If you’re new around here I’ll let you in on the drill. At Beguiling Hollywood I post pictures and historical tidbits, and often that leads me right back to talking about myself. This fall finds me in Boston where my husband, the Mister, is working on a movie and…
Here I am, sitting on the couch, pondering this post — considering doing something on the photo that inspired my novel — self referential to a degree of great ickiness… Perhaps. I’ll see if I can make it palatable, or not. I like to TALK with people about the process,…
I thought I was going to lay low blog-wise while I was recuperating, but I had to blurt this one out. First a disclaimer; Dusty Anderson (model who married a director) pictured here in some kind of fifties romper in front of a Los Angeles oil field — is not…
Constance B. was a firecracker – married five times, the fifth in 1946 to US Air Force Colonel Theron John Coulter stuck. She was awarded military honors for her work on behalf of the Occupying Forces and the Berlin Airlift. I love this photo of her dancing during the 1940s…
The great erotic moment in “Vertigo” is the one where the man kisses the woman of his fantasy, while the room whirls around him. There is a parallel scene in “Notorious,” and it was famous at the time as “the longest kiss in the history of the movies.” It was…
Let me just say, when you’re scheduling your posts and you slot in something for August 32nd, you know you’re perimenopausal. If, when getting ready for an evening out, and after you squint at your face in the mirror to bring your lipsticked visage into focus you are shocked to…