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Old Hollywood, Cinema & Music. Bette Davis & Barbara Stanwyck are the supremes. They say it's the last song. They don't know us, you see. It's only the last song if we let it be.
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Back in 1939, when Elizabeth was just seven, Hedda had suggested that David O. Selznick cast her as Vivien Leigh’s daughter in Gone With the Wind. It still rankled Hedda how disingenuous Sara could be about that whole experience, insisting that she’d never had any thought of putting her daughter in pictures. Sara claimed that it was only after ‘people on the street’ had told her how much Elizabeth resembled Leigh that she had even given it a thought. Hedda scoffed at such baloney. At that point in time, no one had any idea what Vivien Leigh looked like! Of course the entire enterprise had been Sara’s, right from the moment she’d showed up at Hedda’s office with her daughter in tow, obsessed with the idea of getting her into the film.
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Adèle Exarchopoulos, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Adjani, Monica Bellucci, Leïla Bekhti, Isabelle Huppert, Mélanie Laurent, Sandrine Kiberlain, Céline Sallette, Marine Vacth, Bérénice Bejo, Emmanuelle Béart, Carole Bouquet and Chiara Mastroianni by Jean-Paul Goude for ELLE France, 15th December 2015.

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“George Cukor has a marvelously intricate imagination which works on a very fine scale. Take a look at the scene where Mammy’s lacing up Scarlett- it’s just crammed with tiny, fleeting expressions and motives- and then at the next one when Scarlett sits on the stairs eating a chicken leg. There is no other scene in the film with so much detail, such richness- those were the Cukor scenes.” -Olivia de Havilland
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Letter From Anna Magnani to Bette Davis [from “Anna Magnani. Corrispondenza Americana”]

Dear, dear Bette

before leaving I want to write to you, and not wait to be back in Rome - I’ve wanted to write to you on the last evening of my stay in New York in order to spend more time with you - I’ll never forget you - I’ll never forget our meeting, I’ll never forget your face - I’ll take it with me to Italy - I don’t know why but I came out of your house excited and overwhelmed - the excitement of being in front of you, you alive in front of me alive, having admired you so many many times, captured by the screen, amazed by your performances - amazed because I suddenly found myself in your room, in front of a child - I swear the first impression I had was grand - a woman full of life, with so much inside of her, so much warmth, so must youthful interest for everything - you still have so much to say with your art - so very much. I was in front of you, speechless. Remember? I just looked at you and listened, I became a lamb, I was hypnotized. Dear dear great Bette, you’re so human, so tremendously human, and I feel so near to you, and so similar, as a woman. As an artist you know what you mean to me. Always fight for your art - always fight for your artistic freedom against everything and everyone. That’s the only way to be yourself and, in your case, that’s the only way to be a great actress. I hug you, I hug you with infinite emotion and devotion. I’ll never forget you.

Anna

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When I was first starting out as a young actress, Bette Davis wrote me a letter. I almost died. In it she said a very dear thing; she said she was proud of me, like we were related. And that I reminded her of herself when she was younger. And that she hoped we have the chance to work together some day.

Meryl Streep on Bette Davis´ letter she got from her. (via tracylord)

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