Tag: Hollywood

November 28, 2014 /

It has a lot to do with the weather, but decorating for the holidays in Los Angeles has always struck me as a little freaky – 1929

November 27, 2014 /

Reprise: Thanksgiving Los Angeles Style

1934, turkey shoot at the Elysian Park Police Academy — that’s the first image. The second image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. — as chefs prepared Thanksgiving dinner. I remember once when my family was living overseas scoring a turkey (which was hard to come by)…

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November 25, 2014 /

Reprise: Thanksgiving at the Hollywood Canteen with Dinah Shore

November 25, 2014 /

Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, and Olivia de Havilland at the Hollywood Canteen

November 18, 2014 /

Reprise: Something autumnal I whipped up one blazing hot 4th of July

November 17, 2014 /

FRED MACMURRAY and LILLIAN LAMONT and their COLONIAL REVIVAL HOME

Mr. Un-Modern Fred MacMurray LOST L.A. Modesty, simplicity and constancy were the themes in the actor’s traditional Brentwood home. October 01, 2011 Sam Watters . Fred MacMurray was a 26-year-old, square-jawed guy from Beaver Dam, Wis., when he became a Hollywood star, signing a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1934.…

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November 15, 2014 /

Married on Thanksgiving Day, 1927, Silent Star Louise Fazenda and Producer Hal B. Wallis

November 14, 2014 /

The Elizabeth Taylor Salad at the MGM Commissary

Now then, if you were working at MGM in the late 1950s or early 1960s this is what was on the menu — wait, we’ll start with an aerial view of the studio: Okay, now the menu: . . .
November 7, 2014 /

Garbo swam naked in Palm Springs…

…Edmund Goulding, the director, invited me for a weekend at his desert retreat above Palm Springs. I arrived hot and dusty after a long drive and Goulding pointed the way to his swimming pool in the palm trees below. “Go and cool off,” he ordered. As I neared the pool…

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November 6, 2014 /

“If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is…” Greta Garbo