#mozelle britton

[thedabara]

ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1953

Kiki de Montparnasse at 51 from alcoholism

Adele Lacy at 42 from suicide

Irène Bordoni at 58 from cancer

Mimí Derba at 60 from pulmonary embolism

Dorothy Hall at 46 from unknown events

Mozelle Britton at 41 from heart disease

Ruth Rogers at 35 from cancer

Edna Payne at 61 from liver disease

Margarete Slezak at 52 from natural causes

Violet MacMillan at 66 from unknown events

#kiki de montparnasse #adele lacy #irene bordoni #mimi derba #dorothy hall #mozelle britton #ruth rogers #edna payne #margarete slezak #violet macmillan #thedabara

[hell-fm]

As a certified women liker I had to do my interpretation of fem alastor.

While I love all interpretations of genderbent Alastor, I usually like to do some historically inspired designs when a character is from a certain era and I also like to keep the body type fairly close to the canon male version. In my mind fem Alastor from the 20s and 30s would definitely have short hair and wear suits, but her overall appareance would be more ladylike and her hair would be more well done, because she would want to be charming and approachable to keep up appareances. Hair was always a big thing for women of color and when I looked up different celebrities of the time I found that there were black celebrities known for their iconic hair styles! Alastor as a mixed race woman from the 20s or 30s would’ve definitely kept up with the trends.

I have some visual references, but I’m just gonna throw some names on here: Marlene Dietrich, Mozelle Brittone, Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall

#alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hellfm

[mudwerks]

(via Film Noir Photos: Bevy of Beauties: Paramount on Parade)

Charlotte Burt, Lorena Carr, Mozelle Britton, and Dolorez Blair in Paramount on Parade  (1930)

#harlotte Burt #Lorena Carr #Mozelle Britton #Dolorez Blair #1930 #Paramount on Parade #costume #film #vintage

[zazamatic]

Marlena Dietrich certainly started something when she appeared at the opening of  The Sign of the Cross, wearing a masculine tuxedo, wing collar, soft felt hat, mannish topcoat, and a pair of mannish patent leather shoes!  If this controversy over trousers for ladies doesn’t subside, President Roosevelt may have to declare another holiday – a tailoring holiday!

It already has reached Congress, and that august body has to pass on whether or not the new styles violate the law forbidding women to “masquerade as men”.The Congress declared that women wearing trousers were not trying to deceive anybody as to their sex, and certainly Miss Dietrich deceived no one, nor was she attempting to.

Marlene started it all – and plenty of girls are following suit. Mozelle Brittone “suits herself!” Barbara Weeks and Diane Sinclair like em! Fay Wray finds them “chic”.

Others however are not to be swayed – Constance Bennett ” Trousers? – Never!” calling them “atrocities”, but her sister Joan wears them. Lilyan Tashman says most men despise women in trousers. Kay Francis says ” Let the others go mannish – I’m staying with feminine!”

Adrienne Ames says, ” I am not ashamed of being a woman. I intend to keep on looking like one. Trousers on women are quite hideous. You will never – I repeat – never see a woman wearing trousers on Park Avenue!”

Carole Lombard is not a fan either. ” I have never seen a single woman who looked well in trousers,” says Carole coldly, allowing her eyes to rest momentarily on Marlene at the next table in the Coconut Grove, in a gray flannel lounge suit, beret, mens oxfors and turtle neck sweater.” I adore mens tailoring – but trousers? No!”

But does Carole Lombard know that the suit Marlene is wearing is by none other than Coco Chanel ?

“What a fuss over nothing,” says Marlene Dietrich, who has been wearing trousers for years, but was rarely photographed in them until that night earlier this year on the evening of January 12th, a new era in feminine fashions was officially inaugurated when, accompanied by a blushing and slightly embarrassed Maurice Chevalier, La Dietrich wore her tuxedo to that premiere. Before radio announcers and google-eyed spectators stuttering with amazement.

#marlena dietrich #trousers #menswear

[bizarrelosangeles]

"Most of my work is dancing. When I'm in a picture, I'm either rehearsing or working in a scene. This requires approximately eight hours a day. If that isn't plenty strenuous, just try it some time." -- Mozelle Britton  Originally from Oklahoma, Britton came to Los Angeles in the early 1930s, working a number of secretarial jobs, including a stint as a casting assistant for Columbia Pictures. While there, she was placed under contract with Columbia as a film player, appearing in a handful of films.  In 1933, she married character actor Alan Dinehart, and three years later, she gave birth to a son, Mason.  In 1939, the Dineharts were involved in a head-on collision, where Mozelle's head and shoulders went through a windshield. She required over a hundred stitches and extensive plastic surgery after nearly being decapitated by the accident (at least that's what one news report said). Mozelle never fully regained her health, dropping out of her husband's stage production of "Separate Rooms" in 1940, and spending a year in a sanitarium for an undisclosed illness. In 1942, she again underwent surgery.  She began to write in the early 1940s, penning a couple of songs called "When I Listen to a Love Song" and "Only You Have Kissed My Heart," which may have been intended for a Broadway musical that she was developing with her husband at the time. In 1944, Alan Dinehart passed away from a heart attack while fighting a case of double pneumonia, leaving behind an estate worth $2,000,000, which was divided between Mozelle and his children. About $50,000 of that $2 million was community property bequeathed to Mozelle. (The $2 million, as reported in newspapers, may have been an exaggerated figure.)  Following her husband's death, she took on a number of odd jobs, briefly managing welterweight boxer named Gene "Spider" Jensen in 1945. The following year, she staged a production of Dinehart's play "Separate Rooms" in Hollywood, before undergoing additional plastic surgery. In 1947, she had her own local radio show on KWIK, and eventually found work as a syndicated Hollywood newspaper columnist.  Around this time, she married an aeronautical engineer named Thomas W. Gosser immediately following his divorce. But a dark cloud continued to hover over her head. During her honeymoon, a five-year-old child of one of her neighbors drowned in Mozelle's swimming pool while trying to rescue a toy boat.  Her marriage was not a happy one, and in 1953, the Gossers separated. In May of that year, her underage son, Mason, and his girlfriend, attempted to elope at a time when Mozelle's health was failing from nervous exhaustion and a heart condition. The teenagers, unable to find anyone that would marry them, returned to her bedside days before Mozelle passed away from a heart attack at the age of 41. Eight days before her death, Mozelle had revised her will, leaving her estate of $60,000 to her mother, while giving her son and estranged husband $1 each, under the assumption that her mother would use the money to care for Mason until he reached adulthood.  Mozelle was interred at Forest Lawn Glendale next to Alan Dinehart. A year following her death, Mason eloped with the same girl, only to have his marriage annulled at the insistence of his grandmother. It appears as though the couple married a second time, only to divorce around 1956. Meanwhile, Mason (under the name Alan Dinehart III) went on to play Bat Masterson in the 1950s television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.  +++++++++++++++ Photo taken in 1935.

#mozelle britton #Bizarre Los Angeles