9) Old Hollywood: Which A+ list leading lady who easily transitioned from movies to TV once screamed at an interviewer "GET THE F**K OUT OF MY HOUSE!!" after he asked her if she was lesbian? She did swing both ways, according to friends and costars.
10) Old Hollywood: Which A/B-list actress and sex symbol was part African-American, which she didn't tell any of her husbands and lovers?
11) Old Hollywood: Which almost A-list actor who is more famous nowadays for his premature death literally stalked out this A++ list Oscar winning/nominated actor so he could say he slept with him? The latter actor didn't have any good things to say about it, however.
James Dean for the last
ReplyDeleteWas Rock Hudson around during that time? Probably, yes?
DeleteYep. They were both in Giant together.
DeleteBtw--am I the only one who always forgets that Liz Taylor was in that movie?
THaT is quite the duo! I still swoon when I see Rock Hudson, le sigh. James Dean, notsomuch. He looks too much like Franco.
DeleteWhat is Old Hollywood to Mr X?
ReplyDeleteAs an actual old person, context is important.
1930s vs 1970s.
1. MADELINE KAHN !!
ReplyDeleteWhoops.
Delete9. MADELINE KAHN!!!
Eve Arden
ReplyDeleteAva Gardner
Rock Hudson and
I would like to know who 10 is. Can you imagine the racist shit she had to hear while keeping quiet? She should have wrote a book.
ReplyDelete9- Lucy
ReplyDelete10- Dandridge
11- Hudson
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DeleteA+ list leading ladies couldn't have transitioned to TV before the late 50s, early 60s, so how about "Mid-Hollywood"?
ReplyDeleteShe always gave me lesbian vibes
ReplyDeleteMadeline Kahn that is.
DeleteNot the hair! Lipstick darling....the nails!
DeleteLife after death is as improbable as sex after marriage.
DeleteTaffeta darling! Taffeta sweetheart! Noooo, the dress, it's taffeta! Wrinkles so easily....
Deletesorry, Eve Arden wasn't a leading lady.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame the lady. What a question to ask!
ReplyDeleteJoan ( no more wire hangers) crawford for 1. Merle oberon for 2. And dean is good guess but cld be sal mineo too.
ReplyDeleteMerle was beautiful.
DeleteYes, yes, yes on Joan Crawford, Aunt Liddy! Great guess!
Delete9. Stanwyck
ReplyDelete10. Dinah Shore
11. Dean & Brando
Flora: Babs Stanwick was appRently a lesbian, so it could fit.
DeleteI think Flora has got it! At least 1 and 3.
Delete11) montgomery clift?
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Delete#1 - Katherine Hepburn
ReplyDeleteRock Hudson wasn't "almost" anything. He was A++ and will ever be thus. Opened and carried multiple films for multiple decades.
ReplyDelete#9) I'm not sure if Mr X would consider Lucille Ball an A+ leading lady. She wasn't really. She could have been, but wasn't known to be able to open or carry a film on her own prior to her television career.
It fits Eve Arden for sure, except for the A+ rating. She was the perpetual sidekick, never A+.
I'm so over this X creature if he's screwing with Old Hollywood ratings.
Don't be blasphemous, upstart.
9 - Barbara Stanwyck
ReplyDelete10- ?
11- James Dean
10. Mae West
ReplyDelete#11 - Definitely James Dean/Rock Hudson or Cary Grant.
ReplyDelete#9 I read as Stanwick
ReplyDelete#11 I read as James Dean and Rock Hudson (Giant)
Merle was Indian. And yes, she hid that.
ReplyDeleteSTANWYCK! Yay, @Flora!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea if you're right, but she fits every criteria.
Loved that bitch.
Her earliest stuff is TO DIE.
9 Loretta Young
ReplyDeleteJames Dean and Errol Flynn or James and Clark Gable?
ReplyDelete9 is definitely Stanwyck. She had an on/off affair with Joan Crawford for years. Joan was fairly unsentimental and the only two photographs she had in her house when she died were of Barbara and JFK.
ReplyDeleteAnd either Gene Tierney or Jane Russell for 10, just to mix it up a bit.
Delete@Procrastibator I like the James Dean/Errol Flynn thing for purely salacious reasons.
ReplyDeleteKno Won, it's in my spank bank
Delete9. Stanwyck
ReplyDelete10. Raquel Welch
11. Dean and Brando
Second the Raquel guess
Delete@ fsp. It was common knowledge that dandridge was black. She was in a buttload of black movies and visually you could tell also.
ReplyDelete9: Agnes Moorhead
ReplyDelete10: Merle Oberon
11: Rock Hudson/James Dean or Montgomery Clift with Cary Grant????
Merle Oberon isn't the answer to 10: she was born in India to an English father and Indian mother. However I can't help adding the story that, when she and her darker skinned mother came to Holloywood, Merle insisted that her mother pose as her maid.
ReplyDeleteGood bis enty. Mr x gets kudos on these. I read something online that may fit number 10 but I would have to dig to find it again. Perhaps I will later...
ReplyDelete11. I like the james dean guess for 11.
Dinah Shore & Ava Gardner are both good guesses for #10.
ReplyDeleteMerle Oberon's mother was from Mumbai (India)
10 is carol channing I think.
ReplyDelete#3 Sal Mineo for the almost A premature death.
