John Barrymore and baby daughter Diana – a hauntingly beautiful portrait
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“Lily harbored a den of coyotes in her back yard. They went about their nocturnal haunts stealthy-like, unless they were circling to prey and then they raised all hell. Yelps and howls, high-pitched and stunningly shrill, vibrated in the dark. In echoing canyons or flat streets stretching to meet the hilly wilderness, Los Angelinos — both dreaming and about to be eaten — startled into heightened perception.”
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“I had become a suit, and I vowed to myself, if not anyone else, I would never forget movies were made on cavernous stages and dusty streets all over the world; not in the corporate tower where my old boss had held sway.
What of my old boss? The guitar-strumming scion of the old Hollywood family had decamped the area for the trout streams of Montana... I do get distracted sometimes. Please forgive me. What was it I meant to say? Oh, yes. I remember. In Hollywood employees are contractually obligated not to squeal on social media about the internal workings of the dream factory.”
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Night falls on the red roofs of California. Sweet dreams.
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What am I hiding? A spider bite! Do I hide much in the pages of my new Hollywood novel? Nothing you won’t have fun trying to figure out...
“Late in the summer following my sophomore year, I was living in the Beverly Hills home of a blonde former figure skater. She had met Mr. Major Movie Star on a commercial promoting California cheese...arguably a metaphor for something.”
There are more pages up on the blog today, link in the profile.
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See what’s unfurling on the blog, it might be a new #Hollywood novel...
“Life never is a simple linear narrative; it’s too messy and senseless. On the other hand a memoir, no, make that a novel (a much less contentious prospect) is an attempt to resolve the random acts of a life and give them meaning — put them into some sort of context. Whether this reads as simply an insider chronicle of a life lived in Hollywood or another of those cautionary tales about the same, I’ll leave to you, gentle reader, my unknown confidant.”
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“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like “the Cleveland Chicken,” sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are.”
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I picked up a sweet #volume of short stories in the new year, continuing my #love affair with fictional Manhattan.
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Traveling SW I promised @heybillkuhn I’d take pictures... Over breakfast in the dining car I learned how to bet the horses. Sharing a meal with people I’ve never met is now one of my favorite things to do.
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So relaxing watching the country roll by, thinking about what to make for Christmas dinner back home. #Pavlova? #ChocolateMousse? For recipes check out the link in the profile.
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Hey, darling – that one was for you – I’m so glad you liked it 🙂
I do! Thank you!
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In my love of all things old, hollywood and relating to photography. This hit the jackpot. I had to share.
Absolutely lovely. Thank you.
Isn’t it? That protective, intensely loving, stance – it just blew me away.
Aye, it is unreservedly stunning. xoxo
There is something in his posture and the way he’s holding the baby that I recognized – and it almost brought me to tears. Good tears. xoxoxox!
Dearest V
What amazing eyes that infant has!
And papa’s hair’s quite something too….
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
It’s an incredible portrait – the kind that captures the essence of fatherhood. I love it.
Joining in the chorus of approval; that is gorgeous. He looks so protective and the baby is so vulnerable. Beautiful find, Vickie.
Personally, I think it’s probably the most captivating image I’ve found… Thanks, George!
Her name was Diana and her autobiography (made into a film in 1958 by Warner Bros. staring Dorothy Malone and Errol Flynn) was titled “Too Much Too Soon”. Also in the “Bad and the Beautiful” (1952) Lana Turner’s character, Georgia Lorrison is based on Diana Barrymore.
Diana Barrymore who died January 25, 1960 – an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. She was just 38. So sad.
So lovely. I gasped when I saw it.
Me too!
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I have a very similar photo of my father holding me! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2pV7W163p9s/Ub0yRx3T4xI/AAAAAAAAMVs/7F1n55-mNc8/s640/DadNMe.jpg
What a beautiful photo! Thank you, it makes my heart swell!