Glamour of the Gods exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Photography by Karl StrussGloria Swanson, 1919
Photography by Baron Adolph de MeyerMary Pickford, 1920
Photography by Nikolas MurrayClara Bow, 1925
Photography by George HurrellClark Gable and Joan Crawford, 1933
Photography by George HurrellJean Harlow, 1933
Photography by George HurrellMarlene Dietrich, 1937
Photography by Gene KornmanRita Hayworth, 1939
Photography by Robert CoburnRita

Pretty in pink

Portrait by Russell YoungMarilyn Monroe 'Goddess'Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust on linen62 x 48 inches
Today I thought I'd give you another of my random picture collections.  I love the colour pink, when I was a kid I was obsessed with it and wanted absolutely everything to be pink.  Now I own barely any.  This post is dedicated to my dearest Helga and Faux Fuschia who are both fabulous

Private view - American Envy by Russell Young

I love this one...
Last night I went to the private view of Russell Young's newest exhibition American Envy at Mayfair's Scream gallery.
I'm a huge fan of Russell's work and it was great to meet him properly.  I've tried to take some photographs but it's impossible to capture how fabulous the diamond dust is in real life.  They're very sparkly and glittery but the camera can't pick up how

Friday quotes - Marilyn Monroe

Photography by Richard Avedon
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kissand fifty cents for your soul" 
Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962)
Marilyn Monroe was the ultimate Hollywood starlet and legend.  Probably the most instantly recognisable female icon in the world.
I wonder what she'd have been like had she lived?  I like to there's something special about a star who

Vintage Christmas pictures

Diana Dors, 1955


Leslie Caron, 1952

Photography © Underwood & UnderwoodMargaret O'Brien, 1943

Photograph © Bettman CollectionIda Lupino and Santa, 1942

Photograph © Bettman CollectionAudrey Hepburn, 1952

Photograph © Bettman CollectionGinger Rogers, 1950

Photograph © Bettman CollectionBoris Karloff and Ginger Rogers, 1932

Photograph © Bettman CollectionClaire Trevor, 1933

Photograph ©

Pictures I love

Salvador and Gala Dali

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman

Photography by Steven MeiselClaudia Schiffer

cPhotography by Phillipe HalsmanBrigitte Bardot

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanMarilyn Monroe

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanDuke and Duchess of Windsor

Photography by John SwannellJohn Gielgud
I'm running around doing appointments today so here's a random collection of pictures I like.

A few Birthday pictures

Ava Gardner


Marilyn  Monroe


Marlene Dietrich

Judy Garland


Shirley Temple


Slash from Guns N Roses
Boringly I have a cold, it came back this morning.  The paracetamol masked it for a bit.  I'm seeing if I get a second wind to go out.  I'd really like to and I want to see Phoebe and Giles but I don't want to get worse or give it to any of my friends.
At the moment I'm wrapped up watching

Are diamonds a girl's best friend?

I wonder if Marilyn's diamonds are real?
I love anything sparkly and I adore jewellery.  I'm quite boring though I just wear the same jewellery all the time.  I don't have any diamonds, apart from some diamond stud earrings which are the only earrings I wear apart from pearl studs.  A boy once bought me a gorgeous antique diamond ring but I gave it back when we split up.  All the rings and

The Marilyn Monroe pose

Photography by Bert SternMarilyn Monroe, 1962


Photography by Bert SternLindsay Lohan, 2008


Photography by Sølve SundsbøScarlett Johansson, 2009

My monochrome wardrobe

Photography by Miguel ReveriegoNatasha Poly - What a brilliant outfit!
I am still on the humungous task of sorting out my wardrobe.  I'm trying to put it into sections and swapping the wooden hangers for the new slim velvet one which allow me to cram even more in.

I've lived in my house for thirteen years and have been buying things on Ebay since I moved in.  The Actor says it's like Christmas

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty five

Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt
"Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number.But also what makes women ask for the name of your dressmaker"
Lilly Dache(1898-1989)



"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual.  Beauty and feminity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured"
Marilyn Monroe(

Pictures I love

Marianne Faithfull



Faye Dunaway



Ursula Andress



Nastassja Kinski



Marianne Faithfull


Photography by Andy WarholDebbie Harry



Patti Palladin, Anita Pallenberg and Pam Hogg



Marilyn Monroe

Here are some random pictures of some rather fabulous women.

"Some Like it Hot" is the next "Meet Me at the Movies" event

The Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance (PDNA) invites you to "Meet Me at the Movies," Friday March 26, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at Sherwood Community Music School, Columbia College recital hall, 1312 S. Michigan Ave.

Considered one of the greatest movie comedies of all time, director Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot, is as funny today as when it premiered on March 29, 1959.

Marilyn Monroe and her "bosom" companions
The action starts in Chicago, when musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) unwittingly become witnesses to the St. Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929. To escape “Spats” Columbo and his gang, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band traveling by train to Florida. Masquerading as Josephine and Daphne, Curtis and Lemmon somehow fool bandleader Sweet Sue and band-manager Beinstock, who are desperate to round out their jazz band.

Underneath the sheltering palms
On the train ride to Florida, Josephine and Daphne meet Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe). Things get complicated when Joe-Josephine starts to fall in love with her. With amazing energy and dexterity, Joe-Josephine manages to assume the identity of Junior, heir to the Shell Oil fortune, in order to woo Sugar and then switches back to play with Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters, to hide out from the Columbo gang. All this switching back and forth makes Daphne’s (Lemmon’s ) head spin. But Daphne has her own problems. The rich, much-married Osgood Fielding III finds Daphne irresistible and proposes. What’s a nice “girl” like Daphne to do?

With more twists and turns than a roller coaster, Some Like it Hot boasts memorable performance from the three leads and was voted the number one comedy film of all time by the American Film Institute (AFI).

Admission to the movie is $5 and dinner afterward (optional) is $15.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe