Tag: Hollywood

October 3, 2014 /

David Selznick’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ Has Its Long-Awaited Premiere at Astor and Capitol, Recalling Civil War and Plantation Days of South–Seen as Treating Book With Great Fidelity – NYTimes.com

Movie Review Gone With the Wind (1939) THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; David Selznick’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ Has Its Long-Awaited Premiere at Astor and Capitol, Recalling Civil War and Plantation Days of South–Seen as Treating Book With Great Fidelity By FRANK S. NUGENT Published: December 20, 1939 Understatement has its…

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October 2, 2014 /

William Holden and Audrey Hepburn smile over supper – behind the scenes on Sabrina

October 2, 2014 /

Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland dine with chopsticks

October 2, 2014 /

Alfred Hitchcock cleans his plate

September 30, 2014 /

Rise and shine with Vickie Lester

– The Mister had to do a complicated reboot to his computer last night because it’s been giving him troubles. Part of the process was an overnight download that he would only know worked when he woke in the morning. – It appeared to have worked and then I heard…

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September 25, 2014 /

Madonna lived here – and caused a stir in Beachwood Canyon

Designed by John De Laurio for real estate developer Patrick M. Longan and completed in 1926: . . The history: Castillo del Lago: Bugsy Siegel’s Former House, and Madonna’s Too | Under the Hollywood Sign. The Pykta version: Photography and Website by Richard Horn – Negative Altitude Photography.
September 25, 2014 /

Hollywood style – Eleanor Boardman and King Vidor – 1929

King Vidor escorts his wife, actress Eleanor Boardman, to the premiere of “Marianne” in 1929: This is the house architect Wallace Neff designed for them – it was completed in 1928: laniersmith What a beautiful couple! The house looks amazing. Is that an outdoor fireplace? Hope the house is still…

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September 18, 2014 /

Quote For The Day By Christopher Isherwood About LA via The Dish

September 18, 2014 /

Author Chandler Burr wrote a novel all about Hollywood (and gives some insight on why we write)

September 16, 2014 /

Cecil B. DeMille, a.k.a., Papa Hollywood…

While we credit David Wark Griffith with creating the visual language of filmmaking in America – the father of Hollywood as a cultural force, a purveyor of dreams, a life style – is Cecil B. DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959). In the teens DeMille came West with…

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