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Sally Blane reacts to kissing Rudy Vallee in The Vagabond Lover (1929).

William Powell

Powell loved practical jokes.  When Loy turned thirty-five, he sent her a funeral wreath for her birthday, adorned with a ribbon that read, “Be brave, dear.”  When fans elected her Queen of Hollywood, consort to Clark Gable’s King, Powell sent what looked like a florist’s box of long stemmed roses; it turned out to contain bunches of sour grapes and dry leaves, accompanied by a note that offered “Love from William the Fourth,” because Powell had come in fourth in the popularity poll conducted by Ed Sullivan that Gable won.  On the day they were scheduled to plant their footprints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Loy and Powell alarmed Sid Grauman by showing up on Hollywood Boulevard laughing, each sporting a pair of floppy swim flippers large enough for Bigfoot.  Powell said they wanted to make a big impression. 

Carmen Miranda, 1940’s

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

Myrna Loy and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, 1943

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Rehearsals never looked so good. 

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Ethel Merman photographed by Hebert Mitchell, 1936