The Lives and Styles of Old Hollywood
Step back in time and explore the extraordinary lives and styles of iconic actresses from Hollywood's Golden Era as well as the industry that brought them to success.
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Anita Loos (opens the original)
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Anita Loos was a woman able to turn everyday observations into sharp and witty anecdotes, silent movie intertitles into artforms and men’s obsession with dumb but beautiful women into a perennial classic.
Do you want to read my new book? (opens the original)
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My brand new book "Life Lessons - What Old Hollywood Can Teach Us About Identity, Purpose and Confidence" is coming out November 3, 2026 and I am looking for a team of early readers. Do you want to join?
Robert Taylor (opens the original)
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Robert Taylor was known as “The Man with the Perfect Profile.” And for a time, it seemed he lived the perfect Hollywood life — impossibly handsome, effortlessly dashing, the leading man to nearly every major actress of the Golden Age. But behind the polished studio image was a man grappling with contradictions: a romantic who resisted intimacy, a patriotic American who turned political informant, and an actor who never quite shook the feeling that he was underestimated.
Harold Lloyd (opens the original)
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Harold Lloyd was a daring comic genius whose on-screen personality was a pair of horn‑rimmed glasses by the name of Harold. He wasn’t the tramp or the stoic, but the ambitious everyman. a daredevil who made audiences laugh while holding their breath during his famous thrill sequences and made nearly 200 films between 1914 and 1947.
Jayne Mansfield (opens the original)
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The dazzling, infamous, often underestimated figure of Jayne Mansfield was to some only a Marilyn Monroe clone. To others, a platinum blonde publicity stunt. But behind the headlines, the wardrobe malfunctions, and the breathy voice was a brilliant woman who knew exactly what she was doing and, eventually, paid a steep price for stardom. This is the story of Jayne Mansfield: the blonde bombshell who mixed brains with beauty, scandal with strategy, and left behind a legacy far richer than most pe
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