Category: Sports

January 2, 2021 / Vickie Lester

Episode 33. Hollywood is very pretty, but people grow old here — not outside, but inside.

There were heaps — accumulated reminders of a life — all around. Everything that served as an archival asset, or a teaching aid for future filmmakers, I boxed and hauled over to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Clothes, I donated. Books, I culled down to the essentials…

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November 29, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Lucille Ball takes to the ice!

November 29, 2015 / Vickie Lester

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

* 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. *

August 23, 2015 / Vickie Lester

JEAN HARLOW ENJOYS A GAME OF BADMINTON

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

June 6, 2015 / Vickie Lester

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

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…

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May 27, 2015 / Vickie Lester

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

February 1, 2015 / Vickie Lester

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!

December 29, 2014 / Vickie Lester

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

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…

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December 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Ginger Rogers fly fishing on her ranch in Oregon

November 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

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

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…

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