A Smiling million - right to the penny, for that's what the combined yearly salary of this beaming group of 17 paramount stars amounts to.
In case the sight of so much money made you blink, we'll identify them for you.
Top row, left to right: Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Gary Cooper, Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher, William Boyd.
Second row: Richard Arlen, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Rosita Moreno, Norman Foster, Sylvia Sidney, Lilyan Tashman.
Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl are the youngsters in front.
What a delight it’s been learning about minor movie star Winifred “Wynne” Gibson (1898-1987), whose name is an evocative mash-up of associations of folks from her own era; Wini Shaw, Bessie Wynn, Ed Wynn, Dorothy Gibson, Helen Gibson, the Gibson Girls….
Gibson was the principal or second female lead in numerous Hollywood films, many of them B pictures. We find ourself just as interested in her…