While we're doing 15 year-olds...

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

@Mik said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

I do not want to know how you know that.

"Quinciñeara" is fairly popular custom in Mexico and Latin America, no? I figure it's common knowledge.

For you.

[Jolly]

@Jolly said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

@George-K said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

First guess - Bette Davis?

Nope, but I'll give you a couple of hints:

1. She was working on a movie when it was discovered she was underage (her mother had lied about her age), so the studio replaced her with her sister. She had two sisters, both of whom have movie credits.
2. She appeared as the leading lady for two major productions, where the leading men won Best Actor Oscars. Between the two films, there were 6 Oscars..

Another hint...All three sisters worked the Vaudeville stage as young children in a single act. Our thread starter played the accordion. At five years old.

And...She's been on the cover of Life.

Lastly, she was married to an OB/GYN for fifty years...

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

@Axtremus said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

"Quinciñeara" is fairly popular custom in Mexico and Latin America, no? I figure it's common knowledge.

For you.

Seriously? No one else here familiar with the term "quinceneara"? It should be pretty well known given the size and spread of Mexican/Latino communities here.

[Horace]

There was a movie of that title that achieved some fame 15+ years ago. I watched it. I recall at the time that it was a quaint look into latino culture. These days different cultures are everywhere in popular entertainment, and it wouldn't stand out like that.

[Renauda]

@Jolly said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

Who dis?

I’ve seen that photo before. In fact, not that long ago. Can’t remember who it is, although something tells me she was very well known in her day.

[George K]

I cheated and googled it. Still have no idea who she was.

But JWHT, to be sure.

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

@Jolly said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

Who dis?

I’ve seen that photo before. In fact, not that long ago. Can’t remember who it is, although something tells me she was very well known in her day.

She was.

BTW, the two films were Sargeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

With Gary Cooper at 16...

At 17, with Cagney...

[Jolly]

At 25. They were wed 50 years, until his death

[Jolly]

BTW, she died at 90, same year as one of her older sisters. One of her sisters is still alive. 103, I think...

[Jolly]

Now, the reason you don't know her as well as you should...Her career was doing very, very well, until she pissed off Jack Warner and he blackballed her. Which prompted her to sue him. She essentially won, but by that time she was married and she started walking away from the movies. She made a few oaters in the 1950's, but not in the same stratosphere she was in in the 1940's.

[taiwan_girl]

Why is it that people between 50-150 years ago always (to me) seem to look older than they are?

When I see a picture of someone between 15-50 years old, I make a guess that they are X years old. And they always turn out to be X-15 years old or something like that.

Is it just the clothing style or something else?

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in While we're doing 15 year-olds...:

I cheated and googled it. Still have no idea who she was.

But JWHT, to be sure.

Why do we say JWHT as if it’s a great accomplishment? Jon would hit Rue McLanahan, and she’s been dead for 5 years…

JWHT, Jolly would HT, George would HT, pretty much every heterosexual male in this site would’ve hit that if the circumstances were right (Time machine, single, she’s of age, no chance you could accidentally become your own relative…)