Rochelle Hudson

This is s a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Rochelle Hudson talks about natural beauty remedies. Enjoy!

When I visited Rochelle Hudson on the “That’s My Boy” set at CBS she didn’t have to tell me she was happy it was written on her “face. “It’s great to be working again,” she said. Rochelle rose to stardom in the Will Rogers films but during World War II she left motion pictures to work in Naval Intelligence. “I’ve never gone in for coloring,” she confided. “I put my emphasis on cleanliness. Hair is beautiful if it is clean. I shampoo it twice a week with a lemon and egg.” “Do you mix this yourself?” I “Yes, I use one egg and the Juice of one lemon and stir well. Then I mix in two tablespoonfuls of cream shampoo. This gives me enough for two sidings and I find it makes my hair soft and so easy to handle. But I always like to set it in beer.”

“Doesn’t this leave an odor?” “Strangely enough,” Rochelle replied, “it has no odor at all, I prefer stale beer that has been kept in a bottle in the refrigerator and use about half a cup at a time. I find beer gives my hair body so that I can place the curls better.” “Any more home recipes,” I queried? “My beauty habits are pretty basic. I believe in getting down to fundamentals keeping healthy and keeping clean. Eating correctly will take care of your beauty from the inside and the outsider will be taken care of by cleanliness. I’m a soap and water girl but I use a thin layer of cream on my face at night to prevent dryness. “About once a week I like to use an oatmeal mask. I make this by mixing a half cup of finely ground oatmeal with enough hot water to make a paste. I spread this over my face and leave it on for about 10 minutes. As it dries it feels sort of stiff but when you wash it off you can see instantly that your skin looks clearer and feels smoother.”

“You really do favor home recipes!” I remarked. “Yes,” Rochelle smiled. “And I have a wonderful one for getting rid of a fading suntan at the end of summer. I make a bleach of one third each of hot water, peroxide and lemon juice. I think the strength should depend on the type of skin you have, however. I bathe my face or other parts of my body in this solution until I get it bleached to the desired shade.”

Jessie Royce Landis

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Jessie Royce Landis talks about keeping young. Enjoy!

At Paramount recently I visited Jesse Royce Landis, who plays an important role in “To Catch a Thief.” Miss Landis. was jubilant because her autobiography, “You May Not Be Pretty But You’ll Know More,” had just been published. “The title of the book is something my mother told me a long time ago. Every girl longs to be beautiful, but once she gets over her childish disappointment there are obvious compensations,” Miss Landis told me.

“I don’t think there is as much incentive for a great beauty to improve herself, and taking so much for granted she is liable to find that once her youth and beauty fade she has little to fall back upon. “No one can say you haven’t taken care of yourself,” I remarked as I knew Miss Landis ha started in a stock company in Detroit many years ago with Helen Hayes and Katherine Cornell. “AGE IS MENTAL,” Miss Landis explained. “If you are alert, interested and love fun, you will stay young. Sometimes I meet friends of mine I have not seen for 20 years and it is shocking to see the way they have settled into old age.”

“To stay young,” Miss Landis continued, “you have to get plenty of rest. Strain will rob a face of its beauty and no makeup in the world can conceal fatigue. Without rest you can’t expect your personality to sparkle or radiate.  “And you have to watch your figure. Staying thin is harder for me than staying rested. But I use my will power to pass up hot breads and rich desserts and I think about how uncomfortable I would feel were these calories stored as fat.” “Do you exercise regularly? I asked. “The only exercise I do aside from walking, and I love to walk, it is designed to relax the body. Sometimes it is necessary to snap tension before you can relax. When I am tired I find it very helpful.”

Martha Hyer – Take two

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Martha Hyer talks about being sophisticated. Enjoy!

I’ve known Martha Hyer since she first came to Hollywood from Texas several years ago. Then she was a chubby ranch girl with long brown hair. Now Martha is poised, slim and blond. The change is striking! I told Martha this as we lunched at Paramount while she was working in “Sabrina.” “Lots of people don’t recognize me at all,” Martha said happily. “I’ve grown up. I feel different on the inside and I want to show it on the outside. “Change is normal some grow up more than others,” she continued, “but because they fear criticism, they dress in a manner that no longer suits their new self. This is bound to cause conflict because people judge you by your appearance and if you look one way and feel another you won’t surround yourself with congenial souls.”

