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Thanks to my dvd recorder i have on disc the TCM broadcast of Luise Rainer: Live From the TCM Film Festival (2011) hosted by Robert Osborne which he interviewed the 100 year old actress. Viewed The Good Earth on TCM a few weeks ago and what a great performance and one wishes she could have done...

She was good in Show People and i think the problem was with Hearst who wanted her to act in historical dramas instead of comedies and light hearted films

There is a good documentary i have in my dvd collection "Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies" (2001) which is worth looking for. Marion Davies wrote a book before she died called The Times We Had: Life With William Randolph Hearst which is a good read.

Marion Davies was William Randolph Heart's mistress and were close to being married. Citizen Kane co-writer Hermann Mankiewicz was a frequent visitor at San Simeon and maybe that's were he got some of the ideas for the story line on Citizen Kane?

Mabel Normand was involved in two scandals including the the murder of director/actor William Desmond Taylor and Mabel's chauffeur Joe Kelly shooting a millionaire oil broker Courtland S. Dines. With Fatty Arbuckle most of her films she acted with him were withheld from the public as a result of...

Mabel Normand was very popular in silent era and appeared in many shorts with Charles Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. She died early at age 37 from tuberculosis.