The Stars Come Out at Dodger Stadium.

A recap of a 1960s Hollywood Stars game at Dodger Stadium.

Warning: The announcer has an unseemly obsession with Nancy Sinatra.

(And a warning to Donna: Caution, contains Mickey Rooney.)

[via Dodger Thoughts.]

Rare Celebrity Photos @ This Is Not Porn

As if ye old net hasn't sucked precious hours of my life already, along comes this site with photos of celebs. hamming it up for the camera, posing at dinner parties, yucking it up on the sets of classic films, etc. A period of time captured for eternity. Peer into the abyss and the hours tick away. It's safe for work 'cause This Is Not Porn.

South Sea Island Bolero

The bizarro South Sea Island Bolero from 1934 must have been the final nail in the coffin for the lavish Busby Berkeley-type musical number....stick with it until at least the 3:00 mark.

Speaking of the Garden of Allah ...

Should you long for the days of lore, why not check out Clifton Guilaroff's blog?
Scion of famous Hollywood ancestry, Cliff lives with his mother (the former 1950's lead-pencil heiress and socialite, now penniless lush) Cobina Cugat, bandleader husband Rusty Kadiddlehopper, their two cats Poppers & Rage and Basset Hound Pigtails in a one bedroom apartment in the North Valley. Sadly, Cobina believes it is 1954 and that she and her son still live in an impossibly lavish villa at the Garden of Allah Hotel in Hollywood. To make his life easier, he is doing nothing to change that belief.
Clifton will keep you up to date on Hollywood history, the Garden's residents, and other flotsam at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. Oh, and he sells vintage jewelry, too.

Garden of Allah

Hollywood's Garden of Allah was owned by silent film star Alla Nazimova, and was the home and partying grounds of many notable performers and writers in the 1920s and 30s, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Marx Brothers, Robert Benchley, Garbo, and Errol Flynn. Within walking distance of the hotel and its surrounding bungalows were Ciro's, the Mocambo, and Schwab's Drugstore. You can see a lovely small collection of images and memorabilia about the hotel's glory days here, and read the 1959 Time magazine story of its eventual demise.

Silent Stars

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