While the rest of the country is thinking of Fall, Southern Californians are sweating their #$%es off in record temperature heat. How about a dip in the pool to counter that? These first two images show starlets Mari Blanchard and Lori Wilson at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel pool, circa 1953.
The shot below shows the El Mirador Hotel pool. From the vintage caption (sorry, part of it is missing, so there are a few missing words):
PLAY TIME…For Betty Furness and Isabell Jewell, both Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featured players…on the diving board at the swimming pool at the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs. Miss Furness having completed her movie, “The Kid From College” is enjoying a …December 13, 1934
The two actresses starred together in “Shadow of a Doubt,” released February 15, 1935, and yes, it was an MGM production. I could find nothing on “The Kid From College.” Jewell had a small but memorable part in “Gone with the Wind” as Emmy, the “poor white trash Slattery girl.” Shown below at right with Victor Jory and Vivien Leigh.
Just make sure you don’t stay in the pool too long, or you could end up like William Holden in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950).
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1 comment:
I don't know, with temperatures what they've been, I'm kind of envying a deceased William Holden right now.
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