MARY STEVENS, MD

Kay Francis was one of the "Four Jills" along with Martha Raye , Carole Landis, and Mitzi Mayfair: the studio bosses didn't seem to like any of them, which could have had something to do with their going off to entertain the troops. But earlier in her career Kay Francis had been a top star. In 1933, Thelma Todd appeared in MARY STEVENS MD with Kay Francis.

 

 Thelma Todd with Lyle Talbot, who had costarred with her in KLONDIKE.

 

 

 Lyle Talbot with Kay Francis.

 

 

 

 

Glenda Farrell, who played "Torchy Blane", with Kay Francis.

 

 

With Glenda Farrell.

 

MARY STEVENS, MD:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024307/

http://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/tonights-movie-mary-stevens-md-1933.html

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Memorial Day

On Memorial Day we honor our dead from past wars.



A Memorial Day poster from the era of the first World War.

 

 

 

 

 

Memorial Day Postcards

 

Reblogged from http://clickamericana.com/eras/1900s/vintage-memorial-day-postcards

 

 

                    “May thy sweet blossom never cease to bloom in love and trust and peace.”

 

 

 

 

“Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead.”

 

 

 

 

“Nor shall their story be forgot”

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Wherever it floats, on land or sea, no stain its honor mars.”

 

The Civil War ironclad "Merrimac", which fought the "Monitor", was named after the Merrimac river in Massachusetts that Thelma Todd knew.

 

 

 

GLAMOUR HELPS THE WAR EFFORT

 

 

History tells us Marlene Dietrich was the glamour girl who spent the most time entertaining the toops during the second World War. Originally from Germany, she entered that country along with the US army in the last part of the war.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Carole Landis was another of the actresses who spent the most time entertaining the troops during the war.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carole Landis, Kay Francis, and Mitzi Mayfair in North Africa, 1943.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martha Raye entertains servicemen of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force on a makeshift stage on the edge of the Sahara Desert in North Africa in 1943. (AP Photo) 

 

 

 Martha Raye would be another of the glamour girls who spent the most time entertaining the troops during the second World War.

 

 

 

 

Martha Raye and Carole Landis

 

 

 

 

 

Carole Landis and Jack Benny in the South Pacific, 1944

 

 

 

 

More Jills in a Jeep

 

Carole Landis with Jack Benny and Martha Tilton..

 

 

 

 

 

Carole Landis and Martha Tilton.

 

One of the natives is at the right. 

 

 

 

Ann Sheridan went to China with a USO group in 1944. A B-25 was specially decorated for the occasion and Ann Sheridan posed with the aircraft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What does Amelia Arehart got that I ain't got?"




Paulette Goddard also traveled to the China-Burma-India theater of the war to entertain the toops.

Like Ann Sheridan, she left sooner than originally planned, leading to some complaints. But at least they made some effort to contribute to the war effort. Paulette Goddard's husband Charlie Chaplin made none.




                                                              And here's Martha Raye in Vietnam in 1969.

                                                     A different war, but the same old Martha Raye.





Marlene Dietrich In WW II:
http://www.historybyzim.com/2011/11/marlene-and-the-boys/


Carole Lombard:
http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/515047.html


Martha Raye
http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2013/04/17/martha-raye-healing-humor

http://www.war-veterans.org/Maggie.htm


Ann Sheridan:
http://forum.armyairforces.com/B25J-3939Sheridan-Express3939-m217765.aspx


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Photos For A Fan

A fan's photo collection from the thirties included Thelma Todd, along with a lot of others, all of which they carefully listed on an index. Which I have here on the blog along with a number of the other pictures.


                                                  The seller's description on ebay:

1934 Thelma Todd 5 by 7 Fan Portrait Photo

From an extraordinary private collection of over 200 Vintage Hollywood and Television photographs.

Look at her index with dates she collected each photo shown in the listing.

Here is the photo of Thelma Todd with her dog "Gallant", which was evidently widely circulated at the time.

 

 

 

And here are some of the other pictures in the collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the index.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quite a few popular favorites in there. Some fans of the day were able to amass such collections even in the depths of the depression. At that time there were people going to the movies even when they had little money to spend on anything else. The popularity of the movies has since declined, as has the quality of the movies themselves.







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