What can I say? I just love redheads - especially redheads who played tough women in WWll. Eileen EvelynGreer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) : Greer Garson was born in Manor Park, Essex (now Greater London), England. Her father was Scottish and her mother was Irish. ... Louis B. Mayer discovered Garson while he was in London looking for new talent. Garson was signed to a contract...
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - d. Lee Daniels - 2009 - USA - Lionsgate There's so little time left in the year for me to spend a whole lot of time writing about films that I don't like, but I need to flush my feelings for Lee Daniels' Precious out in some form. When my friend Tom sent me a Netflix note saying, "God help me, I partially agree with Armond White," I couldn't...
Welcome to a special edition of Aqua Blue Heaven Friday~ Aqua Blue and Black Friday , where this week's vintage picks aren't just aqua, they're aqua and black. AND on Black Friday. Eh? Eh? Always on my toes, right? Groundbreaking stuff here, I know. Hey, what do you people expect from me, rocket science? It's the day after Thanksgiving, speeding towards Christmas and I'm spread thinner than Joan Crawford's...
I've written about this before, but one of the high points of my childhood was when my grandmother would take me with her when she came downtown to have her hair done at Marshall Field's. Imprisoning a male child in a room full of women under hair dryers was, as I understand it , officially classified as torture under the Geneva convention, so I was allowed to go downstairs to look around, as long...
Not to turn this blog into a Lady Gaga fansite or anything, (although, WHY THE HELL NOT'), but I just wanted to post these clips from her appearance on "The Jay Leno Show" last night. (And by the way, have you watched that shite recently? OMFG, but it is some awful stuff. I mean, fine, his interviews with celebs are OK. But his attempt at comedy and sketches? PAINFUL.) First is her performance...
Take a couple of drag queens dressed as Joan Crawford, some crazy lyrics, and some killer surf guitar and you’ve got the best novelty band I’ve seen in a very long time. The Joans are based in Chicago and they are...
I bought this pattern a couple of months ago and held onto it until I found the right fabric, a fantastic RPL black crepe from Metro Textiles in NYC (I'm not affiliated, but the next time you're in NY, you must go. The prices are really reasonable, this fabric was $10 a yard for a 54", and if you tell the owner what you're looking for, he'll start tossing bolts aside like they were toothpicks...
Okay, so I was never "in love" with either of them but they were fascinating. They were both lookers in the 1930s but, by the time I began to see them in movies in the 1950s, they were already horror-film harridans. I was going to skip both of them but I found some pics of them when they were still babes so here goes. Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) : Crawford was born...
Rudolph Valentino, Hollywood's legendary lover. The great pioneering director D.W. Griffith hired Rabbi Isadore Myers as the Jewish technical consultant on his great epic, Intolerance, 1916. Griffith was so happy with Rabbi Myer's expert advice and attention to detail that he said to the good Rabbi: “How can I ever repay you'” Replied Rabbi Myers: “I have a daughter who would like...
We've already seen the promise of a Michael Jackson diamond using his DNA, now a new line of fragrances offers the scent of a variety of celebrities based on their DNA. One of the first offerings is M, based on the DNA of Michael Jackson. My DNA Fragrance has created the "Antiquity" line of fragrances which will include dead celebrities like Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe,...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, once the most powerful and prestigious film studio in all Hollywood, is looking for a buyer to bail it out of nearly $4bn (£2.4bn) of debt. The company that gave the world Tom and Jerry cartoons, The Wizard of Oz, and a host of other classic musicals has said it has begun to explore a "potential sale".
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) : She first appeared in the 1959 motion picture The Diary of Anne Frank . In the same year, she starred in Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and in The Best of Everything with Hope Lange and Joan Crawford . ... Baker appeared in 300 Spartans (1962) and Stolen Hours , a 1963 remake of Dark Victory , and, the same year, opposite Paul Newman...
Robert Montgomery and Joan Crawford in Lette Lynton. The white cotton organdy gown by Adrian , real name Adrian Adolph Greenberg, is one of his most famous and influential designs. A copy of the dress was mass produced to help promote the film and over half-a-million were sold at Macy's. I can just imagine a depression era housewife assuring her husband that the dress is an investment, or just perfect...
A long and eventful day draws to a close and which included two contrasting male film personalities. Today we live is a 1933 released film of a William Faulkner story, set in England in the first World War, of love and heroic self sacrifice starring a young Joan Crawford, a mature Gary Cooper with Robert Young and Franchot Tone. Joan Crawford, as Diana, has grown up with her brother and his friend,...
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