

Young Drew Barrymore and Billy Idol

Nancy is trying to intimidate Marilyn, making sure Marilyn knows she’s the #1 cocksucker in Hollywood and that Ronnie is her property.

Billy is asking Drew where to get the best coke

Easy-E and Barbara Eden

Myrna Loy, Bette Davis and Constance Bennett.

These bitches were only in their fifties at the time, if you can even believe it. 70 year-olds don't look like this today.

Bette Davis, Myrna Loy, Lillian Gish and Ginger Rogers, looking absolutely ancient.

A very young Drew Barrymore lights up Stephen King's cig. It was the 80s, this kind of thing wasn't a big deal back then.

Jerry Herman / Ellen Burstyn / Sally Struthers

Stephen King — looking so respectful and polite — no improper vibes — note his hands clasped , noticeably away from any improper reach. Drew truly looks like a little girl in a party dress , standing a polite distance away from King.

But the guy is my hero writer anyway.

One can only imagine this picture with Jack Nicholson , Roman Polanski etc.... ecch

Young Drew moments from passing out at Studio54 - she had too many.

P.S. Her parents need a helluva ass kickin!

I love how old women actually let themselves look old back then. It was like a badge of honor. Give me haggard Bette over the stretched out, plastic, Nicole or Julia or any other older actress today.

It's astounding Drew turned out as well as she has. I'd have predicted certain death for that poor kid.

Dolly, Donna and Brenda

One of my favorites. I claim this wall.

"Lana Turner at a famous party given by Marion Davies (with Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas and Ben Gage also in shot), Hollywood"

Judy looks so smashed at these parties.

Bette Davis looking at Vivien Leigh and still resentful that she got to play Scarlett.

Diana Dors and Jayne Mansfield in Leeds, of all places.

Most Likely to Outlive Everyone Else: Liz, Michael, Whitney, and Liza.

Donna and a Black Michael Jackson

Donna and a lighter Michael Jackson

Donna and Corey Feldman

Kylie and a very tall Scientology Refugee

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Leeds the Lalahland of West Yorkshire!

One of the more amusing photos I've seen was of Marilyn Manson buddying up to Taylor Swift.

R35 presume you did not post it, as you are a fat whore.

Diana Dors and Jayne Mansfield look so hard, cheap, and easy. That is an amazing picture.

I didn't post it, r36, because posting photos on DL is a ridiculously convoluted process I have no patience for, and because I didn't think that many people actually wanted to see either one of them.

Thank you for taking the time to post it for us.

[quote]because posting photos on DL is a ridiculously convoluted process I have no patience for,

It's easy AF. On a PC -Right click on the pic, select 'copy image address' then paste the url into the link box. On a phone or tablet, just highlight 'copy' and do the same.

R33, they completely cut out guitar god Jeff Beck.

Mick looks like he's the odd man out.

Joan Crawford & Pat Nixon

What are Diana doors?

Mariah Carey and her mom with Luciano Pavarotti. I double checked and this is not a Madame Tussaud sculpture.

Steve Rubell, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Tom Cruise.

OP, that causes a HUGE explosion and .... oh fuck it.

Joan Rivers, David Lee Roth, Pee Wee Herman, and Elton John

Liza and Bette Midler

I LOVE seeing Judy with Joan Crawford, & Elizabeth Taylor @ R3 & R8. I'm a fan of all three, and obviously I knew their career spans overlapped, but I'd never seen them together. I'm really enjoying this thread in general, OP. MORE, PLEASE!

Judy and Joan seemed to delight in each other's company.

Judy and Joan again.

Joan and Judy

Except here. It looks as if Joan walked in on Judy gossiping about her and is ready to smack her down.

Joan attended one of Judy's sold out summer of 1967 Palace Theater shows and even went up onstage during the bows and gave a speech about "This young girl" and meeting her at MGM in the 1930s. It's on some bootleg I listened to on Youtube and it's fascinating if you enjoy that stuff.

Joan seemed to really like Judy and found her very talented.

[quote]Except here. It looks as if Joan walked in on Judy gossiping about her...

That looks like George Burns next to Judy in that picture. I'd say it's from about 1955.

[quote] "Judy and Joan seemed to delight in each other's company."

