tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37486343961267802142024-03-05T00:35:50.889-08:00Vintage RachelAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897246633537067786noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748634396126780214.post-53672823546614474912014-08-27T19:17:00.000-07:002014-08-27T19:17:01.028-07:00It's a Jolly Holiday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been 50 years since the premiere of Walt Disney's beloved classic, <i>Mary Poppins</i>. The film premiered on Thursday, August 27, 1964 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The premiere, which was broadcast on television and radio, attracted thousands of fans who lined Hollywood Boulevard to catch a glimpse of the stars of the film, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, and perhaps Walt Disney himself!! Also in attendance were famed Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Chip & Dale, and even Captain Hook, among others. What a fun premiere that would be to attend!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The novel <i>Mary Poppins</i> was published in 1934 by author P.L. Travers. Reportedly, Walt Disney read the book to his daughters, Diane and Sharon, and wanted to attain the rights to make a film in 1938 but Travers resisted until 1961, when she gave Disney the film rights, though she retained script approval. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disney put brothers Richard and Robert Sherman in charge of the musical score. Prior to <i>Mary Poppins</i>, they began their own music publishing company called Music World Corporation, where they wrote a top ten hit called <i>Tall Paul </i>for Mousketeer Judy Harriet which was later covered by Annette Funicello, also a Mousketeer. It garnered the attention of Walt Disney, and he hired the Shermans as songwriters. Richard and Robert won two Academy Awards for their work on <i>Mary Poppins. </i>Dick Van Dyke was cast as Bert after Disney read an interview where Van Dyke mentioned he wanted to make films that he could see with his children. Disney cast Julie Andrews in her first motion picture as the lovable, yet stern, Mary Poppins after he heard her records and saw her act in a New York performance of <i>Camelot.</i> Together, Disney, the Sherman Brothers, Van Dyke, and Andrews created one of the most classic musical films of all time. The film also featured long time performer, ex-vaudevillian, and comedian Ed Wynn as Uncle Albert. Wynn was in his late 70s and not well, according to Dick Van Dyke, but when the camera was rolling, he acted professionally and to his best ability, which just so happened to be a near perfect performance, if you ask me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>-Dick Van Dyke on Julie Andrews</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film <i>Mary Poppins</i> is relatively new to my life. I had of course heard about it my whole life, knew some of the songs, but it wasn't until Walt Disney Studios announced 2013's <i>Saving Mr. Banks</i> that I got excited. I'm a fairly big Tom Hanks fan, and I also adore Emma Thompson, and pair those two actors with my love of Disney and Disneyland (I mean, we got to see Disneyland in <i>almost</i> all of it's vintage glory!), and of course I was in the theatre the weekend the film came out. My son and I also attended Disneyland's annual Mickey's Halloween Party dressed as Mary and Bert. In December 2013, I purchased<i> Mary Poppins</i> on bluray, and my son's love for the singing nanny was infectious! We've had many, <i>many </i>happy hours, days, weeks watching the movie! I kick myself for not enjoying <i>Mary Poppins</i> sooner! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you remember the first time you saw The Wizard of Oz? I know I don't. It's one of those movies that has always been there, a staple of most peoples' childhood. Growing up in the 90s, it was a big deal when TBS or whatever station would play The Wizard of Oz on TV. It only happened once, maybe twice, a year! I grew up a little girl in Kansas, mostly living in the country & tornadoes were just a part of life. It was fun to see Dorothy growing up in Kansas on my television, with the Hollywood version of a tornado. Are you shocked that's not quite how they look, how the twister looks on The Wizard of Oz? While it's been fun being a real life version of Dorothy (okay, in my head I am), trust me when I tell you the The Wizard of Oz references I hear from people when I tell them where I am from are so overplayed and totally not funny. But my fake laugh has gotten pretty believable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a slight infatuation with 1950s lingerie advertisements. Most of them have images drawn as opposed to photographs, for one, looking a lot like those vintage pinups I love so much (more on pinups later!). Advertisers were so eager to sell the product, too! One catch-phrase after another, the beautiful mixture of fonts, all the adjectives - oh my! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take a look at this catalog page. Now, this specific bra was <i>scientifically </i>designed. That means they're serious business. Oh, the lives these scientists must've changed! A style to flatter every bust size. Try it for 10 days, and if you don't like it, send it back! No big deal. Though you won't have to send it back because the scientists did their job right the first time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now this next advertisement is perfect for you thrifty ladies looking for a deal! SIX pairs of briefs alone is enough to sell me on their product, but they're throwing in that 45! Elvis, Eddie Fisher, Perry Como - who would you choose? I'm an Elvis girl myself. Who doesn't go looking for a RCA record when they're underwear shopping?! Brilliant!