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BACHELORS’ HALL – RANDOLPH SCOTT AND CARY GRANT AT HOME IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS

May 14, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, architecture, art deco, at home, Bachelors' Hall, behind the scenes, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, celebrities, Classic Movies, design, fashion, film, history, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, house mates, Los Angeles, Movie Star, Old Hollywood, photography, Randolph Scott

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FADE OUT – PART TWO BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 12, 2013 by Vickie Lester

FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda, she knew that they were unlikely to remain together but she was satisfied to be with him for however long it would be, and she had used him, too, in […]

Categories: Uncategorized, Entertainment, Writing, Movies, History, Culture, Books, Design, Art, fashion, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Photography, Film, Humor, Travel, Literature, Theater, Fiction, Story, Short Stories, Marriage, Relationships, Friendship, Blogging, Truth & Rumors, Life, Memoir, London • Tags: Hollywood, Beverly Hills, movies, marriage, celebrities, actress, history, actor, sex, on set, booze, director, design, Los Angeles, Clark Gable, film, Carole Lombard, short story, Old Hollywood, testosterone, Classic Movies, behind the scenes, romance, Movie Star, photography, humor, love, aging star, George Hurrell, memory, third wife, friendship, mirror, Fade Out by George Kaplan, Gilbert Roland, personal reflection, disintegrate, hansome, virile, matinee idol, lunatic hope, private life, Oscar nomination, immortality, manhood, joy, limbo, ego driven, armor, Twentieth Century, louse, self-centered, seductive, first wife, second wife, animalistic, passionate, profanity

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FADE OUT – PART ONE BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 11, 2013 by Vickie Lester

FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here he was in location in Montana, preparing to go on set, and he was drawn to the mirror; not out of narcissism, or some lunatic hope that he would see […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, London, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Hollywood, Beverly Hills, movies, marriage, celebrities, actress, history, actor, sex, on set, booze, director, design, Los Angeles, Clark Gable, film, Carole Lombard, short story, Old Hollywood, testosterone, Classic Movies, behind the scenes, romance, Movie Star, photography, humor, love, aging star, George Hurrell, memory, third wife, friendship, mirror, Fade Out by George Kaplan, Gilbert Roland, personal reflection, disintegrate, hansome, virile, matinee idol, lunatic hope, private life, Oscar nomination, immortality, manhood, joy, limbo, ego driven, armor, Twentieth Century, louse, self-centered, seductive, first wife, second wife, animalistic, passionate, profanity

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MIRROR, MIRROR – CAROLE

April 21, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, architecture, art deco, behind the scenes, Carole Lombard, Classic Movies, design, dressing table, film, garden, glamour photography, Greta Garbo, history, Hollywood, Los Angeles, mirror, mirror ball, mirrors in interior decoration, Movie Star, Old Hollywood

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EDWARD STEVENSON: COSTUME DESIGNER

February 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

I’d like to talk about one designer of the golden era who set the mood perfectly with spot on wardrobe: Edward Stevenson, pictured on the right. His designs often made the scene: And, they always set the character: Pictured below, a perfectly framed example of costume design: the weak slovenly father, the child bundled against the snow, the high hat banker in his fur trimmed coat, the prim buttoned up mother signing away her son… And then there was the […]

Categories: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, Agnes Moorehead, behind the scenes, Carole Lombard, CITIZEN KANE, Classic Movies, Costume Designer, design, Edward Stevenson, evening gown, fashion, film, Gloria Grahame, history, Hollywood, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Jimmy Stewart, Los Angeles, Lucille Ball, movie history, Movie stars, Old Hollywood, on set

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CAROLE LOMBARD – NO MAN OF HER OWN (1932)

January 25, 2013 by Vickie Lester

During filming, Gable and Lombard were entirely indifferent to one another, with Lombard in a foul mood due to her recent unpleasant loan-out to United Artists. She spoke of that experience with her usual colorful vocabulary, which Gable was not certain he approved of. No romantic relationship between the stars came about during the making of this picture, with Lombard still married to actor William Powell and still very much in love. While Gable was still married to socialite Rhea […]

Categories: Advertising, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Uncategorized • Tags: 1932, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, commissary, married to others, Motion Picture Studio, no attraction, No Man Of Her Own, Paramount, William Powell

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SS CAROLE LOMBARD – JANUARY 15, 1944

January 25, 2013 by Vickie Lester

A bereaved Clark Gable looks on as Irene Dunne christens the ship with Louis B. Mayer looking on, the date commemorated the second anniversary of Carole Lombard’s record breaking bond drive for WWII.

Categories: Culture, Design, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Travel • Tags: 1942, 1944, Advertising, bond drive, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Elegiac, Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Dunne, Jack Benny, last film, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Stack, Romantic Comedy, To Be Or Not To Be, United Artists, war bonds, WWII

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE – CAROLE LOMBARD

January 25, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Lombard’s last film was in post when her plane went down – which explains the slightly elegiac tone of the ad.

Categories: Advertising, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Theater, Uncategorized • Tags: 1942, Advertising, bond drive, Carole Lombard, Elegiac, Ernst Lubitsch, Jack Benny, last film, Robert Stack, Romantic Comedy, To Be Or Not To Be, United Artists, war bonds, WWII

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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MAKING FACES

January 3, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Carole Lombard: Robert Montgomery: In “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”:

Categories: Culture, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Theater • Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard, Democrat, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Old Hollywood, Republican, Robert Montgomery, studio portraits

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MR. & MRS. SMITH

January 3, 2013 by Vickie Lester

On set with Doug Liman: On set with Alfred Hitchock:

Categories: Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships • Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Angelina Jolie, behind the scenes, Brad Pitt, Carole Lombard, Doug Liman, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, on set, original, remake, Robert Montgomery

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