Light The Fireworks!

Hello fellow Americans! This year for the 4th I am unable to celebrate proper, being that I am on my honeymoon out of the country...but that doesn't mean The Affair needs to go without celebration!

Jimmy doing his American duty

Ann Miller, pledging her allegiance to the flag. Nice cuffs!

Looks like Joan forgot to run after she lit that firecracker!

Matches, Betty. You need matches.

Wow! Marilyn posing in a bathing suit...what a surprise!

Mary Pickford, showing off her explosives.

Happy Independence Day friends! 

Be safe!

Picture Of The Day

We all know I think she is overrated in every aspect, but man does she have a killer bathing suit! Check out that fringed sun umbrella!

Till Death Do Us Part

If you're just tuning in I am getting married in 5 days

 (the perfectly good reason The Affair has been so quiet lately) and it has got me thinking about our favorite oldies and marriage. Not the Liz Taylor types but the few and far between that where *gasp* married only once or the ones who really where together more than 72 days and lasted, "until death do us part".

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg

Married 9 happy years until his untimely death

My favorite Hollywood romance: Bogie and Bacall

Married 12 happy years until his death

Clara Bow and Rex Bell

Married 31 years until his death

Rosalind Russell and Fredrick Brisson

Married 35 years until her death

Irene Dunne and Francis Griffin

Married 37 years until his death

Jimmy Stewart and Gloria Stewart

Married 45 years until her death

Gregory Peck and Veronique Passani

Married 48 years until his death

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Married 50 years until his death

Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville

Married 54 years until his death

Shirley Temple and Charles Black

Married 55 years until his death

Robert Mitchum and Dorothy Mitchum

Married 57 years until his death

Jimmy Cagney and Billie Cagney

Married 64 years until his death

Nothing like some real Hollywood love!

Everyday Alfred

Nice try Alfie!

Picture Of The Day

Joan, going through her mail bag.

Ready For Mr. Sandman Part II: The Bed

For part deux of ladies who lavishly sleep, lets take a look at some fantastic beds. Over the top? Never!

Liz at home in her larger than needed bed

Lucille and her quilted headboard

Doris with a bedside phone and quilted headboard..noticing a trend?

Joan Bennett going satin all the way

Sophia and her studded headboard

Constance Bennett with flowers and lace

Joan and her fringed pillows

Greta in "Camille". If you are going to catch tuberculosis,  you better have a good place to lie down.

Vivien and her canopy in "Gone With The Wind"

Norma Desmond and her boat bed

A horrible picture of an amazing bed with Ginger sleeping from "Top Hat"

Ready For Mr. Sandman Part I: The Nightgown

As I lay here in bed sick for the last few days looking disheveled I got to thinking about how stylish the ladies of the past looked as they began their nightly slumber. When did the days of satin and fur leave our bedtime routine? Yes, I own a robe that is pretty, but I certainly don't sleep in a lavish nightgown with all the fixings. But in the movies, and in the good ol' days, women glammed it up before they hit the hay.

Veronica draped in satin

Ann sporting some lovely shoulder bows

Carole in a more fitted ensemble

Claudette kicking it down a notch in "It Happened One Night"

Cary looking fabulous in "Bringing Up Baby"

Ginger with her fancy neck bow

Jean, the most glamorous  of them all.

Lauren ready to slide into bed

Carole rock'in buttons, fur, and pleats!