Tag: birthday cake

December 12, 2018 / Vickie Lester

A holiday kiss from grandmother to mother to daughter to you – our recipe for Pavlova…

Or as we gals call it — Schaum Torte. That’s my mom. She made a show stopping dessert and here’s the recipe: First of all preheat your oven to 275 degrees, then cut up a large brown paper bag and line a baking sheet. Now separate 6 six eggs. (Put…

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September 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Shirley Maclaine celebrates Maurice Chevalier’s birthday with Louis Jordan (1959)

What can I say? I’ll restrain myself and just remark that this was taken on the set of the movie, “Can Can” in 1959. The cake is in celebration of Maurice Chevalier’s seventy-first birthday.

January 22, 2013 / Vickie Lester

HOLLYWOOD AND FDR

Zachary Scott; Eddie Bracken; Van Johnson; Margaret O’Brien; Diana Lynn; Angela Lansbury; Paul Henreid; Alexis Smith; Reginald Gardiner; unidentified woman on their way to FDR’s birthday, January 28th, 1946. Photographer: Abbie Rowe FDR’s Birthday 1945, who can you spot? 1944, there’s John Garfield and…

September 6, 2012 / Vickie Lester

FDR IN HOLLYWOOD

Shirley Temple and Eddie Cantor cut President Roosevelt’s birthday cake: The President’s motorcade through downtown Los Angeles: The President addresses Los Angeles: