Tag: pictures

May 29, 2014 /

The Irving J. Thalberg Building at MGM 1938-39: The Eastern Building – architectural rendering: The Eastern Building under construction in 1930: The Eastern Building – completed: The 9th and Broadway Building – completed 1929: The entrance to 9th and Broadway:

May 29, 2014 /

RKO

Famous for launching the careers of Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and the production of the Astaire-Rogers musicals… Oh, and a bunch of “B” movies… Located at the corner of Gower and Melrose…

August 28, 2013 /

From the marvelous short story, “A Toast to Ava Gardner”, by a friend of Miss Gardner’s, and author of, “I, Claudius”, Robert Graves: “Questioned about the monstrous legendary self which towers above her, Ava told us that she does everything possible to get out from under, though the publicity-boys and…

March 27, 2013 /

George Kaplan, a friend writes from somewhere in the British Isles: I was looking for somewhere to put this and well this piece seems not totally inappropriate because the extract at least begins with a quotation about L.A.’s winter light – “Robert Towne, who wrote the L.A. classics Chinatown and…

September 14, 2012 /

I don’t want to post pictures of the exterior because it’s been modified, and quelle surprise, I don’t like it. But, this living room with furniture designed by the architect and lake views is fabulous.

September 11, 2012 /

April 18th, 1961 Elizabeth Taylor arrives at the Academy Awards in a gown designed by Dior with her husband Eddie Fisher: Best Actor to Burt Lancaster for “Elmer Gantry, and Best Actress to Elizabeth Taylor for “Butterfield 8”:

September 8, 2012 /

The Beatles landing at LAX – they played the Hollywood Bowl in August of 1964 and 1965: . August 24, 1964 — the day after the Hollywood Bowl — at a Bel-Air rental:

September 7, 2012 /

1960, when everybody read the paper, but none so suave as Cary Grant:

September 5, 2012 /

Ext. Romanoff’s: Int. Romanoff’s: The Zanuck’s celebrate Susan”s graduation from the Marlborough School with a dance at Romanoff’s. From left to right, Darryl, Susan, and Virginia Zanuck:

April 20, 2012 /

As the millennium was about to turn a high rolling actor, after two chaste dates with someone very near and dear to my heart, invited her back East to meet his parents. You know, a girl takes an invitation like that quite seriously. (Although, she might not have been the…