Raymond Chandler – Page 2 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

October 26, 2014 / Vickie Lester

My Hollywood gospel, in the words of Phillip Marlowe, according to Raymond Chandler

“I used to like this town,” I said, just to be saying something and not to be thinking too hard. “A long time ago, There were trees along Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills was a country town. Westwood was bare hills and lots offering at eleven hundred dollars and no takers.…

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October 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.” Raymond Chandler

I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I…

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August 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Double Indemnity | Brick Wahl

I love the blog Beguiling Hollywood. Vickie Lester posts these great pictures of stars of yore–publicity shots, movie shots–and describes them with a quick caption or a little essay and they’re always good. Today’s was a still from the film noir classic Double Indemnity. Barbara Stanwyck in shades Fred McMurray…

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July 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Darling, please don’t shoot my agent… film noir, noir fiction, or the facts of Hollywood history?

Heavens, such a lot of hub-bub recently about a flattened affect actress and her middle-aged married lover… Let me tell you a cautionary tale. In 1951 this Producer, whose illustrious career spanned the eras from Valentino’s “The Sheik” to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” had a horrible fit of jealousy. I present…

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May 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

30 feet away, what an interesting perspective with, sanslartigue

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.” ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window “Despite an age difference of fifty years, both women’s faces had a sculptural, impassive, shiny-skinned, plump-cheeked…

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May 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Downtown with sanslartigue, Raymond Chandler and Vickie Lester

“The streets were dark with something more then night.” ― Raymond Chandler “Anne felt something like a splinter of ice sink into her chest. She moaned and found herself clutching for something that wasn’t there.” Vickie Lester, It’s In His Kiss via Downtown | sanslartigue.

March 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Palm Springs: will be sleeping in a bed the size of a tennis court, won’t be having my eyes done

Linda stopped the Fleetwood convertible in front of the house without turning into the driveway. She leaned back and looked at the house and then looked at me. “It’s a new section of the Springs, darling. I rented the house for the season. It’s a bit on the chi-chi side,…

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