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Mad about plaid...and California Land.

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My Domb 'party line' dress,an early Emma Domb label from the 40s, I found it at American Vintage on Hollywood Blvrd. This dress has so much fabric and is so fun to wear! I love thrift store shopping in LA!
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Woolworth's.. the great 5 cent store.....

a Few old movie Studios.

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A lot has changed since I made movies in the 30s.. of course the photo above is me on a whim. My favorite thing about Hollywood is seeing all the old studios. Check out this link to read about the studios being haunted http://www.prairieghosts.com/hollywood5.html Outside the old Mack Sennett Studios The above three photos are the old studios of United Artists. The last photo is so cool because the old plaque is still there. The original studio was founded in 1919 by  D. W. Griffith ,  Charlie Chaplin ,  Mary Pickford , and  Douglas Fairbanks  

Fredric March.

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Fredric March is on of my favorite actors, I fell in love with him after I saw him in, "True to the Navy". Dapper March.  Fredric March,1937 April 21st. Hand and foot prints. 

Alto Nido

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Opened in 1930 as "Hollywood's Premiere Apartment Hotel" primarily for actors. Made famous from Sunset Blvrd. as the apartment Joe Gillis lived in, this movie is actually what sparked a bond between Nick and I.  Claudette Colbert  lived at the Alto Nido while first arriving in Hollywood.  Lila Leeds, who took an overdose of sleeping pills there and almost died in 1948. obscure screenwriter Eugene Walter also lived there.  "drove by the Alto Nido, thought of you"