Hollywood
Mystery Illustration 113
What famous actress is this? HINT: her most notable role involved even more makeup than she wears here.The answer is here. Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 16, 2024 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Hollywood, 1950s
The Vincent Price Art Collection at Sears
Read the whole story here.
Sears had commissioned famous actor and art collector, Vincent Price, to assemble a collection of art and gallery paintings that would be merchandised through its stores, making fine art more accessible to all Sears’ customers. They gave Price carte blanche to travel the world to put the collection together. After that first opening in Denver, the program was broadened with exhibits of art in ten additional Sears stores and after the first 1,500 pieces of art has been sold, it was expanded nationwide to all Sears stores. The program ended in 1971, but more than 50,000 original artworks had been sold during its time.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 29, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Celebrities, Hollywood, Retailing, 1960s
Merry Christmas 2023
The model's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 25, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Holidays, Hollywood, Twenty-first Century
Visit Gay’s Lion Farm
The Wikipedia page.A very detailed article on the place, with lots of photos.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 02, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Hollywood, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
The Foreshadowed Death of Gloria Dickson
In 1943, actress Gloria Dickson had a sizable part in THE CRIME DOCTOR'S STRANGEST CASE.The scene to focus on starts below at 44:23. Gloria is married to a man who's very careless with matches, even starting fires in bed. She remarks that she's been "almost cremated."
Two years later, Dickson would die in a domestic fire in her bedroom, apparently started by a stray match.
Newspaper clip source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) 11 Apr 1945, Wed Page 3
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 16, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Domestic, Fate, Predetermination and Inevitability, Hollywood, Predictions, 1940s
Bertolt Brecht Before The Committee On Un-American Activities
Want to empty out the dance floor? Just pop this on the turntable.Player embedded below.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 19, 2022 -
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Category: Hollywood, Politics, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1940s
Lorne Greene, “Ringo”
Another in our series of "Actors Who Should Have Stuck to Acting."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 05, 2022 -
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Category: Guns, Hollywood, Music, Television, Wild West and US Frontier, 1960s
Happy Valentine’s Day 2022!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 14, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Holidays, Hollywood, Magazines, Love & Romance
Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle
Still on display at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. Lots of great pix at this link.
Source of article below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 23, 2021 -
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Category: Architecture, Charities and Philanthropy, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Hollywood, Museums, 1930s
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