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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
An ebay seller is/was selling her father's slides from when he was stationed at Fort Pendleton in 1950-53
[althought I noticed some slide are 1956...but they're not in this group]. She says "He would often go to Hollywood while on leave."
Perhaps by happenstance, or planned, he was at Grauman's Chinese Theater when actress Mona Freeman (who?) placed her hands and footprints in the cement.
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I remember the name...or am I just remembering Lee Grant addressing her maid in ludicrous baby talk--“Mona, Mona, Mona”--in
Shampoo?
Guess I thought maybe she was an actress in the Betty Furness vein, opening Westinghouse ice boxes, etc, but no, she was
BIG:
Well, the picture was small, but it did have Scott Brady in it, who was very very
BIG
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http://highlighthollywood.com
Brady and Freeman--I assume this is from that megahit
I Was a Shoplifter
Here's Mona with Mr. Dinah Shore, holding in his stomach to great effect. She's not looking so dewey here though.
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/9384476h
Some info from the "Highlight Hollywood" site
"Beautiful actress Mona Freeman, cast as a perpetual teenager throughout the 1940s and ’50s in such films as The Heiress, Junior Miss, Dear Ruth and I Was a Shoplifter, has died. She was 87.
Freeman died May 23 in her Beverly Hills home after a long illness, her daughter, actress Monie Ellis, told the Los Angeles Times.
Miss Freeman also was a painter, whose portrait of Mary See has been displayed for years in See’s Candies stores across the U.S.
Freeman played Marian Almond, the cousin of Olivia de Havilland’s character who gets engaged in William Wyler’s acclaimed film The Heiress (1949)"
Actually, Mona was a little bigger than I thought. She was in a movie with William Holden, and in one of the best movies ever made (IMO)...have seen it many times--but I don't remember Mona Freeman in it at all. But here she is: