Hollywood Heritage Museum

It's been a little over a year since I moved back to the East Coast from Los Angeles and forgot I had these photos from my last visit to the Hollywood Heritage Museum, so I thought I would share them! If you are ever in the area, make sure you check it out as it's absolutely fascinating. They have the best Old Hollywood events and tours of the city. The museum is located at the foot of the Hollywood Hills above the Walk of Fame in an unassuming barn. The Hollywood Heritage Museum is "Hollywood's First Major Film Company Studio".

I worked on a number of films while living there and I certainly hold the process of film making in high regard; long hours and a lot of hard work. To show respect and recognition of the pioneers in film is not to be missed! This is one of the main reasons why I love Old Hollywood~ the creation of art in motion picture. The behind the scenes are just as interesting as the fantasy born in front of the camera. Make sure you check out the museum website at the end for more information and history! Click the photos for a better view!

I bought 9 books in the gift shop!

Pictures detailing the barn and the movie studio's illustrious history.

Here, Louise Brooks is seen joining in on the fun for the celebration of the barn's second location on Melrose & Vine where the current Paramount studios is located.
This address is for the studio's first location in 1913, at Sunset & Vine. 13 years later, the barn moved 1.5 miles north to it's second location.

Cecil B. DeMille's office

This giant megaphone was often used to bark directions for cast and crew. No need for this now, thanks to walkies and willing production assistants! If DeMille looked out the window hard enough, he could see the bumper of my red car. :)
DeMille took a break from screaming at someone to have his portrait taken.

Anyone working on the lot was usually there sometimes 12, 13, 14 hours a day, so many amenities were provided on the grounds.

This bell was used by the sound department for Foley artists and sound technicians. A Foley artist is a member of the crew who recreates natural sounds using many different objects. A little primitive, but they are still used today.

Part of the prop department. This wire rigged Douglas Fairbanks' flying carpet in 1924's The Thief of Bagdad!

Standard cosmetics of the hair and makeup department. Grease paint and powder.

Beautiful stills from some of Paramount's greatest films. The large photo on the left is from the 1923 epic The Ten Commandments. "The City of the Pharaoh" as it was called, was so large that it was impossible to disassemble, so it was easiest to bury it in the sand. (When the Hollywood & Highland Complex was being remodeled, the inspiration came from this historic set.) For more information, check out DeMille's Lost City.

3-20-09 CORRECTION Reader Missy pointed out my mixup; the large photo below is not of The Ten Commandments, but D.W. Griffith's 1916 Intolerance. This is the set that was used as inspiration for the Hollywood & Highland Complex.

DeMille's The Ten Commandments monstrous set, "The City of the Pharaoh" was buried in the sand outside of Los Angeles and excavation for this priceless treasure still continues today. See link posted above for more details.

Funny, the movie cameras have changed, but the Klieg lights still look the same!

Wall to wall artifacts!

The museum is in a quaint Hollywood neighborhood called Whitley Heights. This is also where Valentino bought his first home, Falcon Lair.

The museum has a large collection of memorabilia from the best restaurants, nightclubs and hotels from Hollywood's Golden Age, including The Brown Derby and The Ambassador.

Silent film star Pola Negri's on set stool.

http://hollywoodheritage.com/

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt, an Emmy-winning performer famous for 'Santa Baby' and a catlike purr, dies at 81
NEW YORK December 25, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press
By POLLY ANDERSON Associated Press Writer
Associated Press Drama Writer Michael Kuchwara contributed to this report.

From AP NEWS:


Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.

Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.

Her career spanned six decades, from her start as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham troupe to cabarets and acting and singing on stage, in movies and on television. She persevered through an unhappy childhood as a mixed-race daughter of the South and made headlines in the 1960s for denouncing the Vietnam War during a visit to the White House.

Through the years, Kitt remained a picture of vitality and attracted fans less than half her age even as she neared 80.

When her book "Rejuvenate," a guide to staying physically fit, was published in 2001, Kitt was featured on the cover in a long, curve-hugging black dress with a figure that some 20-year-old women would envy. Kitt also wrote three autobiographies.

Once dubbed the "most exciting woman in the world" by Orson Welles, she spent much of her life single, though brief romances with the rich and famous peppered her younger years.

After becoming a hit singing "Monotonous" in the Broadway revue "New Faces of 1952," Kitt appeared in "Mrs. Patterson" in 1954-55. (Some references say she earned a Tony nomination for "Mrs. Patterson," but only winners were publicly announced at that time.) She also made appearances in "Shinbone Alley" and "The Owl and the Pussycat."

