Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me on Sundays! This week’s theme you have your pick of two National Day celebrations – Gorgeous Grandma or Vanilla Ice Cream Day. I think I’ll run with “Gorgeous Grandma Day”.
While shuffling through files and folders on my computer over the summer, I came across my grandma’s obituary. I remembered her telling me she was named after a movie star who’s name she shared, Leatrice Joy many years ago. I never looked into this until now. Joy (November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was a silent movie star and is believed to have started the bobbed hair style in the 20s.
I had hoped that Joy was a singer but she wasn’t credited nor did I find proof that she was so I looked for music from silent film era when I found the full feature of her first motion picture she came out of retirement to do as a supporting actress to a young Marilyn Monroe in 1951 in, The Love Nest and just for fun I found that she appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth.
My grandma wasn’t a movie star but the light she carried was far brighter than anything on the big screen. She was reunited with grandpa in 2012 a few days before my birthday. I believe she watches over me now like she did when I was little.
Remember music themes are only suggestions. I don’t care one way or another. The important thing is to share whatever music moves you. Now, it’s your turn!
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Such a beautiful name!
Your grandma looked like a moviestar, CK
Loved the story and your drawing, 
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Double Pawkisses for a Happy Week ahead
You’re grandmother was beautiful and so are you.
Have a fabulous day and week, Cathy. Love and hugs. ♥
Great song and your grandma was beautiful. Thanks for hosting and I hope your vacation is going well.
I was the first male grandchild on my mother’s side of the family. My grand mother had five sisters and a brother, so a baby boy was a special occasion. I would spend two weeks with my grand parents every summer and grandma and I would pick blackberries for the best cobble in the world. We would make homemade lye soap, and gather eggs from the chicken coop. Those two weeks each summer were the best two weeks of my life. Thanks for triggering the memories. Have a blessed week.
That’s so cool that your beautiful grandmom was named after Leatrice. This actress I fell for when I saw her interviewed for the magnificent documentary “Hollywood” made in the 70s. She was married to the top male star from the late 20s, John Gilbert who said of her, ” for whom God patterned the Angels.” Maybe that’s your grandmom too.
It’s Birgit…if you want to hear a little Leatrice Joy talking about the love of her life, here is a clip, https://youtu.be/Zn2400F3L2s?si=9SzbeMsrVfozR7SW.
Thanks for sharing the clip, Birgit!
Your grandmother was pretty as any movie star.
Your grandmother was beautiful, and you have beautiful memories of her. I had to watch the To Tell the Truth segment. It’s a show I loved as a child. I figured, it would be so hard to fool that panel but the real one only got half the votes! Alana ramblinwitham
Good pick! And yes, your grandmother was gorgeous…
Your grandma was beautiful. XO