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Welcome to my boudoir, an update — and click on either of the pix to buy the...
Mm hm. That’s pretty much what it looks like and that’s my knee in the bottom of the frame. It’s up under the rafters like Jo’s spot in “Little Woman”, it’s filled with books and a reading chair, and...
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The League of Extraordinary Ladies | please do tweet, FB, Google+, etc.
Gloria Swanson, Marion Davies, Constance Bennett, Jean Harlow I have fairly recently met someone who has also been published. And for that I will seriously thank WordPress. Her book reads like “The Jet...
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Young Howard Hughes produces a film called Hell’s Angels and crashes his...
Howard Hughes by Billie Dove, 1929
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Hell’s Angels lights up the night for the premiere on Hollywood Boulevard, at...
Hell’s Angels premiere on Hollywood Boulevard at Grauman’s Chinese, November 15, 1930
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JEAN HARLOW ENJOYS A GAME OF BADMINTON
I think this must have been a charity event at the Huntington Hartford Hotel in Pasadena: –
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Jean Harlow – Dinner at Eight
A defining role: Reading sides on a leaning board. Jean Harlow chats with visiting director Edmund Goulding. To her left is cast member Edmund Lowe and director George Cukor. Photograph by George...
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JEAN HARLOW AND HAL ROACH
Hal Roach was the first to spot Jean Harlow’s comedic talents: Harlow (the real bathing beauty) is to the right of Charley Chase. Harlow was seventeen when she made “Double Whoopee”, a Hal Roach short,...
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WORKING WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD – GRAND HOTEL
Okay my darlings, I too am sitting at a device that conveys words into world, drinking a cup of coffee… But I would say the element I lack in my yoga pants and husband’s T-shirt is glamour (and a...
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PREMIERE OF GRAND HOTEL AT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE – 1932
I remember seeing an item in the Hollywood Reporter a little while ago about the lack of skilled and seasoned producers in the industry. One of the anonymous sources cited a corporate culture at fault...
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Ted Allan (1910-1993) | Le Journal de la Photographie
Ted Allan started his career very young as an actor and worked on a number of Cecil B De Mille movies in the early 1930s. When De Mille called on someone to take some portraits, Allan stepped forward...
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THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN
THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY Depending on what source you read, either printed books or e-readers are doomed. Traditional publishing is in chaos while technology is opening up new avenues for innovation...
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What the Mister said about engagement rings… Don’t be conned by De Beers
Keeping that in mind I tried to quell my excitement about seeing the work of master artisans: Van Cleef & Arpels, but something happened when those spotlights in the museum hit the jewels and they...
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How to Stay Sane in a Crazy World, by Sophia Stuart
As per the traditions of Hollywood, and my habit of turning conversations my way here’s the preface: Oh! Talk about me? Of course! Spoiled and sheltered, and can go Sicilian in an instant. On the other...
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My boyfriend, Jeff Bezos, over at Amazon just sent me such a treat!
It’s this luscious gem of a book my friend wrote… Oh, dear! We can do better than that. Re-light! Roll ’em! Okay, I’d never make it in the camera department because clearly I didn’t rack focus...
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Dinner at Eight — I wonder what Carlotta would have made of Google Glass?
Kitty: I was reading a book the other day. Carlotta: Reading a book? Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going...
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There is a kind of courtship that goes on between producer and director, a kind of wooing. The producer holds the means of movie making (money) and the director, if they’re any good, provides the...
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