Old Hollywood

The sense of glamor of old Hollywood lives on. The fashion, the music, the stars and movies we all love. This group is for all who love old Hollywood and all things classic and elegant.

Old Hollywood Actresses

A few great actresses of old Hollywood...

featured lens Greta Garbo, the most beautiful woman who ever lived

Greta Garbo was a charismatic, breathtakingly beautiful Nordic actress who set her own standards and became a legend in her own time. She had an unforgettable face with perfect bone structure and was voted by The Guinness Book of World Records as the...

featured lens Marilyn Monroe: Icon of an Era

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was an actress, singer, and model. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was destined for fame. Marilyn was married to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and allegedly had affairs with President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, a...

featured lens Dietrich or Marlene, Falling in Love Again

A number of stars become known by their Surname or Chrisian name alone. Marlene Dietrich is unique in being universally recognised by the use of either of her names. She was the first German actress to become a major Hollywood star. After a successfu...

featured lens Jayne Mansfield: Sex Symbol

Jayne Mansfield, was a sex symbol.  She pushed the limits.  Often overshadowed by Marilyn Monroe, Jayne broke boundaries.  Though her life was cut short, Jayne Mansfield lived life more then most.  She suffered trag...

featured lens Elizabeth Taylor

 By Sharon Stajda, Her parents were Francis and Sara Taylor. Her parents being Americans living in England, later returned to the United States when war came to England. They settled in southern California, Elizabeth at the young age of...

featured lens Vivien Leigh

So who is Vivien Leigh anyhow? That's what I'm going to tell ya.. She was the Original Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. She was the mother of  Suzanne. She was the 1st Lady Olivier. She was an Amazing Actress. She battled Manic Depression....

featured lens Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress

Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most number of Oscars won. Her career as a leading lady spanned seven decades, over fifty quality films (running the gamut from screwball comedies and romances to high drama), and twelve Oscar nominations (anoth...

featured lens Doris Day

This talented cutie pie, girl next door actress/singer of yesteryear stole the hearts of Americans when she first debuted in Romance on the High Seas in 1948. That movie launched a very productive career. Her prolific movies have continued to attract...

featured lens Ava Gardner

She was the actress who married Frank Sinatra and helped his career restart. She also married actor Micky Rooney and bandleader Artie Shaw. But there was more to Ava Gardner than famous husbands. She gave us many memorable performances...

featured lens Mae West

Welcome to my Mae West Lens, it is and will remain a work in progress as I struggle to list all the best links to all things Mae online. If you have a site or lens you'd like added please let me know.

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Collecting a piece of Old Hollywood

"How To" lenses for the best ways to collect and preserve pieces of Old Hollywood.

featured lens Collecting Vintage Movie Magazines

There's something about carefully flipping through old movie magazines - the dungy smell, the fragility of the paper, the crazy advertisements, the pedestal on which classic movies stars were placed upon - a bygone age that can be seen on b...

featured lens Autograph Collecting - Old Hollywood

It's odd to think as a 12-year-old that many of my favorite actors and actresses had already passed away. There was no way to get Judy Garland to ever sign a photo for me. Clark Gable had been dead for years. I began a mission to write to stars and r...

Books on Old Hollywood

Old Hollywood Actors

featured lens Clark Gable

  William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. The only child of William H. Gable, an oil driller and farmer, and Adeline Hershelman Gable, both of German ancestry. When Clark was seven months old his mother died suddenly and...

featured lens Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood Tough Guy

Humphrey Bogart, for many people throughout the world, will always be the ultimate screen actor whose position as the greatest movie tough guy of them all is secure. His film characters such as Sam Spade, Rick Blaine, Duke Mantee and Fred C. Dobbs, t...

featured lens Errol Flynn - Hollywood Superstar Enigma

At the peak of his fame in the 1940's Errol Flynn was nothing short of a cinematic god. Even now, half a century later his name rests securely amongst the greatest performers who made the classic age of Hollywood what it was. He has become a Hollwood...

featured lens Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper, (Coop), was one of Hollywood's most popular leading men during a career which spanned 5 decades. He received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor, winning twice. He also received an Honorary Award from the Academy in 1961. In 1999,...

featured lens Bing Crosby

   The incomparable Bing Crosby had perhaps the most successful career of any artist in the twentieth century. As both singer and actor he entertained the public for more than forty years and spent much of that time on top of the charts, bo...

