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August 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Fifties – Jane Russell

May 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tom Ewell remembers The Seven Year Itch

A comedic everyman who played foil to the bombshells of an era recounts what happened that night in New York when they shot the famous subway scene. .

March 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Kim Novak, Liza Minnelli, and June Squibb at the Oscars: How Hollywood treats aging actresses.

Look, babies. Nothing to be frightened of. This is how we grow old gracefully. I give you Gladys Cooper. From bombshell of the teens to Henry Higgins’s mother in “My Fair Lady” (with one short stop in middle-age in between). The whole furor over various older actress at the Academy…

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December 22, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Tag: bombshell

The Fifties – Jane Russell

Tom Ewell remembers The Seven Year Itch

Kim Novak, Liza Minnelli, and June Squibb at the Oscars: How Hollywood treats aging actresses.

A Sophia Loren Christmas – everything you see I owe to spaghetti