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Actress Carla Laemmle, a link to Hollywood's past, dies at 104
Chicago Tribune ^
| 6/13/2014
| Claire Noland
Posted on 06/13/2014 1:27:18 PM PDT by Borges
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She became a ballet dancer and actress and appeared in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925) and “Dracula.” For that 1931 classic she spoke the film’s first lines: “Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age ... . “
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: carlalaemmle; cinema; film; movies; obituary
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posted on
06/13/2014 1:27:18 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
06/13/2014 1:27:44 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
I love old movies. Sadly those actors/actresses are dying or dead.
To: Borges
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posted on
06/13/2014 1:33:23 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Borges
“I’m ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille.”
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
To: BipolarBob
She had the first speaking role in the Lugosi/Browning Dracula.
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posted on
06/13/2014 1:39:02 PM PDT
by
Rocko
To: Borges
To: BipolarBob
Same. And oh my goodness I didn’t know she was still alive.
To: Borges
If that is a recent picture she looked fabulous for 104!
To: Borges
What little of her movie career existed, she owed to nepotism. Her uncle was the founder of universal pictures.
From wiki:
The poet Ogden Nash observed the following about Laemmle’s habit of giving his son and nephews top executive positions in his studios:
“Uncle Carl Laemmle
Has a very large faemmle.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Gloria Swanson from Sunset Boulevard. What a pic.
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posted on
06/13/2014 2:37:20 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: Borges
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posted on
06/13/2014 2:39:45 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Borges
Is that Hemingway in the picture?
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posted on
06/13/2014 2:47:45 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Borges
A great lady from a great old Hollywood family. I’m sad to see her go.
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posted on
06/13/2014 3:01:59 PM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: headstamp 2
Her boyfriend, Ray Cannon.
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posted on
06/13/2014 3:31:33 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Borges
what a spectacular picture!
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posted on
06/13/2014 3:48:09 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: lowbridge
i adore the rhymes of Ogden Nash...
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posted on
06/13/2014 3:49:17 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; bleach
i saw Sunset Boulevard at the Orpheum Theatre in San Fran in the late 1990s... Petula Clark of “Downtown,” played the role of Norma Desmond... she was really good... however, i cannot help but think of Carol Burnett’s parody of Norma Desmond whenever the subject arises...
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posted on
06/13/2014 3:54:13 PM PDT
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latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Borges
at the risk of sounding stupid, is that a pic of Ernest Hemingway on her wall? i want it...
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posted on
06/13/2014 4:02:18 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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