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Edith Head: The Dress Doctor is In

Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Audrey Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, PEOPLE, Robert Redford, STAGE & SCREEN, tagged Academy Award winners, Alfred Hitchcock movies, Anne Baxter, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, biographies of women designers, Bob Mackie, Cecil b. DeMille, Chouinard Art School, Claudette Colbert, costume design, Dorothy Lamour, Edith Head, edith head costume design, Elizabeth Taylor, Famous Players-Lasky Studio, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood School for Girls, Howard Greer, Hubert de Givenchy, little black dress, Mae West, Mary Martin, Motion Picture Industry, movie Sabrina, movie The Sting, Paramount Pictures, Paul Newman, Raoul Walsh, Robert Redford, Show business, the golden age of Hollywood, The Golden Bed, The Wanderer, Veronica Lake, wardrobe design on June 11, 2014| 6 Comments »

It was summer vacation of 1924 and Edith Head, 27, wanted a new job. She was tired of making peanuts – $1500 a year – teaching French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls. She did have a husband but he was a heavy drinker. If Edith wanted to improve her quality of life, it was up to her […]

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Elizabeth Taylor: The Edith Head Necklace

Posted in Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, PEOPLE, Richard Burton, tagged A Place in the Sun, Aaron Frosch, Academy Awards, biographies of actresses, biographies of artists, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, biographies of women designers, Christie's auction of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor and Christie's, Elizabeth Taylor and Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor and Monty Clift, Elizabeth Taylor divorce, Elizabeth Taylor jewelry, Elizabeth Taylor's clothes, Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, Elizabeth Taylor's husbands, fashion design, movie fashion, Paramount Pictures, Richard Burton, Taylor-Burton diamond, the golden age of Hollywood on June 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

On July 4, 1973, American film actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) issued the following press release: “I am convinced it would be a good and constructive idea if Richard [Burton] and I separated for a while. Maybe we loved each other too much. I never believed such a thing was possible. But we have been in […]

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Grace Kelly and the Bust Inspector

Posted in Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), STAGE & SCREEN, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, biographies of actresses, biographies of women, bust inspector, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Grace of Monaco, Hollywood, Motion Pictures Production Code, Princess Grace, Rear Window on October 13, 2010| 6 Comments »

American movie actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) had an encounter with a “Bust Inspector” during the production of the 1954 film Rear Window. However, this “BI” was not a censor dispatched by the Motion Pictures Production Code crew (See “Elizabeth Taylor and the Bust Inspector.”) The person attempting to meddle with Grace’s bust was none other than the film’s director: Alfred […]

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Bling-Bling! Bang-Bang! Liz Taylor Attends Grace Kelly’s Scorpio Ball

Posted in Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), tagged biographies of actresses, biographies of women, Cartier, David Niven, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton picture, famous jewelry, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly's wedding picture, Grace of Monaco, Liz Taylor, Monaco, pictures of Elizabeth Taylor, pictures of Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), Princess Grace's fortieth birthday party, Princess Grace's Scorpio party, Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Scorpio Ball, the Grimaldis, the Krupp Diamond, the Taylor-Burton Diamond on May 2, 2010| 13 Comments »

Since they began their affair on the movie set of “Cleopatra” in January, 1962, Richard Burton delighted in giving bride Elizabeth Taylor extravagant jewels. One of the most famous pieces Burton gave Taylor is the pear-shaped, 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton Diamond. Fifth husband Richard Burton bought the diamond from Cartier in 1969 after a Sotheby’s auction, paying over […]

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Grace Kelly: Floating on Chiffon

Posted in Edith Head, Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), tagged Alfred Hitchcock, biographies of actresses, biographies of royalty, biographies of women, Edith Head, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly fashion, Grace Kelly in Rear Window, Grace Kelly Paris dress, Grace Kelly pictures, Grace of Monaco, London, Monaco, Rear Window, Victoria & Albert Museum on April 27, 2010| 8 Comments »

I was so excited to read in Vanity Fair that London’s Victoria & Albert Museum was featuring an exhibition of Grace Kelly‘s clothes. What a treat! I thought. Imagine all those beautiful 1950s dresses designed for actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) together in one place. Of course I couldn’t get to London, I knew; I was recovering from […]

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Elizabeth Taylor: Burton Called Her “Lumpy”

Posted in Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, PEOPLE, Richard Burton, tagged "Cleopatra", 1970 Oscar, biographies of actresses, biographies of women, Chanel, Debbie Reynolds, Dick and Liz, Dior, Dorothy Kilgallen, Eddie Fisher, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor biography, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, Hollywood biography review, How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William Mann, Liz Taylor marries Burton, new Elizabeth Taylor biography, Paris, Richard Burton, Rome, Sybil Burton, Taylor and Burton, Taylor divorces Fisher, Taylor-Burton diamond, Twentieth Century Fox's Cleopatra, Yves St. Laurent on November 5, 2009| 7 Comments »

There’s a delicious new Elizabeth Taylor biography on the market: How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William Mann. I’ve been reading juicy excerpts online. The book is so good, so rich in scandalous detail, that I’ve ordered a copy to be sent to my doorstep. I’m devouring the chapter on the […]

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Richard Burton: Dadi Ni

Posted in Elizabeth Taylor, PEOPLE, Richard Burton, tagged addiction, alcoholism, Elizabeth Taylor, philip jenkins, Pontrhydyfen, Richard Burton, richard burton's alcoholism, richard burton's drinking, richard burton's father, richard burton's heavy drinking, richard jenkins, Wales, Welsh actors on May 26, 2014| 3 Comments »

“Which one?” he asked, when actor Richard Burton was told in 1957 that his father had died. It was an odd question, but a legitimate one. Richard, indeed, did have more than one father. Was it his birth father, the poor Welsh coal miner, who had died? Or, was it his foster father, the British schoolmaster and […]

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Audrey Hepburn: The New Sexy?

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, PEOPLE, tagged Audrey Hepburn, biographies of actresses, biographies of women, Cecil Beaton, fashion, magazine covers with Audrey Hepburn, my fair lady, pictures of Audrey Hepburn, roman holiday, Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn on April 10, 2014| 1 Comment »

In 1954, British photographer and creative artist, Cecil Beaton, wrote this article for “Vogue” about a rising film star named Audrey Hepburn. Miss Hepburn was 25 and the newest sensation. She had just won the Academy Award for Best Actress for “Roman Holiday.” It is always a dramatic moment when the Phoenix rises anew from […]

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Anne Frank Flees Nazi Germany

Posted in Adolf Hitler, Anne Frank, Joseph Goebbels, Julius Streicher, PEOPLE, World War II, tagged 1933, Amsterdam, Anne Frank, anti-Jewish boycott 1933, anti-Semitic literature, biographies of brave women, biographies of women, Der Sturmer, hiding Jews, Hitler, Holland, Jews in World War II, Joseph Goebbels, Julius Streicher, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, World War II on March 26, 2014| 2 Comments »

I have just finished rereading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. I was surprised to read that Anne had not been born in Amsterdam, where she hid from the Germans during World War II, but in Frankfort, Germany: I will start by sketching in brief the story of my life. My father was 36 when […]

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