Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 10, 2023

"I got a living to earn for two and I can't do it in Kentucky. You got to take your spoon where the soup is." - Letty"Well, the soup's hot in New York, kid. You're likely to get burned." - CarolLetty ( Madge Evans ) is a small-town girl who...   read more

Classic Reel Girl Posted by BG Voita on November 30, 2014

Watch any television program with a high female demographic or flip through a magazine intended for women, and you will be bombarded with countless ads peddling beauty wares. The desire for immortality is as old as Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth, but the added emphasis on...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on January 14, 2013

Una Merkel Beauty for Sale (1933). A film about the romances of three beauty salon employees. It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin. Cast: Madge Evans, Alice Brady, Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, May Robson and Hedda Hopper. Madge Evans Letty Lawson, has just run out of the...   read more