Download Grace Kelly's handwriting font (+ wallpaper)!

The epic quest is finally over. The participants are coming home, all weary, after looking and looking for the mysterious star. I was Rumpelstiltskin, making you guess guess guess the name. And a victorious figure rises while the sun comes down: KC The Great Guesser, now double winner, who cleverly used the method of The Question in her blog. It's time, my fellow readers, to open the chest and discover the prize.

And yes it was Grace Kelly. Did you know that she had that kind of playful personality? I've always found that ax anecdote very interesting :) Thanks to Gordon Pasha, who posted the video in KC's blog, you can hear the story from Alec Guinness himself: 

And about her handwriting, gosh, I love it, it's so cool. I made a wallpaper to use the font (I added the image to the rar file containing the font):

And this is a sample of the font being compared with an original letter in Microsoft Word:

(When you are Grace Kelly you can call Greta Garbo "Miss G"). 

Well, too much blah blah. To download, read the terms of use and instructions..

...click HERE.

=>Please notice that all the fonts are just for PERSONAL (non-commercial) use.

=> Thanks to all the people that participated, I really appreciate it. Stay tuned. 

Unlock new font: Hint #2

I'm so sorry I couldn't post before. Uhm, it seems that nobody is getting close to the right name (and I helped by telling the story wrong at the beginning). So I'm developing the anecdote a little bit more:

An ancient ax was found in the place in which Alec Guinness and the star you have to guess were filming. For the next 20 years or so, these crazy people sent the ax to each other, in the most unexpected moments. One could enter his/her hotel room and find it on the bed, and hell knows how it got there. 

#2:  That way, when she was touring the US for some poetry reading sessions she founded the Indian ax in her bed. And when Guinness got an Oscar in 1980, she made all the arrangements at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel so when the proud winner entered to his room found the warrior ax on his bed. The actress loved this kind of tricks and word games. 

Well, you also know, thanks to KC and Mythical Monkey, that is not Deborah Kerr, David Niven (now is obvious) or Laurence Olivier. Any ideas?

Unlock a new classic star handwriting font!!

I'm happy because 21 people thought that my blog was worth following. So, in return, I'm going to give you one of my most accomplished fonts. Just like we did with Ingrid Bergman's handwriting font, I'm gonna ask a question and you, my dear reader, will give me a name. When I read the right one, I'm gonna upload the prize. Easy!

This time I'm not going to show you the handwriting, because it's too easy to guess the writer. Instead I'm going to tell you an anecdote in 3 lines (***):

An ancient ax was found in the place in which Alec Guinness and the star you have to guess were filming. For the next 20 years or so, these crazy people sent the ax to each other, in the most unexpected moments. One could enter his/her hotel room and find it on the bed, and hell knows how it got there. 

Do you know the name? Leave a comment.

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*** This is so embarrassing, I told the story all wrong!!! I was sure it was David Niven the other character in the story.

Ingrid Bergman's handwriting font + how I met her daughter

So, KC unlocked the prize and as I promised I'm sharing it with you. Let me tell you that creating these fonts is just a hobby, so I'm obviously not a professional. This is version 1.0. because there are some characters I couldn't find in Ingrid's letters, like $, & and q, so I just had to invent them based in other characters. I hope someday I can find new letters and update the file.

What can I say about the way Ingrid wrote? Well, her handwriting was classy and elegant, her characters were thin and long, and cursive...very cursive. 

Here's a sample of the font being used on Microsof Word:

Download + Terms of use + Instructions?:  

Click HERE.

So play with it and have fun. I'm just going to add a little story. The closest I've been to a classic star is when I met Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid's daughter. She came to Chile like 4 years ago the present a documentary about her dad.

At the time I wasn't a crazy classic film fan, but my dad loved Ingrid and I thought she was a great actress (plus I had seen Isabella in "Friends" and "Alias"). So I cut out a little picture of her that appeared on the newspaper with a quote and put it in my bag. After my classes at university, I went with a friend to the place Isabella was supposed to be (a "cultural room" near our presidential palace) with little hopes.

But we waited like 20 minutes and Isabella arrived with a bunch of people (our Minister of Culture among them) and there were no fans besides us. So I stepped forward, showed the little piece of paper and my Sharpie to her. She smiled (I never noticed how much she looked like her mother until that moment) and signed it. I mumbled something and she kept walking with the bunch of guys. My friend took a picture of that moment (I know, it's not very clear, but we were so star struck that a better image was impossible to get):

And her autograph:

Well, this is all for now. Hope you had a swell time. Please let me know what you think of the font. 

Post #100: Unlock a special prize and a story

 I'm celebrating the fact that I've written one hundred posts here in Via Margutta. Thanks to my followers and commentators I've been encouraged to keep posting and sharing my thoughts about classic films and performers. I've met nice people and I've practiced my English which is very important. So...I've decided to upload something that is very special to me and I really hope you'll like. But first, you have to give me a name...this is the question:

Look my header image. The line "Life & Old Movies" is handwritten.  

Which classic movie star is that handwriting from?

Comment and leave your answer. The moment I get the right name, I'll post the prize for all the readers plus I'll tell you a story that connects that star directly with me. If I noticed that you're not getting close, I'll start to update this post with some hints. Have fun!

Hints:
#1: Non-American girl. 
#2: Won more than 2 Oscars. 

With Hint #2 K.C. got it right. It's Ingrid Bergman's handwriting. Download the font and read the story.  :) 

Rear Window's Guide to Properly Spying on your Neighbors

There are probably a lot of grammar mistakes, sorry for that. Anyway, it was fun to make :)

Marlene smoking.gif

Last year I created a blog about old movies in English that I never launched. I made some things to decorate, but never used them. This is one of them.
Warning: smoking is really bad. Don't be tempted by the cool pose of classic actors and actresses. 

El año pasado creé un blog en inglés sobre películas antiguas que nunca lancé. Había hecho algunas cosas para decorar, pero no las usé. Esta es una de ellas.

Precaución: fumar es realmente malo. No te tientes por cuán cool se ven los actores clásicos.

Marlene Dietrich in "Morocco"