My Favorite Pictures Of Stars

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of some of my favorite classic stars. Ready? Here we go!
(click on the photos to make them bigger).

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I absolutely love this photo. Carole looks stunning, and the setting is sooo Art Deco-- Marvelous!

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Seriously? Can you get anymore gorgeous than that? This is possibly my absolute favorite Jean picture.

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How can you not love any picture with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor? Especially this one.

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*sigh* My favorite actor, who is also the most handsome man ever, incase you didn't know. This is one of my favorite Jimmy photos.

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Don't even get me started on my favorite Ginger Rogers pictures, because we'd be here all day. But this one is one of my favorites. I love her hat especially, and her purse and gloves, too.

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Fred and Ginger make me happy. And this picture is one of my very favorites. They look so elegant.

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Myrna! Gotta love her, and gotta love this picture.

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I love this picture of Hank Fonda. The look on his face is priceless!

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Jimmy and Margaret look so cute in this picture!!! (Especially Jimmy *wink*) The Shop Around The Corner (1940) is one of my absolute favorite films.

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I can't forget Frankie! The best singer ever, in my opinion.

How It All Started

I think it's only fitting that my first real post be about how I became interested in classic film.

It all started with It's A Wonderful Life. I had seen that movie countless times as a child and always loved it. Of course I had seen other classic films, such as The Wizard Of Oz and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but It's A Wonderful Life is the first film I can think of that really made an impact on me. Then a few years later I saw Rear Window (1954), which got me interested in Jimmy Stewart even more. I then started watching more of his movies, reading books, saving images on my computer, and that was really my introduction into the world of Classic Hollywood. Jimmy introduced me to such wonderful performers as Grace Kelly and Cary Grant and phenomenal directors such as Frank Capra and Alfred Hitchcock. But it wasn't until I saw Swing Time a few months later that my love and admiration for Ginger Rogers began. In my search for Jimmy Stewart films, I had wanted to see Vivacious Lady (1938), the only film he made with Ginger, for a very long time. Realizing that it was rare and hard to find, I sort of gave up and decided to wait until TCM showed it. But one day I turned on the TV and Swing Time was just coming on. I read the description and realized it was a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers picture. I had heard about their wonderful dancing and how they revolutionized musicals in the 1930s and remembered Ginger as being Jimmy's co-star in the movie I desperately wanted to see. So I watched Swing Time, and within the first few minutes I was a Fred Astaire fan. Then Ginger appeared and the "Pick Yourself Up" dance began. Ginger instantly became my favorite actress. I have never identified with anyone onscreen like I feel that I identify with Ginger. The next week I went to the library and got her autobiography. The more I read about her, the more I liked her. And since then I have started collecting Ginger's films and even memorabilia items.





So, there you have it! Maybe I should add that I've always been a history buff? That was probably a contributing factor as well. :)

Welcome to "Sap Dancing"!

Hello! Welcome to my new blog! Here I plan on discussing my love for classic Hollywood films and the actors, directors, etc. who made them.

The name is from the 1936 movie Swing Time starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which is one of my all-time favorite films!

I'll start making real posts soon, but right now I have no idea what or who I should write about first. I hope you all will enjoy my blog once it gets off the ground. Bye!

- Penny