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Post by marysara1 on Jul 18, 2023 19:57:08 GMT
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jul 18, 2023 22:00:40 GMT
I looked at all 51 slides and they were all lovely, some simply stunning ones. I guess the "calcified monstrosity," part is all click bait.
My favorite. Too bad she was born too early for color with those ice blue eyes.
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Post by sewhite2000 on Jul 19, 2023 5:08:36 GMT
The one about Joan Bennett was overloaded with popups and distracting bells and whistles on every page. I think I'm going to avoid the Shearer one, at least initially.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jul 19, 2023 18:36:39 GMT
The one about Joan Bennett was overloaded with popups and distracting bells and whistles on every page. I think I'm going to avoid the Shearer one, at least initially. Lots of popups in the Shearer one as well. I stopped after the first few photos and just went to her Wiki 'images' page. |
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Post by NoShear on Jul 24, 2023 22:27:06 GMT
I looked at all 51 slides and they were all lovely, some simply stunning ones. I guess the "calcified monstrosity," part is all click bait.
My favorite. Too bad she was born too early for color with those ice blue eyes.
Your celebration of Norma Shearer's eyes is so ironic, of course, Andrea Doria: D. W. Griffith had nothing but scathing criticism of them for Shearer. |
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Post by sepiatone on Jul 25, 2023 15:10:02 GMT
That seems odd because you'd figure blue eyes would appeal in an Aryan way to Griffith's racial sensibilities.  Sepiatone |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jul 26, 2023 9:29:51 GMT
Ewww. That is right, I forgot about that. According to the info on the click bait stream he thought her arms and legs were too short. That never hurt Clark Gable.
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Post by sepiatone on Jul 26, 2023 15:27:34 GMT
Ewww. That is right, I forgot about that. According to the info on the click bait stream he thought her arms and legs were too short. That never hurt Clark Gable. Or Mickey Rooney either. Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on Jul 26, 2023 15:32:11 GMT
That seems odd because you'd figure blue eyes would appeal in an Aryan way to Griffith's racial sensibilities. Sepiatone The reason for D. W. Griffith's complaint about Norma Shearer's eyes being "far too blue" seems odd to me, Sepiatone: too blank for closeup shots... Of blue eyes, Aryans and closeups:  |
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Post by sepiatone on Jul 26, 2023 15:47:25 GMT
There's different shades of blue eyes. My first wife had blue eyes and so did one of her older sisters. But the sister's eyes were a lighter shade of blue. Many producers had the same complaint about Stan Laurel. His eyes were apparently such a light shade of blue that they looked way too "spooky" when filmed with the black and white film of the earlier silent days. Sometimes looking like he had no irises at all. And looking at some color photos of Norma it doesn't look like her blue eyes were really all that light of a shade. And also in many of the black and white photos I've looked at.
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Post by vannorden on Jul 27, 2023 3:30:37 GMT
Several Hollywood books mentioning Norma Shearer reveal her spunk and fierce ambition gleamingly. I do recall Marie Dressler referring to her as the most ambitious woman she had ever met, in addition to stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald being completely mesmerized by her elegance and intelligent sense of humor. I am not an expert on her career, but it seems unfathomable she would have reached such lofty heights without her noted ambition, confidence, and talent. Many actresses would have given up after being rejected multiple times: Griffith saying she would never make it in pictures, Flo Ziegfeld saying she was not pretty enough, and a disastrous early screen test in Hollywood. Her resiliency alone makes her quite a remarkable woman. She was also lucky to fall into the hands of director Monta Bell, who tapped into just about every quality she possessed, making her a versatile and one-of-a-kind star in the Silent Era.
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Post by NoShear on Jul 27, 2023 14:31:13 GMT
There's different shades of blue eyes. My first wife had blue eyes and so did one of her older sisters. But the sister's eyes were a lighter shade of blue. Many producers had the same complaint about Stan Laurel. His eyes were apparently such a light shade of blue that they looked way too "spooky" when filmed with the black and white film of the earlier silent days. Sometimes looking like he had no irises at all. And looking at some color photos of Norma it doesn't look like her blue eyes were really all that light of a shade. And also in many of the black and white photos I've looked at. Sepiatone There exist plenty of photos which support that Norma Shearer's blue eyes were quite light... One of my favorites is the following - an incredible interface of the once agricultural landscape of the San Fernando Valley and the(n) burgeoning business of filmmaking in Hollywood:  Despite eyes described as small, stereotypical '20s eyeliner highlighted the lightness of Shearer's set from even a bit of distance!! |
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Post by sepiatone on Jul 27, 2023 15:00:28 GMT
The word "then" would have sufficed without the parenthesis on the "n". Sepiatone |
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