Pawsome Pet Pictures: Winnie Lightner.

Winnie Lightner was known as Broadway's "Song a Minute Girl" because she could belt out a song in less than 60 seconds. Her brassy outgoing style was perfect for Warner's Vitaphone shorts when sound became popular.

"Gold Diggers of Broadway" was a triumph for Lightner in 1929, and the all-technicolor "Life of the Parry" was an even bigger hit. Despite the huge success of her first few films, Warner Brothers began to give Winnie, smaller roles and by 1933 she was playing smaller roles. After, Lightner met Director Roy Del Ruth when he directed "Gold Diggers" they married.

Winnie had a son from a previous marriage named Richard Lightner (he legally changed his name to Lightner) when she married Del Ruth. They had a son named Thomas who is a cinematographer in Hollywood.

Winnie died in 1972 and is buried next to Roy at the Mission San Fernando in Southern California.

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Pawsome Pet Pictures: Katharine Hepburn.

Personal Quote: "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Loretta Young.

Personal Quote: "The trick to life, I can say now in my advanced age, is to stop trying to make it so important".

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Loretta Young.

Personal Quote:

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Loretta Young.

Personal Quote:
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Lillian Gish.

Personal Quote: I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Nils Asther.

Fun Fact:

Proposed to Greta Garbo in 1929. She turned him down.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Sharon Tate.

Personal Quote:

 I'm one of those mad, irrational characters who simply loves men. I love them because they're men. Women, ...I don't like to compete against them or play games. It's a waste of time.

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Pawsome Pet Picture: Alice White.

Fun Fact: One-time secretary and script girl for 'Joseph Von Sternberg' who thought she lacked the temperament to be a secretary for him. She later worked for Charles Chaplin.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Madge Evans.

Fun Facts:

Husband Sidney Kingsley, a playwright, is best known for his plays: Dead End and Detective Story.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Silent film star Kathryn Adams.

Kathryn Adams (May 25, 1893 – February 17, 1959). Born Ethalinda Colson in St. Louis, Missouri, Adams entered films in 1915 after a brief and rather unsuccessful stint in musical comedy. After a number of successful leading roles, she drifted into supporting roles in the 1920s, and except for a brief appearance in the 1931's version of, The Squaw Man, Adams disappeared from films after 1925.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Jeanette Mac Donald.

Personal Quote: "I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show".

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Dorothy Lamour.

Personal Quote:

 "I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark".

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Greta Garbo and Leo the Lion

Sorry for not posting pawsome pet pictures of late but I came across this great one today I had to share....

MGM's Greta and Leo share some space together but I get 

the feeling that Greta is a tad uncomfortable...

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Alice White.

Fun Fact: She was Warner Brothers answer to Clara Bow.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Greta Garbo.

Personal Quote: I am still a little nervous, a little self-conscious about my English. I cannot express myself well at parties. I speak haltingly. I feel awkward, shy, afraid. In Hollywood, where every teat table bristles with gossip-writers, what I say might be misunderstood. So I am silent as the grave about my private affairs. Rumors fly about. I am mum. My private affairs are strictly private.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Greer Garson.

Personal Quote: (In a 1990 interview, Garson deplored the violence of many modern films) "I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict."

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Hedy Lamarr.

Personal Quote:

 (speaking in the 1960s) "It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country (USA) money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that's why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for Vienna ... because my home is Vienna and Austria, not America...never!"

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Clara Bow.

Personal Quote: (On her poverty-stricken childhood in Brooklyn): No one wanted me in the first place. Often I was lonesome, frightened and miserable. I never had a doll in my life. I never had any clothes, and lots of times didn't have anything to eat. We just lived, and that'a about all. Girls shunned me because I was so poorly dressed - the worst looking kid on the street. I decided that girls weren't any good, and being lonely and needing child friends, cast my lot with the neighborhood boys. I became a regular tomboy - played baseball, football and learned to box.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Lauren Bacall.

Personal Quote: (upon receiving her Honorary Oscar) A man at last!