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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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#We’llAlwaysHaveParis

March 12, 2015 by Vickie Lester

#ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors “I’ve been to Paris, France, and I’ve been to Paris, Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.” Ernst Lubitsch Translation: my life is film Okay, he’s one of the best, most diverse, directors there ever was… But this about sums it up about the mindset of the director. He just wasn’t afraid to say it. Director, Michael Curtiz to newbie David Niven, “You think you know f*ck everything and I know f*ck nothing. Well let me tell you, I know f*ck […]

Categories: Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies • Tags: #ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors, #We'llAlwaysHaveParis, Casblanca, directors, Ernst Lubitsch, ErnstLubitsch, Michael Curtiz, Ninotchka

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It’s Magic… Doris Day

August 29, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, Photography, Romance, Travel, Uncategorized • Tags: Busby Berkeley, Don DeFore, Doris Day, It's Magic, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Jule Styne, Michael Curtiz, Romance on the High Seas, Sammy Cahn, Technicolor musical romantic comedy

Sometimes in Hollywood only a drink will do…

June 19, 2014 by Vickie Lester

I’m not advocating intemperance – but… – –

Categories: Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: "Casablanca", bar, Bette Davis, bottle, Brian Aherne, bubbly, Cary Grant, Dark Victory, Everything Happens at Rick's, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, get your drink on, hit the bottle, Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Curtiz, movie still, nightclub, Old Hollywood, Pandro S. Berman, Ronald Reagan, Sylvia Scarlett

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Make-believe, love and regret, Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn

November 16, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Olivia de Havilland, co-star in eight Flynn films: “He was a charming and magnetic man, but so tormented. I had a crush on him, and later I found he did for me. In fact, he proposed, but he was not divorced from Lili Damita so it was just as well that I said no.” “Years later,” de Havilland continued, “I had an unhappy experience in Hollywood. A tall man kissed me on the back of the neck at a party […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: 1938, actor, actress, behind the scenes, Classic Movies, design, director, Errol Flynn, fashion, 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

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CAPTAIN BLOOD

July 22, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Late notice my darlings, but if you’re in the Los Angeles area there’s a showing of CAPTAIN BLOOD this evening at 5:30 pm at the Egyptian Theater with a panel discussion on pirate films to follow. http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/captain-blood-0 Bonus, if you want to spend a hot afternoon at the theater Martin Donovan’s COLLABORATOR starts at 4:00. http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/collaborator-4 Gripping followed by swashbuckling!

Categories: Culture, Design, Entertainment, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, News, Uncategorized • Tags: Art Directors, Bill Taliaferro, CAPTAIN BLOOD, COLLABORATOR, David Morse, Errol Flynn, John Dexter, John Myhre, Martin Donovan, Michael Curtiz, Nathan Schroeder, Tom Walsh