Can you IMAGINE their conversations, R50?! Especially as the night wore on, and the drinks continued to flow? I'd pay a lot of money to have been a fly on the wall!

[quote]Lucy looks like she did her own makeup or skipped it altogether in OP’s pic.

And Louella appears to have suffered a stroke.

R17 Firestarter (1984)

Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, Virginia Mayo, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Maxwell, Fran Warren, 1948

1984

Always liked this cute shot of Dusty and Paul.

David Cassidy and Elton John, photographed by Henry Diltz.

R62 Thought it was Patti Smith.

The First Lady and the notorious John Wayne Gacy.

John Lennon autographs a copy of his album "Double Fantasy" for the man who would murder him later that same day.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience with Jeremy Thorpe.

Bowie & Liz

R65 Stunning photo. God. It must hurt Yoko, Sean and Julian so much.

Get a load of Edith Bunker slutting it up with Alice Cooper!

Diana Ross and Brian Jones from the Stones. He must have addressed her other than Miss Ross.

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon appear annoyed or perplexed by what Monty Clift is saying.

David Cassidy again, this time with Gina Lolobrigida. Legend has it they got it on.

R28, they always edit out Yoko Ono and Christie Brinkley from that shot.

Did Madonna walk onto the wrong set?

I think "Who's That Girl" and "Nuts" were both shot at Warner Bros. at the same time.

R71 they appear focused

[quote]Did Madonna walk onto the wrong set?

No, but Barbra did when she signed up to play an elite call girl.

Alice and the Colonel

Carol Channing and Tallulah Bankhead. And is that Marlene?

R69 it’s that outfit for real? Can’t be. Looks shopped on.

R65 that creeps the shit out of me.

Another of my absolute favorites, Jackie Gleason, Salvador Dale and Johnny Ray and El Morocco owner John Perona. What a weird concoction.

Carol Channing and Tallulah Bankhead shared a birthday (January 31) and there are many pics of them celebrating together over the years. Here they are at the Stork Club, with Gloria Swanson.

R79 R82 Carol looks strikingly modern compared to the other ladies.

Ernest Hemingway and Lauren Bacall. Those drinks had FLAVAH!

[quote]Carol looks strikingly modern compared to the other ladies.

Carol was always thoroughly modern.

Liz Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida show up at yhe same event wearing the same dress. Hilarity ensues after Liz makes it known that her's is the original.

Liza and Bette Davis. Can you just smell the cig fumes?

Carol and Tallulah ate more than cake together on their birthday.

The A-Team

Dickie Wells, Billie Holiday, Tallulah Bankhead

Good one, R90. Allegedly, B and T were lovers at some point or another.

Here's Billie with Sinatra.

Love these!

Not Marlene! I believe the couple behind Carol Channing and Tallulah in that first photo at r79 is gossip columnist Earl Wilson and his wife, who he always referred to in his column as the BW (Beautiful Wife).

Pat Nixon and Zsa Zsa

Jackie with Sterling St Jacques (wtf is SSJ?!!)

Joan Rivers, Rob Zombie, and George Takei.

Molly, Susannah, and Belinda

Linda Blair and Miley Cyrus

"Sometimes I like to mention Lizabeth Scott just to infuriate her. What can I say? It amuses me."

Bobby and Rudi - perhaps they're looking for a phone booth....

Gina Lollobrigida, Marina Cicogna, Jane Fonda

Sophia, Michael, Gina, Quincy

Elvis and Nixon. Elvis crashed the White House (packing a firearm) and took little White House memorabilia trinkets without asking. Told Nixon that he would help fight the War Against Drugs.

3 Smart Girls: Julie Christie, Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve

[Original Caption]: "Singer Tom Jones (center) celebrated his 34th birthday, June 6, with a star-studded, 2 a.m. backstage party at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Left to right, Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, Jones, Dionne Warwicke, Debbie Reynolds, and Liberace."

Catherine Deneuve, Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey

Barbra, Ella, Eydie

The legendary musician was being pursued at The Beatles rented mansion in Los Angeles by blonde actress who was intent on seducing Lennon.

John Lennon urinated in a cocktail before giving it to one of America's best-known sex symbol's and watching her drink it, a new book has claimed.

The legendary musician was being pursued at The Beatles rented mansion in Los Angeles by blonde actress Jayne Mansfield, who was intent on seducing Lennon.

