I met Barbra Streisand in August of 1960 a few hours after I arrived in New York from Los Angeles. My first apartment was in Greenwich Village at 16 Gay Street next door to the basement apartment made famous by Ruth McKenney in her memoir, “My Sister Eileen” which was…
Month: August 2014
Poet, Michelle Bitting, remembers her Great Grandmother, character actress of the Golden Era in: NOTES TO THE BELOVED (available on Amazon.com) Beryl Mercer, Actress (b.1882—d.1939) Time was you could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and catch Great Grandma’s name flaming every cherry marquee. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Cagney’s…
Kitchens – this one is from a Pasadena estate and was designed by Wallace Neff: A cheerful California kitchen from 1938: And here’s one you might recognize from “My Man Godfrey”:
Hello, poppets. I have been unwell. Nothing serious—a hell-bender of a migraine the likes of which I haven’t seen (or felt) in years. It bothers me that I haven’t been answering your most recent comments. Elyes: One of these days you’ll have to explain The Tyger to me, what I…
The iconic Grauman’s Chinese Theater, designed by Raymond A. Kennedy of the architectural firm also responsible for the Egyptian, Meyer and Holler. Douglas Fairbanks was a part owner: Along with Sid Grauman, Mary Pickford, and Howard Schenck: Jean Klossner, also know as “Mr. Footprint” came up with the concrete formula…
I couldn’t get a focused enough picture of the light bulb, but the filament is still there, which means this baby still burns… Cool, yes? In the 1920s, when this light bulb would have been in use, there was no such thing as autopilot. But I, personally, have put the…
Whatever, or whoever, was the cause of her sudden twist of fortune, Anne wasn’t disembarking in Los Angeles. The travel itinerary from the studio specified her arrival in Palm Springs. Having flown in from slushy, dingy, frigid New York City in the middle of February she walked outside the terminal.…