Audrey Hepburn – “The Nun’s Story”

Mary Pickford – 1928

 

They had been my making, those curls, and my unmaking too. They had given my pictures a badge of respectability. They prohibited me from playing anything in the slightest degree censorable. [They were the trademark that made my films safe for children.] Mothers trusted those curls as they trusted their own consciences.

Between that restriction and the weight of the curls, there was little left for me to do and very little ground that I could cover…..[After making Sparrows] I played a little girl for the last time. I was determined now, as I had never been before, to close the door on my screen childhood and to be my age, or something near it.

She said her hair cut was “my final revolt against the type of thing I had been doing. There was no retracing my steps now. I made Coquette and had the great satisfaction of winning the Academy Award. For that my curls had been a very small price to pay.”

Mary Pickford

Satire Postcards c1915

 

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Happy Birthday Oliver Cromwell

 

Oliver Cromwell was born on 25th April 1599 in Huntingdon, and resided in St Ives between 1631 and 1636.

24th April 1645 Oliver Cromwell advanced through Oxfordshire, defeating Royalist cavalry at Islip & accepting the surrender of Bletchington House;

its Royalist commander Francis Windebank was shot on his return to Oxford for dereliction of duty

‘Loneliness is Dangerous’, By Ed Vebell – 1955

Audrey Hepburn – 1956

 

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Jack Cardiff for ‘War And Peace’ in 1956.

Mary Pickford – Mistress Knell – 1915

Olive Thomas – Picture Play Magazine (September 1919 – February 1920)

Maude Fealy (Rotary 389 A)

Bride and Groom – 1914