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cone bras. I know we've all seen those old movies and television shows where the woman had the pointed breasts. Sweater girls were all the rage in the 50s. Women who, like Lana Turner, had the silhouetted bosom in her favorite soft sweater attained her look with these ringlet bras like Lovable made. Circle after circle sewn to uphold the cone shape forever, or so they say in their ad! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for your crazy antics as Lucy Ricardo that bring so much laughter to my life. Thank you for your strong will which kept you going when times were tough, when the world was seemingly against you. Thank you for your hot and cold relationship with Desi. Even when it was "cold" you still loved each other like no one has ever loved before. Thank you for your sweet relationship with Lucie and Desi Jr. Thank you for always keeping that fiery spirit even as you aged. Thank you for always keeping up with your henna rinses, for that was the Lucy we adored. Thank you for Stone Pillow, no explanation needed. Thank you for introducing me to Carole Lombard, for I adore her in many of the ways I adore you. Thank you for spending your summers in Del Mar. I envision you there each time I go. Thank you for writing down your life story. It is a pleasure (and a sorrow at times) reading about your childhood and the early years in your career. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been a big fan of Marilyn Monroe since I was in high school and wrote a research paper on her. At the time, I knew little about her, but by the time I finished my paper, I was enamored. The first Marilyn movie I saw was Some Like It Hot and to this day, it remains one of my favorite Old Hollywood movies. My other Marilyn favorites are The Seven Year Itch where she plays The Girl, the upstairs neighbor who Tom Ewell's character falls for while his wife and son are away for the summer, How To Marry A Millionaire, a comedy based around three women (Marilyn, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable) trying to land rich husbands, Niagara, a drama about jealous lovers, and Don't Bother To Knock, the first film where I believe Marilyn really got to showcase her acting abilities, playing a deranged babysitter trying to seduce a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months ago, I went to Barnes and Noble, a very dangerous place for me, and I was browsing the bargain shelves when I saw the book Cary Grant's daughter, Jennifer, wrote about her dad. At the low price of $5.98, I snatched it up! However, since having a kid, I haven't sat down to read very many books, so Good Stuff sat on my book shelf for a good two months before I made myself open it & start reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Stuff was a very entertaining read! It is not a book about Cary Grant, the actor. It's a book about Cary Grant, the father. Cary was 62 when his baby was born in 1966, and therefore he retired from making films to devote himself entirely to her while her mother, actress Dyan Cannon, who was just in the prime of her career, continued working. Jennifer recounts her glorious childhood and reveals that Cary kept diligent records of his daughter's childhood. During a remodel of his house at 9966 Beverly Grove in Beverly Hills, he had constructed a room-sized bank vault with a six inch thick steel door to keep his documents safe. His own childhood memories were all burned in the fires of Bristol, England during World War I, and he made sure Jennifer's would always be safe. He made audio recordings of the two of them playing and chatting together, kept drawings she made for him and marked them with the date and perhaps where she was when she drew it, and he kept all these treasures in a special room filled with filing boxes. She has all the lovely notes he wrote to her beginning when she was just a baby. Cary was enamored with little Jennifer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously, Jennifer didn't have a "normal" childhood. She went to grown up dinner parties with her parents and their friends, including Frank Sinatra and Walter Matthau. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She went sailing with her father on his yacht, and these sea cruises were their favorite way to vacation. Jennifer stayed with her father at the palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in Monaco. Upon her birth, her parents received well wishes from Princess Grace and Audrey Hepburn, whose notes Cary of course kept in his filing boxes for his dear daughter. Jennifer explains that since her father was who he was, he had only a few places he felt comfortable enough taking her for some fun, including the horse track because he had such fun simply watching the races and Dodgers games as he was good friends with Walter O'Malley, who was the owner of the team at the time. She tells how Cary bestowed on her financial knowledge beginning at a very young age, and when she was seven, he gifted her stocks. She