fashion – Page 12 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

…”By golly, I’m alive, all right. and I do live in France, and not under but on top of solid Parisian limestone. Furthermore, I speak First Class Foreign French, and if I’ve stunned you into immobility by all this startling information, you just keep seated and keep quiet, and I’ll…

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“Come to work on time, know your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.” Spencer Tracy

“I don’t take the movies seriously, and anybody who does is in for a headache,” Bette Davis

“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” Billie Holiday

“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” Louis Armstrong

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” Ella Fitzgerald

Diana Vreeland got her start working for Carmel Snow at Harper’s Bazaar…

Carmel Snow, high society gal with an eye for genius, became editor of Harper’s Bazaar, after a stint with Condé Nast at Vogue…

Carmel Snow, legendary fashion editor, mixes with Hollywood and goes to the beach with Martin Munkacsi in 1933…

Olivia de Havilland turns 100, “I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.”

I am attracted by almost any French word – written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought “saucisson” so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child – until I learned it meant “sausage”! Olivia de Havilland