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The most beautiful actresses of the 1930s

Many notable movies saw their release in the 1930’s. One of the biggest years for movies was 1939, and is still felt to be one of the greatest in Hollywood to date.To get more news about 亚洲黄色视频, you can visit our official website.

Some of the best performers in acting and film history came from this decade. Several actresses started their careers in the 1930’s, while some on this list came from the 1920’s but were still highly regarded.
Born Margaret Brooke Sullavan on May 16th, 1909, in Norfolk, Virginia. Her father was a wealthy stockbroker, Cornelius Hancock Sullavan and her mother an heiress, Garland Council Sullavan. Margaret overcame a severe muscle weakness during childhood and went on to make her debut on Broadway in Hello, Lola in 1926. She caught the eye of director John M. Stahl and made her film debut in Only Yesterday in 1933. She only made 16 movies, preferring to work onstage, four of which were made with James Stewart. The 1938 movie she starred in, Three Comrades, got her nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She retired from making movies in the early 40s, but returned to make her last 16 movies, including No Sad Songs for Me, playing a woman who was dying of cancer.

Born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13th, 1903, in Saint Mande, France. Colbert started her career just like Sullavan, onstage in the 20s, but then moved to film with the advent of talking pictures. She started out with Paramount Pictures, later becoming a freelance actor. She won a Best actress Oscar for her role in the 1934 film, It Happened One Night. She was the first woman not born in the United States to achieve an Academy Award. She also received Oscar nominations for the 1935 film Private Worlds and the 1944 film Since You Went Away.

Born Harlean Harlow Carpenter on March 3rd, 1911, in Wichita, Kansas. Jean became a sex symbol and film actress in the 1930s. Director Howard Hughes signed Harlow, and her first major appearance was in the 1930 film Hell’s Angels, after which several flops followed. She then signed with Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1932. She became a leading lady for MGM, having a string of hit films including Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935), and Suzy (1936). Several of her co-stars included William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and in six of her films, Clark Gable. Her popularity rivaled and surpassed those of her colleagues at MGM, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. By the late 1930s, she became one of the biggest movie stars around, often nicknamed “Baby”, “Blond Bombshell” and “Platinum Blonde” for her “Laughing Vamp” movie persona. Jean Harlow, at the age of 26, died June 7th, 1937 from kidney failure.

7. Carole Lombard
Born Jane Alice Peters on October 6th, 1908 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and her mother took her and her two older brothers to Los Angeles to live.
Born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5th, 1913 in Darjeeling, west Bengal, India. She got her acting education in drama school and appeared in four small roles in four different films in 1935. Revered for her beauty, she sometimes felt that it kept her from being taken seriously as an actor.

5. Joan Crawford
Born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23rd, 1905 in San Antonio, Texas to parents Anna Belle & Thomas E. LeSueur.

By the time she was a teenager, she’d had three stepfathers. She started her career as a dancer in a travelling theatrical company before she debuted as a chorus girl on Broadway. She signed her movie deal with MGM in 1925.Born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18th, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents were Anna Lovisa and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, both laborers. Her dad died when she turned 14 and left the family destitute. She began work in a department store where they used her for a model and a short film. She then entered and won a scholarship to drama school and was during discovered after a couple of small roles by a director leading her to pull out of drama school. The director put her in film, and by the age of 18 she was on her way. In 1925, Louis B. Mayer, CEO of MGM saw Greta and brought her to America, putting her under contract. Her first film with MGM was a silent film called Torrent in 1926. The next year, her role in Flesh of the Devil catapulted her to international stardom.