A Page Serenade on Cinco de Mayo!

 Anita Page is celebrating Cinco de Mayo by singing to the Moon Girls and Elmo Aardvark! (This is happens quite often when she's been chugging Coronas.)

Flapper Fanny on the Fifth!

 It's Cinco de Mayo, and Flapper Fanny is here!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

 Anita Page invites you to celebrate with music and more!

Just don't party too hard... or you'll end up like Anita does every year!

Marilyn the Bullfighter

There's to be no bull to ruin the Cinco De Mayo parties if Marilyn Monroe has her way!

Trivia: While trying to break into acting, Marilyn Monroe worked as a model. Among her clients were pin-up artist Earl Moran, who paid her $10 an hour to pose in various costumes and states of undress to serve as reference for his paintings. The photos in this post are from one such shoot.

Joan's May Fifth

Joan Blondell had plans for this Cinco de Mayo.

But then...

Cinco de Mayo!

Rita Hayworth is dancing because it's May 5th!

It's Cinco de Mayo!

For a few days now, I've been seeing posts in my Facebook feed designed to instruct me on the True Meaning of Cinco de Mayo (or lack there-of). Well, those posts convinced me that I had to do a Cinco de Mayo post of my own this year--the third one in the decade or so that this blog has been around.

I have made an effort to be faithful to the wishes of those who took it upon themselves to preach to unwashed masses. Cinco de Mayo is a commemoration of a battle that helped put an end to France's imperial ambitions in the Americas, and this post is here to remind the world about that.

PREPARING TO FIGHT THE TROOPS OF NAPOLEON III!

CELEBRATING THE VICTORY OVER THE TROOPS OF NAPOLEON III!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Or as it is known among those who observe it, Drinko de Mayo. Here is genuine Mexican, Raquel Torres, showing some of the key elements of a successful Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Picture Perfect Wednesday: Happy Almost-Cinco de Mayo!

May your celebrations tomorrow be filled with beverages and bull fights!