When I was young (the year was 1989) I got to see Ella Fitzgerald at the Hollywood Bowl – I’d never heard her before, and I was enchanted. I think she must have been in her eighties and at one point she stepped too far and stumbled off the stage…
Category: History
I don’t want to post pictures of the exterior because it’s been modified, and quelle surprise, I don’t like it. But, this living room with furniture designed by the architect and lake views is fabulous.
April 18th, 1961 Elizabeth Taylor arrives at the Academy Awards in a gown designed by Dior with her husband Eddie Fisher: Best Actor to Burt Lancaster for “Elmer Gantry, and Best Actress to Elizabeth Taylor for “Butterfield 8”:
Leon Shamroy – Oscar for color cinematography: . . James Wong Howe – Oscar for black and white cinematography: . . Winners with Jimmy Stewart at the 1964 awards ceremony: .
“His Girl Friday” starring Rosiland Russell and Cary Grant: Hildy Johnson: Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee: There ain’t going to be any interview and there ain’t going to be any story. And that certified check of yours is leaving with me in twenty minutes. I wouldn’t cover the burning…
Okay, this is my excuse for cracking out of the mold tonight. I’ve spent my life around people who either made movies or built things and the underlying structure of this 1924 house is so methodical and beautiful and process intensive I had to share. Oh, and by the way…
The Beatles landing at LAX – they played the Hollywood Bowl in August of 1964 and 1965: . August 24, 1964 — the day after the Hollywood Bowl — at a Bel-Air rental: