Tag Archives: Clark Gable

Virginia Grey ~ Always the Bridesmaid

Day 319 of Colourisation Project – March 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. American actress,Virginia Grey born this day, March 22, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, made her debut … Continue reading

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Jean Harlow – Archetype Sex Symbol

Day 300 of Colourisation Project – March 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Nicknamed the Blonde Bombshell and the Platinum Blonde, Jean Harlow, the archetype sex-symbol of the silver screen, … Continue reading

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Clark Gable – A Reluctant King

Day 270 of Colourisation Project – February 1 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. You may not immediately recognise today’s colourisation subject without his trademark pencil-thin moustache. In a photo … Continue reading

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Loretta Young – Keeping Mum

Day 244 of Colourisation Project – January 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, 6 January 1913, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Loretta Young, was one of Hollywood’s … Continue reading

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Lupe Vélez – Killing the Urban Myth

Day 220 of Colourisation Project – December 13 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. There is an an urban legend in Hollywood that Mexican born Lupe Vélez, a highly talented … Continue reading

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Eleanor Parker – Woman of a Thousand Faces

Day 216 of Colourisation Project – December 9 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Best remembered for her role as Elsa von Schraeder, the scheming baroness in the 1965 musical … Continue reading

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Gene Tierney – The Luckiest Unlucky Girl

Day 196 of Colourisation Project – November 19 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Called “the most beautiful woman in movie history” by Darryl Zanuck, founder of 20th Century Fox, … Continue reading

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Yvonne De Carlo – Goth’s Donna Reed?

Day 117 of Colourisation Project – September 1 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. What do Moses’s wife and Lily Munster have in common? Answer: Today’s subject for colourisation, Yvonne De … Continue reading

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Charles Boyer – Last Matinée Idol Standing

Day 113 of Colourisation Project – August 28 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, 28 August 1899, Charles Boyer was a four time Oscar-nominated French-American actor who appeared … Continue reading

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