Showing posts with label Hazel Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hazel Brooks. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Witch Hazel




Bewitching Hazel Brooks was the body in Body and Soul (1947) with John Garfield, and enjoyed a long marriage to MGM's legendary set designer, Cedric Gibbons. She had beauty, wealth, and fame, but lest you think it was all a bed of roses: "FBI agents are trying to find out what became of a $5,000 sable jacket belonging to Hazel Brooks. Alimented by a New York furrier it accidentally disappeared somewhere en route. It was protected by a scant $50 insurance policy..."