featured lens Bing Crosby

   The incomparable Bing Crosby had perhaps the most successful career of any artist in the twentieth century. As both singer and actor he entertained the public for more than forty years and spent much of that time on top of the charts, bo...

featured lens James Stewart The Actor And The Man

My favorite actor of all time is Jimmy Stewart. I stumbled upon him in a funny way. My husband (at the time he was my boyfriend) opened the world of Jimmy Stewart for me. He loved classic movies and watched them often. We were both teenagers then and...

featured lens John Wayne, Hollywood Giant

For 25 years John Wayne, 'Duke',  was rated at or around the top in Hollywood movies box-office appeal. His films grossed $700million - a record no performer has come close to matching. Yet he was more than that. He was an icon, a magnetic...

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Hollywood Designers

Part (much) of what makes Hollywood great is the fashion. The gowns, the suits, the costumes....

These are a few of the talented people responsible for it:

featured lens The Artistry of Adrian

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, (March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959), known mostly as Adrian, was a Hollywood costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his...

featured lens Irene Lentz

Born in Baker, Montana, Lentz started out as an actress under her birth name, appearing in secondary roles in silent films beginning with Keystone Studios in 1921. She was directed in her first film by F. Richard Jones and the two eventually began a...

featured lens Ode to Pauline Trigere

 "Building a wardrobe is like collecting paintings, Your choices should be careful and personal and should reflect your taste, not just for a season, but for years to come."           &n...

featured lens The "New Look" of Christian Dior

Dior launched his couture house on 12 February 1947 and became an overnight sensation. His voluptuous collection was the antithesis of masculine wartime fashions. Instead, the designs featured sloping shoulders, a full bust and a cinched-in waist abo...

featured lens Ceil Chapman

CEIL CHAPMAN Ceil Chapman’s son Peter, described his mother’s design skills as being akin to engineering and indeed, if one studies her skilful draping, tucking and folding of fabric it is clear as to what he meant. Born in Staten Islan...

The Movies

featured lens Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton's--- Puerto Vallarta

 By Sharon Stajda, "After all married people fight." But you could see they loved each other, it was in their eyes". Theirs was a romance that will long be remembered... I am referring to Liz and Dick, as their fans, and admirers wo...

featured lens Movie Musicals on DVD

Classic movie musicals are fun for the entire family and offer an alternative to cartoons and other fare aimed at younger kids. Often set in another era, they provide natural opportunities for parents to broaden a child's exposure to the world. ...

Other Stars of Old Hollywood

featured lens Weatherwax Family Hollywood Dog Trainers

(Note: Google Ads On This Page Are Not Endorsed By Bob Weatherwax) Much mis-information mis-labelled as "authentic" has been posted on internet sites regarding Bob Weatherwax and the nine generations of Collies he and his father Rudd train...

featured lens Howard Hughes, Hollywood Hermit

Howard Hughes, one of the world's richest men,  died from dehydration, malnutrition and neglect. Even now, a generation after his death, he remains one of Hollywood's most intriguing and perplexing figures. Hughes lived a quite extraordinary lif...

Guestbook

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Wordilydoc

Great group you know most times we don't get to know most of the forerunners in industries especially those who have done so well that people are still desperately trying to fill their shoes or even out grow them.

Posted January 11, 2008
WVaTumbleweed

What a wonderful group! Please check out my lenses on

Vivian Leigh http://www.squidoo.com/vivianleighAnd
Rosemary Clooney http://www.squidoo.com/rosemaryclooney

Posted January 04, 2008
bringitbackvintage

HI, I love your group. Perhaps you could add the famous vintage fashion famous Hollywood designers as a category. Check out my lenses on Helen Rose, Irene Lentz and Ceil Chapman.

Posted December 10, 2007
kellfinder

Hi. I just came across your lens and gave it 5 stars! Nice job. I have a lens all about Jimmy Stewart and thought we should exchange links. I think our sites compliment each other. Here is my lens for you to check out http://www.squidoo.com/jamesstewart/
Thanks!
Kelly

Posted August 29, 2007
kab

Wow, Filomena, way cool!
Start at google books. Searching "villa capri" some references pop up...
Live Free, Die Young by Frascella and Weisel (p.228)
His Way by Kitty Kelley (p.266)
a photo in Angel on my Shoulder
http://books.google.com/books?q="villa capri"

Posted July 14, 2007
 
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