Cool Dresses #4

I had several cool dress images that look better
and softer in low-contrast. Thought they'd look
better grouped together.

Balls and Balloons

Elizabeth Ashley Has Been Around

Television Appearances
Ben Casey - 1962
Route 66 - 1963
Run For Your Life - 1966
Medical Center - 1970
Mission: Impossible - 1971
Police Story - 1973
Mannix - 1974
Ironside - 1974
The F.B.I. - 1974
Saturday Night Live - 1982
Cagney & Lacey - 1985
Miami Vice - 1987
Hunter - 1989
Law & Order - 1994
Murder, She Wrote - 1995
Homicide: Life on the Street - 1999

Movies
The Carpetbaggers - 1964
Ship of Fools - 1965
Rancho Deluxe - 1975
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday - 1976
Coma - 1978
Dragnet - 1987
Vampire's Kiss - 1989
The Cake Eaters - 2007

She's done a ton of stage work, has won
a Tony Award, and has been nominated for
Tony Awards twice.

Ha!

Debra Paget Dances on a Car

If YouTube is working, you can watch this cool dance.

You can find more old TV programs like this at TVDAYS.
Otherwise, you may just have to watch her sit on a car.

Either way, life is good, no?

Great Blondes of the 20th Century

There were only two Great Blondes in the 20th Century. If you're thinking Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, or Brigitte Bardot, you're sadly mistaken. If you're thinking Jayne Mansfield, Reese Witherspoon, Anita Ekberg, Meg Ryan, Jean Harlow, Farrah Fawcett, or Pamela Anderson, you need to change your contact lens solution.
The two are, obviously, Grace Kelly and Catherine Deneuve.

Y'all can argue about third place all you want
(Tuesday Weld and Dietrich come to mind),
but the facts are the facts.

Heavens To Betsy!

Betsy Von Furstenberg mostly did stage and television.
My Goggle Search for her gave me results for Diane von
Furstenberg, Ira Von Furstenberg, and Tatiana Von
Furstenberg, which is irrelevant.
Anyway, Betsy has great eyes. She was born Elizabeth Caroline Maria Agatha Felicitas Therese von Furstenberg-Hedringen in Germany. That is a ridiculous name. Betsy is retired now, is active in New York high society, and probably doesn't appreciate appearing in a post for Starlet Showcase. So she and I don't have a whole lot in common.
Yeah, she has a funny nose. Like I care.
Her eyes are the thing, see?

This illustration is from Mike Ludlow.
Her Life magazine cover was posted HERE.

Natalie No Pants

It's an all-Natalie Wood post.
You can't start out a weekend much better than this.

Imitation of Monofonico Hi-Fi

I don't speak or write Spanish or Portuguese or any of the "Romance languages," so I don't know what these album covers are all about. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter at all. I'm listening to the Miles Davis All Stars, it's Friday, and I'm looking forward to a long weekend indoors.


This is Susan Kohner (The Gene Krupa Story, All The Fine Young Cannibals, Freud) playing Kick-The-Lamb or something in a publicity still from Imitation of Life (1959). I'd like to think those are cool jazz LPs on the floor, but they could be Rock & Roll records. I think that in 1959, most Rock & Roll was the stuff of 45 RPM records. Being that it was 1959, they could also be Calypso or Cha Cha. I haven't seen Imitation of Life in a while, and it will be a long, long time before I ever see it again. Susan Kohner may be about to kick the lamb, because she's frustrated about being multiracial in a weird little family with an ass-less Lana Turner and an annoyingly white Sandra Dee. Starlet Kohner herself was Mexican and Czech. She very sensibly left Hollywood after a 10-year career, raised a family, and had a life. She still does, in fact.
There is a strange, cluttered Myspace page about Susan Kohner HERE.

Bond Girl Luciana Paluzzi

I'm sure someone somewhere out there can find
a constructive use for nine little black & white
photos of Luciana Paluzzi.
(I mean, I just did, right?)








She even looks good in a hat!

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Baby, It's Cold Outside is, of course, a song.
It is often listed under Christmas music, but
it's really about a guy trying to get a girl to
stay inside and spend the night with him.

7 degrees F

Silly White Eyes #3

Transcending Noir Motif Thingies

I read a review of the 1952 Barbara Stanwyck film
Clash By Night at FilmsNoir.

It says: "Clash by Night (1952) from Fritz Lang transcends film noir in a neo-realist melodrama that turns the film noir motif upside down and inside out. Sexual abandon and existential entitlement are put on trial and found empty."
Whoa! WHO farted?
Robert Mitchum and Claire Trevor must be spinning in their graves.
All I gotta say is Barbara Stanwyck looks a $hitload better here than she does on that blog.

So there!
Can't wait for his syncretic analysis of Jayne Mansfield's Neo-Tribalism.
The F#^K???
For more of this kind of spastic intellectual self-abuse, try Senses of Cinema, film-philosophy, or the appropriately named Drain site.

I've got a mental image of a sexually ambivalent French art history student sitting in his New York loft apartment full of books on Kierkegaard, and he's got an image of me in a mobile home with a wheelchair ramp, a Nazi flag on the refrigerator, and a Rottweiler named Thor. And I'm sure we're both wrong.
Anyway, to quote Frank Bullitt, "You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine."
JEEZ!