BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD Posts

December 12, 2015 /

How the stars shine…Barbara Stanwyck, photographed by George Hurrell

December 10, 2015 /

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notes on writers and studio heads in Hollywood, for “The Love of the Last Tycoon”

December 9, 2015 /

“You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.” Jane Fonda

December 9, 2015 /

“I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.” Natalie Wood

December 9, 2015 /

“My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on.” Marilyn Monroe

December 6, 2015 /

I. Magnin, Yves Saint Laurent, and the art of growing up my mother’s daughter

December 6, 2015 /

Art Deco Los Angeles – Bullock’s Wilshire

Bullock’s Wilshire was the first department store designed to accommodate the car. Huge artfully dressed windows faced the street to attract traffic and the entrance was in the back under a porte-cochere where liveried attendants parked your Nash or Packard. Architects John and Donald Parkinson – built 1929 – architectural…

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December 5, 2015 /

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Elizabeth Taylor

The fifties, when a certain young miss turned into queen bee – and deservedly so…

December 5, 2015 /

Elizabeth Taylor washing up…

Didn’t we all have chores? Except mine weren’t professionally photographed… . .

December 5, 2015 /

Elizabeth Taylor and Me, by Lanier Smith

Over my lifetime I leaned many things from Elizabeth Taylor. I learned how to face life straight on and survive the hard times. I learned that it was a blessing to be different. I learned that kindness and honesty and being the real you brings unexpected rewards. I learned by…

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