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Episode 20. Jane was steaming out a gown that was draping, gathered, a form...
Chapter 18 begins with a quote from Bette Davis: I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year. On a...
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Episode 8. “It’s not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them...
We were in pre-production for months, which is otherwise known as “development.” It’s mostly an accounting trick, cinema semantics as some impressive dollar deals are tied to certain points in the film...
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The autumnal equinox with Bette Davis, which puts me in mind of forever...
If you’re new around here I’ll let you in on the drill. At Beguiling Hollywood I post pictures and historical tidbits, and often that leads me right back to talking about myself. This fall finds me...
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Vickie Lester visits Beacon Hill, and recalls the wise words of Dr. Jaquith
Dr. Jaquith: You know, there’s nothing like these old Boston homes anywhere. Here on Marlborough Street or Beacon Hill, you see them standing in a row like bastions: firm, proud, resisting the new....
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All About Eve – Let’s Talk About Being Perimenopausal Again, Shall We?
Let me just say, when you’re scheduling your posts and you slot in something for August 32nd, you know you’re perimenopausal. If, when getting ready for an evening out, and after you squint at your...
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Yankee Bette Davis on the art of the screen kiss…
“Love’s a disease. But curable.” Rose Macaulay Bette Davis and George Brent in Dark Victory (1939)
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IT’S LOVE I’M AFTER
“It’s Love I’m After” – aren’t we all? (Note: Miss de Havilland will turn 99 on July 1st – Olivia de Havilland – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.) Bette Davis and Leslie Howard on set with director,...
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1928 — Eva Le Gallienne as Peter Pan
She played Peter Pan on Broadway in 1928… As head of the Civic Repertory Theatre, she is known to have rejected the admission of Bette Davis, whose attitude she described as “insincere” and...
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“In solidarity for those who are fighting for justice right now.” John Legend
I think Ava DuVernay should have been nominated for her outstanding direction of Selma, and I think David Oyelowo should have been nominated for his transforming portrayal of Martin Luther King…but...
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The wry and wonderful Bette Davis has a unique perspective on Louella Parsons…
Bette Davis putting on a game face at William Randolph Hearst’s birthday party, wedged between Hearst and his minion, Louella. Interviewed by Dick Cavett, Bette has few things to say about Miss Parsons.
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Reprise: Bette Davis, John Garfield, Marlene Dietrich, and the Hollywood Canteen
Bette Davis and John Garfield decided something had to be done for the enlisted men who passed through Southern California… They secured a building at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard and opened a USO club to...
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Lady Psychopaths Welcome – NYTimes.com
The idea that every portrait of a woman should be an ideal woman, meant to stand for all of womanhood, is an enemy of art — not to mention wickedly delicious Joan Crawford and Bette Davis movies. Art...
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Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
Before she saw Dr. Jaquith and got her head on straight and her eyebrows tweezed: And after:
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A Valentine to all Script Supervisors
A couple of moths ago I heard an utterly beguiling director say this on set, “The moment of creating is over, NOW is the moment of matching.” Be still my beating heart – and watch those wineglasses,...
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Now, Voyager – novel by Olive Higgins Prouty
A blizzard was raging in New York, so she had read on the bulletin-board before she left the ship. It was difficult to visualize sheets of fine snow driving obliquely against facades, while sitting on...
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