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Calling All Romantics… A Mystery from the 1939 World’s Fair, Solved! (Well, Mostly)
Recently I stumbled onto a haunting old mystery I just had to share with my hopelessly romantic classic movie family. In one of the few real bookstores left in New York, I was riffling through boxes of old postcards, looking for any from the 1939 World’s Fair, which I’m mildly obsessed with. I found one …
TINTYPE TUESDAY: Gladys Cooper Was a Pin-Up Girl — And Other Pix That May Surprise You!
Recently I came across this old British postcard, which I bought years ago, back when there were bookstores. Printed in 1910, it features Jessie Winter (as “Modesty”), Gladys Cooper (as “Beauty in Everywoman”) and Patricia Collinge (as “Youth”). Winter had only a brief film career, but Cooper, of course, went on to become everyone’s favorite battleaxe in films …
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