In Tinseltown filled with beautiful women with stellar egos, there was bound to be jealousy and infighting. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, there were plenty of love triangles, professional rivalries, and petty jealousies that became fodder for newspapers and tabloids. Here are a few of the most notable Hollywood girl fights. Jayne Mansfield and…
Category: Actresses
Lucille Ball’s Early Hollywood Film Career
Before she was the zany red-headed sitcom star of the 1950s and 1960s, actress Lucille Ball appeared on the Broadway stage and on radio, but it took a while for Ball to get her Hollywood movie career off the ground. And almost as soon as it did, she transitioned to television. During the 1930s and…
Josephine Baker: The First Major African American Superstar
The extraordinary Josephine Baker was a groundbreaking actress, dancer, and singer. The Golden Era beauty was the first African American actress to star in a movie, but that was just one facet of her incredible life. Born in 1906, she grew up in poverty with parents who were only mildly successful as entertainers in segregated…
How David O. Selznick Molded Jennifer Jones into a Hollywood Star
The fairytale version of the romance between Hollywood director David O. Selznick and beautiful young actress Jennifer Jones follows that Selznick discovered the young beauty, recognized her potential, and made her a star … and, of course, they fell in love and got married. But that sanitized story does not paint the whole picture. In…
A Star, a Dress, and a Subway Grate
When we say “Marilyn Monroe”, what image pops in your head? If you are like most people, your mind automatically goes to the famous scene from The Seven Year Itch when the beautiful blonde sex symbol, wearing a white halter dress with a full pleated skirt, steps onto a subway grate and the air current…