However, the Beatle took a dislike to the actress after she began tugging at his distinctive hair.

In revenge, Lennon urinated into the actress' cocktail before watching in delight as she drank it.

According to the book, called The Beatles: Messages From John, Paul, George And Ringo,Mansfield drank the drink before declaring it was "a real humdinger".

Lennon eventually told the actress later in a nightclub what had been in the drink - which he called a Beatle Special.

He was then forced to make a quick exit from the club after the actress attempting to attack him.

By: Anthony Bond

Source: The Daily Mirror

Jackie and Ali - soul siblings

Eleanor and Lucy.

Lucy with Eleanor again, with Red Skelton, John Garfield and Maria Montez. Can't tell who the other stars are.

Donald and Melania Trump with Bill and Hillary Clinton

Some great photos at the link. Lucy was everywhere. Can you imagine the gossip on that train?

The Hollywood Bond Cavalcade, which toured the country in September 1943, was part of the Third War Loan Drive to raise money for America to fight in the Second World War. It wasn't the first bond tour but it was a fantastically successful fund raising escapade even by today's standards.

A troupe of about 95 left Los Angeles aboard an east bound 11-car special red, white, and blue train. Director Eddie Buzzell continued rehearsals on the train, which was equipped with a portable dance floor and a piano. The tour was managed by Charles K. Feldman and Kenneth Thomson. The troupe included James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Harpo Marx, Olivia de Havilland, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Lucille Ball, Paul Henreid, Dick Powell, Greer Garson, Betty Hutton, Kathryn Grayson, Kay Kyser and his Music Makers, Ish Kabibble, Harry Babbitt, starlets Julie Conway, Diane Pendleton, Muriel Goodspeed, Georgia Carroll, and the Bond Bombadiers: Rosemary LaPlanche, Doris Merrick, Marjorie Stewart, and Dolores Moran.

The Cavalcade arrived in Washington on the morning of September 8 and were paraded to the Washington Monument. That night the tour was kicked off with a radio broadcast carried by the 567 affiliates of the four networks and 324 independent stations. After talks by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, the broadcast switched to Hollywood, where Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, Charles Boyer, Dinah Shore, Edgar Bergen, Don Ameche, Robert Young, Ronald Colman, George Murphy, Akim Tamiroff, and Don Wilson performed special material written by Irving Berlin, Arch Oboler, and Private First Class Frank Loesser. The broadcast then switched back to Washington where Cagney placed the services of the Cavalcade and the film industry at the disposal of the U.S. Treasury and the troupe went through their paces for an audience estimated at a record 70,000,000.

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Joan Collins, Alice Faye, Celeste Holm and Peter Holm (no relation) .

Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Bill Boggs, Mason Reese, Dina Merrill, and Gordon Parks

Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins

Well this one’s just funny.

Liza was everywhere!

Liza with Madonna and Ingrid

Liza with Jessica and Travolta

Dolly and the horny war criminal

Liza meets the Queen

Liza & Barbra

[quote]Eleanor and Lucy.

I guess that was before Lucy became a commie.

In the photo with Eleanor Roosevelt at r110, I think Esther Williams is behind Eleanor and next to her looks like Joan Fontaine.

Maybe Olivia de Havilland rather than Joan Fontaine, R125?

r103 pic makes a good argument for the return of gloves.

They'll never come back, but, done right, they really added polish to an appearance.

Vivien Leigh, Nöel Coward, Lauren Bacall, Kay Kendall

Vivien, Larry, and Joan

Anna Wintour & friends

R115 gets the prize for the most random grouping.

Bette Davis looking admiringly at Glenda Jackson.

Warhol meets Pappy

QEII meets Marilyn Monroe in 1956, when both were 30 years old. Marilyn is flanked by actors Victor Mature and Anthony Quayle.

R134, Joan Crawford was also present to meet QEII (as was Anita Ekberg) and our Joanie gave catty remarks to the press about Marilyn and Anita and their inappropriate attire.

^^ and Brigitte Bardot, too.

[quote]Bette Davis looking admiringly at Glenda Jackson.

Bette was no doubt happy to be next to a fellow smoker.

Jayne Mansfield & Joan Collins

Jayne had a rather thick bull-neck.

The three winners have to be John Lennon giving his autograph to his murderer, Rosalynn Carter all smiles with a man who murdered at least 30 people, and Donald and Hillary having a great time together.

@R134 - QEII clearly pulled Monroe's arm downward, directing her to curtsy. "Bow, bitch!" End of clip.

While Jayne Mansfield was a "C" List celebrity, I declare her an "A" List Photo Bomber.

In every pic I've seen of her with others, my eye is immediately drawn to her.

Jayne and Marilyn

The pictures of Jayne and Marilyn remind me of this photo illustration from Patrick Dennis's "Little Me," the "autobiography" of tacky C-list actress Belle Poitrine, who labels this "Luncheon-ing with Roz."

More, more, more!!!

Besties Audrey Hepburn and Capucine

r132 Bette looks like the madam of a Chinese whorehouse in that pic.

Jodie's table

This photo was taken at the New York Hilton on the night of Dylan's induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982. According to Randy Poe, former Executive Director of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Bob Dylan had one request that night: He wanted to get his picture taken with Dinah Shore. When asked why, Dylan replied: "So my mother will finally think I'm somebody." He specified that the only pictures he'd approve were with Shore. He grew up listening to her music in MN. Dylan made the request to Poe immediately upon entering the New York Hilton. Poe: "For a second I thought he was surely pulling my leg, but he'd said it with such a straight face that I decided he just might be serious." Dinah Shore was summoned to the kitchen. The kitchen entrance was hidden from the ballroom by a curtained partition. Poe: "Decades later, I can still recall the look of shock on Dinah Shore's face as she came around the corner of the partition and saw Bob Dylan standing there." It was David Amram, one of Dylan's tablemates, who asked him "why on earth he wanted his picture taken with Dinah Shore." Amram did not detect a hint of humour in Dylan's response ("So my mother will finally think I'm somebody"). Amram: "He looked at me. [He was] dead serious."

Joan and Rock

Wow, r149.

If anybody ever told me I'd see a pic of Dylan and Dinah Shore together and her accepting a kiss on her cheek from him, I'd have laughed.

But there it is.

These are fun

Why would Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have had their induction dinner in NYC? Not that I doubt it happened there, but just wondering....

r150 Joan wanted that dick BAD. Of course we know she couldn't have it.

R154, a disappointed Joan couldn't convince Rock to come on-a her house for a quick nightcap.

I love this photo of Paul and Micheal... Paul still so young looking and cute in his early 40's and Michael looking cute and normal....

Liz Taylor, Bette Davis and Michael Jackson. Miss Davis does not look amused.

[quote]Jayne had a rather thick bull-neck.

Didn't do her much good, did it?

R150 - oh, I thought it was Joan and THE Rock. That would have been really something.

Odd pairing

Sorry ^^^^

Pavarotti and Grace Jones

R148 Who’s the blonde next to Madonna?

R163, the descriptions say Paula Yates.

Judy & The Kray Twins

Here's Auld Mick, looking like he's asking Liza and Raquel to introduce him to their dates.

Josephine Baker and Eartha Kitt. I wonder what they're laughing about.

Julie Mewmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether

Is Steven Tyler trying to get away from Michael Jackson in this picture?

I always find this picture awkward.

Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner circa 1970s

[quote]Julie Mewmar

Oops. Newmar.

Mr & Mrs Eddie Fisher, Mr & Mrs Robert Wagner, and Mr & Mrs Mel Ferrer.

[quote]Oops. Newmar.

I actually thought that "Mewmar" was intentional, given that all three had played Catwoman.

"I always find this picture awkward. Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner"

Mr. and Mrs. Wagner both look like they'd fucked Beatty in the past, and weren't impressed.

R71 Monty is obviously drunk and spouting garbage.

The Newmans hosting Anthony Perkins.

R134. I bet Marilyn didn't stay to watch that masculine movie about dancing battleships.

I love how all these people being presented to the queen are in alphabetical order. The queen was obliged to say hello to all manner of weirdos from around the world during her very long reign.

Betty Hutton, Greer Garson, Mackey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball

Did Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland stay affectionate towards one another later in life?

R179, I believe so.

Meryl and Nancy

R178 and don't forget the really cute MP driver.

Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price

My very favorite pic in this thread r180.

