FIGURES OF STARS
MEASUREMENTS SHOW THATJ PICTURE HEROINES ARE SMALL. COLOUR AND STATURE. Th'ose intriguing clothes worn by the film stars — Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo or Ruth Chatterton — are the envy of the feminine world. Fora women who wish to emulate them, here are a few descriptive facts and figures. Compare your figure: — Joan Crawford is 5ft 4in in beight and weighs only 7st 121b. Her hair is usually described as darlc auburn, but the studio people say it is brown, with golden glints, and her eyes are hazel. Ann Harding is the same height, and weighs 7st 81b. Her skin is a pale ivory and her hair is like spun gold. Blue-grey eyes complete this picture. Constance Bennett can do even better in the matter of weight, for, although she is 5ft 4in, too, she weighs only 7st 11b. Ruth Chatterton's weight is about 7st 121b and her height 5ft 2iin. Blue eyes go with her light hrown hair. Green-eyed Beauty. Greta Garbo is tall, 5ft 6in, apd she weighs 8st 131b. Her eyes are a glorious blue and her hair just gold. Norma Shearer is' tiny — 5ft lin. Her weight is about 8st, and she has grey-blue eyes and brown hair. Mae Clarke dances through some of her pictures at 8st 21b, being 5ft 3in, dark eyed, but otherwise decidedly blonde. Tala Birell, the newest luminary, manages to cover a height of 5ft 5in with only 8st 31b. But then she has specially good poise. Elissa Landi is the same height, but she tips the scale at 51b more. Her hair is true auburn and her eyes are green. Flaxen Hair. Lilyan Tashman's eyes are blue. Sh'e is 5ft 5iin tall, and her hair is fiaxen. Joan Bennett is a gold and blue girl, standing 5ft 3in and weighing a whole 7st 121b. Janet Gaynor is one of the petite ones, just over 5ft, and weighs 7st 21b. Marlene Dietrichs bule eyes and naturally wavy hair go with 5ft 5in and just over 8st. Sylvia Sidney may look sma.ll, but she measuras up to 5ft 4in, and her weight is 7st 61b. Her eyes ajre a shade between blue and green. Barbara Stanwyck is an emphatic brunette. Her height is 5ft 6in and her weight is 8st 31b. Lilian Harvey, wh'q looks syliphlike, is 5ft 4in and her weight is 7st 101b. Lil Dagover is the only black-haired one mentioned here. She is about
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 7
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