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Clara Bow in a publicity photo circa 1928. Rita Hayworth and Pinky Tomlin at a Halloween party for Jackie Coogan, circa 1936.   Ann Miller in a publicity photo circa 1955.   Lillian Roth, Marion Schilling and Rosita Moreno in a publicity photo circa 1930.     Natalie Wood and Robert Vaughn at a Halloween party in Los Angeles, on October 27, 1956.   Pier Angeli in a promotional photo circa 1960.   Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield at a Halloween party in Los Angeles, on October 27, 1956.   Ida Lupino in a publicity photo circa 1934.   Elvis Presley and Joan Bradshaw at a Halloween party in Hollywood on October 31, 1957.   Linda Darnell in a publicity photo circa 1945.  

Jeanette MacDonald is ready to serenade her lucky Valentine.   Ann Miller could get any man to be her Valentine with legs like those. Men of the world, beware! Lana Turner is ready to aim. I'm sure Tony Martin would be delighted if he got home on Valentine's Day and found Cyd Charisse waiting for him like this. Or like this. See, I told you Tony would be happy. Look at what he gave her the next day. Mary Carlisle looks extra cute in her little Valentine's Day outfit.   Joan Leslie is pin-up perfect as the Queen of Hearts. Rita Hayworth has just received a huge box of chocolates from her Valentine. Well done, Mary Pickford. I'm sure Doug will be very happy to receive that. Irene Dunne makes for a very lovely face on a Valentine's Day card. Happy Valentine's Day. ❤❤❤

In honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday, which is tomorrow, this week on «Film Friday» I bring you one of his most iconic films and one of my personal favorites. Original release poster Directed by George Sidney, Pal Joey (1957) tells the story of Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra), a cynical singer who is thrown out of town for romancing the mayor's underage daughter and ends up in San Francisco emceeing at a second-rate nightclub, where he meets a naïve young chorus girl named Linda English (Kim Novak). One night, Joey and the club band are invited to perform at a society fund-raiser hosted by Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth), a wealthy widow whom the crooner immediately recognizes from her old days as a stripper. Later on, Joey walks Linda to her rooming house and notices a room for rent sign in the window. After ascertaining from the sleepy landlady, Mrs. Casey (Elizabeth Patterson), that there is a vacant room adjoining Linda's, the womanizing Joey eagerly rents it. ...

In honor of Deborah Kerr's 94th birthday, wh ich was on Wednesday, this week on "Film Friday" I though I'd to tell you a little bit about one of my personal favorite films of hers. Theatrical release poster Directed by Delbert Mann, Separate Tables (1958) revolves around a group of lonely residents of a small British seaside hotel, including the plain and overly protected Sybil Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother Maude (Gladys Cooper), who disapproves of her daughter's friendship with the pompous Major David Angus Pollock (David Niven). Mrs. Railton-Bell is determined to have the major expelled from the hotel, after finding an article revealing his arrest for indecent behavior to several women at the local theater and that his military stories and ranking are fraudulent. Meanwhile, the glamorous Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth) arrives at the hotel looking for John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), a drunken American writer to whom she used to be...