Victoria Wilson's Blog, page 4
November 24, 2013
November 20, 2013
Pearl White
Once in a great while, Millie Stevens would take Ruby to see Pearl White “in her perils.” Ruby recalled, “There wasn’t much money for anything.” There were times when in order to get a hot meal Ruby would go into a diner, order hot water and add ketchup to it. Ruby “tended children, washed dishes, ran errands,”she said, anything to earn enough money to go to the serials.
From Victoria Wilson’s A LIFE OF BARBARA STANWYCK Steel-True 1907-1940
November 19, 2013
Mae West
Mae West, circa 1910. A play written by and starring Mae West called SEX, that had been written under the name “Jane Mast” opened in New York in 1926 at John Cort’s Daly’s Theatre and was a sensation.
Mae West, circa 1910. A play written by and starring Mae West called SEX, that had been written under the name “Jane Mast” opened in New York in 1926 at John Cort’s Daly’s Theatre and was a sensation. Tickets sold for the extraordinary price of $10.00 a seat when the top priced ticket in the 1926-27 season was $2.80. The play was making $10,000 a week. But no newspaper, including THE NEW YORK TIMES, would carry an ad for it; the word ‘sex” was taboo unless it was used to refer to “the opposite sex” or “the fair sex”. Out of desperation to get the word around, ads were placed on top of taxi cabs that read: “HEATED-Mae West in SEX-Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre”.
Page Six
Open Road Media’s Jane Friedman, Art Garfunkel, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and super agent Lynn Nesbit celebrating the bio of screen star Barbara Stanwyck by Knopf editor Victoria Wilson at Friedman’s Sutton Place home.
Lucille LeSueur from San Antonio, Texas
Lucille LeSueur f...
Lucille LeSueur from San Antonio, Texas
Lucille LeSueur from San Antonio, Texas, with wide blue eyes, generous mouth, clean freckled face, and frizzy auburn hair, danced in the chorus at Detroit’s Oriole Terrace for eight weeks and made “end girl,” was new in town, dancing at the Winter Garden in the Shubert musical Innocent Eyes.From Victoria Wilson’s A LIFE OF BARBARA STANWYCK Steel-True 1907-1940
November 18, 2013
TWEET from Karina Longworth
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Barbara Stanwyck biographer Victoria Wilson’s author photo: best ever?
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How can a person go wrong with a dog in the picture (Harry) and a photographer like Joyce Ravid…
November 16, 2013
November 15, 2013
The Perils of Pauline
Pearl White making The Perils of Pauline
The PERILS OF PAULINE featured a young actress called Pearl White, a Missouri farm girl, part Italian (her father) and part Irish (her mother). THE PERILS OF PAULINE became a huge sensation. Even Madame Sarah Bernhardt requested an audience with the young Pearl White telling her how she had longed to meet her, how the screen adventuress was worshipped by the soldiers back in France fighting in the war against Germany.
