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Within the first season of Netflix’s new Ryan Murphy present Hollywood, Mira Sorvino seems as a blonde bombshell actress named Jeanne Crandall. Because the present is populated by each actual folks and fictional characters (and fictionalized variations of actual folks), viewers is perhaps questioning if Crandall was an actual particular person or if she’s primarily based on an actual particular person. Right here’s what we all know.
WARNING: The primary header is spoiler-free, however the second header comprises spoilers about Hollywood’s first season. Don’t learn it if you happen to don’t wish to be spoiled.
Jeanne Crandall Was Not a Actual Individual
Regardless of being surrounded by actual folks on the present — actor Rock Hudson (Jake Selecting), agent Henry Willson (Jim Parsons), actresses Vivien Leigh (Katie McGuinness), Hattie McDaniels (Queen Latifah), and Tallulah Bankhead (Paget Brewster) — Jeanne Crandall is without doubt one of the characters invented for the present.
Nonetheless, there are a number of Hollywood stars from that period that she bears greater than a passing resemblance to.
Look-wise, Lana Turner (pictured above, left) might be the closest. A heavy-lidded, gorgeous blonde with modern waves in her hair, Sorvino’s Crandall is actually paying homage to Turner within the seems division.
Profession-wise, Crandall sounds a bit like Veronica Lake (pictured above, proper). Lake performed the femme fatale in quite a few movies within the 1940s however her profession began to say no within the late ’40s on account of her struggles with alcoholism and psychological sickness. She by no means actually broke via to the A-list ranks, she by no means earned an Academy Award nomination, and she or he died of hepatitis, cirrhosis, and kidney failure in 1973 on the age of 50.
Ann Sheridan is one other actress of the ’30s and ’40s who sounds a bit like Crandall. She broke into the biz and was dubbed the “oomph lady” in 1939, a tag she by no means loved however she nonetheless acknowledged helped her achieve traction in Hollywood. She informed the Ogden Commonplace-Examiner in 1940, “I do know if it hadn’t been for ‘oomph,’ I”d most likely nonetheless bein the refrain. I’m awfully grateful for what it’s executed for me. However will anyone please inform me what it means?”
Nonetheless, Ann Sheridan just isn’t a reputation you hear from that period as a lot as girls like Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, or Rita Hayworth.
Warning: Mild spoilers forward for Hollywood’s first season.
Jeanne Crandall’s Profession
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On the present, Crandall is a revered actress however has by no means actually discovered her breakthrough position. Even after discovering out that Crandall was sleeping together with her husband Ace (Rob Reiner), Avis Amberg (Patti Lupone) provides Crandall the position of a lifetime as a result of Avis has all the time admired her expertise — the position in a biopic about famed World Struggle II photographer Lee Miller.
We don’t know what turns into of that image, however since Crandall is seen on the finish of the movie presenting on the Academy Awards, presumably it’s within the works and goes to actually get Crandall the credit score she deserves as an actress. We’d prefer to assume that if Hollywood will get a second season, someway Murphy and Co. will reveal that Crandall earned herself an Oscar nomination for her Lee Miller story.
Hollywood season one is on the market now on Netflix.
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