Golden Age Actresses Video Homage

Remembering actresses of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood

What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the long-ago past?

The clip above features a montage of about two dozen “Golden Age Actresses.” See how many you can recognize. Here’s some assistance:

• Oscar nominee Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier, 1943)
• Oscar winner Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge, 1946)
• Sisters Constance Bennett & Joan Bennett
• Claire Bloom
• Madeleine Carroll
• Linda Darnell
• Laraine Day
• Frances Dee
• Sally Eilers
• Oscar winner Janet Gaynor (for three movies: Sunrise, 7th Heaven, and Street Angel, 1927–1928)
• Oscar nominee Paulette Goddard (So Proudly We Hail, 1943)
• Kathryn Grayson
• Priscilla Lane
• Oscar winner Patricia Neal (Hud, 1963)
• Maureen O’Sullivan
• Lilli Palmer
• Three-time Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker (Caged, 1950; etc.)
• Jean Peters
• Gail Russell
• Oscar winner Norma Shearer (The Divorcee, 1929–1930)
• Oscar nominee Anne Shirley (Stella Dallas, 1937)
• Oscar nominee Margaret Sullavan (Thee Comrades, 1938)
• Miiko Taka
• Lupe Velez
• Oscar winner Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver, 1942)

Among the included films are – some of these are tentative titles:

• George Sidney’s Anchors Aweigh
• Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace
• Frank Borzage’s Bad Girl
• Sidney Franklin’s The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• King Vidor’s The Fountainhead
• F. Richard Jones’ The Gaucho
• Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie
• Curtis Bernhardt’s Interrupted Melody
• Charles Chaplin’s Limelight
• Zoltan Korda’s The Macomber Affair
• Carol Reed’s The Man Between
• Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• John Farrow’s Night Has a Thousand Eyes
• O’Henry’s Full House*
• Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street
• Sam Wood’s The Pride of the Yankees
• Joshua Logan’s Sayonara
• George Sidney’s Scaramouche
• Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven
• Cecil B. DeMille’s Unconquered
• Irving Rapper’s The Voice of the Turtle
• William A. Wellman’s Yellow Sky

Two of the actors briefly seen are Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper.

The song is MIKA’s “Any Other World.”

* 20th Century Fox’s omnibus feature had several directors: Henry Hathaway (“The Clarion Call”), Howard Hawks (“The Ransom of Red Chief”), Henry King (“The Gift of the Magi”), Henry Koster (“The Cop and the Anthem”), and Jean Negulesco (“The Last Leaf”).