Liz Taylor, Clifton Webb, Judy Garland and Leslie Caron

MGM commissary - Janet Leigh, Grace Kelly. Ann Blyth, Elizabeth Taylor, Stewart Granger, Louis Calhern, I think John Ericson (who was making Green Fire with Kelly and Granger), Louis Calhern...not sure who else...

Liza, Brooke, and Kate

Cher, Kate, and Jane

Ross and Parton, who wins the tits contest.

Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone, Paramount commissary 1954.

That’s Liz's then husband Michael Wilding sitting across from her. Not sure who the other woman is.

The other woman in r191 looks a bit like Marge Champion, who was at MGM at that time. But then, where's Gower?

r190, I'm sorta shocked they'd allow Angela Lansbury to eat a cheeseburger in her costume, what with those extravagant sleeves and veil and everything....

Carol Burnett, Prince Rainier, Her Serene Highness Princess Grace (Kelly), Rock Hudson in 1967.

Princess Grace really loved her caftans in her post-Hollywood life.

R181 That's a very unflattering picture. Has that woman had a nose job?

Grace, Liz, Raquel

^ Better link:

R186 Anne Blyth appears to be eating Raw Cauliflower à la Cellophane.

Legends: Sophia Loren, Madge, Robert Altman

R192 I also thought it might be Marge Champion.

Marlon Brando and Esther Williams

Ava Gardner, Irene Dunne, Diana Lynn, Loretta Young

I’m surprised nobody posted this.

Nancy Reagan and Mr.T.

[quote]Nancy Reagan and Mr.T.

I should have just said no.

Judy and Lucy dancing ast the Mocambo, 1950.

This one says 1949.

Thanks R192 and R201, I thought maybe Gwen Verdon, but I wasn’t sure she’d have been at MGM then.

1949 was a low point in the careers of both Lucy and Judy and those photos are evidence.

Lucy and Marlene

Lucy & Desi with Marlene, Linda Darnell, Kay Keyser, Ginny Simms, et. al.

R211 - who's the beautiful dark guy on the right?

Kay Keyser and Marlene is a great pairing!

R111 Marlene looks quite bored.

[quote]Marlene looks quite bored.

She's tired, tired of playing the game, ain't it a freakin' shame . . .

Kathleen Turner and Kim Zimmer on the set of "Body Heat" (fun trivia: Kim took over Kathleen's role on soap opera "The Doctors")

Yeah, who is that hot dark guy hanging over gorgeous Linda Darnell in that photo at r211?

^ That’s Larry Adler who was a virtuoso harmonica player. He brother Jerry is at the far left.

Thanks, r217. Both very handsome men, I'm sure they saw a lot of action!

Linda and her bestie Ann Miller and Marlene. Don't know who the men are.

Linda and Ann - two Texas gals with Stage Moms at Linda's marriage to Peverell Marley.

Unusual to see stars at different studies who were close friends.

Carol Landis, beautiful but very skinny from amoebic dysentery. Jack Benny, scruffy, unshaven and with grey hair suddenly looks like a hot daddy.

R219, R220, I didn't know Linda and Ann were besties. Ann was a chatty Cathy. Did she ever talk about that friendship in her memoirs or interviews?

r222: She must have, but the only thing I could find online: "Her memory is still cherished by those who knew her-- friends like Ann Miller who recall the friendly, old-fashioned girl with a love of animals and a generous spirit." Supposedly, Ann was the only real friend Linda made in Hollywood.

There are plenty of photos of the two of them palling around and visiting each other on the set.

Linda Darnell always looks a bit biracial to me.

Try and find a photo of Ann Miller "palling around" with Cyd Charisse, lol.

Tom Cruise and Ronald Reagan. DL prevents me from a direct link to the photo, so here's the article.

R225, I don't think Miss Ann ever turned down a photo opportunity, regardless of the company.

Another on with Ann and Cyd.

Great photos at r227 and r228 but that's Annie and Cyd decades after their concurrent years at MGM. Anything from the 1950s?

Anyone know who the woman in blue is in R228's pic? Here’s another link.

How bizarre! The Lady in Blue is not identified in any of those photos. She looks too young to be lined up there with the other broads. Could she be one of their daughters?

Ann & Cyd, 1953

Okay! That's a real good one, r232!

Gene and his ladies.

I can see Lucy was a generation older than all those other ladies in r234, seeing that photo.

