1940 Packard Vctoria's hood ornament is a Horse's Head.

\Horse's head represents the power Maybelline had over all other cosmetic brands.

One thing that makes Tom Lyle's Packard Victoria, so unique, besides the extra long hood, was the hood ornament.  It's a horse's, head!!  Maybelline was ahead of the pack, as far as competition was concerned and the Packard out-horsepowered any other car on the road. The King of Advertising, equated the powerful symbol, with Maybelline's super-power, in the cosmetic industry.

Speaking of Horses, and period films, you have to see "War Horse."

Storyline



Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal but his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey,the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where,after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found,caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed,due to a bizarre truce. He is returned behind British lines where Albert,now a private,has been temporarily blinded by gas but still recognises his beloved Joey. However as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?
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Trailer for War Horse.  Click on video.

GATSBY - The American Dream - Beautiful Cars and Homes.

Great Gatsby, Rolls Royce.

 Dick Williams, his brother, Noel A. Williams and cousin Bob (Williams) Haines, loved beautiful automobiles, reminiscent of their uncle Tom Lyle Williams, custom made gorgeous Packard's. 

Bob (Williams) Haines and Dick Williams, with their Gatsbyesque Excalibur's, in Boca Raton, Florida.

Noel A. Williams, bought this beautiful, 1975 Rolls Royce, for his 50th Birthday.  It looked spectacular parked in front of the Bernard Maybeck estate, in Monticito California in the 1970s.

The Great Gatsby and The Maybelline Story.

Both stories are a slice of the American Dream during the 20th Century. 

what IS so great about The Great Gatsby?  After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a literary classic. The Modern Library named it the second best novel of the 20th Century.

 One might assume this is a story of love, but it isn't. The Great Gatsby is a tragedy.  It is also a critique of the great "American Dream."

Gatsby is a combination of innocence and faith.  He's committed to his dreams - and never gives up on them.  He's a characer people can follow.  A hero with flaws, someone like them.

It has been said that F. Scott Fitzgerald's book is a depressing story.  Life is hard enough - why read a book that makes you feel worse?

The Great Gatsby takes place following the First World War.  American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared.  

                             Zelda Fitzgerald, (Daisy.)

This Maybelline Ad has reflections of Zelda Fitzgerald,
F Scott Fitzgerald's wife and his inspiration for Daisy, one of the main characters, in The Great Gatsby.

Tom Lyle Williams at the Villa Valentino.

The Maybelline Story has the same qualities as The Great Gatsby, except it isn't fiction.  It is a true story about a man who made the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, yet, not without a price. 

Read the The Maybelline Story and The Great Gatsby.

                                                 The Great Gatsby. 

MISTY ROWE STARRING IN GOODBYE NORMA JEAN 1976

Misty Rowe as Marilyn Monroe

filmed at my father Bill Williams home in 1975, at Casa de Guillermo, Palm Springs California.

My father, Bill Williams with Misty Rowe, Ernie Quarantello, and his cousin Noel A. Williams.  Taken during the filming of Goodbye Norma Jean, at Bill's Palm Springs estate, Casa de Guillermo. 

Lot's more history on the filming of the movie in 1975 in earlier posts.  Several classic 1940 cars were brought in, to portray the era. 

Scroll down for never before seen, private family pictures, taken while shooting the film.

Look under my archives and Labels for more posts I've done on the film Goodbye Norma Jean. 

Maybelline Christmas Card from TL Williams, 1952.

 Merry Christmas from Tom Lyle Williams.

Tom Lyle Williams was Unk Ile to the family and never failed to remember every single one of his siblings, their children and their children's children on Christmas.  My sisters, brother and I, and all our cousins couldn't wait for our shiny $10.00 bill inside a money-card, that said Merry Christmas, Lots of love from Unk Ile.

Stay tuned tomorrow for some of my favorite pictures of Christmas past.