Her first album, "RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt," came out in 1954, featuring such songs as "I Want to Be Evil," "C'est Si Bon" and the saucy gold digger's theme song "Santa Baby," which is revived on radio each Christmas.

The next year, the record company released follow-up album "That Bad Eartha," which featured "Let's Do It," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."

In 1996, she was nominated for a Grammy in the category of traditional pop vocal performance for her album "Back in Business." She also had been nominated in the children's recording category for the 1969 record "Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa."

Kitt also acted in movies, playing the lead female role opposite Nat King Cole in "St. Louis Blues" in 1958 and more recently appearing in "Boomerang" and "Harriet the Spy" in the 1990s.

On television, she was the sexy Catwoman on the popular "Batman" series in 1967-68, replacing Julie Newmar who originated the role. A guest appearance on an episode of "I Spy" brought Kitt an Emmy nomination in 1966.

"Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland," she said in a 1996 Associated Press interview. "It depends so much on gadgetry and flash now. You don't have to have talent to be in the business today.

"I think we had to have something to offer, if you wanted to be recognized as worth paying for."

Kitt was plainspoken about causes she believed in. Her anti-war comments at the White House came as she attended a White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson.

"You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the group of about 50 women. "They rebel in the street. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam."

For four years afterward, Kitt performed almost exclusively overseas. She was investigated by the FBI and CIA, which allegedly found her to be foul-mouthed and promiscuous.

"The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth — in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth — you get your face slapped and you get put out of work," Kitt told Essence magazine two decades later.

In 1978, Kitt returned to Broadway in the musical "Timbuktu!" — which brought her a Tony nomination — and was invited back to the White House by President Jimmy Carter.

In 2000, Kitt earned another Tony nod for "The Wild Party." She played the fairy godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" in 2002.

As recently as October 2003, she was on Broadway after replacing Chita Rivera in a revival of "Nine."

She also gained new fans as the voice of Yzma in the 2000 Disney animated feature "The Emperor's New Groove.'"

In an online discussion at Washingtonpost.com in March 2005, shortly after Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman won Oscars, she expressed satisfaction that black performers "have more of a chance now than we did then to play larger parts."

But she also said: "I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made (me) — not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have."

Kitt was born in North, S.C., and her road to fame was the stuff of storybooks. In her autobiography, she wrote that her mother was black and Cherokee while her father was white, and she was left to live with relatives after her mother's new husband objected to taking in a mixed-race girl.

An aunt eventually brought her to live in New York, where she attended the High School of Performing Arts, later dropping out to take various odd jobs.

By chance, she dropped by an audition for the dance group run by Dunham, a pioneering African-American dancer. In 1946, Kitt was one of the Sans-Souci Singers in Dunham's Broadway production "Bal Negre."

Kitt's travels with the Dunham troupe landed her a gig in a Paris nightclub in the early 1950s. Kitt was spotted by Welles, who cast her in his Paris stage production of "Faust."

That led to a role in "New Faces of 1952," which featured such other stars-to-be as Carol Lawrence, Paul Lynde and, as a writer, Mel Brooks.

While traveling the world as a dancer and singer in the 1950s, Kitt learned to perform in nearly a dozen languages and, over time, added songs in French, Spanish and even Turkish to her repertoire.

"Usku Dara," a song Kitt said was taught to her by the wife of a Turkish admiral, was one of her first hits, though Kitt says her record company feared it too remote for American audiences to appreciate.

Song titles such as "I Want to be Evil" and "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" seem to reflect the paradoxes in Kitt's private life.

Over the years, Kitt had liaisons with wealthy men, including Revlon founder Charles Revson, who showered her with lavish gifts.

In 1960, she married Bill McDonald but divorced him after the birth of their daughter, Kitt.

While on stage, she was daringly sexy and always flirtatious. Offstage, however, Kitt described herself as shy and almost reclusive, remnants of feeling unwanted and unloved as a child. She referred to herself as "that little urchin cotton-picker from the South, Eartha Mae."

For years, Kitt was unsure of her birthplace or birth date. In 1997, a group of students at historically black Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., located her birth certificate, which verified her birth date as Jan. 17, 1927. Kitt had previously celebrated on Jan. 26.

The research into her background also showed Kitt was the daughter of a white man, a poor cotton farmer.

"I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family," she told the Post online. "The biggest family in the world is my fans."

AP NEWS

A few years back, a friend and I were driving on Walnut St. in Philadelphia and we saw Eartha Kitt coming out the stage door of a theatre, and were completely mesmerized. She had this gigantic mink coat that engulphed her tiny frame, and a dazzling smile as she glided down the sidewalk. Always the Star!

Because it's Christmas...

December Winner

The winner for the December giveaway is:

Janette of Eugene, OR!

Janette wins a MAC trio of lipsticks in Dare You, Brave Red and Speed Dial, all beautiful and flattering hues of red.

Thanks to everyone who entered! xo

December Giveaway

I am trying to get the giveaway cycle back to the first of the month, so bear with me while these giveaways are back to back!

For December, I have a lovely trio of MAC lipsticks! Dare You (a deep burgundy red), Brave Red (a bright classic red), and Speed Dial (a rich rosey pink). These are beautiful colors that will flatter anyone. Please EMAIL me (found in my profile) with your name and address. Contest ends on Thurs. Dec. 25th (Ho Ho Ho) at 12 noon EST. One winner will be drawn at random. Thank you! xo

Vanity Fair

Last month's Nov. '08 UK Vanity Fair displayed the most striking cover of actress Amy Adams, in a Rita Hayworth inspired editorial. Vanity Fair makes a habit of recreating Old Hollywood photos and pinups using our stars and starlets of today.

Here are Katherine Heigl in a stunning 50's Dior's New Look, and Naomi Watts channeling her inner Varga Girl.

More pinups from Vanity Fair's Vanities page!

October and November Winners

The winner for October's giveaway is

Deanna from Hillsboro, Oregon!

She receives a MAC trio of Brushed Metal-X Creme Eye Shadow in Guilded Ash, Pigment in Cocomotion, and Beaux Lustreglass Lipgloss

The winner for November's silver set is

Cecilia from Arroyo Grande, CA!

She receives a MAC trio of Vex Eye Shadow, Mineralize Sheersheen Powder in Silver Aura, and Oyster Girl Lipglass

Thank you to all who entered and for being patient during my blog fiasco!

xo Katie

Bettie Page

As most everyone knows by now, pinup and fetish model Bettie Page passed away yesterday. She was such a fun pinup, but I've always prefered her fetish work~ this is one of my favorite photos of her! What I wouldn't give for those shoes...

AP News:

1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85
Thu Dec 11, 10:50 PM EST

Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controverisal photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.

Page suffered a heart attack last week in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, her agent Mark Roesler said. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.

Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

The latter helped contribute to her mysterious disappearance from the public eye, which lasted decades and included years during which she battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian.

After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.

"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars. ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."

The 21st century indeed had people remembering her just as she was. She became the subject of songs, biographies, Web sites, comic books, movies and documentaries. A new generation of fans bought thousands of copies of her photos, and some feminists hailed her as a pioneer of women's liberation.

Gretchen Mol portrayed her in 2005's "The Notorious Bettie Page" and Paige Richards had the role in 2004's "Bettie Page: Dark Angel." Page herself took part in the 1998 documentary "Betty Page: Pinup Queen."

Her career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island. An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old's firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.

Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998, "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."

Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds."

In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.

"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.

Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.

Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.

She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.

Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.

In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.

After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down because she had been divorced. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry.

A move to Southern California in 1979 brought more troubles.

She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady, and doctors who examined her determined she had acute schizophrenia. She spent 20 months in a state mental hospital in San Bernardino.

A fight with another landlord resulted in her arrest, but she was found not guilty because of insanity. She was placed under state supervision for eight years.

"She had a very turbulent life," Todd Mueller, a family friend and autograph seller, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She had a temper to her."

Mueller said he first met Page after tracking her down in the 1990s and persuaded her to do an autograph signing event.

He said she was a hit and sold about 3,000 autographs, usually for $200 to $300 each.

"Eleanor Roosevelt, we got $40 to $50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all," he told The AP last week.

Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tenn., Page said she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings."

The family included three boys and three girls, and Page said her father molested all of the girls.

After the Pages moved to Houston, her father decided to return to Tennessee and stole a police car for the trip. He was sent to prison, and for a time Betty lived in an orphanage.

In her teens she acted in high school plays, going on to study drama in New York and win a screen test from 20th Century Fox before her modeling career took off.
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Associated Press writer Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

October and November Giveaway

Original post date Sunday, November 30, 2008

I've been busy, so I am now just getting to the giveaways! I have two prizes, one for October and one for November. Please EMAIL me (found in my profile) your name, address and if you'd like the October or November prize. Giveaway will end Sat. Dec. 13th at 12:00noon EST and two winners will be drawn at random, one for each month.

