"You Can't Buy Love" - 1934

"But you can buy and be Irresistible" This mysteriously exotic fragrance stirs senses...thrills...awakens love. It makes you divinely exciting, glamourous, utterly irresistible"

(repost from Feb,2010)

Radio Stars Magazine -1931 -How Beauty and Romance Came to Nancy...and May and Jane!

We have the saga of Nancy, but both of these other two gals are having issues with Jack...who is two-timing them!

Radio Stars Magazine -1931 - Still...it's her Eyes...

Still...it's her Eyes that make her so completely...so irresistibly...so ravishingly fascinating.

"Lovely figure, beautifully gowned...poise and style...yet, withal, just another mannequin unless her eyes express the fascinating charm of her own unique personality.
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Radio Stars Magazine -1931 - Fashion Parade - Harriet Hilliard, Alice Faye

Fashion Parade Arranged by Helen Hover

Smart clothes make smart women and vice versa.
1. Just glance of Harriet Hilliard in this charming block velvet Sunday night gown. Note the simple clinging lines (to emphasize all its dramatic allure) and the little puff sleeves and high neckline. The picture hat is just the thing to bring out all the glamour in this outfit.
2. Her black ski suit is very boyish-from the double-breasted jacket to the bright yellow turtleneck roll on the sweater.
3. How those boyish styles do bring out all the femininity in the gal! Do you wonder at her nonchalance in these smart aquamarine velvet lounging pajamas?
4. Observe this black satin evening gown that Harriet is enhancing with that figure. Fits very snugly and is enlivened by silver fox epaulettes.
5. Alice Faye shows you why the Mandarin pajama suit is so popular. The jacket is vivid lacquer red. Black satin trousers add the final intriguing note.
6. The little red ski suit is adopted from the styles of the Tyrolian mountain climbers. Notice the smart white laces and flat collar.
7. Alice's black satin and net evening gown has that sleek poured-into look that outlines the natural contour of her figure to the knees, then strikingly flares out into graceful widths of net.
8. The black wool jacket of this natty sport suit has a swagger flare and is just finger-tip length. The sporty black and white checks of the skirt are repeated in the perky ascot.

Radio Stars Magazine -1931 - Mae West and the Radio Jinx

The article inside the magazine refers to the jinx...the idea is that other movie stars hadn't done well in Radio, but they expect that Mae would do fine so long as she passed the censors. She did work in radio, a few sketches in 1937, (Edgar Bergen's radio show), but there were issues with censors and she ended up being banned from Radio.
But Ms. West did OK without radio, she had a fabulous career.

Win Joan Crawford's Dress!

I don't have the copy of Screen Romances that tells what you had to do to win this frothy confection, but I did find a few things while looking around the internet.
Another shot of that dress.


Here's some background about Chained.
You can watch the movie here.
And about Joan herself.

"Laugh at Old Man Winter" 1934

It isn't often that the ads in these old magazines are for companies that are still with us, still selling the same product. But Indera Mills are still here and still sell "premier thermal underwear ".

"You Can't Buy Love" - 1934

"But you can buy and be Irresistible" This mysteriously exotic fragrance stirs senses...thrills...awakens love. It makes you divinely exciting, glamourous, utterly irresistible"