The lady above is silent screen siren Lila Lee, demonstrating an admirable lack of restraint in the trimming and accessorization departments; which, we think, is quite befitting someone originally named Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel.
Her son was the playwright James Kirkwood, Jr., best known for A Chorus Line and the less-acclaimed (but arguably more cataclysmic) Legends -- which brought Mary Martin and Carol Channing together on stage for the first time. Kirkwood also wrote the novel There Must Be a Pony, which was based on his real-life experience vying with his own mother for the same man. (Thanksgiving dinner must have been awkward at Chez Lee.) When the book was filmed as a Very Special Television Event, the Lila Lee character was portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor -- a Dame who knows a thing or two about overaccessorizing.
