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In the 1930s Harding, was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures," and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday. Harding was born Dorothy Walton Gatley and was the daughter of a prominent United States Army officer.
German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich: "Dolores del Río was the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in Hollywood". [126] [127] [128] “Ah, this is the real beauty. We blondes have to work at it". Playwright George Bernard Shaw: "The two most beautiful things in the world are the Taj Mahal and Dolores del Río". [129]
Corinne Griffith (née Griffin; November 21, 1894 – July 13, 1979) was an American film actress, producer, author and businesswoman.Dubbed "The Orchid Lady of the Screen," [1] she was widely regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses of the silent film era.
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Crawford's films of this era were some of the most-popular and highest-grossing films of the mid-1930s. [38] Crawford continued her reign as a popular movie actress well into the mid-1930s. No More Ladies (1935) co-starred Robert Montgomery and then-husband Franchot Tone, and was a success.
Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Anita Louise (born Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939).
Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1909 – January 1, 1960) [1] was an American stage and film actress. She began her career onstage in 1929 with the University Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.