Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist

Ann Miller, c. 1940 Rita Hayworth in My Gal Sal (20th Century Fox, 1942) Costume designer: Gwen Wakeling Ginger Rogers in Lady ...

Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (Columbia, 1934)   June Allyson in You Can't Run Away From It [remake of It Happened O...

    ...to wish Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff  a Happy 90th Birthday!

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable ...

"Kim's gotten too big for her...britches." -- Barbara Nichols on Kim Novak

          KENNETH BATTELLE April 19, 1927 - May 12, 2013

Three of our favorite films when we were growing up were Imitation of Life (1959), Back Street (1961), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967...

DORIS DAY April 24, 1924 It's a good Day for bugle beads, sequins, and wacky wiglets.

Constance Bennett in Madame X (1966, Universal) "Her face was her talent, and when it dropped, so did her career -- right out of sight...

" Miss Hayward was very unkind to me on the set of Where Love Has Gone [1964]...I didn't know until later that she had been calle...

A Thousand and One Nights (1945, Columbia) Aladdin's magic vamp.

Kim Novak in 5 Against the House (1955, Columbia) The deck does appear to be stacked.

...Rita.

"I have known Joan Crawford for more than thirty-five years. I still don't know her at all..She is the only star I know who manuf...

LANA TURNER February 8, 1921 - June 29, 1995