America’s Original Sweetheart with the Golden Curls Who was Mary Pickford? In short, she is what is often referred to as Hollywood Royalty because she had great influence on the shaping of the Hollywood industry. Amongst other achievements, she is one of the founders of movie studio United Artists and being a founding member of […]
Red-Headed Femme Fatale Rita Hayworth was actually born as Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn, New York, on October 17 in 1918. She became one of the most celebrated dancers and actresses of Old Hollywood and seduced every man on screen. Her private life was quite another story, though. Listen on Catch up on Other Episodes
Mexican Spitfire and the original Hollywood bad girl Lupe Velez was actually born Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez on July 18, 1908 into a wealthy Mexican family in San Luis Potosí. At the age of 13, she was sent to the US, to learn English and dance in San Antonio, Texas. Both of which she excelled
The first Mexican Hollywood star Maria de los Dolores Asunsolo Lopez Negrete was born on August 3, 1904 in Mexico. Her family was actually really rich, with her mother’s lineage going back to Spain and the viceregal nobility. Her parents were members of the Mexican artistocracy that existed during this time (which was during dictator
The first Continental star to be imported to Hollywood Before there were Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, there was Pola Negri – the first Continental star to be imported to Hollywood to counterbalance the strength of the European movie industry. Listen on Catch up on Other Episodes of the Podcast A new episode out every
Hollywood’s Champ Vamp Theda Bara is a lot of things: She is one of the three pairs of eyes of the Chicago International Film Festival Logo, starred in the two most expensive and lavish productions of the silent film era, essentially created Fox Studios with her work, was the first sex symbols of the film era,