ReplyDeleteRock and Dean were and will always be A+++.
forgot about Carol Channing. there have been rumors about her for years.
ReplyDeleteOn retrospect, dinah shore is good guess for 2. I forgot merle was Indian.
ReplyDelete1. Barbara Stanwyck
ReplyDelete2. Ava Gardner
3. Rock Hudson and Brando.
Oh Riven, not Madeline. I loved her! Have you ever seen Happy Birthday, Gemini??
ReplyDelete@Wen that's why I guessed her! She is my fav everything and I love all of her work. Girls these days grow up admiring Selena fucking Gomez which is a travesty. Madeline was not only classy and feisty, she was hilarious and could actually act, dance AND sing.
DeleteThat lady had gumption.
I would have responded the same way to the question, it's incredibly misogynistic and insulting. Especially back in the day, women were only seen as arm candy and baby makers.
Oh wait. That's still current.
Loretta Young
ReplyDeleteAva Gardner
Sal Mineo
Maybe Ramon Novarro for 11 too. More famous for his death bc of Hollywood Babylon.
ReplyDeleteHepburn for the the one who cursed out the reporter. I could absolutely see her doing this.
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ReplyDeleteI was thinking Lana Turner or Jane Wyman for number 9 (they both appeared on Falcon Crest).
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ReplyDelete9) Barbara Stanwyck.
ReplyDelete10) Joan Crawford - Ava Gardner was part Native American Indian - my mother was a friend of hers and I grew up with her so I know a bit about Ava's life.
11) James Dean and Montgomery Clift
10/ ava gardner
ReplyDeletehttp://trivia.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_4272/ava-gardner/trivia
11/James dean and Brando
Ava Gardner for number 10. There's long been rumors about her.
ReplyDeleteLiz Taylor was so beautiful in Giant.
ReplyDelete9) Barbara Stanwyck for sure!
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ReplyDelete9. Doris Day
ReplyDelete10. Ava Gardner
11. James Dean and Rock Hudson
Changing #9 to match Galleon's guess. I think Barbara and Joan had something going on.
ReplyDeleteThat's not a rumor about Carol Channing. She has written and talked about her grandmother being an African American. I don't think 10 is CC.
ReplyDeleteI'm swooning at the thought of James Dean and Errol Flynn...
ReplyDelete9) Barbara Stanwyck
ReplyDelete10) Ava Gardner or Dinah Shore
11) Rock Hudson
Maybe James Dean was too big even at the time to be "almost" A-list, hmm. Clift was probably A list then too, though.
ReplyDelete@Glitter.. true but she did it when she was in her 80s /90s. Not sure how old she is/was but she was well advanced in age. The info I read on her also said there hasd been family secrets regarding african lineage but there were questions about whether her parent was being honest about her family's lineage. She was also married twice and it indicated she never told her spouses. Carol channing is a good fit for 10 imho.
ReplyDelete9 Stanwyck
ReplyDelete10 Dinah Shore
11 James Dean and Brando. According to La Liz, Dean and Hudson never got along. Rock considered him unprofessional and hated him. I can also see Dean going after Clift.
Like ava Gardner for 10
ReplyDelete11 James Dean
ReplyDeleteClift supposedly had trouble getting it up because of his drinking so he qualifies for both pre-mature death & having an encounter with the A++ actor who didn't sing high praises
ReplyDelete10 I agree with the Carol Channing guesses. She didn't find out until very recently (say within the last 15 years or so). Or at least she didn't talk about it until then
ReplyDelete@Kno Won Uno I'm not Mr. X but my definition of Old Hollywood is anything pre-1960. That was the last time the actors and actresses were actual full threat entertainers. They could act, sing, dance, do drama, romance, comedy, adventure, everything.
ReplyDeleteThe women were Bombshells and 95% of them blow away any of todays starlets in terms of looks and talent and even the gay men were manly men.
I was born in 1976 but everyone, including my parents say I was born decades too late.
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ReplyDeleteSheesh!! Carsol Channing is still alive...Did not know that!!!!
ReplyDelete@Procrastinator
ReplyDeleteTaffeta darling
@Procrastinator
ReplyDeleteTaffeta darling
1) Tallulah Bankhead
ReplyDelete9) is not a blind Item. It's Stanwyck and the journalist was Boze Hadleigh. Common knowledge.
ReplyDeleteDoris Day for the first one - huge movie star, then had her own TV show
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ReplyDelete9. Joan Crawford
ReplyDelete10. Dinah Shore
9. was Barbara Stanwyck. Boze Hadleigh in his book Hollywood Lesbians interviewed her about being a lesbian and, if I remember, she told him to get out of her house because he suggested her marriage to Robert Taylor was a sham. He kind of deserved it.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of Carol Channing as being a sex symbol but it does fit.
James Dean stalking Sir John Gielgud? I know he wasn't so nice in his stories about Dean.
Dinah Shore for both 9 and 10.
ReplyDelete9 could also be Myrna Loy.
ReplyDelete10 no idea
11 is obviously Rock Hudson, with Cary Grant for the A++
10. Merle Oberon
ReplyDelete10. Merle Oberon
ReplyDelete10 is Ava Gardener as it's been rumored that she was passing for ages.
ReplyDeleteAlso Carole Channing was never a sex symbol and she wrote about her racial heritage in her book so this is hardly a secret.