Ona Munson/Una Merkel- Page 3

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:23am

I am in complete agreement with you hannahshule.
I love 42nd - Una and Ginger.
I own 42nd Street on DVD and crack up every time I see Ginger singing while eating an apple.

[cturtle]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:20pm

"i've been settin' by this curb one solid hour waitin' to speak with you, mizz wilkes."

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:26pm

And if you see me on the street Mizz Wilkes..

[cturtle]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:38pm

... you don't have to speak to me. i'll understand.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:39pm

"I'd be proud to under obligation to the woman who saved my husband's life."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:45pm

"What's all the rumpus about?"

[cturtle]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:48pm

"oh, no'm ... that wouldn't be fittin' at all."

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 8:29am

"Oh she wept with delight when he gave her a smile and trembled with fear at his frown." - Not Belle but good morning cturtle.

[justme2]

Posted: 9/28/05 at 11:19pm

ok, so I just finished viewing "Five Star Final", a terrific movie (pre-code, of course!) and guess who I recognized as Ms. Kitty Carbine?

Yes...Ona Munson...and what a skanky little piece of work she was in this movie! It's 1931 and it's really an Edward G Robinson movie (a tabloid newspaper editor who compulsively washes his hands...hmmmm, a sense a bit a subtly there), but your Ona shown through and I immediatley thought of this thread!

[cturtle]

Posted: 9/29/05 at 6:29pm

thanks, glebby. and vivien never sounded more british

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:55pm

Hi cturtle!

[cturtle]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:10am

Lo glebby!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 9:15am

"She's even taking to driving her own buggy!"

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/2/05 at 8:45pm

cturtle said: "thanks, glebby. and vivien never sounded more british"

LOL - hahahahahahahahahaha

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/2/05 at 9:04pm

I choose Merle Oberon.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/2/05 at 9:05pm

Kathy?

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/2/05 at 9:40pm

i been settin by this thread one solid month waitin for you to bump it.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/2/05 at 9:41pm

LOL!

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:24am

Ona Munson was married to the great Eugene Berman - one of the most inventive painters and stage designers of the 20th century. This is his painting of her as "Andromeda" (1943).Thirteen years after they met, Berman and Munson were married at the home of Igor Stravinsky in Hollywood in 1950.
Before Berman, Munson had had affairs with Lubitsch, Nazimova, Mercedes de Acosta, Dietrich and Isadora Duncan.

In 1955, Munson comitted suicide. Her note to her husband (who discovered her body) read: "This is the only way I know to be free again. Please don't follow me."

Updated On: 11/3/05 at 07:24 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 8:27am

If the walls of those Hollywood mansions could talk!

Isadora Duncan? She was the original (costume malfunction) Janet Jackson.

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 4:35pm

thanks master, i didn't know all that about ona's husband.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 8:16am

Una was great in 42nd Street yesterday on TCM.
Glad I own that DVD. I need to check it out again soon for the choregraphy.

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 10:25pm

Bump for CT.

[cturtle]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 10:29pm

she's a mighty proud woman ... prancin around atlanta like she owns it ...

[cturtle]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 1:04am

hey, what's all the rumpus about?!