Category: Friendship

March 19, 2013 / Vickie Lester

UNITED ARTISTS

The founders: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith

March 16, 2013 / Vickie Lester

READERS ROCK – AND THESE ARE FOR YOU – THANKS FOR BEING EVER SO, V

March 16, 2013 / Vickie Lester

AN INTERESTING EXCHANGE BETWEEN YOURS TRULY AND A DELIGHTFUL READER

Q: You’ve intrigued me with your comment on blogging, I wonder what you *thought* it’d be? A: Hm! Got a minute? No, seriously I’ll try to be succinct. Blogging is completely different than I expected. In a way it strikes me as belonging to another era, like a bunch of…

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March 12, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THE FIRST TIME EDITH HEAD WORKED FOR CECIL B. – EDIBLE DRESSES

Edith Head worked on some 780 films either assisting or designing. I believe this silent film was one of the first – the ladies are part of some decadent jazz age tale and their dresses are bedecked with marshmallows! “The Golden Bed” (1925) This is in reply to: Bohemian rhapsody……

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March 10, 2013 / Vickie Lester

DAVID NIVEN’S FIRST “REAL” MOVIE ROLE – STARRING CLAUDETTE COLBERT AND GARY COOPER

First of all, hats off to one of my favorite blogs: The Automat | In which the unqualified gentleman looks at art. And, thank you Mr. Whittington for reminding me about Mr. Niven’s wonderful autobiography. Ernst Lubitsch… wanted me to start immediately at Paramount in a very good part in…

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March 1, 2013 / Vickie Lester

VICKIE LESTER ON A SHORT HIATUS

My angels, this has been a whack-a-do year… And, I am going to take a short break from blogging to confer with the publishers of my… ro·man à clef /rōˌmän ä ˈklā/ Noun A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. If I were still young…

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February 27, 2013 / Vickie Lester

CELEBRATING AT CIRO’S – 1952 – NANCY DAVIS, RONALD REAGAN, JEANNE AND DEAN MARTIN

February 23rd, 1952. Nancy Davis, and her soon to be husband, Ronald Reagan, at Ciro’s celebrating with Jeanne and Dean Martin. The menu: . .

February 23, 2013 / Vickie Lester

A MYSTIFYING PICTURE OF JOANNE WOODWARD AT THE 30th ACADEMY AWARDS

Here’s the dealio – these Oscars are heavy. At first glance there’s no way she can be toting the statuette around with that delicate gloved grip of hers, especially with a cigarette between her fingers. Look closely: That’s John Wayne, the presenter of the Oscar standing behind her, immediately after…

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February 22, 2013 / Vickie Lester

SWING TIME AND THE INESTIMABLE: HERMES PAN

Hermes Pan choreographed everything from “Swing Time” in 1936 to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” (including the spectacle – dancers, warriors, witch doctor’s, elephants, and zebras – that was Cleopatra’s procession into Rome). Pictured above with Ginger Rogers, he was a soft-spoken gregarious man who was loved by his dancers. Recently a…

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