The Most Valuable Legs of Hollywood Cyd Charisse was a classically trained dancer and one of the most cherished dance partners to both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. On top of that, she was a woman of style and poise, an author and a fitness video trainer. Her legs were once insured for a staggering […]
Hollywood’s First Black Sex Symbol Dorothy Dandridge was the first Black American actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was an accomplished and successful singer, and a style icon. All this in segregated America. A true inspiration! Listen on Catch up on Other Episodes of the Podcast A new episode
The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips One anecdote about Mae Murray says that when the famed actress first saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard she exclaimed „None of us floozies were that nuts!“ And as Richard Merkin of The New Yorker notes in his 1994 portray of Mae Murray: „No leading lady was so perfect a
Hollywood’s Good Little Bad Girl Bebe Daniels starred opposite such Hollywood greats like Rudolpho Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Douglas Fairbanks, she was a protege of Cecil B. DeMille and had an entertainment career that spanned almost six decades – as child actress, on the stage, in silent movies, in sound movies as well as on
Listen on The lessons that I had to repeat over and over again throughout the last 80+ episodes is “Enjoy life” or its favourite cousin “Life is short”. This episode gives you a short reminder why this is important – and not self-indulgent. Catch up on Other Episodes of the Podcast A new episode out
Beautiful and Disillusioned Tyrone Power was one of the most successful and most beautiful stars of Old Hollywood, often appearing in swashbuckler roles. He cemented his image as the forever agile and beautiful when dying at the age of 44. Jeanine Basinger wrote about him in her book “The Star Machine” : “No one who