Video: The Alfred Hitchcock Cookbook

Today I stumbled upon (literally, I was using Stumble Upon) this video. The creators, Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco & Torsten Strer explain:

"Hitch is our graduation project at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. It’s about The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook, an animated book containing the recipes for Alfred Hitchcock’s classics. It’s made for Hitchcock enthusiasts and every other couch potato out there"

Hope you liked it! I'll be back writing a full post tomorrow or the day after :) Keep rocking!

Pretty relatives: Marlon & Tuki Brando (and Sean Flynn)

The other day I learned not only that Marlon Brando had 13 children, but that one of his grandchildren, Tuki, is a fashion model. So I have a new addition to the good genes post:

The story of Tuki's family is very, very sad and dramatic; and he wasn't included in Brando's will. He was raised in Tahiti and his name means "heartbeat". He seems to be a very down-to-earth person. 

In this interesting article Tuki remembers his grandfather:

"Acting is my grandfather and modelling is me," he says. "Even if I wanted to, it would be too hard for me. People would say, 'Ah, he's not as good as his grandfather'. I want to do something different.
"Three months ago I saw A Streetcar Named Desire. It was funny to see him on TV, looking so young. He was already old when I first met him."
His grandmother encouraged Tuki to visit the famous grandfather who hurt them all so badly.
"I saw him often,' he says of Brando. "He was really nice, but he was the boss of the house. When he wanted to see you, you would see him. But if you wanted to see him, he would decide.
"When you were in his house, you couldn't scream because he hated noise. He told me, 'Don't make a noise, don't speak too loud'. And he never went out anywhere. He just wanted calm and rest."

I also want to talk about another legend's descendant. In the previous good genes post, Becky mentioned another Errol's grandson, Sean (son of Rory Flynn). I had seen pictures of him and I though he didn't look like his ancestors.

Well, guess what, he grew up and has his own Youtube music channel:

I think he's talented and now he looks like Errol.

So, what do you know? Two succexy descendants for the price of one :)

Exhibition: Glamour of the Gods (London)

A quick post to share a link to this event. The place: London (yeah, I'll go swimming). The date: 7 July - 23 October. It will feature awesome portraits of Hollywood's Golden Age, all part of the archive of the John Jobal Foundation.

The site of The National Portrait Gallery shows a sneak peak:

Clark Gable and Joan Crawford for Dancing Lady
by George Hurrell, 1933

Press room at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (I love this pic)

Marilyn Monroe
by Ernest Bachrach, 1952

Well, that's all folks! I really have to write A LOT of reviews, maybe this weekend I'll finally make that post of mini-reviews.

Good genes: Errol, Gregory & Grace.

I saw a great movie...twice this week, but I haven't written the review yet. In the meantime, I wanted to share these...I don't know, family trees of pretty people? I had published them early this year on Tumblr, but I know most of you didn't see them:

ETHAN GREGORY PECK. Original Post on Tumblr

ANDREA CASIRAGHI, Original Post on Tumblr

SEAN & LUKE FLYNN. Original Post on Tumblr

Note: Luke Flynn is son of Arnella Flynn. 

Tell me, WHAT are you thinking?

Lovely things from Tumblr: Week #2

After such a crazy/scary Friday night, a menu of Lovely things from Tumblr to start the week in a good mood. Enjoy: 

(For a better experience, open the items in a new window)

Animated Gifs:

1.-

(iloverockhudson)

2. Hedy Lamarr and the fireflies (retrochic)
3. Bogie & Bacall and their signs (stardustmelody)
4. Dorothy and the flying house (devenir gris)
5. That face! (via classicsfan)
6. Movies from William Powell & Myrna Loy (bridiequilty)
7. Kate Hepburn and why you shouldn't walk backwards (vistavision)


Photos/Pictures

1.-

(slimbrowning)

2. Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward...

