Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in It’s Love I’m After (1937).
Joan Blondell has a very pre-Code confrontation with Claire Dodd in Footlight Parade (1933).
Bette Davis and Monroe Owsley in Ex-Lady (1933).
Olivia de Havilland as an adoring fangirl in It's Love I'm After (1937).
Tipsy Loretta Young in Employees' Entrance (1933).
Laraine Day slaps Robert Mitchum in The Locket (1946). I just published a post about this little-known noir gem and its famous flashback within a flashback within a flashback.
Jean Gillie as film noir's nastiest femme fatale in Decoy (1946). You can stream this obscure, yet brilliant low-budget classic on Warner Archive Instant.
From Cat People (1943), which Warner Archive Instant just added to stream in time for Halloween!
Jean Harlow in the infamous rain barrel scene from Red Dust (1932). I just wrote a blog post about this pre-Code classic.
Jeanne Eagels in 1929 film version of The Letter.
Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur
(March 23, 1906? – ∞)
"If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way."
Jean Harlow, born Harlean Harlow Carpenter
(3 March, 1911 – 7 June, 1937 ∞ )
I was not a born actress. No one knows it better than I. If I had any latent talent, I have had to work hard, listen carefully, do things over and over and then over again in order to bring it out.