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A DOG’S LIFE – LOS ANGELES – 1938
Another couple of pictures that illustrate why LA has a reputation for eccentric behavior – happy birthday, Sammy Boy! .
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Bringing Up Baby – I just went gay all of a sudden
Hawks’ friend (and Hepburn’s sometime-boyfriend) Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth, and Hawks...
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Make-believe, love and regret, Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland, co-star in eight Flynn films: on the lot, The Adventures of Robin Hood “He was a charming and magnetic man, but so tormented. I had a crush on him, and later I found he did for me....
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A little unsolicited advice on love, from a middling old dame…
Even if you’re fighting with your beloved, the point is never to lose connection. Sometimes, even in heated debate, the Mr. and I find we’re still touching, and there’s not a damn thing make-believe...
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Big plan for the day – emulate Merle Oberon – stay in PJs and recover from...
I’m dreaming of sleeping until noon. Wandering downstairs in my pajamas, brewing a cup of coffee, glancing at the paper, and perhaps napping on the couch in said pajamas. Later, still in pajamas I may...
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Thoughts on Bringing Up Baby (1938), by George Kaplan
BEAUTIFUL BABY! A paleontologist with a missing bone; a crazily adorable heiress; a refrigerator-cold fiancee; two (that’s TWO!) leopards, one of which is wild, the other named Baby with a love and...
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Thoughts on music in movies, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, by George...
BEGUILING MELODIES #1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Lyrics by Dorothy Fielding, Music by Jimmy McHugh, as heard in Bringing Up Baby “It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” Noel Coward’s...
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