R235, except Betty Garrett, who was only 8 years younger (but never a leading lady).

I only recognize Lucy in r234's photo. I guess the other women have faded into time.

Faded from your memory, anyway, R237. Many DL eldergays would recognize most of them.

r238 none of those women except Lucy were big stars. It's natural that nobody under a certain age would recognize them, esp. as older women long past their prime.

R232 Annie looked like Lena Horne in that pic!

Here’s a fun combo - Shirley Temple and Robert Mitchum in 1955. Getty informs me they are at Mott’s Berry Farm.

Gardner, Ellington, and Horne

^ Oops

R237, left to right: Kathryn Grayson, Gloria DeHaven, Betty Garrett, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Lucille Ball, Cyd Charisse

Fay Emerson, Sonja Henie, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland and Ginger Rogers.

For a second, I thought Sonja Henie was Vivian Vance.

Danny Kaye, Kitty Carlisle, Bette Davis and Vivian Leigh

[quote]none of those women except Lucy were big stars.

Are you mad? Kathryn Grayson, Janet Leigh and Cyd Charisse were.. Matter of fact, before ILL a couple of them were bigger than Lucy.

At r256

Leigh to Kaye - You're fucking my husband!

Kaye to Leigh - Well, yes, watcha gonna do about it?

Davis and other woman- Oooooh, girlfriends, we'll hold your earrings.

Ooops meant r246 at r248

Haha, R248. How about this one?

3 on a match: Danny Kaye, Laurence Olivier, Sid Field

Greer Garson, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Danny Kaye.

The Original Rat Pack: Humphrey Bogart, Sid Luft, Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, Ellie Graham, agent Jack Entratter, restaurateur Mike Romanoff, Frank Sinatra, Mrs. Romanoff, David Niven, Hjördis Niven

Amelia Earhart and Harpo Marx

Ava and Mia

R246, I think the woman between Danny Kaye and Bette Davis is Kitty Carlisle Hart.

Claudette Colbert and Lillian Hellman

R256, isn't that who R246 said she was?

R258 Oops. I was looking at the caption only.

r224: She had Native American ancestry for sure.

Now, dollars to doughnuts Dorothy Lamour was biracial (Louisiana born ..."My "exotic coloring" is due to my French, Spanish and Creole ancestry...but EUROPEAN Creole! Honest!")

Debbie Reynolds, Judy Garland, and Santa.

[quote][R238] none of those women except Lucy were big stars. It's natural that nobody under a certain age would recognize them, esp. as older women long past their prime.

l. to r.

Kathryn Grayson, Gloria DeHaven, Betty Garrett, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Lucille Ball, Cyd Charisse

Mike Romanoff was a hot daddy, no.

The photo with Judy and Piaf was at some event for the 1952 Tony Awards. Judy was awarded a special Tony Award for her record-breaking "Palace Two-a-Day" show that season.

I believe the woman identified at r252 as Fanny Brice is actually Sylvia Fine Kaye, Danny's lovely wife. Fanny died in 1951 and I think this photo is later.

Well, on second look perhaps the photo is earlier than 1951 but I still think the lady is Sylvia F. K.

The much-maligned Hjördis Niven, whom Roger Moore and Robert Wagner both called "a bitch," remained friends with Lauren Bacall long after David Niven's death. However, the friendship seemed to sour at the end, with Bacall remarking, "About a year before she died she wanted me to stay at Cap Ferrat, but she was horrible to me those two days, so rude!"

However, Hjördis' friend Fiona Owen, recalled another side of the story: "I remember Hjördis finding Lauren Bacall a difficult guest at Lo Scoglietto – very demanding on her staff!"

Birds of a feather...

Danny Kaye seemed to follow Laurence Olivier everywhere.

I recall Sylvia Fine Kaye on Public television often in the 70s and 80s and she always seemed a very obvious lesbian.

I assumed everybody thought the same thing. Did you?

R267, yes.

Chico Marx, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

Barbara Stanwyck, Cheryl Ladd, and Bette Davis

Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Skitch Henderson on Charlie Rose - talking about MGM musicals.

Bette & Jess

[quote] "[R190], I'm sorta shocked they'd allow Angela Lansbury to eat a cheeseburger in her costume, what with those extravagant sleeves and veil and everything...."

Agreed, R93. It almost makes it look less candid, and seem like a promotional shot of some kind.

[quote] Danny Kaye, Kitty Carlisle, Bette Davis and Vivian Leigh

R246 That's Danny Kaye, Kitty Carlisle, Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh!

[quote] Sid Field

R251 He was big in the 40s. He made one cringe-worthy film but rapidly fell out of favour.

R257 An unfortunate pairing; a woman with no nose and a woman with too much.

R252 Is that Leopold Stokowski on the far right? Or, perhaps, Jean Cocteau?

Artur Rubinstein, r278. Father of John.

Jennifer Jones and Van Johnson, in Seventh Heaven, on the Lux Radio Theatre, 1944.

Ross and Mills

Dorothy Lamour, Ginny Simms, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Virginia O'Brien, Frances Langford

It's my impression that stars who weren't necessarily under the same studio contracts could appear with each other on radio programs in the 1930s and 40s. Is that correct?

Rock, Cary, Marlon, Gregory

Clark, Cary, Bob, David

R285 What are they doing in a theatre? They are movie performers not genuine theatre actors.

R286 = legitimate theater star Arlene Francis

R286 Rehearsing for the Academy Awards broadcast.

R283 Yes. That's correct. There's no reason a network like CBS would have to hire only stars from one particular studio for a broadcast.

In this case it was a special 10th anniversary broadcast of the show, one of the few times Jones did a radio play (another being The Song Of Bernadette - though not on Lux).

R283 Yes. That's correct. There's no reason a network like CBS would have to hire only stars from one particular studio for a broadcast.

In this case it was a special 10th anniversary broadcast of the show, one of the few times Jones did a radio play (another being The Song Of Bernadette - though not on Lux).

R284 reminded me of another quartet of hot actors pictured in a steam bath. I know Rock was among them, and so was sexy Scott Brady, possibly Tony Curtis. I'm gonna start searching for that one.

R291, You mean Rock, Tony, Scott, and Hugh at the Finlandia Baths?

^ Wow, so that's Hudson buttock on view! He never did that on screen.

R292, thanks! And that's not even the photo I remember, so they must have taken several of that little get-together.

It's a shame Scott Brady is mostly forgotten today. He really had a smoldering masculinity.

With John Bromfield

"Ya like what you see, boys?"

Looks like Rock was gonna pull off Tony's wig/toupee..

Groucho Marx and Diana Ross

Sal Mineo and John Saxon

Was John Saxon gay? Has that ever been established?

I don't think I've ever heard anything about Saxon being gay. And does being photographed with a gay actor automatically make everyone else in the photo gay?

R300, what a shame if he wasn't.

Most of this thread consists of geriatric females but R264 shows genuine big box-office stars together. Each handsome in their own way. Some with gay tendencies.

One madder than the others; Brando was doing "The Ugly American" (which I haven't seen) at Universal in 1962.

Grant was doing the dopey "That Touch of Mink" at Universal in 1962. Hudson was doing "The Spiral Road" (which I haven't seen) at Universal in 1962. Peck was doing "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Universal in 1962.

No producer was able to harness so much box-office star-power for one production. Though the gossips say Hudson and Brando were considered as partners in the tortuous casting decisions for 'Ben-Hur' in '59.

R300, I don't think Saxon was gay, but he had notorious agent Henry Wilsson as his agent, so I'm sure he put out to get ahead. I'd love to know which of Wilsson's many clients did the same.

Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox attempt to bump uglies.

R301 YES!

[quote]Most of this thread consists of geriatric females

R303 At first I thought this meant the posters.

And, actually, no, it doesn't.

Alain Delon and Mick Jagger

^ and Marianne Faithfull

Faye and Sharon... and Roman, too.

R308 Delon and Faithful were costars in the 1968 film Girl on a Motorcycle and I love that Jagger appears to be wearing 2 different colored socks.

Steve McQueen, John Wayne

When Stars Collide - Jayne Mansfield 1967

From Reddit.

Dennis Hopper, John Ford, John Huston

Rubel, Hering, Warhol and Cruise! Three are definitely gay- Tom? An interesting group.

Billy Preston, George Harrison, Gerald Ford, and Ravi Shankar.... seeing Nancy R. and friends sparked this memory.

With Sinatra