Jungle Red!

Norma Shearer...

...we share a birthday, you know?!

[...along with the likes of Kate O'Mara, Rhonda Fleming, Martha Hyer, Eddie Fisher, Jack Haley, Patti Austin, Antonio Banderas, Rosanna Arquette, Charlie Dimmock and Ronnie Spector.]

Jungle Red!

Miss Norma Shearer and I share so much more than just a birthday...

I think today should be...

Myrna Loy (2nd August 1905 – 14th December 1993)


Dame Wendy Hiller (15th August 1912 – 14th May 2003)


Lucille Ball (6th August 1911 – 26th April 1989)


Rhonda Fleming (born 10th August 1923)


Arlene Dahl (born 11th August 1925)


Georgette Heyer (16th August 1902 – 4th July 1974)


Sylvia Sidney (8th August 1910 – 1st July 1999)


Princess Anne, the Princess Royal (born 15th August 1950)


Norma Shearer (10th August 1902 – 12th June 1983)

... a "Say Something Hat Day"!

Don't you?

It's all about the Women

• "You simply must see my hairdresser, I DETEST whoever does yours."
• "She’s got those eyes that run up and down a man like a searchlight."
• "Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it."
• "He almost stood me up for his wife!"
• "Isn’t that (nail polish) divine? Jungle red!" "Looks like you’ve been tearing at somebody’s throat!"
• "Oh, poor creatures. They’ve lost their equilibrium because they’ve lost their faith in love. Oh l’amour, l’amour."
• "Where I spit no grass grows ever!"
• "Oh, she can’t help it. It’s just her tough luck that she wasn’t born deaf and dumb."
• "When anything I wear doesn’t please Stephen, I take it off."
• "There is a name for you, ladies, but it isn’t used in high society... outside of a kennel!"

It's International Women's Day again.

Glamour went with her, and so did I

Famous for his bold, dramatic styles, Gilbert Adrian became MGM Studios' top designer during the 30s aand 40s. He caused a fashion frenzy by the introduction of shoulder pads, and created the most glamorous clothes in the world for the likes of Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Norma Shearer. He also designed the legendary ruby slippers Dorothy wore in The Wizard Of Oz. His favourite "model", however, was Greta Garbo.







Adrian left the "studio system" in 1941 to set up his own independent fashion house, saying:

"It was because of Garbo that I left MGM. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."

Gilbert Adrian (Adrian Adolph Greenberg, 3rd March 1903 — 13th September 1959)

International Women's Day

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