grew up knowing she was well off and would never have to worry about money, and she was smart enough to know that she needed to not blow all of her father's hard earned money. He had come from nothing in Bristol, England and worked hard to earn his keep in Hollywood and to make money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Stuff kept me very interested from cover to cover. I was already a fan of Cary Grant, the actor. I'm now a fan of Cary Grant, the father. Jennifer idolized her dad, and Cary idolized her right back. I could feel the love pouring from her writings. They shared a special bond for the 20 years they had together before his passing in 1986. Cary was an incredible actor, but he was an even better father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judy was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was the youngest of three girls, and her family nicknamed her "Baby". The three Gumm sisters started performing song and dance routines as young girls in their Episcopal Church and in their father's movie theater. In 1926, the Gumm family moved to California, where it didn't take long for the girls to get started in motion pictures. In 1934, the sisters changed their name to Garland, and they appeared together until 1935 when oldest sister Mary Jane was married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judy eventually signed a contract at age 13 with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Judy would soon garner attention by singing her rendition of You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It) to Clark Gable at his birthday party. It would lead to a part in Broadway Melody of 1938 where she would sing the same song to a photo of Gable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judy would soon start her series of musicals with fellow MGM star and lifelong friend, <a href="http://vintagexrachel.blogspot.com/2014/04/goodnight-mickey.html" target="_blank">Mickey Rooney</a>, in 1937, starting with Love Finds Andy Hardy. The pair would go on to appear in 13 films together. However popular the Andy Hardy series was, Judy's life would change when she was cast as the lead character, Dorothy, in 1939's The Wizard of Oz. It's one of the all time greats, a film every child has seen. I was born and raised in Kansas, just like Dorothy, so The Wizard of Oz means a great deal to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not a fan of country music, especially the current manufactured sounding songs and artists that are popular (and that goes for any genre). I have a soft spot for the old country music, thanks in part to my awesome grandparents, with whom I've listened to George Jones and the likes all my life. On April 26, 2013, however, my love for George grew into something special. It was the day he passed away, and a radio station was playing nothing but George. I wondered why I had been missing out on listening to George all my adult life, on my own, not at my grandparents' house! He sang with heart. His love songs with Tammy tugged at the heart strings. It wasn't until I read up on George that I learned of his hard and troubled life, and, of course, that only made me love him more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Glenn Jones was born September 12, 1931 in a small Texas town. When George was seven, he heard country music for the first time when his parents bought a radio, and he was given a guitar when he was nine. He would stay awake late on Saturday nights just to hear Bill Monroe and Roy Acuff on the Grand Ole Opry. His father was a terrible alcoholic, and when he drank, he was physically and emotionally abusive to his wife and children. George said, "We were our daddy's loved ones when he was sober, his prisoners when he was drunk." George's father would come home late at night, drunk, and wake up the entire family and make young George sing for them. George left home at 16 to work for a radio station in another Texas town, and in 1950, he married his first wife, Dorothy, though they divorced a year later. Around this time, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps, and was stationed in San Jose, California until his discharge in 1953. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1954, George married Shirley Ann Corley after only 2 weeks of dating and together they had 2 sons, Jeffrey and Brian. When it came down to it, neither one knew what they were getting into with the other. George had his heart set on becoming a country star, and Shirley was set against it. George cut his first record, No Money In This Deal for Starday Records also in '54. George was also working at another radio station in Beaumont, Texas at this time, where he acquired the nickname The Possum, simply because of his looks, his long turned up nose and his small eyes. He was affectionately called Possum all his life. George's first hit came in 1955, Why Baby Why, and he began performing on the Louisiana Hayride with the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. When Elvis became popular with his rockabilly sound, George was pressured into taking on the style as well. Rockabilly wasn't George's style, though. He recorded a couple of rockabilly songs under the assumed name Thumper Jones, because he didn't want his real name on anything that wasn't good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His first Billboard number one came in 1959, White Lightnin', which George admitted in his autobiography he recorded drunk, taking 80 takes to do. In the 1960s, he recorded hits like She Thinks I Still Care and a duet with Melba Montgomery, We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds. During this period, he was already becoming well known for either not showing up to his scheduled concerts or showing up under the influence of a great deal of alcohol. This alcoholic behavior would continue throughout the 1970s and gain him another nickname, No Show Jones. After 13 rocky years of marriage, and after George was coming unglued, he and Shirley divorced in 1968.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the divorce, George ran rampant. To add to his constant drinking, a manager introduced him to cocaine. George, broke and homeless, filed for bankruptcy in 1978. A year later, he entered a psychiatric hospital. Although he was still drinking upon his release, he managed a comeback in 1980. The song He Stopped Loving Her Today came out in April and shocked the world with its huge success. Soon after, he met and married Nancy Sepulvado who he credits with turning his life around for good. She took care of his financial situation, she kept him away from anyone providing him with drugs, and she helped him stop drinking for the most part. They had a love that lasted the rest of his life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George has been hailed as one of, if not THE greatest country singer who ever lived, by Garth Brooks, Waylon Jennings, and Merle Haggard, just to name a few. There will never be another one like him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">25 years ago today, we lost the greatest comedienne who has ever lived. We miss you, Lucy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, I received a book called Hollywood in Kodachrome by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt. In short, it is a fantastic coffee table book of vintage celebrity photographs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kodachrome film was first used in the 1940s and was the first time people were seeing Hollywood stars in color. It brought new life to Hollywood and boosted the careers of those actors and actresses with colorful appearances, such as my personal favorite, Lucille Ball. With her milky skin, fiery red hair, and bright blue eyes finally on display, she was being cast in better films and given the nickname "Technicolor Tessie." In fact, Hollywood in Kodachrome dedicates a whole section to Lucille with 12 stunning color photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is filled with beautifully restored photographs that are bursting with color and detail. The moment I saw a sampling of photographs on Vanity Fair's website, I knew I had to buy Hollywood in Kodachrome. The book displays over 200 publicity shots, movie stills, magazine covers and more all from 1940 to 1949. Every 1940s celebrity you can think of grace the pages of Hollywood in Kodachrome, from Rita Hayworth to Frank Sinatra, Betty Hutton to Humphrey Bogart. The photographs in the book are by all the big Hollywood photographers like George Hurrell, Bernard of Hollywood and Ernest Bachrach, just to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are six total chapters of photography in Hollywood in Kodachrome. Chapter one is titled When Goddesses Roamed The Earth. This chapter, as you can imagine, reveals dazzling photos of all of Hollywood's most beautiful women: Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, Jane Russell, and more. The next chapter Light and Illusion is over 120 pages illustrating the use of light in photography to showcase celebrity faces. Technicolor Tessie, as I mentioned before, comes third. Imagine living in the 1940s and seeing Lucille in bright color for the first time! The Posed Candid is the fourth chapter, and it's just as it seems. People wanted to see celebrities in their homes or doing normal everyday tasks, so photographers posed their subjects in casual settings. Here we see Alan Ladd carving a turkey, Ed Sullivan and Clark Gable golfing together, and Maureen O'Hara cuddling two puppies. Stars and Stripes displays Bing Crosby and Ann Miller in their red, white, and blue during the World War II era, Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda in their military uniforms, and John Wayne and James Cagney in stills from WWII movies. Lastly, Selling the Dream is full of celebrity endorsements. They've been around as long as there has been movie stars and products which need selling! Many times an advertisement would have the celebrity boasting the product and their latest picture at the same time. Hedy Lamarr sells makeup, Betty Grable tempts us with a cold Royal Crown soda, and a young Marilyn Monroe demonstrates how gorgeous prints from your personal collection of slides can look! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a gathering of celebrities to celebrate Walter Winchell's 56th birthday in May of 1953! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winchell was a popular gossip columnist and radio show host in Hollywood at the time. His radio show was the first time people, including Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, it seems, would hear that Lucille was expecting a baby. Lucille wrote in her posthumously published autobiography, Love, Lucy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Desi was fast asleep and I was knitting, listening to the radio. Walter Winchell came on the air and announced: 'After ten childless years of marriage, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are infanticipating.' I dropped my knitting, ran into Desi's dressing room, and woke him up. 