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 Bob goes all out for the holiday gifts.

 Ann Blyth is all for Lustre-Creme and looking like an alien.

 Burt goes Blatz!

 Allyson and Powell give themselves a break.

 Lucille Ball is a size queen.

Daniels for shoes no one wants to look at. Not the parrot, not Bebe, not the waiter, not even the dog.

Joan shills PBR. Respect.

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I Know Where I'm Going (1945) A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart. Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney.

Through the looking glass...

Ann Sheridan

Lucille Ball

Barbara Pepper

Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin

Carole Lombard

Cary Grant

Joan Crawford and Ruth Donnelly (?)

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The last installment of TCM's wonderful documentary: Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: Fade Out, Fade In (2010)



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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

A prime example of the future queen of comedy she would become, The Fuller Brush Girl showcases Lucille Ball's talents wonderfully! Complete with blowing up a switchboard via facial powder, slathering ladies hair with balding creme, performing her own version of burlesque, and drunkenly saving the day, this movie is a gem full of laugh out loud moments. Along for the ride is Eddie Albert, devoted fiancé and cohort, who finds himself wrapped up in a smuggling racket that results in murder. Between the two of them, they manage to dodge the police and find the zaniest ways to solve the case while thwarting the bad guys.

Tonight on TCM! Race and Hollywood features

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) A young couple fights off Indian attacks to start a farm in the Mohawk Valley.Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins Dir: John Ford

Northwest Passage (1940) True story of Rogers' Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey Dir: King Vidor

Stars! They're just like us!

They go fishing!

This is my favorite picture to date of Ginger Rogers!

They're gaga for horticulture!

They smoke horticulture!

They reduce their carbon footprint!

They earn their Boy Scout merit badge in campfires!

They taste test and maybe later criticize!

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The Heavenly Body (1943) An astronomer's neglected wife takes up astrology and a handsome astrologer. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig, Fay Bainter Dir: Alexander Hall

Éirinn go Brách!

Happy Hallowe'en!!

Mary Carlisle


Paulette Goddard


Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball

Judy Garland

Lucille Fall er...Ball

Speakeasy: Lucy and Desi

Al Hirschfeld's Characters

Found in the various tubes that make up the interwebs!

The Rat Pack

Paul Newman

Laurel & Hardy

The Marx Brothers

Groucho

Norton & Ralph

Marilyn Monroe

John Wayne

Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly

Cary Grant

Judy Garland

Bogie & Bacall

Marlene Dietrich (can you spot the Nina?)

Audrey Hepburn

Helen Mack & Harold Lloyd

Bette Davis

Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn

Joan Crawford

The Marx Bothers

Carol Channing

Frank Sinatra

Lucille Ball

Rod Serling

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Escape (1940) A Nazi officer's mistress helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp. Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Nazimova Dir: Mervyn LeRoy