Happy Birthday, Cathy O'Donnell

July 6th is Cathy O'Donnell's birthday.
If you loved her in The Best Years of Our
Lives (1946) and They Live By Night (1948),
you'll adore her in Detective Story (1951) and
The Man from Laramie (1955). I did.

Happy birthday, Cathy.

Close Calls

(Seems that everybody wanted to get close to Lana.)

PJs

We haven't done a Jammies post in a long time.

Heavens To Betsy (Slight Return)

We've previous discussed Betsy Von Furstenberg
and her lovely pants, but it always helps to keep
in touch. Nobody ever talks about Betsy Von
Furstenberg and her funny nose and her gorgeous
eyes anymore, so we're here to remedy that situation.
(Hey, it's what we do.)

Five That I Just Plain Like

Loose Blondes

By "loose," I mean that these starlets have been
floating around loose on my hard drive for a
while and needed to go somewhere. By "blonde,"
I mean that they look blonde in black and white
photos. Although they might be redheads or
something. And they're probably all dye jobs
to one degree or another. But that's not the
point. The point is that they're not loose any
longer.

A Pair of Huge Balls

What is interesting about this particular pair
of huge ball pictures (besides the really cute
starlets holding them ever so gently) is that
they certainly appear to be the same ball in
two different pinup photo sessions. Frances
Dee above was with Paramount and Simone
Simon below was with Fox, I think. So it's
probably not a studio photographer's ball.
I'm guessing that the Dee photo is very
early 1930s and the Simon picture is from
the mid-30s sometime. Just a guess. But
it look like the same ball. Lucky ball!

Elbow Room

Batgirl Action Figure

So I sit down to my usual "Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal" with "Whole Grain Guaranteed" and "three grams of soluble fiber" Cheerios breakfast, and out of the box comes a "Batman Stunt Figure." I can collect all four. I can "join in the Batman action." I could either study the Nutrition Highlights on the side of the box or take the "Batman Mental Agility" test on the back of the box. Apparently, there's a new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, that I have forgotten to ignore. I skip all that and get back to the regular book I'm reading this week. But I'm thinking that a Batgirl Action Figure would make a nice breakfast gift (and an excellent excuse for a Starlet Showcase post). And I look up "batgirl" on the Internet. And there are, of course, Batgirl comics and action figures and scale models and batgirls at conventions and dirty batgirl pictures and batgirl-catwoman contests and assorted nonsense. And I see that they've remade Get Smart. I knew that some idiot had remade Psycho, and I knew that some other idiot had remade The Getaway, and I had heard that some morons had made an unfunny movie out of Bewitched, but Get Smart? Get a clue! Let me pause for a moment and make one earth-shattering admission: I have never seen a Star Wars, a Lord of the Rings, or a Harry Potter movie. Never. In my whole life. How I got through half a century of breathing (smoke, mostly) without having sat through one of those, I'll never know. But I haven't. There are too many good older movies I have yet to see. I can't be wasting my time, watching remakes of Get Friggin' Smart. And I'll not be attending The Dark Knight anytime soon either. But I found some Batgirl photos of Yvonne Craig, and that made it all worthwhile.

Happy Birthday, Geneviève Bujold

July 1st is Geneviève Bujold's birthday.
I loved her in Obsession (1976) and Coma (1978).
I'd like to see her in Alex & the Gypsy (1976), if
that ever becomes available on DVD.




Happy Birthday, Geneviève.

Fourth of July Starlet Photos

Everybody has a July 4th. Even Vietnam.
But only here do we have an Independence
Day on the 4th of July. If you don't already
know why that's important, Starlet Showcase
is certainly not the place to learn.
For those of you who are thinking of maybe
attaching cool July 4th starlet pinups to your
patriotic emails in the next few days, here
are some pictures your friends and loved
ones might enjoy.





Starlet Showcase - always prepared, always
on time (except when we screw up and forget
something).