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Friday Fashion: The Past Is The Present
Legendary costume designer Orry-Kelly makes some adjustments on Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe on the set of “Some Like It Hot,” 1959. Seraphic Secret likes to check out the latest fashions, scouting for...
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Friday Photos: Hollywood Celebrates Christmas
Hollywood pioneer Mary Pickford makes Christmas official, 1920s. During Hollywood’s Golden Age, the studios took thousands of photos of their stars celebrating Christmas. In this way, Hollywood—though...
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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas
Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s. There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy...
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Classic Hollywood Passport Photos
Anna May Wong in a studio publicity still from the 1930s. If you want to torture yourself, take a look at your passport. Chances are you look pretty awful. With flat lighting, a grim full frontal pose,...
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Hollywood Friday Photos — The Beautiful and the Damned
Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first American-Chinese movie star. Her long career spanned silent and sound movies, radio, stage and television. Her first film role was in Toll of the Sea (1922)...
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Friday Photos: Here, There, Everywhere
Ava Gardner on her glamorous image: “That ain’t me. I grew up one step up from a dirt farmer. I ironed, I picked cotton, I had one clean dress, and nobody paid one bit of attention to me.” Chutzpah:...
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Friday Photos: The Image is the Message
Carole Lombard The other day I was talking with an aspiring screenwriter about great film actors. I mentioned Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Kirk...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is a world of difference.”—Greta Garbo Mark Rothko, Orange and Yellow, 1956 oil on canvas, 91 x 71 inches. Tom...
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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas
Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s. There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I’m driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think “You’re a lucky man Gregory Peck,...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)“Had I known of the actual horrors of Nazi concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator. I wanted to ridicule their mystic bilge about a...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Mia Farrow on the set of Rosemary’s Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski) “I appeared in every single scene of the film [Rosemary’s Baby], except when, during [the impregnated with Satan’s spawn sequence] a...
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Anna May Wong Dreams of Becoming a Hollywood Star
Anna May Wong, 1930s, by Man Ray A girl dreamed of movie stardom. Literally dreamed, as she told it years later. “There is a man with short sleeves and a big horn in front of his mouth, shouting,...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.”—Anna...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
James Stewart and Kim Novak taking a break during the filming of Vertigo, 1958.“The last time she saw Stewart was when they bumped into each other at an airport [he died in 1997]. “I said, ‘Jimmy, I...
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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas
Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s. There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much… My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he’s sixty. But not a woman…...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“The Method school [Brando, Clift, Dean] thinks the emotion is the art. It isn’t. All emotion isn’t sublime. The theater isn’t reality. If you want reality, go to the morgue. The theater is human...
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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas
Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s. There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy...
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