
—James Mason

Eiffel Tower and Gardens, Champ de Mars, 1922
Oil on canvas, 178.1 x 170.4 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,




Portrait of Barbara “Babe” Cushing Mortimer Paley, Vogue, February 1946

—Burt Reynolds recalling his only encounter with Greta Garbo in his autobiography “But Enough About Me,” 2015.

Portrait of Madame Heim, 1926
Oil on canvas, 120 x 75 cm

Gilbert Adrian, who had been the head designer for MGM, left the studio in 1941 to start his own fashion line based in Beverly Hills




—Jean Seberg, who committed suicide in 1979, age 40.

The Eiffel Tower and the Airplane, 1925
Oil on canvas, 155 x 95 cm
Courtesy Galerie Le Minotaure, Paris





Photographs of the Jews of the Lodz Ghetto, Poland; top photo, self-portrait

“She was wearing a silk blouse with nothing underneath—highly unusual for the 1950s. And when she caught me staring at her beautiful breasts, she just smiled and said: ‘My eyes are up here.’”
That to me is an enigma of so many woman. Wear something revealing, then chastise the man for looking.
Marion Davies, in her book The Times We Had said some interesting things about Garbo. For one she forbade anyone not necessary on her set, but was always coming to Marion’s set.
Re Burt Reynolds anecdote. Fun and believable. Wish I could have been there and known him. The opposite of my view on James Mason, an able man who always communicated self pity and pointless anger.
The Norman Tibbs Special looks fast, but placing the engine at the rear of the chassis seems like it would hurt handling….
I love the 2 Eiffel Tower paintings,
BB and Kim Novak — 2 beauties together! As I’ve told Robert before, Kim was (in my youth) my ideal of a blonde, sex goddess. Even her bare back looks incredibly sexy.
I love the Hamilton watch — uber Art Deco!
I love reading about the various women you post here! Well done, Robert.
Lielle Mietal looks like the girl in the third Lodz photo.
The woman’s clothes from the 1950s looks so much better to me, probably because I was a boy then.