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Douglas Fairbanks presents Janet Gaynor with the first ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1927) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). Mary Pickford poses with her Oscar for Best Actress. She won for her work in Coquette (1929), her first talkie. Norma Shearer receives from Conrad Nagel the Oscar for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930). Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore were the Best Actress and Best Actor winners at the 5th Academy Awards. She won for Min and Bill (1930) and he for A Free Soul (1931). MGM chief Louis B. Mayer presents producer Carl Laemmle with the award for Best Picture for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Helen Hayes proudly holds her Best Actress Oscar for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931). Shirley Temple gives Claudette Colbert the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in It Happened One Night (1934). It Happened One Night also earned Clark Gable th...

Jeanette MacDonald is ready to serenade her lucky Valentine.   Ann Miller could get any man to be her Valentine with legs like those. Men of the world, beware! Lana Turner is ready to aim. I'm sure Tony Martin would be delighted if he got home on Valentine's Day and found Cyd Charisse waiting for him like this. Or like this. See, I told you Tony would be happy. Look at what he gave her the next day. Mary Carlisle looks extra cute in her little Valentine's Day outfit.   Joan Leslie is pin-up perfect as the Queen of Hearts. Rita Hayworth has just received a huge box of chocolates from her Valentine. Well done, Mary Pickford. I'm sure Doug will be very happy to receive that. Irene Dunne makes for a very lovely face on a Valentine's Day card. Happy Valentine's Day. ❤❤❤