re: Show me a better movie/tv star picture than this

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Paramount veterans

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Syliva Sidney and Eddie Bracken

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Claudette Colbert

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Paulette Goddard

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Kirk Douglas

Betty Hutton

Martin & Lewis

Lizbeth Scott

Barbara Stanwyck

Yeah, I thought about Betty Hutton, but forgot to mention her. She was a huge Paramount star. Of course, back at that time, in 1987, she was on the East Coast and so thoroughly out-of-pocket and divorced from the Hollywood scene that they probably couldn't have even known how to contact her if they tried.

Another MIA is Corinne Calvet, who was a frequent fixture at Paramount for a few years in the late-40s/early-50s. She would have qualified for the shot. There are a few others that might be too low-profile, but I would have taken over Scott Baio and the like. Such as Jimmy Lydon, who starred in Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series in the early-1940s. Or, Richard Denning, who was with the studio for a good number of years, but primarily in smaller roles or leads in minor b-films. He would have had to fly in from his Hawaii home, however. Marsha Hunt was with Paramount initially, for a few years in the late-1930s, playing a string of ingenue roles in their b-films, although she had much greater success once she went over to MGM, which is the studio she's far more associated with.

In 1987, there were still two fairly prominent leading ladies who actually went back to the late-1910s with Paramount, who were still living. Jane Novak and Lois Wilson. Don't know if either were in good enough shape to show up for a photo shoot, however. They would have been qutie elderly. Plus, even in 1987, that was already such a long-forgotten era that no one would have known those two old gals, much less where to contact them. .