Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead Quotes

“PARSONS, LOUELLA. “The Real Life Story of Clara Bow” The San Antonio Light, May 15 – June 4, 1931.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“OGDEN, TOM. Haunted Hollywood: Tinseltown Terrors, Filmdom Phantoms, and Movieland Mayhem. Globe Pequot, 2009.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“Miss Nondescript had become Marilyn Monroe, the most famous actress in the world, in less than five seconds. She did not need make-up, clothes or wigs to accomplish this. All she needed was to summon her alter ego from within.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“The woman leaned over to the boy and whispered, “Do you want to see her?” He looked puzzled. “See who?” She gazed at him in mixed amusement and disbelief, and replied “HER!” A metamorphosis washed over her, a transformation that had less to do with the physical than the psychological, and it came from so deep within her that it could have easily been perceived as a physical change. If it weren’t for the fact that she did it right in front of him—in seconds—he might have thought it was someone else standing there. She tilted her head back, thrust out her chest, ran her fingers through her flaxen hair, put on a beaming, artificial smile, and began to walk with a kind of half-swish, half-wiggle (something that most women wouldn’t be able to pull off even if they spent years practicing).”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“This was, after all, the age of Ozzie And Harriet, when America still frowned upon such displays of relaxed morality.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“She starred in one exploitation picture after another over the next several years; charlestoning, vamping and gleefully swinging her way toward immortality as the screen’s purest example of uninhibited, unbounded sexuality.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

“On these images were faces: Garbo, Gilbert, Swanson...the pioneers of the modern film industry. They are all gone, as are most of their films, but their incredible lives and work are still remembered by those who are true lovers of the craft and magic of film.”
― Jackie Ganiy, Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead