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OSCARS – THE LOST WEEKEND
See, four Oscars – I forgot to mention Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett won best screenplay as well. It’s been a harbinger of things to come for a long time… Billy Wilder wins Best Director for “The...
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THE OSCARS AND WARTIME AUSTERITY – 1943
Readers inquired about the scaled down ceremony, I thought I’d supply the visual, and yes – these puppies were plaster: From left to right, Van Heflin, Greer Garson, James Cagney, and Theresa Wright.
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THE 26th ACADEMY AWARDS – AUDREY WINS BEST ACTRESS – 1954
The second time the awards were televised Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress for her performance in “Roman Holiday” – Donald O’Connor is at the podium in Los Angeles, and Audrey is presented with the...
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THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK – VICKIE LESTER
I beg my readers indulgence. This is possibly the most cray-cray (one of my best friends is a therapist, if she can use the term so can I), as I was saying this is the most cray-cray week… I won’t have...
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THE INESTIMABLE: BILLY WILDER
That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then...
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BILLY WILDER TELLS LOUIS B. MAYER TO F-HIMSELF
Via my friend Martin: Sat, February 23, 2013 2:31:06 PM Sunset Boulevard – At Oscar time I thought we could use a Billy Wilder comment! Martin In Hollywood, Paramount arranged a private screening for...
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VICKIE LESTER ON A SHORT HIATUS
My angels, this has been a whack-a-do year… And, I am going to take a short break from blogging to confer with the publishers of my… ro·man à clef /rōˌmän ä ˈklā/ Noun A novel in which real people or...
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DAVID NIVEN’S FIRST “REAL” MOVIE ROLE – STARRING CLAUDETTE COLBERT AND GARY...
First of all, hats off to one of my favorite blogs: The Automat | In which the unqualified gentleman looks at art. And, thank you Mr. Whittington for reminding me about Mr. Niven’s wonderful...
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STEPPING BACK AND LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE
Marcellite Garner (voice of Minnie Mouse) 1924 I have been contemplating, and not my navel, for the past couple days and have been absent from my post. Soon I’ll be back chattering and responding to...
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JACK LEMMON REGARDING MARILYN MONROE – SOME LIKE IT HOT
On Marilyn Monroe: Jack Lemmon — I liked her very much and I got along great with her. She had a lot of problems, she was basically an unhappy girl. She drove Billy and Tony crazy, she drove me a...
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TONY CURTIS ON CROSS-DRESSING – SOME LIKE IT HOT
Tony Curtis — Orry-Kelly did the dresses for Marilyn Monroe, and Jack and I were going to wear clothes out of Western Costumes. So I went to Western Costumes and they fitted us out in these dresses...
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Book Review: Hollywood and Hitler – WSJ.com
In 1938, when she (Leni Riefenstahl) came to Los Angeles in the hope of scoring a big-money contract, she was given short shrift. Having denied that the Nazis were anti-Semitic even as footage of...
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GLAMOUR BOWL ~ A Short Story. | SCENTS MEMORY
GLAMOUR BOWL Near death and on a constant morphine drip Theo passed from the hospital bed to his past on a regular basis. When cognizant of the present he knew what was happening. It is said when you...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. WILDER… AND A BIT OF MY NOVEL
In the den she opened the liquor cabinet and looked at an assortment of bottles she could have sworn had been at the same levels since 1987. She sat on the couch where she had read while her father...
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GRETA GARBO IN A HAT – NINOTCHKA
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...
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PHOTOGRAPHER AND MODEL – AVEDON AND MONROE
Recalling a portrait session with Marilyn Monroe that took place in his studio in May 1957, Avedon said, “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe.”...
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AVEDON CAPTURES MONROE’S SOUL
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” Marilyn Monroe
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AVEDON SHOOTS BILLY WILDER AND MARILYN MONROE
“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.” Marilyn Monroe
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