Apparently WB wanted her. Who knows if MGM would have loaned her.

True. And doctors did about the same thing to Jean Harlow in real life four years later. It was about making the patient comfortable, not trying to save him/her.

My guess is that “Say It With Music” was probably a revue with no plot, so they figured that they could drop in at any time.

Unforgettable as the ultra-Catholic, ultra-superstitious who bedevils daughter-in-law Tracey Ullman in HOUSEHOLD SAINTS. #JudithMalina #TCMParty

Years of slashing taxes on the ultra rich and cutting back on social services. Michigan shut down many psychiatric hospitals 20 years ago and literally sent the patients onto the streets, confident they would somehow find jobs and housing and check in for medications. Surprise — it didn’t happen.

I’m so sorry. There are so many seemingly charming and caring people out there who just can’t be trusted. 🙄

Absolutely true. I have been editing a project involving homelessness, and it is profoundly depressing. No one in power really wants to help them — just move them to somebody else’s backyard.

And so little has changed. I hear it all the time from people who look at the homeless population these days and say, “I just want them all to go away.” Their ancestors had the same ideas.

And many people who were forcibly committed to institutions (which was fairly easy to do at the time) never came back. They were often sedated into zombies and locked up, and that was considered a “cure.” I’m sure she knew a few of those patients herself.

She once told me she was planning to see THE HOURS “because I have often thought about killing myself.” She wasn’t joking. She never found the clarity and peace she deserved, unfortunately.

We FINALLY got her to go to therapy in the 1990s, and it was probably too late. She was in her 70s by then, and very resistant to changing anything. A real tragedy.

My grandmother, who was bipolar, stubbornly resisted therapy for decades because she was convinced it was all electroshock, ice baths, straitjackets and lobotomies. That was all she ever heard about in the 1940s and 1950s. #TCMParty @tcmtv.bsky.social @tcmparty.bsky.social @tcmfans.bsky.social

Imagine actually printing up a shirt like that. Imagine actually buying it. Imagine actually wearing it. In public. I must say, the mind reels…

He was the top box office star at the time, so he got away with it. But audiences were getting tired of his act, he made several awful films, and by the end of the decade he was starring in one flop after another. That’s Hollywood!

Absolutely. He insisted he would be singing as many songs as Dolly — and ordered her to write material for him! In the end, no one was really happy with it. The New York Times memorably called it “outstandingly feeble.”

The behind-the-scenes stories on WHOREHOUSE are really juicy. Burt Reynolds and his posse ran roughshod over everyone and Higgins didn’t have a chance. Even Dolly Parton, who never bad-mouths anyone, has talked about how obnoxious and egotistical Reynolds was.