These are stills from the set of AUNTIE MAME (1958) – fabulous art direction for which Malcolm C. Bert was nominated for Academy Award. Recently, Jonathan Adler credited the designs of Mr. Bert as a major influence on his own work.
So, that’s the movie which people seem to either love or roll their eyes at, personally I tend toward love. However, there’s no arguing the book, by Patrick Dennis, is a giggling roar of a fun fest. Definitely worth digging out…not on your shelf? Go to the library! Do I hear the words instant gratification? Well then, little love, click here.
Really enjoying your just discovered blog! Will have to look for this film.
One of my favorite movies and it’s a treat to see the set. Thanks!
My favorite are the elevator couches by Yul Ulu!
I forgot to say, they are so easy to vacuum under.
I have to look up Yul Ulu now! We are attempting to put up a 1950’s headboard… A chore because beds were lower then minus pillow tops. Hoisting this thing up six inches above where the legs reach and putting it on mirror hangers. Oof!!!
Oof…! Ah yes Oof Ulu the brother of Yul who was a gardener at Upson Downs.
You got me! The brothers Yul Ulu, Oof, and Olaf 😉
It was supposed to be ostentatious and over the top but it looks downright conservative compared to the Taj Mahals of Beverly Hills today.
Isn’t that the truth!
right up my street 😀
Love that coffee table of yours, and the only Adler designs I have are coffee mugs, must rectify that soon…
Do you know 1st Dibs? Best selection of vintage furniture online…
Love this movie, too. And when I was a kid I never realized something was a “set.” I thought it was “real.”
It’s just a little less sturdy than real, and I can tell you that a lot of the time, somehow, the very real furniture ends up in the newly decorated home of some bigwig. The self-same bigwig who screeches about budget overages…
Hahaha. I am sure that is true!
*melt*
I have at least picked up the book for myself (the cover is a riot all by itself), but then fell into Middlemarch, where I am hopelessly mired ’til the end. Even so, this whets my appetite! 😉
You’re going to be totally shocked at my photographic memory… Look at the coffee table in your second picture- now look at this: http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/coffee-tables-cocktail-tables/pair-neo-classical-mirrored-silver-plated-french-cocktail-side-tables/id-f_878495/
I mentioned 1stdibs to a friend who does production design and he said he uses them all the time! What a resource, thank you!
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who needs libraries? there’s vickie lester’s beguiling hollywood, ever heard of that? 😉
Libraries are my HOLY place, treasures vast and beyond measure, knowledge so deep I cannot comprehend… 🙂 .
I was kidding 🙂 I grew up with/among/under books! I’m the Mowgli of the book jungle!
you’ll be thrilled to know that once we finished Rosalind’s autobiography we drove it over to the little free library at an elementary school garden in sort of echo park/silver lake area (with a bag of other books ready to share) and stocked up the empty shelves:
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I love hearing that! And, you will have to instruct me how to see the photo 😉 .
Where ever did you get these old photos of the apartment I grew up in at No. 3 Beekman Place?
I am with you on the love for our Auntie Mame.
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