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She had what it took to play the part, something he called “Bitch Virtuosity”-Mankiewicz, 1949.

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Outrageous. Audacious. Influential. Harris Glenn Milstead (b. 19 October 1945), known to the world as Divine, was a flamboyant, foul-mouthed, larger-than-life female persona who became an international celebrity and a pioneering figure in popular culture.

📺 John Waters & Divine get interviewed by David Letterman in 1982 on YouTube. They are promoting the film, POLYESTER. by @bitchvirtuosity

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🇳🇱Dutch actress, socialite, and model Talitha Getty was born #OnThisDay in 1940.

👰🏻‍♀️The richest man in world, Sir John Paul Getty, Jr. (son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr.) weds actress Talitha Pol in Rome, 1966.

🇲🇦On July 10, 1971, Talitha Getty left her home in Morocco to go meet her husband in Rome, Italy, to discuss the divorce she wanted to request.

💊But unfortunately, Talitha was found in her bed on July 11, 1971 by @bitchvirtuosity

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📸 Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee

🎬The Night at the Roxbury sketch on SNL in 1997. The Roxbury Guys sketch is legendary on its own, but when they added Pamela Anderson to the head-bobbing and the chaos... 😂 ‘90s comedy reached an epic level. Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan could barely keep a straight face!

🎈Happy Birthday, Chris Kattan
For Disney, he voiced King Zongo in the Disney Junior animated series by @bitchvirtuosity

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Happy Birthday to the filthiest person, DIVINE!!!

JOHN WATRS, Prince of Puke, the Pope of Trash, the Baron of Bad Taste, the Duke of Dirt, the Anal Ambassador and frequent collaborator.

Which is your favorite John Waters DIVINE character

A). Babs Johnson (Pink Flamingos, 1972)

B). Dawn Davenport (Female Trouble, 1974)

C). Francine Fishpaw (Polyester, 1981)

D). Edna Turnblad (Hairspray, 1988)

On March 7, 1988, weeks after Hairspray was released nationwide, Divine died in his sleep, age 42, of a heart attack. Rest In Peace, Harris Glenn Milstead...DIVINE! by @bitchvirtuosity

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Remembering Peter Boyle #BOTD 10/18/1935

🧟‍♂️YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
Greatest horror/sci-fi/comedy of all-time and & it’s in black & white!
The cast was phenomenal:
Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, and Cloris Leachman.

🎭 A remarkable character actor whose imposing presence, expressive face, and impeccable comic timing made him unforgettable -from his performance in “Joe” to his beloved role as Frank Barone in “Everybody Loves Raymond”...
But... who could anyone ever forget his unforgettable turn as Frankenstein’s monster in Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein”? Super duper!!! by @bitchvirtuosity

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BOTD acclaimed actress Melina Mercouri.🎈

📸 Jules Dassin, Melina Merkouri, Anthony Perkins at Christian Dior fashion show, Paris, 1962

🏆 Never on Sunday won her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 and an Academy Award nomination.

🎞️ Phaedra, Jules Dassin melodrama about Melina Mercouri taking Anthony Perkins as a lover, here in CHRISTIAN DIOR. Beautifully shot by Jacques Natteau, Oscar-nominated for Theoni V. Aldredge’s costumes. Like Maria Paiato in “I Am Love” w/ Olympia Papadouka, 1962.

🇬🇷Mercouri served as Greece’s culture minister from 1981 to 1989, the first woman to hold the post. by @bitchvirtuosity

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🇩🇪 Born Christa Päffgen, in Cologne, Germany. A striking blonde a model in the mid-1950s, working for French magazines Elle & Vogue.

⭐️ She would change her name to Nico, became a Warhol superstar, lead Velvet Underground singer & actor for Fellini & Garrel. Passed in 1988 at 49 after falling from her bike in Ibiza.

🎤 “Femme Fatale": A sultry, hypnotic ballad written by Lou Reed with Nico on lead vocals, featured on The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). by @bitchvirtuosity

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Parles-tu français?

✍️17 October 1915. American playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York City, USA. Among his most popular plays were All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge.

🏆Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman and was once married to Marilyn Monroe, one of the world’s most famous film stars. by @bitchvirtuosity

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WHO SHOULD’VE WON BEST ACTOR?

1951 Best Actor Nominees (24th Academy Awards)

🏆 Humphrey Bogart 👒 The African Queen

• Marlon Brando 🫦A Streetcar Named Desire

• Montgomery Clift ☀️ A Place in the Sun

• Arthur Kennedy 🕶️ Bright Victory

• Fredric March 💼 Death of a Salesman

The great Monty Clift at the New York premiere of “A Place in the Sun” (28 Aug 1951)

17 October 1920. Montgomery Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was one of the first method actors to appear in Hollywood films. His films include The Heiress, A Place in the Sun, I Confess, From Here to Eternity, Judgment at Nuremberg and The Misfits. by @bitchvirtuosity

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Happy Birthday Rita Hayworth, Post 3 of 3

🎈Born Margarita Carmen Cansino in 1918, Hayworth was one of the greatest stars and “pin up girls” of the 1940s and appeared in over 61 films. The press called her “The Love Goddess”

👰🏻‍♀️ Her marriages, most notably to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan, took advantage of her pliability and were blatantly unfaithful. Nor was she the femme fatale she was portrayed as in her most famous films, “Cover Girl” (1944) and the iconic “Gilda” (1946). Hayworth once said, “I’m a disappointment. Men go to bed with Gilda and wake up with me.”

📺 Orson Welles on the Merv Griffin Show, discussing Cohn, the studio transformed her from an exotic-looking dancer with dark hair into a glamorous red-headed American screen icon, notably through painful electrolysis and hair-dying processes by @bitchvirtuosity

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Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale. GILDA was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate’s lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis’ wardrobe for Hayworth (particularly for the dance numbers), and choreographer Jack Cole’s staging of “Put the Blame on Mame” and “Amado Mio”, sung by Anita Ellis.

📺Excerpts from interview with Rita Hayworth on the Russell Harty Show, 1976. by @bitchvirtuosity

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🎈October 17, 1918, Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in Brooklyn, New York, universally known as Rita Hayworth: the Love Goddess

🇪🇸 Daughter of the Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino—from Castilleja de la Cuesta, Seville—and an American dancer from the Ziegfeld Follies.

👨‍💼Studio executives transformed the talented dancer of Hispanic roots into the “Love Goddess” demanded by the big Columbia Pictures studios, the industry imposed a drastic makeover: a painful electrolysis treatment to alter her hairline, intensive diction lessons, and a name change to Rita Hayworth.

🎬In My Gal Sal (1942), Rita Hayworth takes to “On the Gay White Way” with none other than Hermes Pan - the brilliant choreographer best known for his work with Fred Astaire. And what a delightful pairing! by @bitchvirtuosity

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