Errrr .... a little late for all three ladies. I think Gaynor, Lombard and Hayes were classy enough to forgive me for my tardiness. Anyway, Happy Birthday ladies! You are still remembered.
Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor were a highly successful pair, teaming up for a dozen movies from the late 1920s and on into the 1930s. They were a handsome couple for sure.
You have to wonder how Carole Lombard's career would have progressed if she had not made that fatal flight in January, 1942. She was only 34, but that's getting on the old side for a female star in her era. Of course, she was still a knockout and at the top of her form. I do know she needed to have made at least one more rom-con with Mr. Montgomery, they were really quite good together in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941). Below, Carole is with Fredric March in Nothing Sacred (1937).
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Carole Lombard, b. October 6, 1908
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Helen Hayes, b. October 10, 1900
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Bob always said his favorite leading lady was Helen Hayes. Bob seemed in awe of theater performers. She did have the large face for a stage actor. Much like Ethel Merman's voice could be heard clearly throughout the theater, Helen's face could be seen. (and as Clark Gable's large head was magnetic on the big screen!)
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Carole was awesome in My Man Godfrey and To Be or Not To Be. Robert Stack wrote a lot about her in his autobiography (which is an entertaining read if you have not read it yet)
And I remember being shocked that Helen Hayes's son was Danno on the original Hawaii 50
And to die at only 33...a terrible waste.
No, I haven't read the Stack book. Twas first aware of him in The Untouchables, always sounds odd that he was around in the early 1940s.
I remember James MacArthur as getting a lot of flack for being the son of Hollywood elites. Of course there is so much intermarriage of Hollywood players these days that it's common to be related to somebody in the business. Anyway, Helen was quite proud of son James, as well she should have been.
James MacArthur got guff because of his parents? Wow had no idea. And agree, sooo different than today.
I love the Untouchables! One of my favorite episodes actually has Elizabeth Montgomery and Mr. Tate from Bewitched before that was a show
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