“Since I’ve become sophisticated,” Martha confided, “I’ve had more work than I’ve ever had. This past year I did nine pictures, four of them big ones, and the parts are so interesting. I play the ‘other girl’ now.” “Your change is so dramatic,” I commented, “to what do you attribute it?” “THERE IS nothing like travel to help you grow up,” she replied. “When I was married we made pictures in Australia, Africa, Rome and Japan. Then New York contributed too. Getting away from home, even if it is not to foreign countries, gives you a perspective of yourself and helps you to develop fast because you are more on your own. You make new friends, exchange ideas and gradually knowing you can hold your own without help, you gain confidence and poise.”

“And,” Martha added, “the more sophisticated you feel inside, the more subtly you should use makeup. You have to work at this but it is worth trying. When I use a makeup base I blend it so that I only use a thin film. But to give a more natural feel, after I powder, I wet a sponge with skin lotion and go over my face. “I steal a dot of color from my lipstick for rouge and blend this in. And I am very careful that my eyelashes do not stick together when I mascara them. “And when I fill in my eyebrows I always have a very sharp point on my pencil so I can make delicate strokes. This may seem like a lot of trouble,” Martha concluded, “but you get used to it and it becomes automatic.”

Pat Carroll

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Pat Carroll talks about having asense of humor and her diet. Enjoy

Pat Carroll has been a child dancer, a teacher and a secretary but not until the “Saturday Night Revue” TV show was she given an opportunity to display her talent as a comedienne. “It hurt me at first when people laughed at me,” Pat confided on the set at NBC where she is now under contract. “I was 12 and very serious about my accordion but the audience refused to take me seriously. I wasn’t upset long though. I decided that never again would they laugh at me without my intending it. This is an important thing. Some people who are not glamorous or handsome overlook the value of a sense of humor. Being able to make people laugh wins many friends. Laughter is a warm thing. ”

A sense of humor can keep you from having your feelings hurt,” Pat continued. “I’ve always been plump. Right now I weight 165 pounds. This had never made me unhappy because I have been able to make jokes about my figure. “Do you know what has made you overweight?” I asked. “Indeed I do,” Pat smiled. “I love beverages that are loaded with sugar. And I love bread — especially when it is toasted with butter and garlic. “It’s really very silly to kid yourself about those extra pounds —if you are honest with yourself, you know what is putting them on.

“Right now,” Pat continued, “I am dieting under a doctor’s care. I must lose twenty-five pounds. But I’m off to a good start — I’ve dropped seven the first week.” I wanted to know what kind of a diet she was following. “It’s not too bad — I have coffee and grape-fruit for breakfast every morning with a glass of tomato juice and sometimes a raw egg. For lunch I have cottage cheese and fruit one day, a chicken sandwich on rye toast for two days and the rest of the time lean meat and green salad with lemon dressing. In the evening more meat and carrots and spinach or green beans.” “That sounds pretty well balanced,” I commented. “And I feel well,” Pat remarked. ‘I drink lots of water between meals but little liquid when I’m eating. You can do tremendous harm to your system,” she cautioned when you go on fad diets and try to lose too much too fast.”

Gail Davis

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Gail Davis talks about waist exercise. Enjoy!

Gail Davis is the star of the “Annie Oakley” TV series. In less than a year on the nation’s home screens, she has climbed to the top of the popularity list. I went to visit Gail the other afternoon on a ranch in the Valley where the series is filmed. When Gail finished a scene we walked toward her dressing room, and 1 mentioned that I -admired her tiny waist. “Thank you,” she said eagerly. “But I have to work hard to keep it at 23.” “What kind of work?” I asked.

“l do waist exercises,” Gail confessed. “Every morning I work 15 minutes on my three favorites.” I couldn’t wait for Gail to show her routine to me so we hurried on to her dressing room. “First I lie on the floor and raise my right leg up to a right angle, keeping my knee straight,” Gail explained, demonstrating the exercise gracefully and easily. “I bring it over to the side and try to touch my left hand. But a word of warning — it is harder than it looks. “Then you reverse,” she continued, “and if done right, keeping your shoulders as flat as possible, you should feel a’ good pull.” Next Gail stood up. “Next I  stretch both hands above my head and clasp my fingers so that my palms are facing the ceiling. This gives an extra strong pull. I hold this position until I can feel my waist stretch, then I start to bend from side to side. This exercise is also good for your posture.” Gail added.

