Maybelline founder Tom Lyle Williams

Maybelline Heir, Bill Williams, Classic Clenet Series 1, number 13 out of 250.


Sharrie Williams and her father William P. Williams Jr.
1982, standing in front of his mother Evelyn Williams


Click here to see Sharrie's interview with Barnaby Bamkaw, of Motorcar Society, talking about her fathers 1977, Clenet, 13th Edition, Series 1.  Also the original fabricator, Steve Kouracos talks about the making of Bills,13th edition.
                                    http://vimeo.com/29709565

Click here to see the interview with Clenet Coachworks, founder and owner, Alain Clenet, as he signs Bill Williams 13th edition, Clenet.

Original TV clip of Bill Williams and his 1977 Clenet # 13

Clip below of Sharrie talking about her father's Clenet.




Posts on Bill Williams
 Series 1 Clenet, # 13

Mar 17, 2013
Alain Clenet's, neo-classic product of the Clenet Coachworks of Santa Barbara, Calif., was meant to be America's answer to the Rolls-Royce. Some of the original owners included, Rod Stewart, Wayne Newton and Ken Norton ...


Oct 01, 2011
Click here to see Sharrie's interview with Barnaby Bamkaw, of Motorcar Society, talking about her fathers 1977, Clenet, 13th Edition, Series 1. Also the original fabricator, Steve Kouracos talks about the making of Bills,13th ...


Oct 28, 2011
Bill is on his way for some TLC, before making an appearance with Alain Clenet, the man who designed and built him, almost 35 years ago. Click on the video to watch Bill leave the garage and head out on the street.


Oct 29, 2011
Check this out. An award winning Toastmaster, professional speaker and Celebrity Columnist, author Sharrie Williams is available for Club Events, Fundr... Maybelline Heir, Bill Williams, Classic Clenet Series 1, number 13 out ...

Nov 04, 2010
Here I am in front of my dad's 1977 Clenet (thirteenth edition of series 1). It has been in storage for over 4 years since his death in 2006. My brother Preston, and my sisters Donna and Billee and I, are getting it back on the road ...


Oct 30, 2011
Packard's from the 1930's inspired Alain Clenet to design and build Series 1, 2, and 3 Clenets. My sister Donna Williams, in her dad's Classic Clenet. Donna Williams. Sharrie heads to Laguna Beach for a presentation next ...


Oct 23, 2011
Imagine how this super long, super ornate automobile, must have looked to a young boy. So it's no wonder, that when Alain Clenet, produced his series 1 convertible in 1977, Bill was one of the first to purchase it for, $80,000 ...


Sep 17, 2011
More about Bill the Clenet, and information about the Concours d' Elegance will be posted soon. Also read more about Bill Williams and his love of beautiful automobiles in The Maybelline Story. Signed copies available at ...



Nov 04, 2010
Here I am in front of my dad's 1977 Clenet (thirteenth edition of series 1). It has been in storage for over 4 years since his death in 2006. My brother Preston, and my sisters Donna and Billee and I, are getting it back on the road ...

Oct 30, 2011
Packard's from the 1930's inspired Alain Clenet to design and build Series 1, 2, and 3 Clenets. My sister Donna Williams, in her dad's Classic Clenet. Donna Williams. Sharrie heads to Laguna Beach for a presentation next ...

Oct 23, 2011
Imagine how this super long, super ornate automobile, must have looked to a young boy. So it's no wonder, that when Alain Clenet, produced his series 1 convertible in 1977, Bill was one of the first to purchase it for, $80,000 ...

Sep 17, 2011
More about Bill the Clenet, and information about the Concours d' Elegance will be posted soon. Also read more about Bill Williams and his love of beautiful automobiles in The Maybelline Story. Signed copies available at ...

Feb 10, 2011
After 5 years of being in storage since Bill Williams passing in 2006, his 1977 Series 1 Clenet roadster, is back on the road, heading for the Desert Classic, Concourse d' Elegance. with the original fabricator Steve Kouracos at ...

Jan 24, 2011
All but one car was sold - his favorite, a 1977 Clenet,series 1, was kept in storage for five years before his daughter, author Sharrie Williams and her siblings restored it recently and now will show it at the Desert Classic ...


The Paige Detroit, right out of a Hollywood movie.

Paige, the most beautiful car in America!


Tom Lyle bought his first car in the Fall of 1916, customised the wheels and the back end of the car.



Tom Lyle with his family. in his new Paige Detroit, Chicago, 1917.



 Paige Detroit 1916 H2 6 - 38 Owner Manual Original.
















Read more about Tom Lyle's first car and his love affair of beautiful automobiles, 
  in The Maybelline Story.  Purchase a signed copy from www.maybellinestory.com

Stay tuned tomorrow for my interview at the Desert Concours D' Elegance, in La Quinta California, when Alain Clenet, signed my father, Bill Williams, 13th edition, Series 1, 1977 Clenet. 

               You won't want to miss this!!!           

