[Revolting cat!]

Frances Ethel Gumm was a pretentious no talent, alcoholic and a tragedy to her family perhaps, but certainly not to the rest of us.

[Borges]

She had a singing voice like no one else and, at least in ‘A Star is Born’ the weight of a geniune tragedienne (which she had in her singing at all times). Check out ‘Meet Me in St Louis’ and ‘The Pirate’ for her future husband’s almost fetishistic photography of her performances.

[Chunga]

Frances Ethel Gumm was a pretentious no talent, alcoholic and a tragedy to her family perhaps, but certainly not to the rest of us.

This is moronic.