Learning how to be a young lady...
Showing posts with label Life Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Magazine. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Friday, December 30, 2011
NYE: Stork Club
Picture the scene: Ethel Merman at the Stork Club, a waiter specifically assigned to her with the singular purpose of lighting her cigarettes. Or, the news of Grace Kelly's enegagement to Prince Ranier of Monaco 'breaking' at the Stork. It was the place to be. Frequented by Hollywood royalty.
A night at The Stork will be re-imagined on New Year's Eve - hosted by dear friends, complete with original Stork Club memorabilia, painstakingly collected over many months. I cannot wait to see what everyone will be wearing. I only hope I fit into my dress after a Christmas of sheer excess. Photographs next week...
A night at The Stork will be re-imagined on New Year's Eve - hosted by dear friends, complete with original Stork Club memorabilia, painstakingly collected over many months. I cannot wait to see what everyone will be wearing. I only hope I fit into my dress after a Christmas of sheer excess. Photographs next week...
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| Rhumba with Ecita and her Orchestra, Stork Club |
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| Stork Club Powder Room |
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| Stork Club Cloakroom, mid 1940's |
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| Ashtray with slot for matches |
Some of the celebrities who patronized the Club...
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| Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw |
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| Peter Lawford and JFK |
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| Elizabeth Taylor with her parents |
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| Greg Bautzer and Joan Crawford |
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| Jackie, Pat, Ethel, Jean and Eunice |
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| JFK, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt and Herbert Swope |
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| John F. and Jackie Kennedy |
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| Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio |
Monday, November 21, 2011
Natalie Wood
If there was ever a true natural beauty, it was Natalie Wood. One of those effortlessly beautiful girls - the type that wakes up in the morning looking perfectly exquisite. Unlike moi, who needs a good hour of preening to rid myself of the just-been-punched-in-both-eyes look.
The case surrounding her 'accidental drowning' (surely one of the top googled stories of late) is being re-opened after 30 years. Regardless of the outcome, it is tragic that she died so young. In 1981, she famously remarked: "I've always been terrified, still am, of water - dark water or sea water, or river water or whatever."
Here are some touchingly candid, unpublished photos of Wood, as a child and later while shooting films like Splendor in the Grass and Rebel Without A Cause...
All images from LIFE
The case surrounding her 'accidental drowning' (surely one of the top googled stories of late) is being re-opened after 30 years. Regardless of the outcome, it is tragic that she died so young. In 1981, she famously remarked: "I've always been terrified, still am, of water - dark water or sea water, or river water or whatever."
Here are some touchingly candid, unpublished photos of Wood, as a child and later while shooting films like Splendor in the Grass and Rebel Without A Cause...
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| At 6 years old |
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| Note - a photograph of Orson Welles on the piano |
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| Photo by Ralph Crane |
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| With Dennis Hopper and Nick Adams |
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| Reading to Hopper and Adams |
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| Inside a gallery at Warner Bros. |
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| Hopper and Adams in the rafters |
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| Possibly talking to Elvis... |
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| Unrecognized in a skid row eatery, LA |
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| 1960, Beverly Hills |
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| Getting ready for the Academy Awards, 1962 |
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| She was nominated for an Oscar for Splendor in the Grass |
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| With Warren Beatty at the Oscars |
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| 1963, With Steve McQueen |
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| Lighting up with Steve McQueen |
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| With Warren Beatty, 1961 |
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
High Society - Grace Kelly
Apparently, Alfred Hitchcock (upon hearing about Grace's imminent wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco) said: "I'm very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part..."
Grace Kelly was nothing short of the epitome of perfection. These rare unpublished photos of a princess-to-be (courtesy of LIFE), depict some wonderfully candid moments. From an assistant keeping her petticoats from getting muddied as she was leaving the Hollywood studio lot for the last time, to photos of Grace carefully selecting and packing her extensive trousseau before moving to Europe, with her poodle Oliver looking on in bemusement...
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| The newly-engaged Grace Kelly |
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| The couple, 1956 |
The studio gave Grace the twelve costumes she wore in the film High Society... to keep! From tapered trousers to beautiful evening gowns.
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| Unidentified seamstress with the veil |
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| Finishing touches on the lace and pearl-studded prayer book |
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| Goodbye Tinseltown |
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| Gift shopping inside Cartier, New York |
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| Bidding farewell to her fans in NYC |
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| Grace Kelly stands with her mother, Margaret Majer Kelly |
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| Bound for Monaco aboard the S.S. Constitution |
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| Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier the day before the wedding |
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| Greeting guests |
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| At the alter |
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| Just married |
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Through the Lens of LIFE
Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. - Albert Camus
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| The Head of the Statue of Liberty on display at the World Fair in Paris, 1878 |
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| Liberty's Crown, 1950 |
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| Hanging out of the windows of the crown, 1952 (Margaret Bourke-White) |
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| Pennsylvania Station, 1943 |
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| Harlem, 103rd Street |
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| Thrill-seekers ride the 300-foot parachute jump at Coney Island |
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| Famous Times Square Camel Ad (that belched smoke) |
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| Queen of the Sea |
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| Grand Central Terminal |
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| Opening Day of the Empire State Building (Samuel H. Gottscho, 1931) |
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| From the Brooklyn Bridge (Paul Himmel, 1950) |
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| Block by block grid system (Margaret Bourke-White, 1939) |
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| A film still from Taxi Driver - Bob De Niro and Martin Scorsese, 1976 |
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