Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Ice Cream Blonde


For the last couple of weeks, I've been finding myself reading and Googling information about Thelma Todd, a popular actress in the 1930s...way before my time. In fact, she died around the same time both of my grandparents were born, so she was way before their time. But I didn't see her movies on TCM or AMC or where-ever other than more about her death. I'll confess: I'm a bit morbid. Certain deaths have caught my attention and Thelma Todd is my latest casualty. I've heard of her and how she died for a good number of years but was never really interested until recently. Another thing I was also fascinated with her was of my culinary interest with her Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe-- I was curious to see if I could access from Google if she had a menu for it. I was reading about old Hollywood restuarants that were popular in the day and found out that Elizabeth Taylor used to have Chasen's Chili shipped over to her while she was overseas filming Cleopatra and managed to find the recipe for that. Then I thought of Thelma's cafe and went from there, her death pretty much merged into the search. Unfortunately I couldn't find any menu items from her cafe; another thing I also learned was that it closed not long after she died. The building is still there but it's now some production company office. It's also been said that it's haunted, more likely by Thelma's ghost.

Thelma died of carbon monodixed poisoning...or so it seemed. She was pretty friendly with the mob when they were ruling Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, and LA, trying to get their hand into show business when alcohol and gambling and mysterious deaths/disappearances wasn't enough for them. One popular mobster, Lucky, wanted to open a casino in her cafe (she already had two kinds of restaurants in her building, including an empty room that Lucky wanted to use and it had a few apartments, one of them was her home). Thelma objected to it, saying "over my dead body" and he was heard saying "that could be arranged" (Dude, you are a mobster, you should've been smart by not saying that in public, especially when there's people around!). Well Lucky's involvement in Thelma's death was never proven-- it was just one of the many theories surrounded her death. It's really hard to pinpoint what exactly happen to Thelma- she was cremated, so anything that's available now with the technology that could really help is no good. You can't prove anything with ashes, unfortuately but you know something...maybe they can recover a bone? Not all bones get grinded up. Not to be disgusting and to make you lose your lunch, but I recall someone telling me that after he had his wife cremated he saw a few rib bones and other bones that didn't get grinded up...so it's very possible that there's a bone in Thelma's ashes that could be used for testing; even a tooth may work as it's have it's own blood vessel pump inside. I could be wrong but at least I'm thinking! Well, anyway, I think her death case is closed.

Jean Harlow's Funeral

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were good friends with Jean Harlow; Clark and Jean appeared in a few (or maybe just one? I'm not entirely sure right now, I'll have to look it up) movies together and, at the time of her death, Jean was with William Powell, Carole's ex-husband. The foursome used to hang out together and when Jean died of kidney failure in her early 20s it was a tough time to get over...until Carole's own death a few years later.

Amaya In the Middle


Show Some Leg

Jayne

Cannes 2012



Walk This Way

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Current Beatles' Wives


Mandy & The Who

Soapy Winter Wedding

Dante and Lulu

Rebel

Good Times Under Bad Press



T-Shirt & Jeans Kinda Gal


Maryse Elizabeth Patricia Kerrigan Moon McLagan

Georgous

Gotta hand it to Ringo...he does have good taste in women...

Girl Cops

Out of Zoo Uniforms & Into Dresses


Crocs Rule!

Little Chubby There

This is not an insult of any kind...I don't know if it's the dress or the camera angle (actually I think it's more about the dress rather than the bad camera angle because in other pictures she looks the same). That style is not flattering on her. I like the color, I just don't like that style. Makes her look a little chubby (but not fat!)

Friday, May 18, 2012

Australian Zoo Family

Law & Order: SVU 2.0 Cast






Reach High & Up

1, 2, 3, Testing

From the Help Movie: John's Film Ski Pole



Maracas

Kurt and Courtney


Get a Room

PlayDaughter

Like her mother, Jayne Marie Mansfield posed for Playboy...but unlike her mother, Jayne Marie only did it once while Jayne Mansfield did it multiple times. Out of the collection, this one was the (only) G-rated appropriate to put up on my blog.

Female Totem Pole