“The third is a classic exercise for the waist,” Gail commented. “And it does get results. “Stand erect with arms outstretched, feet about twelve inches apart and’ then with your right hand, bend and touch the back of your heel, keeping your knees straight. Return to your first position and repeat– on the opposite side. Be sure to inhale as you come up and exhale as you go j down. If you are not limber, start this cautiously.” “Just those 3 do the trick?” I asked, still admiring Gail’s slimness. “Well, I watch what I eat every other week. Instead of being careful all the time I indulge one week and abstain the other. One week I have baked potatoes with melted butter, pies and milk shakes. But the next week I have no starches, sweets or rich desserts and I don’t eat between meals. This keeps my weight normal and I much prefer it to being sensible all the time.”

Katy Jurado

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Katy Jurado talks abut a bunch of beauty stuff. Enjoy!

Though Katy Jurado made 30 films in Mexico, it wasn’t until she was chosen for “High Noon” and won an academy award nomination that she became well-known in this country. “They told me what to say and I said it,” Katy told me at lunch in Beverly Hills recently. “But I didn’t know what it meant.” But after working four hours a day for four months she is quite at home with our language and is most enthusiastic about the women in the United States. .”They don’t grow old it is wonderful! In Mexico you have to dress to the age which is on your birth certificate but here you dress to the age which is inside of you,” she explained: Katy enjoys the independence women have here.

“In Mexico a girl can not go out at night without an escort,” she said. “She has to wait until a man invites her.” MISS JURADO marveled at the efficiency of the American housewife. “I go to a party and see someone who looks as if she spent all day dressing herself and I find out that she takes care of her own house and children.” Katy said. “In Mexico even with servants the women are not this attractive.” Katy had ordered chicken enchiladas which she seasoned with Tabasco sauce. “I like everything hot,” she explained, “and fattening. The Latin man does not like girls as thin as they do in the United States and I am glad. I have big bones and they look best with meat on them. But when I make a picture I have to be thinner so before I start to work I go on a diet.” I asked her to tell me more about this. “I give up bread and butter, anything with corn meal, pork and highballs,” she told me: “And then I eat green vegetables and grilled beef until I lose.”

Katy’s lashes are as long and thick as artificial ones. MEXICAN WOMEN feel that eyes are the most important feature and as soon as they have a baby daughter ‘they start to work on her lashes. You will see them brush their finger tips with a drop of oil from the castor bean and stroke the baby’s lashes. If you start using oil as a child your lashes can’t help but grow long and thick. “But the Indians believe that you can make lashes grow at any age by cutting off the tips at the time of a new moon and brushing them regularly with castor oil. “To me eyebrow pencil is every bit as important as the lipstick,” Katy confessed. “And I think the women in this country should use more mascara.” I wanted to know how she applied her mascara. “First of all I use a good, black color,” Katy said. “Then when you put the mascara on, you should be sure that the lashes do not stick together. The best way to do this is to apply a little at a time with a damp brush. Let each layer, dry completely before adding another layer. Add as many layers as you like, but be sure with each application that the lashes stay apart.”

“TELL ME more about your ideas on make-up,” I said. “Make-up should be changed for the person you are with, for the time of day and for the light you are in,” Katy told me. “When I have a date at night I try to find out where we are going because if he is taking me to a dark night club I will use a different makeup than if we were going to a ball game. “And different men feel differently about make-up,” she added very seriously. “If I am going with a man who is afraid of glamour, I play my make-up down.” “How about your perfume?” I Wanted to know. – “Well, T assume most men like perfume when it is used with discrimination,” Katy said. “It’s better to underplay perfume than to run the risk of using too much. One rule I always follow is to apply it with an atomizer, spraying the hems -of my dresses, my underthings and my hair.”

“I RARELY use it on my skin because the heat of the body often makes a perfume undergo chemical changes,” she added. “But when you use it on your clothes you are sure to retain the true scent.” Katy looked at her watch and announced it was siesta time. “If everyone took a siesta each day they would feel better,” she said. “In Mexico I don’t know a single person who has an ulcer or who needs sleeping pills.” . “Do you think the siesta is responsible for this?” I asked. “It has something to do with it,” Katy answered. “And our ‘manana’ attitude helps, too. We are inclined to feel that tomorrow is another day to enjoy this moment now. And a little of this, I think, will make you healthier and happier.”

