Wonder what happened to the portrait of Allida Bedereaux?
Wonder what happened to the portrait of Allida Bedereaux? It is really a portrait of Hedy Lamarr. Do you think Miss Lamarr was able to take it home?
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I doubt that she would take it home...she wasn't full of herself. She has been quoted that her beauty prevented her for getting more parts. MGM wanted a sex symbol..result "White Cargo". There was a painting of her in one of the "Taxi" series with Tony Danza. She was suppose to be the mother of one of the actors, Christopher LLoyd.
shareI have not seen White Cargo (1942) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035553/, yet.
It is playing next month on TCM - Monday, September 17 @ 8:00 PM. I look forward to watching it.
Just curious, do you remember anything about the painting from the TV series "TAXI"?
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There have been hundreds, if not thousands of extraordinarily beautiful women in movies and television whose careers have not been hampered by their faces. Not that Miss Lamar wasn't perfectly adequate in the roles she played, but perhaps her career would have been more fulfilling for her if she had had a bit more acting talent and charisma.
shareLoretta Young comes to mind, for one.
shareI don't recall the episode of "Taxi", but it was the one where Lloyd took Judd with him to see his father. While Lloyd was with his father, Judd was in the library checking out the rich surroundings and came across a portrait of a woman and kept staring at it, like he couldn't believe she was Lloyd's mother. The painting was of Hedy Lamarr as she was dressed for a role in a movie back in 1965, where she was fired for not showing up...Fortunate for her. The movie was a bomb. I think it was during the period when Hollywood was making all those silly horror movies with stars passed their prime. It was called "Picture Mommy Dead" with Don Ameche and ZaZa Gabor.
shareI don't recall the episode of "Taxi", but it was the one where Lloyd took Judd with him to see his father. While Lloyd was with his father, Judd was in the library checking out the rich surroundings and came across a portrait of a woman and kept staring at it, like he couldn't believe she was Lloyd's mother. The painting was of Hedy Lamarr as she was dressed for a role in a movie back in 1965, where she was fired for not showing up...Fortunate for her. The movie was a bomb. I think it was during the period when Hollywood was making all those silly horror movies with stars passed their prime. It was called "Picture Mommy Dead" with Don Ameche and ZaZa Gabor, who replaced Hedy..
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