Categories: Architecture, Art, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Movies, Music, New York, Photography, Short Stories, Story, Theater, Travel • Tags: Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face at The Louvre, AudreyHepburn, Fred Astaire, New York, Paris, Richard Avedon, Romantic Comedy, Stanley Donen
Here’s the set up: Ninotchka commenting on western decadence – (looking at a ladies’ hat in a display window) How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads? It won’t be long now comrades. And then she meets Melvyn Douglas and the rest is romantic comedy history… Garbo’s hat was designed by the famed costume designer, Adrian. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch.
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When you walk in a dream But you know, you’re not dreaming signore Scuzza me, but you see Back in old Napoli, that’s amore COURTING IN HOLLYWOOD | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD. This is the part where I blurt something out — isn’t the Mister just adorable? I get to say that, it’s Valentine’s Day. Another admission: in this picture I look like I tower over him, but it was taken by the most talented woman and wonderful friend, Portraits : Heidi Gutman […]
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I’m dreaming of sleeping until noon. Wandering downstairs in my pajamas, brewing a cup of coffee, glancing at the paper, and perhaps napping on the couch in said pajamas. Later, still in pajamas I may answer email, eat leftovers, and contemplate taking a nice walk. Having decided I would have to shed pajamas in favor of something more sensible I will choose to stay in pajamas, watch an old movie, read a novel, pester the Mister as he tries to […]
Categories: Blogging, Christmas, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: 1938, Alexander Korda, Binnie Barns, Laurence Olivier, London Films, Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, recovering from Christmas, Romantic Comedy, sleeping late, striped pajamas, Technicolor, The DIvorce of Lady X
Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: 1940, based on the play by Philip Barry, box office poison, Broadway, Cary Grant, comeback, comedy of remarriage, Dexter Haven, Film Classic, George Cukor, Hollywood, Howard Hughes, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn owned the film rights, Los Angeles, Macaulay Connor, Philip Barry, Romantic Comedy, Ruthy Hussey, Tracy Lord
Categories: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: 1940, based on the play by Philip Barry, box office poison, Broadway, Cary Grant, comeback, comedy of remarriage, Dexter Haven, Film Classic, George Cukor, Hollywood, Howard Hughes, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn owned the film rights, Los Angeles, Macaulay Connor, Philip Barry, Romantic Comedy, Ruthy Hussey, Tracy Lord
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Let me just say I bear a closer resemblance to a Smurf than Katharine Hepburn, but I think the reason Tracy and Hepburn made screen magic was because everyone could identify… My husband looks at me like this all the time.
Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Relationships, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: 1949, actor, actress, Adam's Rib, Classic Movies, Cole Porter, Farewell Amanda, George Cukor, Hollywood, humor, husband, identify with character, Katharine Hepburn, marriage, MGM, my husband, on set, photography, relationships, Romantic Comedy, screen couple, screen magic, screenplay Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Spencer Tracy, that look, Vickie Lester
Categories: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Valentine's Day • Tags: "Indiscreet", 1958, actor, actress, based on the play "Kind Sir" by Norman Krasna, behind the scenes, Cary Grant, Classic Movies, comedy, fashion, film, history, Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman, Los Angeles, Old Hollywood, photography, Romantic Comedy, Stanley Donen, Valentine's movie