'We're going to have a baby!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desi's Ricky Ricardo would sing a song he wrote on I Love Lucy, "You read it in Winchell that we're adding a limb to our family tree!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 13, 1953, the stars came out for Winchell's birthday at Ciro's, a Hollywood nightclub located on Sunset Boulevard. I never ever thought I'd see a photo of Marilyn Monroe and Lucille together, but at last, I came across these randomly one day and my little Old Hollywood heart began to flutter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born Joseph Yule, Jr on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York to Vaudevillian parents, Mickey began acting on stage at age 17 months in his parents' show. His parents separated in 1924 & in 1925, his mother moved him to Hollywood. She took him to an audition for a series of shorts where he starred as Mickey McGuire from 1927 to 1936. He then had to change his name from Mickey McGuire to Mickey Rooney for legal reasons. In 1934, Mickey signed a contract with MGM where they set him on the road to stardom by casting him as Andy Hardy in 1937's A Family Affair. The Andy Hardy series spanned 13 films until 1958. It was during this period he starred along newcomer Judy Garland and from there bloomed a deep friendship until Judy's untimely death in 1967. The two also starred in other films and musicals aside from the Andy Hardy series such as 1939's popular Babes in Arms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mickey enlisted in the Army during WWII, where he served 21 months entertaining and supporting troops in America and Europe. The Army even awarded him a Bronze Star Medal for entertaining the troops in a combat zone. His film career was not great after the war ended, and he ended up doing one last film with Judy Garland and a couple of radio shows where he reprised his role as Andy Hardy. In the 1950s Mickey appeared on his own television show, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan for a total of 32 episodes. He directed a feature film, My True Story, and also played in a television drama, The Comedian, for Playhouse 90. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1932, the three Barrymore siblings - Ethel, John and Lionel - filmed an MGM picture together called Rasputin and the Empress, a period piece with elaborate costumes. Around the same time, Walt Disney was working on a short film titled Mickey's Gala Premier in which a new Mickey short premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and all the big movie stars come out to watch. In the short film, the Barrymore trio appear in the first limousine dressed in the costuming from their recent movie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advertisements from decades ago are extremely interesting to me. The colors, the use of words to tell the consumer why they should invest in the product, and even the products that used to frequent the pages of magazines on adverts are all so much different than what we see today in magazines or on TV. Sure, we obviously still see car ads, makeup ads, and soda ads. But how often do we see advertising for cigarettes anymore? Also, compared to 60+ years ago, we see more ads directed towards both genders instead of just females! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advertising in the 1930s seemed to be heavy in cigarettes and Coca Cola. The United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, so ads for big ticket items such as automobiles or radios seemed to be few and far between, and advertising for luxury items such as makeup were also sparse. Even in the '30s, advertisers knew that the use of movie stars would help promote a product big time! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Easily, quickly, you can dust your body odor away with this dainty deodorant talc. Apply it generously all over your body. No matter how great your body warmth....the exquisite perfume of Irresistible Talc keeps its exotic delicacy....keeps you irresistible.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Just taste the thrill of World Cruising with Westinghouse - of choosing your radio entertainment from the best the whole world affords.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hers is the bloom of youth. She's taken advantage of the age she lives in - the age of modern electrical servants that lighten household tasks. No wonder she looks younger than women to whom home-making is a daily round of drudgery! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The '50s brought about Marilyn Monroe and women everywhere were trying to attain that perfect figure. With the end of World War II came (mostly) the end of the working woman. More women were able to be housewives, and advertisers took note of that and household products to make running a family easier became a focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I'm no advertising expert and I certainly don't keep up with today's adverts, but I know we would never see babies in cellophane in an ad today! It's fun for me to see old ads. They all have so much wording, really trying to sell their product! I really love the ones featuring the most beautiful movie stars, but that brassiere one really speaks to me!