Shop MTV.com has a great collection of movies that you’d have a hard time finding anywhere else.
Best of all, their movies and collections….like the Elizabeth Taylor and Irene Dunne Romance Collection….are very, very much on the cheap. Cheaper than I’ve seen anyplace else, actually.
Click through for more information on the Elizabeth Taylor and Irene Dunne Romance Collection and to have a look around at everything else on the site. You haven’t seen that much cool since James Dean was on your television screen.
Two of my favorite classics are on tomorrow afternoon on TCM: Father of the Bride (1950), appropriately followed by its sequel, Father’s Little Dividend (1951). Elizabeth Taylor is absolutley breathtaking in each of these adorable moviees.
Be sure to catch Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor – two of Hollywood’s brightest stars, in two of Hollywood’s best movies! So, call in, grab some popcorn, your drink of choice, and kick back for an afternoon you won’t soon forget.
…and you thought you had to work.
by Joi on November 25, 2007
in Art Prints and Posters, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Sex Symbols (Female)
Miracle on 34th Street Poster
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Without a doubt, Maureen O’Hara’s one of the most beautiful actresses ever. Absolutely stunning. The hair, the voice, the figure, the face – a place for everything and everything in its place.
I’ve said it before, and I’m bound to say it again – I wish actresses today would try to capture the magic, mystery, class, and sophistication that actresses yesterday possessed. A few, in my opinion, do (Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, and Reese Witherspoon to name a few.) But for the most part, they’re way too blatant and brassy.
There’s just something different about Maureen O’Hara, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Rita Hayworth. And that something different is very attractive.
To be sure, the same can be said about actors yesterday vs. actors today! There aren’t very many Clark Galbes, John Wyanes, Cary Grants, or Clint Eastwoods walking around today.
So many girl-y boys! If John Wayne walked through Hollywood today, he wouldn’t know whether to date or punch half the actors.
Eh, too much cranberry sauce – makes me mean.
Is that amazing work or what?! The mural above is on Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles, California. There’s something in the eyes that captures both James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor. Click HERE to see more murals featuring James Dean. Marilyn Monroe’s also featured on several.
While I’m thrilled to see my guy James on so many, I’m surprised there aren’t more with my favorite gals Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner and (of course) Lucille Ball. Oh well, at least James is featured heavily – and I spied Clark Gable on one, too. He’s another big favorite of mine. He’s one of the few actors from that period of time that seemed like a totally normal Joe. Little wonder he didn’t hang out off set much with Vivien Leigh – one of the most peculiar of ‘em all! Beautiful? Absolutely. Talented? Definitely. One of my favorite actresses? You betcha. But normal? Nah. Loonier than a bed bug.
There’s one of James Dean with W.C. Fields and a few others and there are two of them who I can’t identify for the life of me – and I usually know Hollywood inside out! The longer I stare at it, the further they get from me, though.
There’s a gorgeous mural from a McDonald’s in Eagle Rock, California too. Be sure to check that one out.
Oh great, now I’m McCraving a McChicken, McFries and a McDrink. I pretty much know what’s for lunch. 
Joi
Rock Hudson & Elizabeth Taylor
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Great pic – apparently from around the time they filmed “Giant” together. The pic is 16 in x 20 in – perfect for framing.
Joi
From the highly entertaining biography, “I Loved Lucy…”
(Chapter 16) We ushered in 1989 in Palm Springs, California, in true Lucy style – staying home and playing games on New Year’s Eve……this Chrismas season Lucy was in anything but a jolly mood. She was more reclusive and depressed than I’d ever seen her. And she still felt ill at ease about going out in public since her stroke six months earlier, which left her with a slight speech impediment and a crooked bottom lip.
Lucy was also very upset about The Richard Burton Diaries, a recently published book in which Burton was quoted as saying that after he and Elizabeth Taylor did a Here’s Lucy show he swore he would never work with Lucy again. We all knew how devastated Lucy would be to learn how Burton felt, so we tried, unsuccessfully, to keep the book out of her hands. Celebrity bios were Lucy’s favorite, so it wasn’t long before she read the terrible things he had to say about her in print. Lucy read about how impossible he thought she was on the set – bossy, giving him and everyone else line readings, suggesting he shout every piece of dialogue at the top of his lungs, and on and on…..
What made all of this all the more heartbreaking for Lucy was the fact that she was in awe of Burton…. It was Lucy who, at a Hollyood party (something she rarely attended) with great trepidation, approached Richard and Elizabeth, like a starstruck fan, and asked them about doing her sitcom, a request she never thought they would agree to in a million years…..
The trio made the cover of TV Guide the week the show aired. According to Lucy, the week of work with the Burtons was terrific and the only fireworks on the set were those generated by Taylor and Burton themselves, who were forever fighting and making up. I don’t know what happened between Lucy and Richard Burton, but I do know that Lucy was devastated to be so maligned in print by a fellow performer.