• being cool as always (rabbitthoughts),
• greeting (apaullo),
• looking proud of their child (fuckyeahpaulandjoanne)
• AND seems that Paul doesn't give a damn about signs  :) (missavagardner)

3. Lovely Audrey in a lovely garden (via lastnightsaffair)

4. Deborah Kerr and two adorable kids (witzseeker)

5. Cool posters from Hitchcock films (sallyintheskywithdiamods)

6. Julie Andrews and her baby :) (fab-ingrid)

7. Gregory Peck looking gorgeous (yawnyatheapocalyps)

8. Bette Davis waiting for her dressing room to open (runningthroughfog)

Quotes:

1. Spencer Tracy's last scene (vistavision)
2. Judy Garland remembers Little Judy Garland (escapedthoughts)
3. A letter from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor (burtonsinbloom)
4. Glenn Ford tells an awkward story about Bette Davis (mrglennford)
5. A poem from David O. Selznick to...Barbara Stanwyck (fuckyesoldhollywood)

Audio:

1. Emma Wallace is now on Tumblr! Hear her first Rose Colored Radio Show to start the week in a happy mood :)
2. Cary Grant & Ginny Simms sing You're the top (givenchy)

Hope you liked this week's selection :)

Lovely things from Tumblr: Week #1

So, I was thinking (because, you know, sometimes I think)...Tumblr is a different world. Things come and go really fast, people usually don't discuss the items shared, just reblog them or 'like' them. There's a lot of young people there that loves Classic Movies and share amazing stuff everyday, every hour, every minute, so is difficult to track them or fully appreciate them.

That's why, every Friday I'll make a selection of prettay things I saw on my dashboard in the previous days (ever since I wrote The Fountainhead in my own words I just can't write "pretty", LOL) and share it with you here.

Hope you like the menu! (for a better experience, open the links in a new window):

Animated Gifs: 

Ginger expressing her artistic gift on Cary Grant (nikkithemouse)

• Elizabeth Taylor christens one of the MGM ships (asdistantasvenus)
• Errol Flynn smiles and melts you heart (errolivio)
• It's a "beautiful day" for Miss Garbo (carolinealice)
• Boys smoking (devenirgris); girls smoking (devenirgris); 
• Maria explains Liesl that the sun always comes out (liquorupmythoughts);
• Carole explains the rules to Robert Montgomery (lucynic83); 
• Marilyn Monroe was greeted on her b-day by deforest & devernirgris and then she kicked a soccer ball (ourgooseberry); 
• Someone called this nuzzle the cutest thing ever (vistavision),
•  Paul Newman shows his abs...twice (theathenaeum & theopdeleteditfromhisblog).

Photos/Pictures:

Paul Newman & Eva Marie Saint having a laugh (apaullo)

• There goes Errol again (errolivio); 
• Ingrid Bergman & her dog, Stromboli (fuckyeaholdhollywood); 
• A lovely picture of Myrna Loy (presentinglilymars); 
• Tough Humphrey Bogart...in flippers (wehadfacesthen); 
• Bette Davis, daughter and husband @ the beach (aaathenaaa), 
• Gary Cooper looking gorgeous... and Fay Wray (theloudestvoice); 
• Nickie & Terry from An Affair to Remember (bellecs).

Quotes:

• Robert Stack explains why his favorite photoshoot was one with Carole Lombard (carolefreakinglombard); 
• Deborah Kerr explains why she's not ladylike (witzseeker).

Fun stuff (not about classic film, but fun anyway)

The kid from Toy Story...flesh and bones (via mermaidsandtreasurechests)

• Rapunzel's 'mom' is so hilarious (sookeh), 
• I usually search songs this way (stillnot-ginger); 
• Check how polite monkeys can be (everyherphasitsderp). LOL.

Finally, the egocentric pick of the week...

Joan Fontaine checking out Ty's legs (via-51)

What do you think?

The Showbiz Wizard: "A Chat Debbie Reynolds!"

Mick from The Showbiz Wizard authorized me to re-post his wonderful conversation with Debbie Reynolds early this year and share it with you guys. He says he met Debbie at her California home...well, let him explain it:

"

She has been called "America's Sweetheart" in the peak of her career which has spanned six decades. Debbie Reynolds is a living legend from Hollywood's golden age and at age 78 (she will be 79 on April 1st!), she continues to perform throughout the country to the amazement of her cherished fans. I had the great honor to chat with Debbie from her California home just the other day!

MICK: Please tell me about your upcoming show at the Tilles Center on the campus of C.W. Post in Brookville, Long Island on April 8th!

