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Great Auntie Merle

Have you ever noticed that, in certain photographs, actress Merle Oberon looks quite lovely and yet, in other photos, she looks like somebody's great-Aunt Mildred or something, if you know what I mean? Maybe it's her small mouth. Maybe it depended on the hair style or the lighting. I don't really know. I remember being thoroughly impressed with her in the slinky costumes she wore in A Night in Paradise (1946), a silly Technicolor adventure that is worth watching if only to see those slinky costumes. She was 5' 2" and went by the nickname "Obie," which I think is cute. Anyway, love her or hate her, here she is. And here's one of those slinky costumes.

Eleanor Parker Saturday

Eleanor Parker (no relation)









(And more tomorrow. . .)

Damsel in Dis Dress

Anne Helm in The Magic Sword (1962).

. . .and in dis towel.

(The physics gets a little complicated here, but it's basically

just gravity vs surface tension.)

Hollywood Harem #13

I looked it up. Here's the original December
2007 explanation for this category.
"Okay, this new category will be called Hollywood Harem and will include any odd photo of a starlet playing a harem girl or, well, wearing a weird little costume, including--let's see now--starlets in Biblical epics, starlets in so-called sword-and-sandal or spear-and-slipper movies, prehistoric starlets in jungle epics, starlets bellydancing, starlets playing Cleopatra or her handmaidens, starlets charming snakes, starlets playing princesses and Egyptians and stuff, starlets playing Atilla the Hun's wife or Lady Macbeth's milk maid, starlets dancing for John the Baptist's head, starlets in bear skin bikinis, starlets playing the Queen of Sheba and Delilah and Ali Baba's forty thieves' girlfriends and Robin Hood's girl cousins and King Arthur's granddaughters, and starlets playing pirate girls and gypsies, and any movie with sand in it that is supposed to take place a long time ago in some place warm where they don't have to wear, like, boots and winter coats and scarves and knit hats and longjohns and stuff. Okay? Got it? Cool. Here we go..."
(Must have been chilly the day I wrote that.)

Claudette-Cleo-Cigarette

When she wasn't playing Cleopatra or smoking cigarettes, Claudette Colbert could sometimes be seen playing a character named "Cigarette" in Under Two Flags (1936), where she replaced Simone Simone, who was being particularly "difficult" to the film's director, Frank Lloyd, who later directed Colbert in Maid of Salem, which featured Chief John Big Tree, a Seneca Indian who showed up in John Ford westerns and Cecil B. DeMille extravaganzas, which is of course completely irrelevant, except to provide a slender linguistic thread to the otherwise unrelated photographs in this post. Thank you for playing.

Carry on, Edina Ronay

Edina Ronay of A Study in Terror (1965), Carry on
Cowboy (1966), and Prehistoric Women (1967) fame.
She became a fashion designer.