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“If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.” Bette Davis

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by Vickie Lester on September 4, 2017
Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: #amwriting another novel about Hollywood, #itsinhiskissbyvickielester, Bette Davis, Bette Davis once posed nude, forever friends and Hollywood, if you want a thing well done get a couple of old broads to do it, Lillian Gish, lillian gish bette davis the whales of august, we all have a scandalous past

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← Before I could read I used to leaf through everything in the house that had illustrations, which ranged from Harry the Dirty Dog, to The Divine Comedy.

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can’t take it all in at once.” Audrey Hepburn →

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First Night Design

Love it! And I’m so glad it’s Gish and not Crawford.

September 4, 2017 at 8:31 am

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- Vickie Lester
  
  Love Gish, from Silents all the way to The Whales of August…amazing.
  
  September 4, 2017 at 8:55 am
  
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  - First Night Design
    
    Absobloominlutely!
    
    September 4, 2017 at 9:02 am

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