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897246633537067786noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748634396126780214.post-40076069738846461302014-03-21T11:46:00.000-07:002014-03-21T11:46:01.483-07:00The "I Love Lucy Baby" Doll <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In I Love Lucy's second season, it was discovered that Lucille Ball was pregnant with her second child, and, unlike her first pregnancy, it was incorporated into the show's storyline. The audience got to see every pratfall and pregnancy woe that Lucy Ricardo experienced!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the December 15, 1952 <a href="http://www.joystar.tv/media/5381/I_Love_Lucy_-_Pregnant_Women_Are_Unpredictable_Part_1/" target="_blank">episode</a> "Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable," Ricky walks in on Lucy in the living room with a baby doll, practicing bathing and diapering the baby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This baby doll was the very one American Character issued for the Christmas season in 1952. What better way to sell your product than to have Lucy Ricardo herself playing with it?! The doll was not gender specific, as the gender of the Ricardo's baby would not be revealed until its birth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "I Love Lucy Baby" originally sold for $9.98 in a variety of department stores across the United States, from Higbee's in Cleveland to Macy's in Kansas City. The baby was advertised as 16" tall and could bathe, blow bubbles, and cry real tears! Take a look!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I adore the wording of this vintage ad... "lusty voice" and "baby necessaries"! We never see these type of advertisements today. Vintage ads are so fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you think? Would you have wanted this baby doll if you were a little girl in 1952? I know I would!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shirley was the first true child star. She was born in 1928 in Santa Monica, and by age 3 Shirley's mother Gertrude enrolled her daughter in Meglin's Dance School. At age 4, Shirley was signed to a contract with Educational Films to do a series of shorts called Little Berlesks. Not long after, Educational Films declared bankruptcy and in 1934, Fox Films took on Miss Temple. Her breakout film was Stand Up and Cheer! In December 1934, Bright Eyes was released and was the first film written for Shirley's talents. Soon after, Fox Films merged with Twentieth Century to become Twentieth Century-Fox. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck focused his energy on making Shirley a bigger star. Her films while with Twentieth Century-Fox were meant to give hope to Americans who were in the middle of the Great Depression. With so many hardships and struggles for most Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is a splendid thing that for just fifteen cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles." Shirley made three to four movies a year for Zanuck and Twentieth Century-Fox until 1940. In 1939, she starred in her last two money makers, The Little Princess, which had a budget of $1.5 million and was Shirley's first Technicolor film, and Susannah of the Mounties. However, in 1940 at age 12, Shirley performed in two box office flops. Her parents bought up the remainder of her contract, and Shirley spent her time going to school. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After her film career, Shirley became active in the Republican Party & served as the US Ambassador to Ghana, the Chief Protocol of the United States (she was in charge of arranging the inauguration and inaugural ball of President Ford), and the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In 1972, Shirley was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy. She was extremely vocal in raising breast cancer awareness, urging women to get a mammogram. Shirley also served on many board of directors including The Walt Disney Company, Bank of America, and the National Wildlife Foundation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shirley married twice in her life. At 17, she married John Agar. They made two movies together for RKO, and a year after their marriage, Shirley gave birth to their daughter, Linda. The marriage only lasted until 1950, and later the same year Shirley married Charles Black. Their marriage lasted until his death in 2005 & produced two more children, Charles Jr, and Lori. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, being the Disneyphile I am, I find most fascinating about Shirley Temple her history with Walt Disney. In 1939, she presented Walt Disney with his Academy Award for Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. 18 years later, he asked her to oversee the opening of the Sleeping Beauty diorama in the castle at Disneyland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, Shirley Temple, for your charm & your cheer, your songs & your dances, your smile & your laughter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**All photos found with Google Image search. If they belong to you and you wish for me to not use them, please email me. Special thanks to disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog for the Walt Disney and Shirley Temple 1939 Oscar quotes.