4 Out Of 5 Top Hollywood Stars...

...use Lustre-Creme for that lacquered, immobile look.

Two Faced Woman

For those of you in need of last minute Halloween costume ideas.

Making A Statement

Joan Crawford in I Saw What You Did (Universal, 1965)

Ethel Merman in The Art Of Love (Universal, 1965)

We're Not Having It

"Be gone, Hump Day! I cast thee out!"

September Song

It's a long, long while from May to December, darlings.

When Redheads Rumble...

...Roddy referees.

Obey Thy Mommie

"Now, don't forget the attack commands, Cliquot: 'Bette' to maim, 'Christina' to kill."

Greetings From Heathrow Airport

"Western Union To Miss CHOAN Crawwwwww-fort, New York, NY Stop Saw this lit-tle item at Haaaaar-rod's Stop Knew you'd know just where to stick it Stop Love, Bette."

This Holiday Weekend...

...we hope you're the Toque of the town.

Happy Mother's Day

Audrey Hepburn with son Sean Ferrer

Betty Grable with daughters Vicki and Jessica James

Susan Hayward with sons Timothy and Gregory Barker

Lauren Bacall with son Stephen Bogart

Linda Darnell with daughter Charlotte "Lola" Marley

Rita Hayworth with daughter Rebecca Welles

Sophia Loren with son Edoardo Ponti

Joan Crawford with daughters Cathy Crawford and Cynthia Crawford

Jayne Mansfield with daughter Jayne Marie Mansfield

Judy Garland with daughter Lorna Luft

Angela Lansbury with daughter Deirdre Shaw and son Peter Shaw

Lana Turner with daughter Cheryl Crane

Doris Day with son Terry Melcher

Elizabeth Taylor with son Michael Wilding, Jr. and daughter Liza Todd Burton

Molto Bene Brazzi

Joan Crawford and Rossano Brazzi in The Story Of Esther Costello (Columbia, 1957)

 

Olivia de Havilland and Rossano Brazzi in Light In The Piazza (MGM, 1962)

 

Maureen O'Hara and Rossano Brazzi in The Battle Of The Villa Fiorita (Warner Bros., 1965)

A cougar's best friend.

With Friends Like Jackie...

"I'm the only one in the book who doesn't take pills!" -- Judy Garland on being cast as "Helen Lawson" in the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1966)

"I just read the most marvelous book. It's called Valley of the Moon." -- Bette Davis to Johnny Carson

"Karla! At fourteen, he had masturbated with her picture propped up in front of him. His friends had their school lockers filled with pinups of Doris Day...But with him it had always been Karla." -- Jacqueline Susann, writing in Once is Not Enough (1974)

 

"Ethel [Merman] and I have an old score to settle, but she might not realize it because she doesn't read books." -- Jacqueline Susann on modeling the "Helen Lawson" character in Valley of the Dolls on Merman



"Ethel Merman is a lady and a philanthropist compared to Joan [Crawford]. If I had known Joan when I was writing Valley of the Dolls, Helen Lawson would have been a monster." -- Jacqueline Susann

Boyd's Bunch

In ruminating over the filmography of Stephen Boyd, as we are often wont to do, we've decided upon a rudimentary categorization of his oft-illustrious co-stars. Therefore, we hereby declare the following:

THE BEST LOOKING BOOKENDS: Dorothy Dandridge and Joan Collins
Island in the Sun (20th Century Fox, 1957)

 

THE BEST POUT: Brigitte Bardot
The Night Heaven Fell (Kingsley-International, 1958)

 



THE MOST FRIGHTENING: Joan Crawford
The Best of Everything (20th Century Fox, 1959)
 

THE TOUGHEST: Susan Hayward
Woman Obsessed (20th Century Fox, 1959)

THE MOST SUPERIOR: Dolores Hart
Lisa (20th Century Fox, 1962)



THE SUNNIEST: Doris Day
Billy Rose's Jumbo (MGM, 1962)



THE MOST REGAL: Sophia Loren
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Paramount, 1964)

THE CLASSIEST: Eleanor Parker
The Oscar (Embassy, 1966)

THE MOST LIKELY TO STEAL FOCUS FROM BOYD'S BULGE: Raquel Welch
Fantastic Voyage (20th Century Fox, 1966)



THE BEST WIGLET: Yvette Mimieux
Caper of the Golden Bulls (Embassy, 1967)

THE MOST CLUELESS: Charlton Heston
Ben Hur (MGM, 1959)

 

 

The Wearing Of The Green

Who did it best yesterday?

St. Patrick

Lee Patrick in The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Columbia, 1946)

Lee Patrick and Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros., 1941)

Lee Patrick and Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (Warner Bros., 1942)

Lee Patrick, Ann Blyth and Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945)

Willard Waterman, Rosalind Russell and Lee Patrick in Auntie Mame (Warner Bros., 1958)

Lee Patrick in Singin' Spurs (Columbia, 1948)



The real Saint Patrick, darlings.