This was a delight.Beautiful colors and Constance look elegant and beautiful.I would remove my make up before applying a cream though but when you shoot a segment like this there just isn´t the time I guess.

Beautiful color. I found this short on one of my TCM DVR recordings. The only surviving color footage I think of constance when she was young.

she was breathtaking!

Thank you SO much for that insightful, intelligent, forensic explanation.

Love it; with all the 30's "glamour" surrounding this short, her routine amounts to a rough face flannel, camphor cold cream, witch hazel astringent cream and something like Cornsilk face powder and Tangee rouge. Try reading that on GOOP. Now, there's a different product for every inch. Yes, Constance Bennett was a character but most actors strived for the English "Cultured Blue-Blood" ideal; it was an act. "Authentic" snobs found it quaint while everyone else was in awe of such glitzy appeal.

Personally, I think it is a lovely video, and I'm sure more than a few women in the grips of the Great Depression who saw this in theaters were happy to have a few vicarious minutes of Relaxation and Beauty. And Miss Bennett died WAY too young, of a cerebral hemmorage at age 60 in 1965. Right after her completion of the Ross Hunter film "Madame X" as Lana Turner's mother.

oh i am so glad you put this up. i love it.

I love her sheets!

haha. Of course! Constance was always known for her elegant persona. I adore her. Independent, cultured, ironic and outspoken. haha.

LMAO!!!! I just watched Mommie Dearest this evening!

i think i should apologies for my prior outburst, to anyone who may have been offended. i'm sorry, the thing caught me by surprise and i wasn't thinking. i still think the culture change is massive and thats what really got me going... you don't see the same cultural ideals among woman very much anymore, and being female thats what really got me. hope i didn't offend anyone, msgaddict

"And now I take my offering down to the temple, and spend several hours meditating and praying before the Buddha statue! Oh, wait... no I don't."

Probably what we today call toner or astringent. In 1936 they talk about blood circulation; now it would be about the pores.

Does anyone know if this short appears on any DVD as an extra?

haha. no one wakes up with fabulous hair like that.

No, msgaddict, don't apologize...by today's standards, this *is* kind of deplorable, but in the context of the time (1937) it makes perfect sense. Thanks for your opinion.

Who knew Constance Bennett had to suffer this kind of living Hell? We should thank Jesus that we don't have to experience her daily horrors.

Wonderful...and I think Constance Bennett is wonderful...but what the HELL is "stimulation cream" ??!!

oh my FUCK this is for real! i thought it was going to be a JOKE.. holy crap.... *slowly gains control over self* my lord have things changed... -msgaddict

I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out my new clip of 1930's cigarette cards of Constance Bennett, Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Errol Flyn, Vivien Leigh, George Formby and Gracie Fields.

Don't get me wrong; this is cute, silly and certainly dated (I'm a "modern" woman in my 20's and I can handle it), but there's also something cozy about a "luxurious" personal care routine--even if it's more a matter of allowing yourself personal time to breathe and reflect, rather than application of expensive products with assistance from maids. But darlings, NEVER sleep with your makeup on, even if dear hubby or honey--horrors!--should awake in the night and see you less than polished ;)...

A movie that didn't enhance Joan Crawford OR Faye Dunaway.

strongly disagree to a soulessly alarm-like maid. come on girls, don't you feel gut strenching disgust when you see those souless conformity?

quite vain,explosive and indomotable like her father.