Old Hollywood gossip & stories

Jelly Bean · Sep 28, 2023

This photo popped up on FB.
John Wayne and Gary Cooper in Accapulco. JW bought a hotel there for Hollywood types to go and relax.
I love GC's espadrilles tied up his ankles

artnouveau · Sep 28, 2023

I enjoyed The mystery of Marilyn Monroe, the unheard tapes on netflix. Tapes recorded by Anthony Summers. Overlapped with vintage footage. Anthony concluded he thought it was an accidental or deliberate suicide.

ButtonDownTheHutches · Sep 28, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
JW bought a hotel there for Hollywood types to go and relax.

I bet those walls could tell some tales!

Dollylovesshoes · Sep 29, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
This photo popped up on FB.
John Wayne and Gary Cooper in Accapulco. JW bought a hotel there for Hollywood types to go and relax.
I love GC's espadrilles tied up his ankles

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Nice legs actually.

Jelly Bean · Sep 29, 2023

Dollylovesshoes said:
Nice legs actually.

I know! They are so shapely.
I just love the outfits he and John Wayne are wearing.

Dollylovesshoes · Sep 29, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
I know! They are so shapely.
I just love the outfits he and John Wayne are wearing.

Reminds me of Ernest Hemingway times etc.

Jelly Bean · Oct 1, 2023

Dollylovesshoes said:
Reminds me of Ernest Hemingway times etc.

Yes! Very much so.

Happy Sunday everyone.
Here is Marlon Brando with a sausage dog for you.

Dollylovesshoes · Oct 1, 2023

Anybody remember the 1963 film The Haunting,God it was frightening,then a remake of it called the Haunting of Hill House starred Catherine Zeta Jones,that was quite disturbing but not so atmospheric as original film.

FenellaTheWitch · Oct 1, 2023

Dollylovesshoes said:
Anybody remember the 1963 film The Haunting,God it was frightening,then a remake of it called the Haunting of Hill House starred Catherine Zeta Jones,that was quite disturbing but not so atmospheric as original film.

I mentioned it very recently in the Horror Films thread. Richard Johnson was in it.

LaBlonde · Oct 1, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
Yes! Very much so.

Happy Sunday everyone.
Here is Marlon Brando with a sausage dog for you.

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thank you!

i know he had tremendous issues and wasn’t a great person but, my god, young marlon brando might have been one of the hottest men to ever live. we had to watch a streetcar named desire in year 10 english and i was forever changed.

Dollylovesshoes · Oct 1, 2023

FenellaTheWitch said:
I mentioned it very recently in the Horror Films thread. Richard Johnson was in it.

Oh thanks,I didn’t realise there was a horror thread.

FenellaTheWitch · Oct 1, 2023

Dollylovesshoes said:
Oh thanks,I didn’t realise there was a horror thread.

Horror films

Do you have any recommendations for horror movies that are actually good? Recently watched Annabelle and Hereditary and they were both crappy and overrated imo. Are there any films that have decent acting and satisfying endings?

tattle.life

Which brings us onto the fabulously charismatic Vincent Price. Strangely attractive but not handsome.

Mothballs · Oct 2, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
This photo popped up on FB.
John Wayne and Gary Cooper in Accapulco. JW bought a hotel there for Hollywood types to go and relax.
I love GC's espadrilles tied up his ankles

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I visited this place on a Panama Canal cruise many years ago. There were lots of fabulous photos of movie stars on the walls.

Jelly Bean · Oct 2, 2023

Mothballs said:
I visited this place on a Panama Canal cruise many years ago. There were lots of fabulous photos of movie stars on the walls.

Woah - so jealous. Is it still a hotel?

Mothballs · Oct 2, 2023

Jelly Bean said:
Woah - so jealous. Is it still a hotel?

To be honest I can’t remember but I don’t think it was. I feel like it was a tourist attraction. Acapulco closed to cruise ships for a long time due to crime.

Mothballs · Oct 2, 2023

shellie said:
The fact her diary which had a lot of information about the guys she had been with/pillow talk, disappeared from the house and was never found makes me believe it was someone important...likely one of the Kennedys.

I read a book about Peter Lawford and he was supposed to be with Bobby Kennedy in her bedroom looking around as he was convinced Marilyn Monroe had recording devices in her house.
The book is called Peter Lawford: The Man who kept the Secrets by James Spada if anyone is interested.

Jelly Bean · Oct 2, 2023

Mothballs said:
I read a book about Peter Lawford and he was supposed to be with Bobby Kennedy in her bedroom looking around as he was convinced Marilyn Monroe had recording devices in her house.
The book is called Peter Lawford: The Man who kept the Secrets by James Spada if anyone is interested.

Ooh good recommendation.
There is an excellent book about the Rat Pack called 'Rat Pack Confidential' by Shawn Levy. Warts and all.
Poor old Peter Lawford comes across as quite pathetic towards the end. He worshipped Frank Sinatra. But there was an incident where Frank was told President Kennedy would be staying at his house in Palm Springs. He was so excited as he loved the Kennedys he built an extra Presidential wing and a helipad. Then Kennedy's security got wind of Sinatra's mafia connections and told him not to stay there. Peter Lawford, as Kennedy's brother in law and Frank's friend, was given the task of telling him. And to add insult to injury that Kennedy would instead be staying at Bing Crosby's nearby house, a Republican. Anyway Frank never forgave Lawford for this. Held him responsible somehow and completely cut him off and never spoke to him again. Once refused to continue a concert unless Peter Lawford was removed from the audience when he spotted him. Horrible petty stuff.
Peter was cut off from all the Rat Pack connections and contacts. Film parts dried up and he became an alcoholic and drug addict.

shellie · Oct 2, 2023

Mothballs said:
I read a book about Peter Lawford and he was supposed to be with Bobby Kennedy in her bedroom looking around as he was convinced Marilyn Monroe had recording devices in her house.
The book is called Peter Lawford: The Man who kept the Secrets by James Spada if anyone is interested.

I think it's a given now they were involved somehow. I don't think either Bobby or Peter personally killed her but I do think they were in the room/house when whoever it was did what they did. Something that makes the theory more plausible as there were a few people who swore they saw Bobby in a car near her house the night she died. It was denied of course but the people who saw him in the car were adamant it was him.

DCI Jack Logan · Oct 2, 2023

Dollylovesshoes said:
This is brilliant thread.

This is another sad story Frances Farmer.

Farmer, Frances (1913-1970)

Seattle-born actress Frances Farmer, a rising star in the 1930s, is remembered today more for her unfortunate life story than for her once promising career. Talented and beautiful, Farmer was also wi

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Knew I’d see you on this thread Dolly, it’s totally fascinating I remember you mentioning the Babylon books on another thread

Dollylovesshoes · Oct 2, 2023

DCI Jack Logan said:
Knew I’d see you on this thread Dolly, it’s totally fascinating I remember you mentioning the Babylon books on another thread

Awww hiya DCI yes love gossip of Hollywood stars..Yes,those two books I’ve got are packed away somewhere.Bastards are hiding from me.