Whitley Heights, Paradise during Hollywood's silent film era.


  Off of Camrose south of the Hollywood Bowl.



Before there was Beverly Hills, during the silent film days, Whitley Heights was where the famous stars of Hollywood lived. Francis X. Bushman had a large, opulent house, with the first swimming pool built in the  

area and Rudolph Valentino lived off Wedgwood Place.   
 

Villa Valentino, 6776 Wedgewood Place, Whitley Heights, built in 1922, this was the site of the home Valentino shared with Natacha Rambova in upscale Whitley Heights just north of Hollywood. In 1951 the state of California paid Tom Lyle Williams, $90,000, intending to demolish it to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. The foundation of the home survives and can still be seen from the freeway.The foundation to the home is still visible from the freeway.



 During the Jazz Age, life was a party, and Whitley Heights was Party Central for the Hollywood set.


By: DH
Traveling along Franklin Avenue, the east/west thoroughfare north of Hollywood Blvd., you might not notice the most historic enclave of 1920s residences from the Golden Era of silent films and speakeasies, aka The Roaring Twenties, rising above Franklin Avenue. And roar they did in those days of high living, laughter and a new industry that seemed to have no bounds. Ethel Barrymore, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, W.C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Carole Lombard, Rudolph Valentino and many others lived and held legendary parties that marked an era and the early Hollywood film industry.



Today the Hollywood Freeway runs through what was once the toast of the Hollywood, in it's Heyday. 


 Before the Hollywood Freeway took Whitley Heights, it was an oasis,of gorgeous landscaping and Italian architecture.

 The arrow points to Tom Lyle Williams, Villa Valentino, in 1935.


 Tom Lyle remodeled the Villa Valentino in 1937.

Tom Lyle Williams on the left, followed by his sister Mabel, her husband Chet Hewes, and his sister Eva and her husband Ches Haines.  Notice the statue, Aspiration in the background.

Read more about Tom Lyle Williams and his love affair with the Villa Valentino, in The Maybelline Story, buy a signed copy today at www.maybelliestory.com




Old Hollywood means, The Maybelline Story.

              
California

Whitley Heights

Gorgeous men

Glamor

                                                            Beauty

Packard, Convertibles

Valentino

Fashion

                                           Tom Lyle Williams

                                              and Maybelline.


If you love old Hollywood, with it's style, glamor and Panache, you have to get a signed copy of The Maybelline Story at http://www.maybellinestory.com/.

Maybelline models on vintage Photoplay magazines.

                                                                Elsie Ferguson




Jean Harlow


                                    Phyllis Haver



                                Marilyn Monroe


Read more about whyTom Lyle chose beautiful Photoplay actresses to represent Maybelline, in The Maybelline Story.

Maybelline first advertised in classified section, of movie magazines.

Tom Lyle Williams placed his first one and a half inch Lash-Brow-Ine ad, in the classified section of the Police Gazette,

 and decided to make advertising through mail order, a career, at 19 years of age.
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With the great success following the Lash-Brow-Ine ad, in 1915, Tom Lyle continued placing Maybelline ads in popular movie magazines for the next 50 years. 

Check in tomorrow for some of the beautiful vintage movie magazines Maybelline advertised in.

 Because like today, inquiring minds wanted to know, what was hot and what was not in Hollywood.

Purchase a signed copy of The Maybelline Story at http://www.maybellinebook.com/.

Norma Jean Baker transforms into Marilyn Monroe at Casa Guillermo, 1975.

Scenes from Goodbye Norma Jean, from my father, Bill Williams, Casa Guillermo, 1975








In these scene's, Norma Jean, is being told she has what it takes, but must undergo some "Work," to transform her image. 



 Stay tuned next weekend when Norma Jean morphs into, Marilyn Monroe, and walks through the grounds of beautiful Casa Guillermo.




More scenes from the Casa, including the cars and the glamor will be posted, but you can read all about it, bigger than life, in The Maybelline Story, get a signed copy from http://www.maybellinebook.com/

Maybelline Story featured in The Laguna Beach Magazine.

In Laguna Beach, for dinner with my sister Donna, we stop off at Casey's Cupcakes and WOW!  You have to try it for yourself!! 

         Sharrie and Donna Williams at Casey's Cupcakes.



  Casey Reinhardt, a born and raised Laguna Beach girl, starred in the popular reality show, Laguna Beach and The Hills.  She opened Casey's Cupcakes in her hometown, and I have to say, her drop dead gorgeous shop is about the cutest thing I've ever seen.  The fresh flowers alone were so magnificent, I had to sit down and soak up the atmosphere while enjoying the best  chocolate cupcake ever. 

Check this fun video - see what Laguna Beach looks like, and meet Casey.




The Maybelline Story makes it's way into an article in The Sept-Oct issue of Laguna Beach Magazine and announces my One Woman Show for the American University Women's Club Nov. 10th, at 6:00 at the Laguna Beach Book Store.  More will be posted for anyone interested in attending the event.