Birthday Bash for three Greats
July 4th 2007 12:37
Lena Horne - Today and Yesterday
If you happened to be married and wanted a fling with some of your more tasty co-stars you did so on the quiet - or else! Your movies were picked for you. If one or two of them happened to be stinkers you just accepted it and got on with it - trusting all the while that the studio knew best for you and your career.
Very often they didn't.
You got to the set on time or else. You knew your lines. When the studio required you for any purpose at all from costume fittings to publicity to... well just use your imagination, you were there at once and you liked it! You were the right size and shape and look at all times. You behaved yourself. Dotted every "i" and crossed every "t" and enjoyed every minute of it... OR ELSE!!!
Eva Marie-Saint - still working hard at 83
Meet Lena Horne, Olivia DeHavilland and Eva Marie-Saint. Between them they garnered twenty award wins, along with thirty-three nominations. Together throughout their careers they made one hundred and forty movies and possess one hundred and fifty years of cinematic experience. Eva Marie-Saint, a young 83, is still working. She recently played Martha Kent in Superman Returns.
DeHavilland and Horne, both in their 90's, are enjoying well earned retirements. DeHavilland is best remembered for her Oscar nominated role in Gone With the Wind, and for her extremely lucrative and highly memorable on-screen partnerships with 1940's hottie and running shag-gag Erroll Flynn.
Olivia DeHavilland - Today and Yesterday
Together these three acting legends display what is best and worst about Hollywood, their success against the often times racist, sexist and oppressive Hollywood machine is a tribute to their talent and will power.
Happy birthday girls and stay golden!
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