My mini beauty hint – Madge Evans

This is a 1932 beauty hint by actress Madge Evans. Enjoy!

If you want to escape seasonal colds, to possess a light step and graceful carriage, to have sylph-like figure – swim. The best stroke, I think, I the American crawl. This stroke, with arms moving one at time out of the water, then over the head, is best because it gives coordination to the body by the sweeping stroke and breathing style.

Marjorie Rambeau – Take three

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Marjorie Rambeau talks about keeping fit and young. Enjoy!

Veteran actress Marjorie Rambeau has very definite ideas on how to stay young. “But it is not by playing ostrich.” she explained as I chatted with her at Republic Studio the other day.” “There is an art to accepting increasing years to mature gracefully. What one should strive for is a happy medium between the extreme of clinging frantically to youth buying clothes in the college shop and of allowing birthdays to slow down your activities, by being too age conscious,” Marjorie told me.

“A wise woman takes advantage of every way she can to preserve a youthful appearance. It is much easier today than it has ever been with so much free information and so many fine cosmetics. “But the impression of youth,” Miss Rambeau continued, “is equally important as the appearance. If you wear a size 12 but walk as if your joints ache, you are not very youthful. YOU HAVE to build youth from good habits. Plenty of vitamins and minerals everyday help to keep your body in condition. But you can’t stop exercising or you will become stiff. And yet you need to relax or you’ll wear yourself ragged with nervous energy.”

“And not to be ignored,” Miss Rambeau went on, “is an active mind. There is nothing which makes a person seem old and dull like having no interests outside an immediate little circle of family and friends. “I love to be around young people because they have enthusiasm and a forward point of view. But,” Miss Rambeau added, “when I call a person young I am judging them by their point of view rather than by their legal age.

“Occasionally you find a boy or girl still in the 20s who seems old. This is too bad but it does prove that age is something much more complex than the date written on a birth certificate.” “What do you feel,” I asked, “is the most important .thing which has kept you young?” “Having my job,” Miss Rambeau said, “and also thinking about what I am going to’ do next. This looking ahead gives me the interest that every one must have in order not to grow old.”

My mini beauty hint – Mari Colman (Judith Allen)

This is a 1932 beauty hints by actress Mari Colman (who was renamed Judith Allen not long after). Enjoy!

No woman can be well groomed unless her fingernails are well kept. Bathing the fingertips in warm olive oil every night for two weeks is a great tonic for brittle nails. Continue these warm oil baths at least once a week. A manicure, professional or at home, is essential and should be done at least once weekly.

Andrea King – Take two

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Andrea King talks about dyeing your hair. Enjoy!

Andrea King is one of the busiest girls on TV and in pictures these days. In 18 months I’ve had 50 parts,” she said at an afternoon tea. And it is so much fun because I’ve played so many different types. When my agent calls to say we’re going on an interview he always tries to find out what the role is like so I can dress for that part. Most men,” Andrea confided, don’t have too much imagination about casting. If they see you with a well cut suit, hat, earrings and all the sophisticated accessories, they cant picture you in an Ingenue part with loose hair and a peasant skirt.

“I KNOW YOU HEAR a lot about being one type, but I think Its fun to change around and with me the keynote to change, Andrea suggested, is hair. This is not only when I am working, but also the case In private life, I’ve had my hair every color you can think of. Its been all shades of blond, red, Jet black; but now I’m insisting on my own color for a while until my hair gets back into a healthy state again. I have to have a scalp treatment three times a week because my hair has become so damaged from all the dyes and bleaches. Would you advise any girl to change the color of her hair? I asked. If you have drab hair, or if lt Is gray and this affects your personality, then dye it.

But don’t try to do it yourself. It’s hard enough for a professional to keep your hair an even tone and It’s impossible for an amateur. The first time it’s fine and the second may not be so bad, but you are headed for a terrible mess before you have gone very long. I CERTAINLY would not suggest making a drastic change in the color of your hair if you don’t have a very good reason”, she added seriously. “Have you ever cut your hair?” I asked, seeing Andrea’s hair was very long. “Once, a long time ago” Andrea explained. “But I discovered that with my bone structure a lot of curls around my face was bad. I can wear it fluffy on one side but I have to have the other side plain in order to look my best. These things you can only find out by trial and error. Now I know I’m the long-hair type. But I can do many things with it. I can wear a braid, a chignon, a pony tail or high and fancy for evening.