Month: October 2012

October 23, 2012 /

NORMA SHEARER

Motion Picture Magazine:

October 22, 2012 /

JOAN CRAWFORD AND FRED ASTAIRE – DANCING LADY

This was Fred Astaire’s first film appearance in a film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone: –

October 22, 2012 /

OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS – JOAN CRAWFORD

This is pretty saucy stuff for the time – Joan Crawford shimmying in front of a mirror as she gets dressed to go out for the evening circa 1928, before recorded dialogue, but there was a synch soundtrack… –

October 21, 2012 /

DISCO AT THE PALLADIUM – 1978

The joy:

October 21, 2012 /

STUDIO 54 – NY, NY

The scene:

October 21, 2012 /

DISCO IN HOLLYWOOD – 1978

All right chickens, call me a hometown girl, but I really did prefer the disco era here at the Palladium in Hollywood, 1978. Studio 54 had the press and the celebrities – but, I can say this with full knowledge, we had the fun.

October 20, 2012 /

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY – THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL

This is what Hollywood looked like at the turn of the 20th century: In 1903 a small place built by H.J. Whitley (Whitley Heights is where the silent film stars lived) called the Hollywood Hotel looked like this: Soon after this picture was taken a wealthy woman from Iowa, Almira…

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October 19, 2012 /

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 Marcel Wave).

October 18, 2012 /

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, with Laurel and Hardy. Leo McCarey, who went on to become a preeminent director of…

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October 17, 2012 /

JOAN CRAWFORD AND WALLACE BEERY – BEHIND THE SCENES OF GRAND HOTEL

I love these stills – here we have director Edmund Goulding by camera, the cinematographer was William H. Daniels.