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Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Sunday, November 2, 2025

SARAH BERNHARDT : DAUGHTER OF COURTESAN YOULE VAN HARD : TRANSFORMED HERSELF INTO A WORLD FAMOUS ACTRESS AND A NATIONAL ICON OF FRANCE KNOWN FOR HER OWN "SCANDALOUS" LIFE

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SARAH BERNHARDT    (1844-1923)  Baptized Sarah Marie Henriette Bernard but born Jewish Eventually Called The Girl With The Golden Voice I...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

LILLIE LANGTRY "THE JERSEY LILY" SINGS ON THE MARGATE BOAT 1903

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I searched for the silent film that Lillie Langtry made - just one - and apparently a copy does not exist.  However, the model -actress-si...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

LILLIE LANGTRY BECOMES INDEPENDENT OF HER HUSBAND, FOUNDS A THEATRE AND BECOMES A BUSINESS WOMAN.

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Excerpt pages 246-247: in 1882, after success in Britain, Lillie founded her own theatre company and took it on a tour of the United States....
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

SOPHIA BADDELEY LITHOGRAPH IN THE STAGE PLAY KING HENRY THE 6TH

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Monday, July 22, 2024

SOPHIA BADDELEY : DESERTED BY A ROGUE SHE FELL FOR, SHE BECAME THE SOLE SUPPORT OF THREE CHILDREN.

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Stephen Sayer was one of the Sheriffs of the City of London, a politician who was not an aristocrat or a noble.  Mrs. Steele, Sophia's f...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

SOPHIA BADDELEY'S REPUTATION REMAINED AN ADVANTAGE THAT DREW COMPETITIVE OFFERS FROM OTHER MEN

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Born into a good family associated with the Royal Family, married, earning her own fortune through acting and singing:  all these things hel...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

ACTRESS SOPHIA BADDELEY WAS SLOW TO ACCEPT FINANCIAL OFFERS CONSIDERING HER OWN IMPRESSIVE INCOME FROM ACTING AND SINGING

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We continue with our book review-report... The first man to take on Sophia Baddeley was married, Lord Molyneux. Still edging into the courte...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

SOPHIA BADDELEY : HIGHLY PAID GEORGIAN COMEDIC ACTRESS : BECAME A COURTESAN AFTER MARRIAGE and A HEARTBREAK BUT BEING ON STAGE SAVED HER

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Katie Hickman's  book includes two of the women I featured here at  Mistress Manifesto  in the past:  Harriet Wilson  and  Cora Pearl.  ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN by NATHALIE LEGER is a MULTI GENRE MASTERPEICE

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 The book was authored by French writer Nathalie Leger. THE NEW YORKER : REVIEW FROM 2016 ON SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN This is an excellent re...
Monday, July 12, 2021

THE ARRANGEMENT : A NOVEL BY ELIA KAZAN THAT MAY BE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

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The script by Arthur Miller for the film After The Fall was thought to have been based on his personal experience in a marriage with actor...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

LIDA BAAROVA - MISTRESS OF NAZI JOSEPH GOEBBELS WHO PAID THE PRICE FOR ASSOCIATING WITH NAZIS

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LUDMILLA BABKOVA / LIDA BAAROVA  (1914- 2000) Image from World War II Gravestones MISTRESS OF THE MONTH When it comes to the Na...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

CAROLE MALLORY OFFICIAL WEB SITE - A CATALOGUE OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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CAROLE MALLORY COM From stewardess flying Pan Am to literary author, journalism, interviews, as well as actress.  (Hey check out past po...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

CAROLE MALLORY AS A MODEL AND ACTRESS and WRITER and AUTHOR

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During her modeling career in the 1970's, Carole Mallory was on the covers of Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, New York, Esquire and GQ, and Fren...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

COVER GIRL MODEL CAROLE MALLORY

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Sunday, September 23, 2018

MIKE TODD and GYPSY ROSE LEE - BEFORE ELIZABETH TAYLOR?

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Gypsy Rose Lee starred on Broadway and rumors were that she and Michael Todd, who would marry actress Elizabeth Taylor , had a thing, and...