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Veronica Lake – I Married a Witch – Mr. Lester, you are forbidden to comment

October 22, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors • Tags: #itsinhiskissbyvickielester, actress, Anne Southern, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Lucille Ball, novel, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, Rene Clair, studio photography, studio portrait, The Passionate Witch, Thorne Smith, Veronica Lake

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“I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.” Veronica Lake

October 22, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography • Tags: based on the novel by Thorne Smith, directed by Rene Claire, Frederic March, I MARRIED A WITCH, Veronica Lake

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Veronica Lake as Peter Pan

January 24, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Veronica Lake took Peter Pan on the road in 1950, starring in productions across the country, “If I had stayed in Hollywood I would have ended up like Alan Ladd and Gail Russell – dead and buried by now. That rat race killed them and I knew it would kill me, so I had to get out. I was never psychologically meant to be a picture star. I never took it seriously. I couldn’t ‘live’ being a ‘movie star’ and […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Photography, Relationships, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, Alan Ladd, behind the scenes, Boris Karloff, Broadway, camp, celebrities, Classic Movies, ctor, disliked Frederic March, fame, film, Gail Russell, history, Hollywood, I was never psychologically meant to be a picture star, J.M. Barrie, Movie Star, Peter Pan, Veronica Lake

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A bewitching portrait of Veronica Lake, by George Hurrell

October 12, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: George Hurrell, master of starlight, Veronica Lake

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Lucille Ball photographed by Laszlo Willinger

October 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, Anne Southern, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Lucille Ball, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, studio photography, studio portrait, Veronica Lake

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Ann Sothern photographed by Laszlo Willinger

October 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, Anne Southern, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Lucille Ball, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, studio photography, studio portrait, Veronica Lake

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Studio Photographer – Laszlo Willinger

October 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, Anne Southern, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Lucille Ball, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, studio photography, studio portrait, Veronica Lake

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Veronica Lake photographed by Laszlo Willinger

October 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, studio photography, studio portrait, Veronica Lake

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Veronica Lake and a black cat

October 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Halloween, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actress, Anne Southern, autumn, autumn palette, Classic Movies, design, fall, fashion, film, glamour photography, history, Hollywood, Lucille Ball, novel, Old Hollywood, photographer Laszlo Willinger, photography, Rene Clair, studio photography, studio portrait, The Passionate Witch, Thorne Smith, Veronica Lake

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Night falls on the red roofs of California. Sweet dreams. . . . . . #historic #historichome, #historichouse #historicpreservation #oldhomelove #architecture #architecturelovers #exteriordesign #architecturaldetail #style #design #nightphotography #lightandshadow #nightsky #uplighting #nightscape #garden #curbappeal #losangeles #houseportrait #captivatinghouses #romantichome #californiadreaming #goodnight

What am I hiding? A spider bite! Do I hide much in the pages of my new Hollywood novel? Nothing you won’t have fun trying to figure out... “Late in the summer following my sophomore year, I was living in the Beverly Hills home of a blonde former figure skater. She had met Mr. Major Movie Star on a commercial promoting California cheese...arguably a metaphor for something.” There are more pages up on the blog today, link in the profile. . . . . . #portrait #author #authorlife #blackandwhitephotography #bookaddiction #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #behindthescenes #hollywood #moviemagic #lovereading #bookworm #bookish #lovereading #excerpt #amwriting #readers #lovetowrite #californiadreaming

See what’s unfurling on the blog, it might be a new #Hollywood novel... “Life never is a simple linear narrative; it’s too messy and senseless. On the other hand a memoir, no, make that a novel (a much less contentious prospect) is an attempt to resolve the random acts of a life and give them meaning — put them into some sort of context. Whether this reads as simply an insider chronicle of a life lived in Hollywood or another of those cautionary tales about the same, I’ll leave to you, gentle reader, my unknown confidant.” . . . . . #bookaddiction #bookstagram #bibliophile #author #booklover #mustread #petals #rose #behindthescenes #moviemagic #lovereading #bookworm #bookish #ilovereading #amwriting #readers

It’s a good night when @kfullermendez calls me from the east to herald a moonrise over the west. #goodnight #supermoon #sweetdreams @heybillkuhn @antiquegoddess

“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like “the Cleveland Chicken,” sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are.” . I picked up a sweet #volume of short stories in the new year, continuing my #love affair with fictional Manhattan. . . . . . #stories #manhattan #nyc #johncheever #bookbliss #bibliophile #exploretocreate #empirestatebuilding #architecture #streetscape #citylife #literature #author #writer #bookstagram #bookstoread #cityscape #skyscraper #bluesky #writerslife #thestoriesofjohncheever

Traveling SW I promised @heybillkuhn I’d take pictures... Over breakfast in the dining car I learned how to bet the horses. Sharing a meal with people I’ve never met is now one of my favorite things to do. . So relaxing watching the country roll by, thinking about what to make for Christmas dinner back home. #Pavlova? #ChocolateMousse? For recipes check out the link in the profile. . . . . . #trainstation #exploretocreate #artofvisuals #waiting #portrait #citylife #architecture #homewardbound #urban #dawn #interior #graphicdesign #art #lifeisbeautiful #journey #style #friends #everyonehasastory #itsinhiskissbyvickielester #amwriting another #hollywood #novel

Sometimes places look #enchanted — because they are. This town sends me. There’s a little free library in front of the police department, #design students everywhere you turn, early risers who stroll around the park, and #bookstores like @thebookladybookstore where you can browse and talk for hours — discovering #treasures. All that and I had a eureka moment working on my manuscript. Where am I @williee64 ? In #Savannah! Thank you @heybillkuhn for giving us a proper introduction 😘. . . . . . #bibliophile #books #amwriting #library #exploretocreate #historichome #federalarchitecture #architecture #december #hollywood #novel #author #southerncharm #style

It’s the #morning before #Thanksgiving in #Savannah and I found lady bountiful on my #walk to the market. It’s #bright and beautiful and last night on the #movie set they made it snow — glorious fluffy frosty stuff — which I can’t share pictures of, but I can share stories and a #recipe for a #delicious #dessert, link in the profile. . #goodmorning! . Am #onlocation with my #beloved #writing another #Hollywood #novel.

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