Tag: Oscar
June 7, 2013 /

YOUNG AT HEART – FRANK SINATRA

I was trying to figure out the Rat Pack’s enduring appeal, for men, let’s face it, predominantly men — at first I thought it had to do with nostalgia, and then I remembered an incident from my youth. My dad (truly a father of another era) took a friend and…

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June 4, 2013 /

CARY GRANT AT THE OSCARS – THE SAME YEAR AS SUSPICION – NOMINATED FOR PENNY SERENADE

June 4, 2013 /

CARY GRANT – THAT JE NE SAIS PAS – SUSPICION

June 4, 2013 /

GRANT, FONTAINE, AND HITCHCOCK ON SUSPICION

March 1, 2013 /

VICKIE LESTER ON A SHORT HIATUS

My angels, this has been a whack-a-do year… And, I am going to take a short break from blogging to confer with the publishers of my… ro·man à clef   /rōˌmän ä ˈklā/ Noun A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. If I were still young…

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February 23, 2013 /

A MYSTIFYING PICTURE OF JOANNE WOODWARD AT THE 30th ACADEMY AWARDS

February 23, 2013 /

JOANNE WOODWARD AND PAUL NEWMAN AT THE GOVERNORS BALL – 1958

Married just a couple of months before:

February 23, 2013 /

JOANNE WOODWARD WINS BEST ACTRESS – 1958

The moment – captured by LIFE magazine:

February 20, 2013 /

ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CLEOPATRA

Rumor has it David Fincher has the rights to Stacy Schiff’s, “Cleopatra: a Life”- by the way, an excellent read. But, back in the early sixties the most expensive film ever produced was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by the formerly gun toting Walter Wagner. http://vickielester.com/?s=darling%2C+please+don%27t+shoot+my+agent It was a…

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December 6, 2012 /

DISNEY MEETS OSCAR IN 1932

A lot’s been written, positive and negative, on the man and the company – I’m not going to add to that stew – I’ll just say before there was a multinational fully diversified corporation – there was a young man with talent and ambition and organizational aptitude.