VIVIAN BLAINE, THE ORIGINAL MISS ADELAIDE, DRESSED BY ALVIN COLT, 1950
The ultimate pure Chatterton vehicle has to be Michael Curtiz’s amazing FEMALE (1933), which has her playing an automobile tycoon, who carries on like Catherine the Great with every man she comes across, treating them like so much used Kleenex and giving new meaning to the Harry Warren-Al Dubin torch song, REMEMBER MY FORGOTTEN MAN.
MIDNIGHT MARY, Franchot Tone and Loretta Young
In the 1960s, it was Elizabeth Taylor
A GALLIANO GOWN
