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“She can’t act. She can’t talk. She’s terrific. Sign her!” Louis B. Mayer

May 27, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors • Tags: #itsinhiskissbyvickielester, Artie Shaw, Ava Gardner, beauty, candid, Frank Sinatra, Louis B. Mayer, man-eater, memoirs, MGM, MGM kids, Mickey Rooney, Peter Evans, She can't act, She can't talk, She's terrific, Sign her, signed with MGM in 1941, taped conversations, the secret conversations, unfinished memoirs

I Tried Greta Garbo’s Strange, Horrifying Diet – The Cut

May 2, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Oh, my darlings — you must click on the great big letters at the bottom of this post and let Ms. Harrington regale you with the details of this diet. She is wonderfully funny! By Rebecca Harrington In the thirties, famously reclusive actress Greta Garbo met self-described “doctor of natural science” (i.e., doctor of nothing) Gayelord Hauser, nutritionist to the stars. They reportedly hit it off, which is saying a lot, because Garbo had very few friends, hated going out, […]

Categories: Art, Books, Cooking, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Gastronomy, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Movies, Photography, Truth & Rumors • Tags: actress, behind the scenes, diet, diets, fad, fashion, film, GayelordHauser, Greta Garbo, GretaGarbo, GretaGarboSwamNaked, history, Hollywood, humor, Louis B. Mayer, LouisbMayer, MaeWest, NYmag, OldHollywood, PalmBeach, photography, RebeccaHarrington, recluse, yogurt

“Louis B. Mayer was the most clever, ruthless, smart character that you would never want to know. All those guys were – Harry Cohn, Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner – believe me, they weren’t dumb. They were the czars of the industry – and they had no mercy.” Lena Horne

April 22, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: behind the scenes in Hollywood, czars of the industry - and they had no mercy, Harry Cohn, Jack Warner, Lena Horne on the studio system, Louis B. Mayer, Schuyler Crail still photographer for Warner Bros.

Second Act for the Temple of the Stars – NYTimes.com

September 3, 2013 by Vickie Lester

A few pictures, long ago, of Wilshire Blvd. and the temple: By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: August 18, 2013 LOS ANGELES — It was known as the Temple of the Stars: a soaring sanctuary capped by a 100-foot-wide Byzantine dome, built by Hollywood moguls on the eve of the Depression and splashed with the kind of pizazz one might expect at a movie palace rather than a synagogue. From the minute one walks into the grand sanctuary of the Wilshire Temple, […]

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, News, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: architecture, art deco, Art Director, artistic statement, behind the scenes, Byzantine dome, Classic Movies, design, entertainment, film, graven images, High Holy Days, Historic, history, Hollywood, hollywood art, hollywood moguls, Hugo Ballin, Irving Thalberg, Los Angeles, Louis B. Mayer, murals, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New York Times, Old Hollywood, photography, Temple of the Stars, The Wiltern, under construction, Warner Bros., Wilshire Blvd., Wilshire Boulevard Temple

COME FLY WITH ME

August 16, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, London, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Music, New York, Paris, Photography, Relationships, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: 1951, airplane, American Airlines, aviation, Come Fly With Me, crooner, Errol Flynn, fashion of the fifties, fly, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra live, honeymoon, Lorena Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, Missy Chandler, nightclub, Otis Chandler, Pan American, Pat Wymore, song, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, travel, TWA

BILLY WILDER TELLS LOUIS B. MAYER TO F-HIMSELF

February 23, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Via my friend Martin: Sat, February 23, 2013 2:31:06 PM Sunset Boulevard – At Oscar time I thought we could use a Billy Wilder comment! Martin In Hollywood, Paramount arranged a private screening for the various studio heads and specially invited guests. ” Louis B. Mayer berated Wilder before the crowd of celebrities, saying, “You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you! You should be tarred and feathered and run out of Hollywood!” Wilder’s reply to Mayer’s response […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Crime, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, behind the scenes, Billy Wilder, celebrities, Classic Movies, disgrace, film, film industry, guests, history, Hollywood, humor, Los Angeles, Louis B. Mayer, Old Hollywood, private screening, studio heads, Sunset Blvd., tarred and feathered

SS CAROLE LOMBARD – JANUARY 15, 1944

January 25, 2013 by Vickie Lester

A bereaved Clark Gable looks on as Irene Dunne christens the ship with Louis B. Mayer looking on, the date commemorated the second anniversary of Carole Lombard’s record breaking bond drive for WWII.

Categories: Culture, Design, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Travel • Tags: 1942, 1944, Advertising, bond drive, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Elegiac, Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Dunne, Jack Benny, last film, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Stack, Romantic Comedy, To Be Or Not To Be, United Artists, war bonds, WWII

IRENE MAYER SELZNICK

January 13, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Her diary from her teen years includes comments on films she saw at MGM previews. These journal entries reveal Irene to have been perceptive and frank in her observations – even at 17. Her take on Romola (1924): “…L. Gish good as always but didn’t make the most of her opportunities – leading male part should not have been the villain – not enough love interest.” In her book Irene writes that it amused her father to ask her opinion […]

Categories: Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Palm Springs, Parenting, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized • Tags: Broadway Producer, David O. Selznick, Harry Rapf, Irene Mayer Selznick, Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, MGM, Movie Mogul, Movie Producer, Old Hollywood, The Lady Eve's Reel Life

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