As MGM never allowed to record any bloopers to maintain the glamorous image of their stars, we will never get to see all those funny moments when an actor messed up his/her line or when something funny happened to them. However, there are a few unscripted moments in some of Norma Shearer’s films. In one scene in “Their Own Desire” she almost slipped and threatened to fall back into the swimming pool after Robert Montgomery was playing with her toes. In “Riptide” she is startled when the gramophone shuts close, in “A Free Soul” the donkey chases and knocks down a fellow actor and in “Marie Antoinette” the boy who plays her son wants to put down his chair a bit too enthusiastically, which makes him fall.
Happy Birthday Jimmy!
↳ (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997)
“Jimmy Stewart, in one of his first film roles, played the deranged culprit, and darn well, too. He was very excited and enthusiastic about it all, rushing around with his camera taking pictures of everybody on the set, declaring ‘I’m going to marry Myrna Loy!’”
Myrna Loy, Being and Becoming
Myrna and Clark Gable are voted “King and Queen of Hollywood” in a nationwide poll of newspapers, 1937
250 Films Meme | 112 | The First Wives Club (1996)
↳ Favourite 25/50
250 Films Meme | 111 | Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007)
↳ Favourite 24/50
Happy Birthday Cate!
↳ 14 May 1969
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Happy Birthday Kate!
↳ May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.”
