TYRONE POWER: Post 3: with Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette '38, Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution '57

Marlene Dietrich was in her mid 50's in this flashback scene from Witness for the Prosecution. Tyrone's character had met her in war torn Berlin years before during the war. This is a particularly heavy scene, and this shot was posed for theatrical stills, and Marlene took the opportunity to look half her age, and very sexy, showing off her famous legs...just one more time. Marlene at any age, managed to make herself look years younger than she actually was. She had an amazing knowledge of lighting and camera angles, as well as makeup techniques. She could virtually tell if her key light was correct by how it fell on her skin. Miss Dietrich of course had had a brilliant movie career by this time, and made fewer and fewer films preferring to sell out her shows in Las Vegas.
She got the idea for this new career from her daughter Maria who told her, just do what you did  entertaining the allied troops for four long years during WW2. She did, only she did it more glamorously in specially created glittering Jean Louis gowns.  Marlene famously continued to tour the world in concerts until well into her 70's. (search 'Marlene Dietrich' for posts on this blog)

TYRONE POWER: HOLLYWOOD GREAT: Post 2: Son of Fury (1942) with Gene Tierney

TYRONE POWER: HOLLYWOOD GREAT: Post 1: Son of Fury (1942) with Gene Tierney

This is one of my favorite films. Tyrone Power plays Benjamin Blake,  the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, and its about his struggle to claim his birthright and family fortune. He is forced into servitude by his wicked Uncle (George Sanders) and beaten for falling in love with aristocrat (Frances Farmer). He escapes and stows away on a ship bound for the tropics. He jumps overboard and finds himself on an uncharted tropical island looking for pearls with fellow shipmate (John Carradine) He falls in love with a beautiful island girl (Gene Tireney) Years later a boat finally passes by, and he returns with his pearls in a bag, a very rich man, to claim his inheritance. I love this film because of the great cast of leading actors and great character actors. The film is very well done, and is very memorable for its storytelling. Also at the very end...I love when Benjamin finds out for himself that with all his wealth.. he was much happier on the island...and returns to the beautiful native girl Gene Tierney.  Gene Tierney has the ability to make me weep openly...and this final scene...and her final scene in the Ghost and Mrs Muir do just that..... In the Ghost and Mrs Muir.... Gene as Mrs Muir had bought Gull Cottage and fallen in love with the sea Captain ghost that inhabited it. There's was a great love affair..but she was alive and he was a ghost..so it was not fulfilled. At the end of the film, after many adventures she is an old lady drinking tea. She passes away and all of a sudden the Captain is standing there with his hand reaching out to her. Her hand reaches up and clasps his, she is young and beautiful again.  Arm in arm in a beautifully magical scene, he leads her out of the cottage and through the mists of time and towards the light of the afterlife. That scene always leaves me howling...I'm a romantic I suppose. 

HOLLYWOOD ARTIST: MIGUEL COUARRUBIAS: from 30's Vanity Fair.

Marlene Dietrich and Senator W Brockhart VF sept '32,  fan fancer Dally Rand and modern ballet dancer Martha Graham VF Dec '34, Clark Gable 'The King' and Edward Prince of Wales VF Nov '32, Jim Londos and Herbert Hoover VF Aug '32. 

HOLLYWOOD ARTIST: JACQUES KAPRALIK: Post 3

Katharine Hepburn  Spencer Tracy 'Woman of the Year' '42, Robert Taylor  Lana Turner 'Johnny Eager' '42,  Susan Peters  Laraine Day  Lana Turner 'Keep Your Powder Dry' '45, Ronald Coleman  Greer Garson 'Random Harvest' '42. 

HOLLYWOOD ARTIST: JACQUES KAPRALIK: Post 2

Judy Garland, James Stewart  Hedy Lamarr, Cary Grant  Katharine Hepburn  James Stewart 'Philadelphia Story', Jeanette McDonald  Nelson Eddy 'I Married a Witch' '42. 

HOLLYWOOD ARTIST: JACQUES KAPRALIK: Post 1

Judy Garland  Mickey Rooney 'Babes on Broadway' '41, Clark Gable  Lana Turner 'Honky Tonk '41, Gregory Peck  Lauren Bacall 'Designing Woman', Lucille Ball  Harry James 'Best Foot Forward'. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR: Jayne Mansfield, (bottom right) Mae West