Ah,
the ladies. If only our heroes could have fallen into their arms instead
of their hands.
Lovely Noel Neill got her start in serials. Lucille Ball (pictured
here with Bob Hope) got her start in musicals. Before she became a super-star
as Rita Hayworth, Rita Cansino made quickie westerns.
Gale Sondergard was the Spider Woman, Aquanetta was The Leopard Woman, and
Frances Gifford was The Jungle Girl.
Peggy Stewart could handle a horse better than most men, but rarely got a
chance to prove it in westerns. Linda Stirling, on the other hand,
couldn't ride well but seemed to be in every western. Mary Hart (Lynn Roberts)
didn't like Trigger, but made a lot of westerns with Roy Rogers.
Blonde, beautiful Barbara Nichols didn't like Sam Levine.
"He locked me in a men's room we were using as a dressing room and I broke
my clavicle breaking down the door!"
"He's had a change of heart," someone told
Groucho. "A lot of good that'll do him, he's
still got the same face."
Which reminds me: Another actor
notorious for his vanity once tried making a play for Barbara at a party,
but she left him to go to the buffet table. Seeing this, Groucho Marx
walked up to the guy and said, "You could slap some butter on yourself, lie
down on a big piece of bread, and try to look attractive."