Finger and thumb holding a sea potato - or similar form of sea urchin - it is less than a cm in diameter, bleached white and marked with a distinctive star pattern. Beyond is a sandy beach in bright sunlight

#SaturdayStar - the teensiest little sea potato (or similar) #Beachcombing

Headshot of Shirley MacLaine in the 1960s

#SaturdayStar: Shirley MacLaine (b.1934)
First Film: The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Latest Film: American Dreamer (2022)
Must Watch: The Apartment (1960) or The Children’s Hour (1964)
Random Fact: Has the same birthday as Barbara Streisand &, according to the IMdB, they celebrate together every year.

#SaturdayStar: Dame #JoanPlowright (1929-2025)
First Film: #TimeWithoutPity (1957)
Last Film: #KnifeEdge (2009)
Must Watch: #TheEntertainer (1960)
Random Fact: In 1992 she won 2 #GoldenGlobes (4 Enchanted April & Stalin). only one person before and two since have achieved that!

#SaturdayStar: #ElsaLanchester (1902-1986)
First Film: The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama (1925)
Last Film: Die Laughing (1980)
Must Watch: #TheBrideOfFrankenstein (1935) … or #WitnessForTheProsecution (1957) if you don’t like horror.
Random Fact: Isadora Duncan was her dance teacher!

Reposting because I messed up the dates.🙄
#SaturdayStar: #RuthChattertom (1892-1961)
First Film: Sins of the Father (1928)
Last Film: #Hamlet (TV - 1953)
Must Watch: #Dodsworth (1936)
Random Fact: She had a pilot’s license and flew her own plane.
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Headshot of 1930s movie star Ruth Chatterton looking directly at the camera and smiling.

#SaturdayStar: #RuthChattertom (1992-1961)
First Film: Sins of the Father (1928)
Last Film: Hamlet (TV - 1953)
Must Watch: #Dodsworth (1936)
Random Fact: She had a pilot's license and flew her own plane.
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#SaturdayStar: #HedyLamarr, b. #HedwigEvaMariaKiesler (1914-2000)
First Film: #GeldaufderStraße (1930)
Last Film: #TheFemaleAnimal (1958)
Must Watch: #TheStrangeWoman (1946)
Random Fact: She co-invented a frequency hopping system to use in WWII. We have wifi now because of it.
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#SaturdayStar: #MyrnaLoy (1905-1993)
First Film: Pretty Ladies (1925)
Last Film: Summer Solstice (1981)
Must Watch: #TheThinMan (1934)
Random Fact: She never received an #Oscar nomination, but she did get an honorary Oscar in 1991.
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#SaturdayStar: #JoanCrawford (1906-1977)
First Film (credited): Pretty Ladies
Last Film: Trog
Must Watch: #MildredPierce
Random Fact: After her friend Carole Lombard died, she took over her film role. Crawford donated her entire fee to the Red Cross and fired her agent for taking his 10%.
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#SaturdayStar: #LouiseBrooks (1906-1985)
First Film: #TheStreetOfForgottenMen (1925)
Last Film: #OverlandStageRaiders (1938)
Must Watch: #PandorasBox (1929)
Random Fact: Began as a dancer and opened dance studios later in life, she even wrote about it - ‘The Fundamentals of Good Ballroom Dancing’.

#SaturdayStar: #ElizabethTaylor (1932-2011)
First Film: There’s One Born Every Minute (1942)
Last Film: These Old Broads (2001)
Must Watch: #CatOnAHotTinRoof (1958)
Random Fact: In 1963 she became the first actress to earn $1m for a single film, Cleopatra.
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#SaturdayStar: #DebbieReynolds (1932-2016)
First Film: June Bride (1948)
Last Film: #BehindTheCandelabra (2013)
Must Watch: #SinginInTheRain (1952)
Random Fact: Had her own sitcom in 1969. But it was cancelled when the station violated their contract & she pointed it out.

#SaturdayStar: #MarionDavies (1897-1961)
First Film: Runaway Romany (1917)
Last Film: Ever Since Eve (1937)
Must Watch: Cain and Mabel (1936)
Random Fact: Famous for her kindness, she funded a children’s clinic at UCLA in 1959 which is still named after her.
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#SaturdayStar: #MaryAstor (1906-1987)
First Film: Brother of the Bear (1921)
Last Film: #HushHushSweetCharlotte (1964)
Must Watch: #TheMalteseFalcon (‘41)
Random Fact: Her part in #TheGreatLie went to Bette Davis who turned it down so her friend could save her career & she won an Oscar!
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#SaturdayStar: #JudithAnderson (1897-1992)
First Film: Madame of the Jury (1930)
Last Film: Impure Thoughts (1986)
Must Watch: #Rebecca (1940)
Random Fact: Won 2 Emmy Awards for playing Lady Macbeth in two productions of ‘Macbeth’.
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An upside down five armed sea star/starfish with brown limbs and white suckers lying fully stretched out on dark wet rocks, pebbles and shell fragments

#SaturdayStar - is this a starfish or a sea star to you? I understand we are moving away from the former language and towards the latter as it’s clearly not a fish… #Beachcombing rescue here as this one was still alive & got relocated into the waters of #Arran

#SaturdayStar: #AudreyHepburn (1929-1993)
First Film: One Wild Oat (1951)
Last Film: Always (1989)
Must Watch: #MyFairLady (1964)
Random Fact: While a child she raised money for the anti-Nazi effort during WWII by giving ballet performances & working as an underground courier.
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