#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Anna Lee as Nell Bowen in "Bedlam" (1946) B Condon 12:00 AM 0 As a protege of Lord Mortimer, Nell Bowen has fallen into being concerned with the human relations and treatment at St. Mary's of Be... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Eleanor Powell B Condon 1:28 PM 0 Started studying tap dancing at 6-years-old then auditioned or a role in "The Optomist" at the Casino de Paris Theater in... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Olivia de Havilland B Condon 1:12 AM 0 Learned her best lighting and camera angles on her first film, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935) Joined the national ... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Mae West B Condon 1:16 PM 0 Was arrested along with the cast of "Sex" (1926) when the theater was raided after complaints from religious groups and was s... Read More
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #SayTheirNames #SilentFilmEdition Ruth Roland B Condon 12:05 AM 0 Was the youngest student at Hollywood High School in 1904/5 and the first homegrown child actress at the school Replaced Gene Gaunti... Read More
#SayTheirNames #SilentEdition Mary Fuller B Condon 12:34 AM 0 When the Lyceum Stock Company broke up while on a short stopover in New York City, a stranded Mary went to Vitagraph Studios looking ... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Myrna Loy B Condon 11:45 AM 0 Worked with the Red Cross and War Relief during WW2 Helped create the Committee for the First Amendment Was co-chairman of the Advis... Read More
#SayTheirNames #SilentFilmEdition Rose Gibson B Condon 3:32 PM 0 Answered an ad for a Millers Brothers 101 Ranch ad for girl horse riders at 18 years old Doubled for Helen Holmes in "The Haza... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Rosalind Russell B Condon 12:15 AM 0 Being typed as a lady is the greatest misfortune possible to a motion picture actress. It limits your characterizations, confines you to... Read More
#SayTheirNames #SilentFilmEdition Elinor Glyn B Condon 12:12 AM 0 Published over a dozen short stories and essays in addition to a novel The Career of Katharine Bush Had helped direct "Three ... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday: Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn B Condon 3:02 AM 0 Teresa Wright had been playing Mary Skinner in "Life With Father" on stage for a year when Lillian Hellman wired Samuel Go... Read More
#SayHerName #SilentFilmEdition June Mathis B Condon 12:16 AM 0 Discovered Rudolph Valentino Included German soldiers in drag in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921) Became chi... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Janet Leigh dealing with Howard Hughes B Condon 12:22 AM 0 Since their meeting at Melvyn LeRoy's party, Howard Hughes had become obsessed with Janet. He persisted in unwanted attentions, f... Read More
#SayTheirNames #SilentEdition Helen Holmes B Condon 1:21 AM 0 Helen Holmes was supposedly reacquainted with Mabel Normand while on a trip to Los Angeles in 1911 after having known each other in N... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Fredi Washington B Condon 12:08 AM 0 "You see I'm a mighty proud gal, and I can't for the life of me find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their ... Read More
#SayHerName #SilentFilmEdition Mabel Condon Birdwell B Condon 12:13 AM 0 Mabel "Mimi" Condon was only 18 when she began writing for Chicago's film trade magazine "Motography." In tha... Read More
#WomenDoingAwesomeThingsWednesday Teresa Wright's Bathing Suit Clause B Condon 11:17 PM 0 Teresa Wright was a year into her two-year contract playing Mary Skinner in the stageplay "Life With Father" when Samuel Gold... Read More
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #SilentEdition Lenore Coffee B Condon 12:25 AM 0 Lenore Coffee got a job right out of graduating Dominican College in working as "the only girl assistant director in the business... Read More
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #HalloweenEdition Ardel Wray B Condon 6:46 AM 0 Ardel Wray was born on October 28th, 1907 in Spokane, Washington to two stock theater actors who separated when she was young. She spen... Read More
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #HalloweenEdition Gene Tierney as Lucy Muir in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947) B Condon 12:00 AM 0 Lucy Muir is a widowed single mother on the mission to get out of her mother-in-law's house. Lucy finds herself in the seaside town... Read More
