down home girl

CHRIS WELLES FEDER (daughter of orson welles): I spent many happy weekends with Rita Hayworth and my father. At the time, Rita was my favorite person in the world. She was the most delightful, charming and unaffected person. Everybody saw her as this big love goddess, but off-screen she was just a delight to be with. Rita loved to read the funny papers in the morning and then she would chase me around the garden with the garden hose and then we would all horse around at the pool. She was just a lot of fun. Off screen she never wore make-up, she just went around in dungarees and was a truly lovely person.

the grapes

to be perfectly honest, 'gilbert' and 'arnie' are all the johnny and leo i will ever need.

sad

making 'contempt'

if looks could kill.

sun kissed

bardot had freckles!

the bored and beautiful bankhead

tattoo you

'the cheat' is chillingly fun. described as a film of 'Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction', bankhead is wonderfully chic as the party gal who is happily married to a sweet guy till a gambling debt poisons her life. the actor who plays the bad guy is a super creep. movies were daring in the thirties and some of them still feel that way. surely this one does.

happy to be harlow

remember when

The Animal Kingdom, 1932 Myrna Loy and Leslie Howard

all that glitters is not gold

the other night i watched one of my fave films, 'animal kingdom.' i can't get enough of actor leslie howard. his most famous work is in 'gone with the wind', a movie i don't really care too much about. his performances in 'pygmalion' and 'of human bondage' are exquisite. in 'animal kingdom' he plays such a darling guy, a book publisher, who marries a very alluring, but deceiving woman played by the terrific myrna loy. 'Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.'-myrna loy. one of the real treats in this thirties film is the actor who plays leslie's butler.

photo: myrna!

stylish

even from way up there you can still see that the very cool monica vitti had the best hair.

photo: scene from L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)