Tag: behind the scenes

December 15, 2015 /

Rita Hayworth… So not anywhere near snow

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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November 29, 2015 /

Lucille Ball takes to the ice!

November 29, 2015 /

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. *

November 7, 2015 /

“You see, I am still a bit of a tomboy. Most hostesses disapprove of this trousered attitude to life, so I do not inflict it upon them.” Greta Garbo

October 29, 2015 /

“Of all the people who make up a movie production unit, the cameraman is the only one who can call himself a free soul.” Behind the scenes of Wuthering Heights with Gregg Toland

October 28, 2015 /

Edith Head, who was born Oct. 28th, 1897, was married to Wiard Ihnen – Production Designer

Even Google got into the act today with Miss Edith’s birthday: They lived in a wonderful house called, Casa Ladera…

October 24, 2015 /

Halloween Kids – 1925 – Hollywood

October 24, 2015 /

“Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won’t last when civilization comes this way.” James Whale

Production Design: Charles D. Hall, Direction: James Whale

September 15, 2015 /

Ask me anything—within reason—and a post from long ago while I get some things sorted