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Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald

Tis Love and Love alone If any couple can be blamed for unrealistic Hollywood notions of true love and eternal happ...

Rudy Vallee

Me and my Megaphone Rudy Vallee and his megaphone Musician, singer, screen actor, radio star and comedian Rudy Vallee was a bit hit in t...

The Dead End Kids

Such naughtiness. Some of The Dead End Kids In depression-era America, the Dead End Kids were a popular cinema attraction, reflecting as...

Arched Eyebrows

Marlene Dietrich The early 20th century penchant for highly stylized, arched eyebrows began in Hollywood in the 1930s. Brows were plucke...

The Hoover Building

Image by Steve Cadman Art Deco Building Image by Steve Cadman The Hoover Factory in London is one of the most iconic art deco bui...

Chick Henderson

Chick Henderson British singer Chick Henderson had a warm, rich, emotional, yet manly voice, that could stir the heartstrings and g...

Pencil Thin Moustache

The one and only Suavo Anyone addicted to old black and white films from the 1930s will know that the pencil thin moustache was a v...

Al Bowlly and Ray Noble

, My father was a great fan of music of the 1930's, an appreciation buoyed by a great collection of vinyls, as well as old 78's an...

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