Category Archives: Sports

Lucille Ball takes to the ice!

November 29, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Choreography, Christmas, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Memoir, New York, Photography, Sports, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, behind the scenes, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, design, Earl Theisen, fashion, film, Gary Cooper, getty images, history, Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman, Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball ice skating, Norma Shearer, photography, Rocky Cooper, ski, skiing, sport, Sun Valley, winter

Claudette Colbert skis Sun Valley, and who’s that tall drink of water? Why, it’s Gary Cooper

November 29, 2015 by Vickie Lester

* Claudette Colbert (1948) Sun Valley – photographed by Earl Theisen. Getty Images * click on the red letters * Earl Theisen, my dad: Daughter finds negatives of Marilyn, more. *

Categories: Blogging, Christmas, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Sports, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, behind the scenes, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, design, Earl Theisen, fashion, film, Gary Cooper, getty images, history, Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman, Norma Shearer, photography, Rocky Cooper, ski, skiing, sport, Sun Valley, winter

JEAN HARLOW ENJOYS A GAME OF BADMINTON

August 23, 2015 by Vickie Lester

I think this must have been a charity event at the Huntington Hartford Hotel in Pasadena: –

Categories: Art, Blogging, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Sports, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, architecture, art deco, Badminton, behind the scenes, birdie, celebrities, charity, Classic Movies, comedienne, design, fashion, film, history, Hollywood, humor, Huntington Hartford Hotel, Jean Harlow, Los Angeles, Movie Star, net, Old Hollywood, Pasadena, photography, platinum blonde, racquet, shuttlecock

Speaking of horse races, Barbara Stanwyck and Zeppo Marx owned a thoroughbred stable…

June 6, 2015 by Vickie Lester

On November 19, 1936, the Van Nuys News/Daily News article reported Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Farm New Valley Enterprise, “127 acres of the Porter Estate in North Los Angeles (Northridge) is purchased by a syndicate composed of actress Barbara Stanwyck, her agent Zeppo Marx and William S. Hart. Fifty of the finest Kentucky thoroughbred racers will be moved to the ranch as soon as quarters are provided for them”. This ranch was designed to be a thoroughbred breeding, boarding and training […]

Categories: Architecture, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Sports, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Stanwyck raised race horses, Belmont Stakes, horse races, Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Farm New Valley Enterprise, Marwyck Stables, Paul R. Williams designed Stanwyck's residence, William S. Hart, Zeppo Marx

PALM SPRINGS – THE POOL AT THE EDRIS HOUSE – PHOTO JULIUS SHULMAN – DESIGNED BY E. STEWART WILLIAMS

May 27, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, Gardening, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Photography, Sports, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Weather • Tags: #itsinhiskissbyvickielester, 1947, actor, actress, aesthetic, architectural photography, archtecture, Ava Gardner, B.E.L.T., behind the scenes, desert, E. Stewart WIlliams, film, Frank Sinatra, Frank SInatra home Palm Springs, history, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Julius Shulman, Los Angeles, mid-century, mid-century modern, modern architecture, Old Hollywood, Palm Springs, photography, pool, swimming pool, The Damned Don't Cry!, Toby Weiss

I know there’s some kind of activity today that involves feet, fancy dress, and frolics on a field…my favorite player? Mr. John Cleese!

February 1, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Movies, Sports, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: John Cleese plays soccer in costume for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Super Bowl Sunday

The bored and dissolute nightclub crowd – in many incarnations – ghosts of 1926

December 29, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Club Casa Del Mar opened in 1926 – Whoa – this image… The bored and dissolute nightclub crowd, the possibly under-age cigarette girl, the gentleman… or mobster center frame… Brushing the cobwebs away I can state the facts, the Casa Del Mar is now a luxury hotel, prior to that it was a rec center for enlisted men in WWII, the headquarters of Synanon (a bogus drug rehab program and later a disbanded “church”). Prior to it’s latest incarnation it […]

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, News, Photography, Relationships, Sports, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Architect Charles F. Plummer, behind the scenes, Club Casa Del Mar, ghosts of 1926, Lifeguard, mobster, nightclub, Renaissance Revival, The bored and dissolute nightclub crowd

Ginger Rogers fly fishing on her ranch in Oregon

December 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, Photography, Sports, Story, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized • Tags: fly fishing, Ginger Rogers fly fishing on her ranch in Oregon, GingerRogers, photographer Bob Landry

Reprise: Cooking with The Vile Harpy, or, Vickie Lester has a dinner party…

November 18, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Yes – I understand there’s a football game on Sunday. Do I know who’s playing? No. Do I know where they’re playing? No. In blissful ignorance I have been planning dinner parties and thinking about Los Angeles empty of crowds and where I’ll go on Sunday. The Kid and the Mister are thinking otherwise – but I’ve got one more day in the bubble and I’m throwing a party. Saturday’s Menu for Eight: Martinis with spiced nuts and marinated olives […]

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Cooking, Culture, Design, Entertaining, Entertainment, Gastronomy, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Recipes, Sports, Story • Tags: cooking, dinner, martinis, Menu, party, pasta tossed with apples celery cheese and prosciutto, Pear Tart, recipes, roast fennel and green beans in shallot vinagrette, spiced nuts, tomato garlic soup, Vickie Lester has a dinner party