ALFREDO'S PAELLA: YOU HAD TO HAVE A GIMMICK

Saturday, January 16, 2010

YOU HAD TO HAVE A GIMMICK

This site displays a rare collection of Burlesque and Strip-Tease photos for perusing and buying. For sale are also endearing objects like key-chains, ties, t-shirts and more, all emblazoned with the images of ecdysiast artists from a more innocent time: http://www.burlesquebabesshop.com

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Burlesque Babes ShopJanuary 16, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Alfredo -- I love this quirky blog of yours! It has such a great vintage-noir vibe.

Thanks for including a couple of "my girls"!

I invite your readers to check out my Burlesque Babes Blog for more.

Best regards -- Marianne
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petlodJanuary 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM
For a moment I thought you were going to talk about the time you saw "Capricious Carmella" sometime after your move to NYC. And why wouldn't you if you had the chance? ; )
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Babette's Feast, Sullivan's Travels, Dodsworth, All About my Mother, All About Eve, Ma Vie en Rose, A Star is Born (1954), 84 Charring Cross Road, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brief Encounter, The Hours, Auntie Mame, Infamous, Hollywoodland, Fur, Vertigo, Rear Window, Portrait of Jennie, The Model and the Marriage Broker, Random, Harvest, The Mating Season, Radio Days, Another Woman, The Bycicle Thief, Umberto D, Blade Runner, The Devil Wears Prada, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, The Triplets of Belleville, Stevie, My Foolish Heart, The Tender Trap, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Awful Truth, Amarcord, I, Vitelloni, Variety Lights, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), Dinner at Eight, Beyond the Forest, Mr. Skeffington, The Pirate, Turtle Diary

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MARY ASTOR - Like so many women of that era (and the era really covered a lot of ground, from the 30s through the 60s) could and did play any part with forthright assurance, style and damned good acting. From the shrewish Brigid O'Shaugnassy in THE MALTESE FALCON to the wordly and serene Edith Cortrigh in DODSWORTH to the Auntie Mame-like society manhunter in THE PALM BEACH STORY to the stark and truly terrifying Roberta Carter in RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE (Oscar nomination,) Astor, like Irene Dunne (soon to appear in these pages) could do it all and, as with Dunn, no matter what the part, a shinning intelligence came through.
VIVIEN LEIGH – A superb technician and a great beauty. The heartbreak in her eyes and her voice were there from the start and they only became more poignant as she aged. There may not be a more idiosyncratic match of star and role in anyone's career than Vivien Leigh's, who, deliberatly or not, became the spokeswoman for the fragile, shopworn angel, though still smoldering with longing and lust.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

YOU HAD TO HAVE A GIMMICK

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