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McKnittey Musings — knitting needles

Hollywood Knitting - Merle Oberon

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

Merle Oberon knitting while Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier look on. Merle, nicknamed "Queenie," was born in 1911 in Bombay, India and was raised by her grandmother. Merle was best known as Cathy in "Wuthering Heights."

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Hollywood Knitting - Myrna Loy

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We know her for her roles in romantic comedies like "The Thin Man" and "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" but did you know that Myrna quit acting during WWII so she could focus on the war effort? She worked with the Navy and the Red Cross and was so outspoken as an anti-Nazi she made Hitler's blacklist.

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Hollywood Knitting - Bette Davis

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

The great Bette Davis crocheting. She was the first female president of the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. She was the highest paid woman in the United States in 1947 and 1949.

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Hollywood Knitting - Ingrid Bergman

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

Love this photo of Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock winding yarn on the set of the movie, "Notorious" in 1946. Notorious is famous as Hitchcock's first film that used sexual tension as a theme and is considered his arrival as a mature director.

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Hollywood Knitting - Carole Lombard

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

One of my absolute favorite actresses, Carole Lombard. She was the highest paid Hollywood star in the late 1930's. Her final film with Jack Benny and Robert Stack, "To Be or Not to Be", was in post-production when she died in an airplane crash while on a World War II War bond drive.

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