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Midweek Sacha Corcoran, Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, David Probert Hollywood stars from a bygone era

A selection of photographs from I Used to be in Pictures - An Untold Story of Hollywood

  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr - The son of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford.
  • Anita Page - popular actress during the silent screen era.
  • Barbara Stanwyck - made it 'the hard way'. Born Ruby Sevens in 1907, she was the youngest of five children.
  • Hilary Brooke - made her name as a villainess, joining Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn for The Philadelphia Story (1940).
  • Muriel Evans - became popular as the heroine in westerns alongside John Wayne and Buck Jones.
  • Mildred Shay - dubbed Hollywood’s Pocket Venus during her brief career in Hollywood during the 1930s.

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  • Midweek—Sacha Corcoran, Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, David Probert

    Libby Purves meets film fans Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse and auctioneer David Probert.

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