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“Art may spill over from creating a world of language into the dangerous and forbidden task of trying to create a human being.”

February 26, 2018 by Vickie Lester

INTERVIEWER There’s a passage in one of your books in which you and Auden are on a train, and you’re savagely attacking religion, and he says: “Be careful, my dear, if you carry on like that, one day you’ll have such a conversion.” Do you think of it in those terms, as a conversion? ISHERWOOD Yes. I rather think so. I went through all sorts of attitudes to it. There was a period when I thought I might become a […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: A24, Christopher Isherwood, director, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Lady Bird screenplay, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, screenwriter, W H Auden

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“All about a funny, loving, lovable pair of movie stars that you just knew would be the perfect next door neighbors…if only I could have figured a way to get to Bel Air!” Lanier Smith

January 27, 2018 by Vickie Lester

laniersmith When I was a glamorous little boy in retched Fontana…the boy who lived in the pink house on Orchid Street. I lived for summer time when in the flattening heat of the Santa Ana winds I would curl up under the swamp cooler in the den and watch re-runs on TV all day long. One of my absolute favorites was “Mr. Adams And Eve”. With with real life married stars Howard Duff and Ida Lupino playing reel life movie […]

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: comedy, director, funny valentine, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Lanier Smith, Lucille Ball television pioneer, marriage, Mr Adam and Eve, retro, sitcom

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My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England – I was going to play all the sweet roles…

January 23, 2018 by Vickie Lester

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. Ida Lupino Is it any wonder she turned to directing? In an era, I might add, when that was a nearly impossible career choice for a woman. Have times changed? Not much. The percentage of women directing films and TV now is under 10 percent. Will times change? Darlings, that is inevitable. Back to glorious Ida Lupino, born of a long line of […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: #amwriting another novel about Hollywood, behind the camera, behind the scenes, Catholic school, Claudette Colbert, comedy, composer Jerry Goldsmith, director, film noir, Gypsy Rose Lee, Hayley Mills, Ida Lupino, June Harding, Rosiland Russell, screenwriter, second woman in the DGA, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir TV series, The Trouble with Angels

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Jack Lemmon talks about Marilyn Monroe — Some Like it Hot

March 29, 2017 by Vickie Lester

On Marilyn Monroe: Jack Lemmon — I liked her very much and I got along great with her. She had a lot of problems, she was basically an unhappy girl. She drove Billy and Tony crazy, she drove me a little crazy too but I didn’t let on and it didn’t bother me as much as it bothered them, and it was almost always the same thing: the lateness. She had a problem, God knows what it was. (She just […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Music, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, alcohol, Barbara Diamond, behind the scenes, Billy Wilder, celebrities, Classic Movies, dancing, director, dressing room, drugs, edited by Alison Castle, fashion, film, history, Hollywood, humor, I.A.L. Diamond, interviews by Dan Auiler, Jack Lemmon, Los Angeles, make-up, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Star, Old Hollywood, on set, Orry-Kelly, photography, SOME LIKE IT HOT, Taschen, Tony Curtis, Walter Mirisch, wardrobe

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The Shop Around the Corner…at Christmas

December 25, 2016 by Vickie Lester

A.O. Scott of the New York Times makes a glowing Christmas pick: . In a second I’ll tell you why this particular film fills me with a sense of Christmas well being… It is near the close of the film, Christmas Eve, as the stage is set for the wonderful resolution you saw above… But, if you listen very carefully, before the tender ending, as Stewart and Sullavan prepare to lock the doors and shut off the store lights… You […]

Categories: Art, Christmas, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Writing • Tags: "The Shop Around the Corner", A.O. Scott, at home on set, behind the scenes, best wishes from Vickie Lester, Christmas, Christmas Film Pick, Classic Movies, comedy, director, Ernst Lubitsch, film, hear direction, history, Hollywood, James Stewart, keep rolling, Los Angeles, Margaret Sullavan, Movie Classic, New York Times, photography, romance, sparkling dialogue, tender, well being, when behind the scenes ends up on film

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A little unsolicited advice on love… with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn

July 1, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Even if you’re fighting with your beloved, the point is never to lose connection. Sometimes, even in heated debate, the Mr. and I find we’re still touching, and there’s not a damn thing make-believe about that. No matter what is said, it helps…

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: 1938, actor, actress, behind the scenes, Classic Movies, dame, design, director, Errol Flynn, fashion, fighting with your beloved, film, history, Hollywood, Los Angeles, love, make believe, Michael Curtiz, Old Hollywood, Olivia de Havilland, photography, regret, romance, Tasmanian Devil, Technicolor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, touch, unsolicited advice

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A Soul in Ten Million… another #lastory by Vickie Lester

June 20, 2016 by Vickie Lester

David Benton spent a not inconsiderable stretch of years flitting from one architectural roost to another in search of perfect aesthetic repose. His first was a one-bedroom studio designed by Rudolph Schindler on a busy street in Silver Lake. It was noisy, a little shabby, but it had a pedigree, and ancestral lineage even of the bricks and mortar sort meant a lot to him. (You’ll notice I make no comment on snobbery, this was a part of him one simply […]

Categories: Advertising, Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Friendship, Gastronomy, History, Hollywood, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: #amwriting, #itsinhiskissbyvickielester, #lastory, director, Hollywood behind the scenes, Hollywood is a tight knit community, los angeles river, love, Vickie Lester is writing a new novel

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The lighter side of Alfred Hitchcock

June 2, 2016 by Vickie Lester

There are so many stories in Hollywood of his wit and humor – and there’s one mythic tale (and I’ve never seen the footage, so I’d have to say it was a myth) of Hitch dancing in a hula skirt for a home camera at a party with an idol painted on his swaying and prodigious belly. Well, as to dancing this is the best I could come up with. But, over at The Hitchcock Zone they’ve got the skinny…click […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Choreography, Culture, Design, Early Television, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: "Rear Window", "What's My Line", 1954, Alfred Hitchcock, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, cameo, celebrities, Classic Movies, dance, design, director, fashion, film, Grace Kelly, ham, history, Hollywood, hula, humor, James Stewart, Old Hollywood, photography, wit

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Stars of the 1950s – Sophia Loren

January 26, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Cooking, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, author, behind the scenes, Boy on a Dolphin, Carlo Ponti, Carlo Ponti charged with bigamy, Cary Grant, Classic Movies, cookbook, design, director, fashion, film, Frank Sinatra, George Cukor, Heller in Pink Tights, history, Hollywood, Houseboat, Los Angeles, married 1957, May December Romance, Movie Star, Naples, photography, Rome, Sophia Loren, The Pride and the Passion

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