Old Hollywood Gossip

[Martini Girl]

Brigitte Bardot maybe a garbage person, but did they really have to add a bullet point about her looks? (same goes for the men)

Why doesn't surprise me that Hedda Hopper was a conservative? If she was alive today, I'm sure she'd be a fervent Trump supporter and trying to ruin the lives of liberal celebrities.

I'm disappointed they didn't include Harry Belafonte in the liberal list.

[madangela]

Aug 9, 2018 10:48:46 GMT -4 chiqui said:

Wow! I didn't know that about Burt Lancaster. I would have assumed he was Republican.

I read that whole post about him thinking it was about Charlton Heston because my brain malfunctioned for a bit. I was so so confused and wondered what had turned him into such a latter-day freak.

Then reality reasserted itself and I was so glad because I have kind of loved Burt Lancaster since “Local Hero.”

[forever1267]

Angela Allen was a script supervisor on classic films like Women in Love, Downhill Racer and The African Queen. Vulture interviewed her on Old Hollywood History.

[Auroranorth]

John Huston was invited to a White House lunch because First Lady Nancy Reagan's father was Huston's doctor, and after she asked if he thought her husband turned out to be an even better president than everyone had expected, Huston replied, "Worse my dear—far, FAR worse!"
Huston was not invited back to the White House during the Reagan administration.

*cackles evilly*

[Babycakes]

Another ONTD Old Hollywood post.

Beverly Aadland & Errol Flynn

• Although Flynn and his third wife, Patrice Wymore, separated due to his alcohol and drug addictions, they remained married until his death
• Flynn was over thirty years older than Aadland when they began their affair in 1957; at the time, Flynn was way past his prime and was facing financial difficulties, and he was also ugly and bloated
• In her memoir, The Big Love (1961), Aadland's mother claims she arranged for her daughter to work for Flynn and eventually become his lover, and that Aadland and Flynn's sexual relationship began when she was 15 and he was 48
• Flynn was 50 when he died in 1959 and Aadland was only 17
• According to Aadland, Flynn raped her but she forgave him and, after falling in love with him, they began dating for two years before his death in 1959
• Aadland went public in 1996 and said that prior to Flynn's death, there had been plans to marry (their engagement was announced at her 17th birthday party) and have children (he reversed his vasectomy)
• Aadland referred to her relationship with Flynn as a "game"; Flynn arranged to have her arrested on bogus charges in France, and he would pretend to beat Aadland in public and she would put ketchup on herself to simulate blood so they could enjoy the hysterical reaction of the people around them
• Flynn literally said, "I like my whiskey old and my women young"

Yikes. So much wrong, I don't even know where to begin.

[luminosa]

Oct 10, 2018 23:18:23 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

Another ONTD Old Hollywood post.

Beverly Aadland & Errol Flynn

• Although Flynn and his third wife, Patrice Wymore, separated due to his alcohol and drug addictions, they remained married until his death
• Flynn was over thirty years older than Aadland when they began their affair in 1957; at the time, Flynn was way past his prime and was facing financial difficulties, and he was also ugly and bloated
• In her memoir, The Big Love (1961), Aadland's mother claims she arranged for her daughter to work for Flynn and eventually become his lover, and that Aadland and Flynn's sexual relationship began when she was 15 and he was 48
• Flynn was 50 when he died in 1959 and Aadland was only 17
• According to Aadland, Flynn raped her but she forgave him and, after falling in love with him, they began dating for two years before his death in 1959
• Aadland went public in 1996 and said that prior to Flynn's death, there had been plans to marry (their engagement was announced at her 17th birthday party) and have children (he reversed his vasectomy)
• Aadland referred to her relationship with Flynn as a "game"; Flynn arranged to have her arrested on bogus charges in France, and he would pretend to beat Aadland in public and she would put ketchup on herself to simulate blood so they could enjoy the hysterical reaction of the people around them
• Flynn literally said, "I like my whiskey old and my women young"

Yikes. So much wrong, I don't even know where to begin.

Gross.

O/T- I think Ryan Gosling could easily play him in a biopic. Anyone else see the physical similarities?

[Auroranorth]

Orson Welles roasting other directors

[roseland]

That was awesome.

[Mutagen]

"Kill him" as the reaction to John Landis is absolutely priceless.

[Ladybug]

I'm listening to "Make Me Over" the spin off podcast of "You Must Remember This" about Hollywood beauty. The episode about Merle Oberon, omg, it's so sad. She was Indian and Anglo, incredibly beautiful, but bleached her skin with products containing mercury, which are still on the market in weaker compounds. And when she tried to have a baby with her 2nd husband, found out her Fallopian tubes had been removed without her knowledge during an operation for cancer. I know this forced sterilization happened to many women but it's still so shocking and sad to hear about this. Imagine wanting a baby and someone took that away from you without your knowledge and/or consent. Jesus.