Tuesday 6 April 2021

Whatever happened to class?


Joi Lansing (6th April 1929 – 7th August 1972)


Sonja Henie (8th April 1912 – 12th October 1969)


Dame Cicely Courtneidge (1st April 1893 – 26 April 1980)


Billie Holiday (7th April 1915 – 17th July 1959)


Mistinguett (5th April 1873 – 5th January 1956)


Carmen McRae (8th April 1920 – 10th November 1994)


Dame Penelope Keith (born 2nd April 1940)


Alberta Hunter (1st April 1895 – 17th October 1984)


Debbie Reynolds (1st April 1932 – 28th December 2016)


Mary Pickford (8th April 1892 – 29th May 1979)

8 comments:

  1. Oh, dear. Poor Mistinguett appears to have stuck her finger in an electrical socket! She won't get any sympathy from Margo...

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    1. "Nothing you can do now will shock me. It's quite simple." - Margo Leadbetter

      Jx

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  2. I couldn't think of Sonja Henie the other day. I was talking to mother about Esther Williams, and I was like... there was a woman who did ice skating movies too. And mother said, Joan Crawford? I said... I don't think so... ice melts under that bitch. Kizzes.

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    1. Oh, darling! Always listen to your mother. Joan-Crawford-on-ice is actually a real thing! Jx

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    1. We model ourselves on most of them - some days we drink like Debbie Reynolds, and others it's all monocles and Dame Cicely Courtneidge. Jx

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