...Nancy Kwan enjoys being a girl.
NANCY KWAN
May 19, 1939
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Wigged Out
Four years ago, Miss Ann Miller's estate auctioned off four of her wigs from her stint as Mame -- three from Max Factor, and one from "Sassy Wigs." The fact that we missed this historic auction actually has us close to tears.
Yes, we could have owned one of Ann Miller's Sassy Wigs!
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'What might have been.'"
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Hall Girls
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| Frank Faylan, Jack Carson, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry in Red Garters (Paramount, 1954) |
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| Jayne Mansfield in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century Fox, 1958) |
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| Arthur Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich and Mel Ferrer in Rancho Notorious (RKO, 1952) |
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| Angela Lansbury in The Harvey Girls (MGM, 1946) |
See what the boys in the back room will have.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Pulp Fiction
Would you? -- shut your eyes to shame if you were a fabulous woman by love possessed for a man, never a name, whom you used up like pep pills while competing with your teenage daughter who has the unashamed longings of today's generation?
Well... would you?
Monday, May 13, 2013
Yes, Virginia...
BEATRICE ARTHUR
May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009
MARY WELLS
May 13, 1943 - July 26, 1992
STEVIE WONDER
May 13, 1950
...even Bea Arthur had soul.
...even Bea Arthur had soul.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
And Not To Be Left Out...
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| Bette Davis as Mrs. Taggert in The Anniversary (Hammer, 1968) |
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| Bette Davis as Rosa Moline in Beyond the Forest (Warner Bros., 1949) |
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| Bette Davis as Mrs. Hayden in Where Love Has Gone (Paramount, 1964) ...of the one mean movie mother sweepstakes. |
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Say It Supremely With Music
Watch for The Merm making her Jean Terrell cameo at 3:25!
IRVING BERLIN
May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989
May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989
Friday, May 10, 2013
Fruggin' Out With My Baby
How unflappably dapper and elegant was Fred Astaire? So dapper and elegant, that he could dance with a mini-skirted partner half his age amid retro-mod scenery, and still come off as timelessly cool rather than hopelessly kitsch. In his honor, we're putting on our top hat, tails, and go-go boots right now.
FRED ASTAIRE
May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tarzan Meets The Teen Idol
RICK NELSON
May 8, 1940 - December 31, 1985
LEX BARKER
May 8, 1919 - May 11, 1973
Join us, please, as we celebrate Ricky's lips and Lex's banana.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Eve Speaks
Our birthday girl, the breathy, bodacious, bad-ass Anne Baxter, is seen below giving a wonderfully, shall we say, animated interview from the 1970's. She's marvelously theatrical in an endearingly over-the-top way that is total artifice and yet so completely part of her being -- and, therefore, natural. To listen to her "burgundy and chocolate" voice, as one writer put it, for nearly thirty minutes is some people's idea of heaven -- certainly, it's ours.
ANNE BAXTER
May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985
Monday, May 6, 2013
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