**</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897246633537067786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748634396126780214.post-65019469809541132282014-01-08T08:26:00.002-08:002014-01-08T08:26:36.471-08:00Happy Birthday, Elvis!!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course you didn't expect me to let Elvis Presley's birthday go by and not blog about it, did you? Born on January 8, 1935, Elvis would've been 79 today! As you can imagine, Graceland celebrates Elvis' birthday in a big way, with several events starting today and gong all through the weekend! The list of <a href="http://www.elvis.com/news/birthday_celebration_2014.aspx" target="_blank">events</a> include a cake cutting ceremony, special tours, and even an Elvis-themed night at the Memphis Grizzlies game! Tupelo, MS, the birthplace of Elvis, is also hosting different celebrations today! I've never been to Graceland or Tupelo for any of the birthday celebrations, but I've <a href="http://vintagexrachel.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-was-walkin-in-memphis.html" target="_blank">visited</a> both of them once before. I'll make it back again someday for some of the Elvis celebrations they have in January and August!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897246633537067786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748634396126780214.post-33059799476868558692013-10-21T18:11:00.003-07:002013-10-21T18:12:35.981-07:00Instagram<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally have my Instagram account up & running for Vintage Rachel! If you have the app, search for vintagexrachel and follow me for fun vintage pictures. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897246633537067786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748634396126780214.post-51829120424370356732013-10-01T15:01:00.001-07:002013-10-01T15:01:51.853-07:00Spotlight: Thurl Ravenscroft<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You already know I love everything from Yesteryear. I'm obsessed with Old Hollywood: the movies, the actors, the actresses. When I read a book, 99.9% of the time it is a biography or autobiography about someone from the golden era. It fascinates me! From time to time on my blog, I want to spotlight someone who I find interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am fascinated by the man called Thurl Ravenscroft. Yes, that is absolutely his real name! He has had a hand (a voice, really!) in all of my favorite interests. Thurl moved from his home in Nebraska to attend art school in California, where he was urged to make a move into show business. He got many calls to be a studio singer, eventually taking his talents to radio in the mid 1930s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1940s, he and a fellow singer formed a group called the Mellomen. They performed on television, radio and in movies and performed backup for many of the popular singers of the time. They started working with Elvis Presley when his favored back up group, the Jordanaires, were unavailable for the film It Happened At The World's Fair. The Mellomen sang back up for Elvis on three other films as well, <i>Roustabout</i>, <i>Paradise, Hawaiian Style</i>, and <i>The Trouble With Girls </i>(as a group called The Bible Singers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 50s, the Mellomen got their start with Disney. In addition to several short films, the group performed in </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice In Wonderland</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Pan</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady and the Tramp</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Jungle Book</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The Mellomen also recorded several records and did television shows for Disney, such as the original Mickey Mouse Club. Thurl lent his voice to several attractions at Disneyland as well. His booming bass voice can be heard on the Mark Twain Riverboat, as Fritz the parrot in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, and in my two favorite attractions, the Pirates of the Caribbean as part of the group singing Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me), and as Uncle Theodore, the lead singing bust in the Haunted Mansion who croons Grim, Grinning Ghosts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurl also is the voice behind the Christmas classic You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch from the 1966 television special</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> How The Grinch Stole Christmas. </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, his name was accidentally left out of the credits, leaving people to give the credit to a multitude of singers such as Boris Karloff, who actually narrated the show, and even Tennessee Ernie Ford. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Ravenscroft was most famously known for his role as Tony the Tiger for the Frosted Flakes cereal commercials! He was uncredited for his work as Tony the Tiger, though he did the voice for over 50 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurl passed away in 2005. I'm thankful for his many works through all walks of entertainment. A lot of what he's done makes me so happy!! </span><br />
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