whataboutbobbed
After [Irving] Thalberg died, Norma Shearer—one of the most minimally talented ladies ever to appear on the silver screen, and who looked like nothing, with one eye crossed over the other—went right on being the queen of Hollywood. Everybody used to say, ‘Mrs Thalberg is coming,’ ‘Miss Shearer is arriving,’ as though they were talking about Sarah Bernhardt.
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