DEBBIE: I call it a variety show! It's a concert show filled with music and dancing. I do impressions of Barbara Streisand, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West; I do a lot of comedy and also bring my film clips of "Singing In The Rain", "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", "The Tender Trap" with Sinatra. I sing with each of these movie clips too. We do music from Stephen Sondheim, Gershwin and all of those great songs and standards that I loved and grew up with. I do a little bit of everything because the people are coming out to see you and you take them out of their problems in their life for the time that they are seeing the show. I don't do politics and I don't do religion! I try to keep it as light as possible! I do another section of out takes of mistakes from classic films of Bette Davis,Jimmy Stewart and Humphrey Bogart and all the greats. This is all from my collection of memorabilia. I have a very large film library!

MICK: You grew up in Burbank, California, right next door to Hollywood. Who were your favorite movie stars when you were growing up?

DEBBIE: I loved the musicals! I loved Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly! I went to the movies every weekend in the 40's. There were a lot of comedies and musicals and I kind of grew up on them. I loved Jimmy Stewart and Errol Flynn too!

MICK: I see on your website that you are auctioning off your incredible movie memorabilia collection in June, the largest private collection in the world.

DEBBIE: Yes, I've given up after all these years. I just can't seem to get it done [a movie museum] and the Academy doesn't seem to care. I can't get enough backing people to care about the building of a museum. It's not good economical times. So I'm going to have a big auction in June and another one in December.

MICK: Are you going to keep anything?

DEBBIE: No I'm going to sell everything!

MICK: In your extensive collection, what is your most special piece?

DEBBIE: I have Marilyn Monroe's white subway dress, Barbara Streisand's gold dress from 'Hello Dolly", Hepburn's black Aztec dress. I have virtually every star from every Academy Award winning movie! Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Marlon Brando, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Groucho and Harpo Marx. I have the best private collection in the world!

MICK: When was the last time you spoke top Elizabeth Taylor?

DEBBIE: I spoke to her about five weeks ago when she was quite ill. She was trying to get better but there was just no ability to get better. Her back was so severe and her pain was great. They couldn't find any way to help her.

MICK: Did you have a favorite costar?

DEBBIE: I think my favorite costar was Jimmy Stewart. I loved working with him. I also loved Glenn Ford. We had wonderful fun together. I had a great time working with Dick Van Dyke. I really enjoyed everybody! I never did meet someone that I didn't like! I loved them all!

MICK: I read one of your quotes that said " "Singing In The Rain" and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever did in my life". Why was "Singing In The Rain" hard?

DEBBIE: I was just referring to the one number that was called "Good Morning" where we go over the couch. First of all, I was not a dancer! I had to learn how to dance and keep up with Gene Kelly and Donald O"Connor. That was enormously difficult for a seventeen year old who never danced before to have that challenge! That was a very hard number and Gene was a brilliant dancer. He made me work very hard and I did! I had blood in my shoes! We didn't have any Saturday or Sunday off where we could just pass out for the day. We worked from six in the morning until eleven at night.

MICK: Are you religious?

DEBBIE: Yes, I'm very religious!

MICK: Have you ever had any miracles happen in your life?

DEBBIE: It's a miracle I'm still alive! The fact that I've survived all my bad marriages is a miracle! I'm very happy I got through childbirth alive.

MICK: You've had numerous successes and awards in your illustrious career. What would you consider your biggest achievement?

DEBBIE: For "The Unsinkable Molly Brown', I was nominated for an Academy Award. I worked very hard and I loved that movie. I thought I did an excellent job in that picture.

MICK: What are your upcoming plans?

DEBBIE: To continue doing my shows until I drop dead! I'm going to be just like George Burns and stay on the stage until I drop dead and have myself stuffed like Roy Rogers' horse Trigger! That's the joke on how I'm ending my career. I want to perform as long as I can!

MICK: How would you like to be remembered?

DEBBIE: I'd like to be remembered as a person who cared about other people and was a good mother and a good friend. That's good enough!

You can see more on Debbie at: http://debbiereynolds.com "

[Originally posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 on The Show Biz Wizard. I added pictures #2, 4 & 5]

MANY THANKS to Mick for sharing this nice chat with us!!  :)

Remember that now you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook :)

My trailer for "The Thin Man" (2013) !!!!

Hey people, after our discussion about who should play Nora Charles, I watched Public Enemies...I had Johnny, I had Marion and I had a 30s setting, so I just needed to make this trailer:

What do you think?

Was this a good buy?: Classic Stars old cigarette cards

Hey guys, I don't know about memorabilia and prices, so maybe you could help me out here. The other day I visited a flea market and like in the first store I found a box with old Chilean cigarette cards of Classic Actors. I stood there and started selecting. The guy said that he would make a discount if I bought 70. Here are the 70 cards I picked:

I paid 33 dollars for them. What do you think? Too much?

A site you should check: "Letters of Note"

Heya readers! I haven't seen many movies lately, yesterday I started the course to get a postgraduate certificate on Digital Journalism I told you about, so I won't be posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays (probably). But don't worry, I'm planning some new services for Via Margutta, a surprise and a new book review. Stay tuned!

Today I wanted to recommend you a very interesting site, which is getting more and more known and now it's even nominated for a Webby Award. Letters of Note publishes "correspondence deserving a wider audience", that means that you can find letters, postcards, telegrams, smoke signals, etc etc sent by famous/historical people. And of course, I wouldn't be talking about this site here, if it didn't share notes from classic actors and directors. Here are my favorites:

James Dean : Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world

Audrey Hepburn to Stanley Kubrick: I expect to make the best movie ever made

A drunken evening with Groucho Marx

Cary Grant: I cannot swagger out in these shirts

Marlon Brando to Marilyn Monroe: The best reappraisals are born in the worst crisis

To Billy Wilder: Respectfully yours, Clint Eastwood

Hope you enjoyed! Oh, don't forget that you can help Letters of Note to win a Webby Award. 

"Iconoclasts": Robert Redford & Paul Newman

"Hi, Joanne? It's Bob...Redford" :)

Please take a minute and watch. The other day I saw for the first time a TV commercial advertising this Sundance Channel show and of course the clip featuring Paul and Robert caught my attention. Luckily, I found the episode in Youtube. It's really amazing: Robert Redford visits Paul Newman and they talk about each other, their friendship, the beginnings of their careers, their projects, director George Roy Hill, aging, etc. You can see Paul's house, a theater that Joanne Woodward repaired, special footage (like Newman's Own "commercial" and Paul driving his cars) and lots of interesting photos. Enjoy:

Oh, I started reading the Jean Arthur biography, which won the poll the other day. I'm loving it!

In which I embed some entertaining Youtube vids

Because I'm too lazy to write a full post, these are some of the videos I've enjoyed lately:

Audrey Airlines:
My brother says the voice doesn't sound like Audrey's but in my opinion it really does, plus I think it isn't offensive or something like that. My favorite part is when Mary Poppins appears on the sky:

You can watch more of these at their channel, PunchyPlayers, like Judy's Cream of Wheat.

30 second Bunnies:

This is a great "show" in which films are compressed into 30 seconds and bunnies play the memorable characters (maybe you already got that by reading the title). Anyway, my favorites are the classic films parodies. Here's Gone with the wind:

There are a lot more listed, including the classics Wizard of Oz, Kink Kong, Casablanca & It's a wonderful life.

Lucy & Red Skelton Do The Freddy The Free Loader Sketch:

I had already seen this one, of course, but it happens to be one of my favorite Lucy's moments and I enjoyed re-watching it. I'd never seen Red on anything before (and after I must say), but this clip is just an awesome class of pantomime:

Just like Errol Flynn:

Do you know the band Satire? Well, me neither, but these guys played in the early 90's and this song has been stuck in my head the last few days:

So, they're not gonna use classic stars in new movies?

Pic via: Imdb

Yesterday, the news was everywhere. All the media speculated about director George Lucas' "new project". British actor/director Mel Smith, who worked with Lucas and whom the press calls his friend, said to the British newspaper Daily Mail:

‘He’s been buying up the film rights to dead movie stars in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside today’s stars.’ 

So, one site ironized "This is good news for anyone who’s yearned to see Katharine Hepburn share a tender embrace with Robert Pattinson or watch Jimmy Stewart hunting down bad guys with The Rock."; another fantasied: "It could mean screen greats such as SIR ALEC GUINESS appearing with the likes of JAMES DEAN and MARILYN MONROE."; and one even started comparing "the new generation" of actors with "the old guard" in Renée, meet Bette.

But finally, Wired received an e-mail from Lucasfilm spokesman, Josh Kushins, who states:

“This rumor is completely false"

Anyway...what do you think about this idea? Would you like to see stars from the past in new movies? Who would you like to see together? And it's not inserting an old scene in a new movie, like in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), it's actually using computer-generated imagery (CGI) to make them "act" in the films. But then, how things would work? Would they, for instance, be able to receive awards?

This is a bit like the movie S1mone (2002), in which Al Pacino creates a super actress using a computer:

Captured on Film: The true story of Marion Davies (2001)

Hi guys! I couldn't post before because I'm sharing one PC with 4 guys (3 brothers and 1 dad). So before any of them appear by my door asking for this machine, let me tell you that the great documentary Captured on Film: The true story of Marion Davies (2001) is currently available to watch online. It's an attempt of doing justice as one of the interviewees says and showing the real talent Marion had. Narrated by Charlize Theron, it contains home movies and behind the cameras clips, interviews with people like King Vidor's daughter, Film Historians (one of them is called Charles Champlin) and Constance Moore. Also, there are bits of Marion's audio comments about her life with William Randolph Hearst recorded in the 50s. I really learned more about her life and I want to see some of the movies that they mentioned here. Enjoy:

More about funny Marion:

• Marion Davies x2: "Show People" and "The Patsy"
• Not so dumb (1930): Marion Davies is simply hilarious

(Video) Poll Results: Irene Dunne is the funniest gal around...

The poll about the actresses that make you laugh the most is closed. Here's the countdown to #1, I embedded and linked funny scenes from each participant (you don't have to find the scene in the videos, I added a code to make them start in the relevant part). Enjoy:

# 11 (TIE)  Barbara Stanwyck (0%)

No votes for Miss Stanwyck? I mean, haven't you seen Christmas in Connecticut? Or this one?:

# 11 (TIE) Rita Hayworth (0%)

I couldn't find her hilarious job interview from Cover Girl, but she's really funny in this clip:

#10 (TIE) Paulette Goddard (4%)

I haven't seen many movies from her, plus there are not many videos with her scenes on Youtube and the ones available like the catfight from The Women can't be embedded, so I chose a tribute to her films with Charlie Chaplin:

#10 (TIE) Marlene Dietrich (4%)

 I couldn't find any clip from The lady is willing in which she's simply hilarious. I'm embedding a scene from Golden Earrings:

#9 (TIE) Claudette Colbert (6%)

I thought Claudette would get more votes, after all she was in one of the most famous comedies ever, It happened one night. I love most of her comedies with Fred MacMurray & Ray Milland. In the next scene from Arise, My love she pretends to be Ray's wife to save his life:

#9 (TIE) Marion Davies (6%)

You know my opinion about her terrific skills for comedy. So I'll just leave you with a clip from The Patsy:

#8 Una Merkel (8%)

It was a great and positive surprise to see Una getting so many votes. Youtube doesn't do her justice, there aren't many clips from her. I uploaded a bit from Evelyn Prentice:

#7 Jean Arthur (13%)

Maybe a scene from The More The Merrier? Or maybe the pig scene from Easy Living? Or maybe Jean just being funny in The talk of the town? I'll go with the discussion about percentages in Easy Living, I love when she says "You don't have to get mad just because you're so stupid"

#6  Ginger Rogers (12%)

There are hundreds of hilarious lines and moments from all the films she did with Fred, like the kiss scene from Swing Time. Ginger was so funny: maybe you love how she played a little girl in The Major and The Minor? Or her drunk scene from Stage Door? Or a funny remark from Bachelor Mother? Well, the one I chose was the catfight from Vivacious lady:

#5 (TIE) Katharine Hepburn (15%)

Again, too many funny scenes, from this one to this one. But one of my favorites is how she tries to prepare a breakfast in Woman of the Year:

#5 (TIE) Myrna Loy (15%)

I know you all have your favorite funny scene from Miss Loy. Maybe a witty line from "The Thin Man", maybe her instructions for painting the house in "Mr. Blandings build his dream house" or even her secondary role in the overall dull  Love me tonight. So I tried to choose a more unknown part, the scene where her character goes out with Clark Gable in Test Pilot (watch until they go to the cinema):

#4 Eve Arden (17%)

Wow, fourth position! I haven't seen her tv show,  but her secondary characters in Mildred Pierce, Cover Girl & One Touch of Venus were great. This clip is from the latter:

#3 (TIE) Rosalind Russell (19%)

Roz always makes me laugh. She was hilarious in The Women or practically every film she was in, from My sister Eileen to The Trouble with Angels, and obviously her performance as Hildy Johnson is one of the funniest ever. But I'm embedding a scene from Auntie Mame (when she hears the kid talking about drinks, she seems to be embarrassed but in the next second she makes a proud gesture with her face, lol):

#3 (TIE) Carole Lombard (19%)

She was so funny! I almost prefer her outtakes to the actual movies :) What did I choose? A clip from Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Or maybe from My Man Godfrey, Nothing Scared or To have and have not? No, the clip is Lombard pretending to be an annoying phone operator in Hand across the table:

# 2  Lucille Ball (37%)

Does she need any explanation? I couldn't decide what clip to choose, I had like a million in my head. One of my favorites is the Vitameatavegamin scene, but it was too long. I also love the restaurant scene with William Holden or every time she has problems with Spanish (that clip has one of the bests punch- lines ever : 'yeah, well that's what we're having'). Anyway, I finally picked this one:

#1  Irene Dunne (38%)

Finally the number one: Irene Dunne was just great at everything. Her comedies were hilarious and of course, my favorites are the ones she made with Cary Grant. In this clip from The awful truth she pretends to be an uneducated woman just to annoy Cary (my favorite part is when she says: 'don't anybody leave this room, I've lost my purse!')

And here's the official data:

 I'd love if you could leave a link to your favorite comedy scenes from these girls (or describe them) ^^

Barbara Stanwyck called Vivien Leigh a "whore"?

Via: victoriastation.tumblr.com/

Yes, I know. This is like Classic Hollywood E! Entertainment and it's is all over (my) Tumblr. Questions:

a) Is this letter real? The sheet and the signature seem legit, but why it's written like in Times New Roman?

b) If it's real, why did she hate so much Vivien Leigh? What happened between Robert Taylor and Miss Leigh?

c) If the reason has something to do with that, why is she so considerate in the paragraph about Lana Turner?

On a side note, people have noticed the kick ass way this letter is written: the sentence “They must have like that whore, Vivien Leigh instead. I don’t really give a damn anymore” is immediately followed by  “Best of luck and wishes to you and your family”. LOL.

Can anyone shed some light into this?

A blog you should follow: 'My Love of Old Hollywood'

Today I wanted to write a special post about an interesting blog I found the other day: My Love of Old Hollywood. Page, the owner, writes about Actors and Actresses from the silent Era to the 1940s. The info she provides is really amazing (I found several anecdotes that I didn't know) and very easy to digest, plus she makes a special Youtube video roll related with the person reviewed. But the most exciting thing is that she posts about stars whose autographs are in her personal collection, so her entries are illustrated with signatures of Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Fay Wray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean Harlow, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Colleen Moore, Una Merkel and more. 

Janet Gaynor's handwritten note.

Charles Boyer's signature. 

"Sincerely, Irene Dunne"

Page explains in her first post And So We Begin:

I get asked a lot about when I started collecting this type of memorabilia and why. The why goes back to about the age of 8. My mother would find a quiet room in our house and sit down to an old black and white movie whenever she could. After seeing the joy on her face and complete contentment while watching The Thin Man movies or hearing her infectious laugh while watching Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn, I wanted a part of it and I found myself just as lost in the beauty of Old Hollywood as she still is today.

My collection started about 15 years ago and it is now at over 250 pieces and growing. The items that I will list on this blog are from The Silents to the 1940's. In no way is this site meant to sell or buy items and its not a place to argue about Star Wars ruling over Hitchcock. Everyone is welcome to comment on the blogs and items that will follow, and hopefully we can keep it all about our love of old movies and the stars that filled the silver screen.

I realize my collection may not appeal to everyones taste and I welcome hearing from and showing anyone else's items from this era. The more the merrier. Just realize that although some collect fridge magnets, matchbooks and even beanie babies, thats a discussion for another site, and I am sure theres a website out there for anything collectible that you can imagine. (Okay, I do collect fridge magnets)...Don't judge me. There will be plenty of time for that later when we get started. : )

Oh, she gave me an foretaste of her next posts including items from her collection: Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, Claudette Colbert, Vivien Leigh, Gloria Swanson and Elizabeth Taylor. Plus she will post on Myrna Loy next at my request :)

Visit Page's site here: My Love for Old Hollywood. 

* Credits: All the pictures from My Love for Old Hollywood.