HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS – The book “Star Style” subtitled “Hollywood Legends as Fashion Icons” by Patty Fox names 10. Highspeed starts with five…in order as they come out in “Star Style.”
GLORIA SWANSON – “When I am a star, I will be every inch and moment a star.”
Designer Edith Head says of Miss Swanson: “She walks with an air of a woman who knows she’s glamorous.”
JOAN CRAWFORD – “Any actress who appears in public without being well groomed is digging her own grave.”
Joe Mankiewicz jokes : “She had a special outfit for answering fan mail.”
DOLORES DEL RIO – “God either gives you a face or He doesn’t.”
Orson Welles: “She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.”
GRETA GARBO – “Star Style” describes her face as “flawless…the benchmark of perfection.”
Newsweek: “An enigma in the form of goddess.”
New York Times: “The real Garbo could afford to grow old; the screen Garbo could not.”
Adrian : “When the glamour ends for Garbo, it ends for me.”
Marlene Dietrich: “I wish I could be mysterious like her.”
MARLENE DIETRICH: “The word glamour means something indefinite, something inaccessible to normal women – an unreal paradise, desirable but basically out of reach.”
Maximillian Schell: “All her life Marlene was wearing a mask.”
(Next : The other five “Hollywood Legends as Fashion Icons” in Patty Fox’s “Star Style.”
