spa – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

July 23, 2015 / Vickie Lester

The Women – receiving guests in the bath

July 23, 2015 / Vickie Lester

A bath that brought on the Hayes Code – no nipples on screen – no double beds: one of the most popular posts on Beguiling, I wonder why?

Colbert landed her famous role as a femme fatale in Cecil B. DeMille’s films where she wore fetishistic costumes which lose layer after layer of clothing. In the 1932 historical epic, The Sign of the Cross, she starred opposite Fredric March as the Roman empress Poppaea. For an instant, glimpses…

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July 23, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Blonde Crazy – in the bath

September 11, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, redesigned by Mary Jeffras in 1934

Who danced and dined here? Just about everybody. A couple from the 1930’s: The room was redesigned in 1934 by Mary Jeffras: The crowd could have contained anyone… Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant…

September 11, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Elation and tragedy, the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles…

From 1921 until 1989 the Ambassador Hotel was THE place to be in Hollywood. It housed dignitaries and stars and in-laws, and played hosts to weddings and the Academy Awards. It had a post office, a spa, a barbershop, restaurants, and of course – the famous Cocoanut Grove. It saw…

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March 19, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Way before Leonardo DC, Cary Grant made his winter home in Palm Springs – the Movie Colony

This my angels, is Cary Grant’s Palm Springs estate in the early 1930s before it was Cary Grant’s (I can’t remember the story entirely, but I think it was built originally for a lady fitness enthusiast, don’t quote me on that one) — the style is referred to as Spanish…

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December 19, 2012 / Vickie Lester

PALM SPRINGS GET AWAY – DISNEY AS DUDE

The Disney’s at a ranch in Palm Springs – 1948:

November 19, 2012 / Vickie Lester

LOS ANGELES IN THE 1920s – THE… FANCIFUL

Okay, let’s be kind and call this fanciful — where even your pooch can get a shampoo and a pedicure: –

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