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kimwexlers-brownhair · 4 months

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Another old Hollywood actress that gives me strong Meg Giry vibes is Judy Holliday - especially in Bells Are Ringing.

I LOVE JUDY HOLLIDAY SO MUCH

I'm in the beginning stages of drafting a fic where films develop in the Phantom timeline about a thousand times more quickly than in reality, and everyone is wondering who will be the first great diva of the screen, Christine or Carlotta...and then suddenly dark horse Meg is singled out from the movie chorus and it's her the camera and public ultimately fall in love with.

And that is exactly what Judy Holliday did to Bette Davis and Anne Baxter at the 1952 Oscars: the actress playing a ditzy blonde trying to better herself in a romantic comedy beats the two competing divas from the same drama. I love that shit.

#a lot of ppl say because anne insisted on the lead actress category she and davis canceled each other out and that's why holliday won #that might be part of it but honestly holliday is magnetic in born yesterday and deserved that oscar #she also died way too freaking young #judy holliday #meg giry #phantom of the opera #and in my fic erik and cara are the most pissed about meg #christine is disappointed her career on film doesn’t take off quite Meg's (chris is popular but in more of a Jeannette Macdonald way)#(than in a meg jean harlow/judy holliday way)#but she realizes she's more comfortable on stage anyway and eventually realizes it's past time her number one supporter meg gets to shine

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