Those who entered last week are still in the drawing!

The October winner will receive a MAC trio of Brushed Metal-X Creme Eye Shadow in Guilded Ash (a sheer taupey bronze), Pigment in Cocomotion (a soft golden bronze), and Beaux Lustreglass Lipgloss (a soft caramel bronze).

The November winner will receive a MAC trio of Vex Eye Shadow (a sheer pearly silver), Mineralize Sheersheen Powder in Silver Aura (a soft pinky silver), and Oyster Girl Lipglass (a sheer pinky silver).

Thank you!! xx

Three Stooges Remake

Original post date Friday, November 21, 2008

From Boston.com

Nyuking it up The Farrelly brothers are working frantically to finish the script for "The Three Stooges." Peter Farrelly reports that he and brother Bobby are holed up on the Cape until it's completed. "We've been working night and day," Farrelly told us during a beverage break at Scampo. The brothers are optimistic that at least some of the movie will be shot in their native Rhode Island, and it'll be in theaters this time next year. So who'll play the silly Stooges, you say? No one's signed on yet, but Peter said plenty of names are being bandied about. How about Benicio del Toro as Moe? "He's a huge Stooges fan," said Farrelly. Jeff Daniels is being considered for Larry and Andover's own Michael Chiklis could yuk it up as Curly. The Farrellys had been working on a movie called "Hall Pass," but that was shelved when they were given a deadline to deliver "The Three Stooges."


I am obsessed with the Three Stooges, and the Farrelly brothers' films are always funny, but I am not sure how this will turn out... Interesting to note that Michael Chiklis is being considered for Curly as he already played my favorite Stooge in the tv biopic 'The Three Stooges' back in 2000.


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Bob Hope Commemorative Stamp

Original post date Wednesday, November 19, 2008


From AP News:

Postage stamp planned for Bob Hope


WASHINGTON (AP) — The post office is telling Bob Hope: "Thanks for the memories."

The beloved entertainer will be honored on a U.S. postage stamp next spring.

The stamp design will be unveiled Monday at a ceremony on New York's Ellis Island, the entry spot for thousands of immigrants like Hope.

Born in England as Leslie Townes Hope, the singer, actor and comedian was a youngster when his parents moved to the United States. He eventually became one of the nation's most beloved entertainers and was known for his trademark song "Thanks For The Memories."

Though never a member of the armed forces, Hope dedicated much of his time traveling the globe to entertain men and women in uniform, beginning in World War II and continuing through Operation Desert Storm.

In 1997 Hope became the first person recognized by the U.S. Congress as an "honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces."

Hope died in 2003 and becomes the first person to benefit from a postal rule change allowing individuals to be honored on a stamp five years after their death. Before the rule change in 2007 people other than ex-presidents had to wait 10 years to become the subject of a stamp.

On the Net:U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/

I have always enjoyed Bob Hope! He is a DCBD member, as well.



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Dita's Makeup

Original post date Friday, October 24, 2008



Gregory Arlt is the Director of Makeup Artistry for MAC Cosmetics West Coast, and Dita Von Teese's makeup artist. As a fellow MAC artist, I admire him greatly, and as you can tell by now, I adore Dita!

Here he shows us step by step how to recreate Dita's signature bombshell look! This is my favorite makeup to do (on myself and others) and is flattering on anyone. If you haven't yet tried this look, give it a go! You'd be surprised at how easy it is and how lovely you will look and feel. If you are a little apprehensive about a red lip, try a dark rose or bright pink until you work your way up to a luscious red lip. Thank you Gregory, for making Dita extra pretty!

http://www.myspace.com/gregoryarltbeauty

http://eamgmt.com/ (Gregory Arlt)

http://www.maccosmetics.com/

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Fashion Meets Retro

Original post date Thursday, October 16, 2008

My dear friend and amazingly talented fashion photograpaher, Jamie Luca, is currently in Mexico City shooting for Fashion Week. I wanted to post a few images of his latest editorial because he was inspired to do a post-Bladerunner story. I love these two shots as they remind me of Evita meets Joan Crawford. Look at that jacket! (Click on the picture for a better look)

I get so excited when these two mediums, fashion and retro, meld together to make a beautiful image. This is one reason why I like Dita's work so much because she does take the world of modern couture fashion and combines it with her vintage and classic image.

Photographer, Jamie Luca
Model, Sam/Paragon
Styling by EGR
Hair and make up AZUL & CO

http://www.jamieluca.com/

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Birthday Gal

Original post date Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sept. 28th was Dita Von Tease's 36th birthday, and last week, Fendi hosted a lavish soirée in her honor at Le Milliardaire in Paris, her favorite city. Bon anniversaire!

photos courtesy of style.com and Getty Images

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Adorable

Original post date Sunday, October 5, 2008

I love the look on Spanky's face!

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Westmore's Star

Original post date Friday, October 3, 2008

Westmore's of Hollywood Receive Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 1645 Vine Street(West side of the Street just below Hollywood Blvd.)Friday October 3, 2008 - 11:30am

Hollywood, CA.- Legendary Makeup men, The Westmore's of Hollywood will receive their Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. The official word from Hollywood's honorary Mayor, and Walk of Fame Chairman, Johnny Grant, “Today I am happy to announce an array of celebrities who have earned this recognition for a combination of professional achievement and community involvement.”

Pioneers of their industry, the announcement came in January, Johnny pointed out that - "...Westmore's not only created, but defined the role of makeup artists in Motion Pictures." Wigmaker, George Westmore made history when he opened the very first makeup department in 1917 at Selig-Polyscope Studios. George's oldest sons, Monte, Ern, Perc, and Wally went on to open their own makeup departments at Warner Brothers, RKO, and Paramount. By the 1930s nearly every motion picture studio had a Westmore heading up their makeup department. In 1935, the Westmore brothers teamed up to open the most opulent salon of its time, glamour mecca; The House of Westmore on 6638 Sunset Strip. Bud Westmore ran the makeup department at Universal for 24 years where he helped create the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Youngest son, Frank was a freelance makeup artist and worked with Cecil B. deMille on The Ten Commandments and wrote a family biography appropriately titled, The Westmore's of Hollywood.

The third generation Westmore's brothers, Monty Jr., Marvin, and Michael have all made their own significant mark in Hollywood. Monty Jr. was personal makeup artist to Paul Newman and Joan Crawford (Monty passed in 2007). Marvin created the fashion forward makeup for the epic film, Blade Runner, and Michael was behind the alien creations on the Star Trek series and won an Oscar for his work on Mask. Their artistic hand has influenced Hollywood film and television where stars were made, and most were made up by the Westmore's. Since this announcement Hollywood has lost it's Honorary Mayor Johnny Grant - We are very proud that one of the last efforts Johnny left Hollywood was the nomination of The Westmore's of Hollywood to receive this long over looked honor. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that serves as an entertainment hall of fame. It is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the entertainment industry. The Walk of Fame is maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. The first star, awarded on February 9, 1960, went to Joanne Woodward.

press release courtesy of Westmore Academy of Cosmetic Arts

photo courtesy of Charley Gallay/Getty Images

Due to scheduling conflicts, I was unable to make it to the ceremony. :( I will be getting some more information regarding the ceremony and parties from my inside source soon!

September Winner

Original post date Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The September winner is:

Kam from Mosinee, Wisconsin

She knew that DCBD stands for "Dead Celebrity Boyfriend Club"! There are many members in my DCBC, such as Nat Pendleton. I've also mentioned, Wallace Beery as a member as well. I have a lot more DCBC's coming up soon! Thanks to everyone who entered! xx

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September Giveaway

Original post date Friday, September 26, 2008

I created the acronym DCBC to refer to select handsome stars of the
Golden Era. What does it stand for?

Please EMAIL me with the correct answer, your name and address. The
winner will be drawn at random and will receive an amazing MAC
collection!!

MAC #192 Brush (perfect for foundations and blush)

MAC Dual Edge Eye Pencil in Phone Me/Text Me (charcoal grey/silver)

MAC Fibre Rich Lash Mascara in black (intense lashes)

MAC Matte Eyeshadow in Graphology (greyish eggplant)

MAC Luster Eyeshadow in Nighttrain (metallic dark silver)

MAC Mattene Lipstick in Chock-ful (medium tone brown)

MAC Lusterglass in Star Nova (pinky plum)

This giveaway ends Wed. Oct. 1st 12noon EST. Thank you! x

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Gloria Swanson Video Interview

Original post date Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Tamela D'Amico sent me this video clip of legendary Gloria Swanson in 1957. I love her look, so dramatic! You know, her first husband was DCBC member Wallace Beery. Their marriage was quite tumultuous, as she was young and naive and he was well, Wallace Beery.

See it here!

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