Lisa Kudrow's new show Web Therapy, Maybe she's born with it, Maybe it's Maybelline.

Maybelline in the 1940's appealed to every woman because it made a difference!!!

Cute before Maybelline.  Adorable with a touch of glamour after.  No wonder Maybelline was an accessory in every girls purse in the 1940's and still is today almost 75 years later.

Lisa Kudrow from the TV show, FRIENDS.

Excuse me, but does the model in the  Maybelline ad, resemble Lisa Kudrow

Click and check out Lisa Kudrow's new show
Web Therepy!!  http://www.lstudio.com/web-therapy/

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It's okay, to be just pretty, with Maybelline...

It wasn't always over the top glamour, with Maybelline.  This sweet and naturally pretty model really said it all.  Adorable with Maybelline. 

Like Maybelline's slogan, Quality yet Sensibly Priced, most women, just wanted to be pretty, with maybe, a touch of glamour. 

Maybelline's first, "Big-Screen" sex symbol, Jean Harlow.

Pioneer of the Hollywood Studio System and Star System,  Jean Harlow, a product of that System, comes alive Thomas Ince, book about her life.

Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937, by Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira (Angel City Press).  Harlow in Hollywood is the story of how a town and an industry created her, a story that's never been told before.  Buy in on Amazon

Jean Harlow, known as the “Blonde Bombshell,” was the earliest and most popular of the sex symbols–the 1930s incarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer, by Brian Taves (University Press of Kentucky).

  Want to know how, when and were, the Hollywood Studio System, and Star System began?  It all started with Thomas Ince.  Buy it on Amazon.


The Maybelline Story is available on kindle, at Amazon,  and on the Nook at Barnes and Noble.   Buy it today.

More new books out about Old Hollywood and it's Stars.

John Huston: Courage and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers (Crown Archetype)


Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood, by Emily W. Leider (University of California Press)


Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, by Brian Kellow (Viking)


Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director, by Marilyn Ann Moss (University Press of Kentucky)


The Rise and Fall of Lou-Tellegen, by David W. Menefee (Menefee Publishing)


Spencer Tracy: A Biography, by James Curtis (Knopf)


Syd Chaplin: A Biography, by Lisa K. Stein (McFarland)

Wally: The True Wallace Reid Story, by David W. Menefee (BearManor Media)


Also just out, and so new there hasn't been time to review it is Francis X. Bushman: In His Own Words

 Tom Lyle Williams can also make claim to being a part of The Hollywood Star System, helping create Stars out of Starletts, by promoting them in his Maybelline ads.

Tom Lyle Williams,

Read his story in THE MAYBELLINE STORY AND THE SPIRITED FAMILY DYNASTY BEHIND IT.

Rita Hayworth, Maybelline's sexiest model, ever.

During the filming of GILDA, Rita Hayworth appeared in this Maybelline ad.  She was such a big hit that her dress, her glove, her pose became an icon

She was the leading lady to the world's leading men - She danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly - acted with Tracy, Grant, Cagney and Cooper - she was married to Orson Welles and Aly Khan.

 Rita Hayworth was America's favorite pin-up girl - she was the folly, grandeur, romance and beauty of Hollywood in it's prime - when it dazzled not only America, but the entire world. She was the incomparable Rita Hayworth.

Rita Hayworth: Portrait of a Love Godess - by John Kobal - 1983 Biography of America's Fave Pin-Up Girl.

4 used copies available on Amazon.

Rita Hayworth, magazine covers, with Frank Sinatra singing "I've Got You Under My Skin."

Two days left to bid on Hedy Lamarr, vintage makeup bag.  Ebay

ANITA LOUISE ADLER, Maybelline's Scarlett O'Hara.

Anita Louise, may not have won the part of Scarlett O'Hara, but she was most assuredly, one of Maybelline's most stunning models in 1938.

Maybelline ad, featuring Anita Louise, who  stared in opulent costume dramas such as Madame DuBarry (1934), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), and Marie Antionette (1938). She was selected to do a screen test for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind in 1938, but of course, the role went to Vivien Leigh.

Anita Louise was described as one of cinema's most fashionable and stylish women.  She and her husband Buddy Adler, were known for their parties, attended by Hollywood's elite.  

Gorgeous Anita Louise with her striking husband, Buddy Adler on their Wedding Day, 1940.

At the time Anita was cast for the role of the loving and caring mother Nell McLaughlin in My Friend Flicka, she had been married to Buddy Adler—a top executive with 20th Century-Fox.

From Here to Eternity winners: director Fred Zinnemann, supporting actress Donna Reed, producer Buddy Adler and screenwriter Daniel Taradash.

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Paulette Goddard, playing the Hollywood game.

One of Tom Lyle Williams, favorite Maybelline Models, in the late 1930's and early 1940's.... Paulette Goddard, was a Woman of Mystery. 

This Maybelline ad, featuring Paulette Goddard was in popular Movie Magazines, while filming

"The Women," in 1939. Trailer for "The Women."

Did you know that, Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Susan Hayward, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, Bette Davis and Lana Turner all auditioned for the part of Scarlett O'Hara.  Of Course it was Vivian Leigh, who got the part in Gone With the Wind and will always be remembered as the ideal Scarlett.

Paulette - The Adventurous Life of Paulette Goddard.
click on Amazon.

This book, tells the truth about the Paulette/Chaplin marriage. The real reason she didn't get the part in Gone with the Wind. The feud with director Cecil B. DeMille becomes clear. The famous under the table moment at Ciro's with a Director all nicely covered with help from the FBI files.

Gone With The Wind Tests. Auditions and screen tests for Gone With The Wind Appearing : Tallulah Bankhead, Susan Hayward, Margaret Tallichet, Frances Dee, Mary Ray, Lana Turner, Paulette Goddard.

Nobody worked the Hollywood Star System better than Paulette Goddard and won.  Check out her book and while you're at it check out the little Lamarr/Maybelline bags.

Hedy Lamarr, mini-make-up bag is now available

Vintage Hedy Lamarr - 1940 Maybelline ad, is now available on a collectible, mini-make-up-bag.  Love Old Hollywood?  You will love this glamorous conversation piece.  

Hedy Lamarr is by far, the most popular post on my blog, so to celebrate the worldwide interest, in one of the most beautiful Stars in Hollywood, I have designed this mini-make-up bag/jewelery case.  There is a limited supply so please click on 

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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World [Hardcover]   Richard Rhodes (Author)

Buy it on Amazon today.
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Timeless, Maybelline Lady in Red.

Maybelline's Beautiful Lady in Red, 1938.

Please check out this fantastic review of The Maybelline Story on Glamorologist, click below. 
http://theglamourologist.blogspot.com/2012/01/maybelline-story-sharrie-williams.html

Bill Williams 68 Shelby Cobra, GT 500 and 1971 Eldorado Convertible.

47, just divorced, living in Newport Beach California - Image was everything -  when it came to his cars. 

An avid reader of Playboy, this Shelby Cobra ad, struck the perfect image for a soon to be eligible bachelor. In the Spring of 1970, after separating from my mother, Pauline, my father, Bill Williams, walked straight into Theodore Robins of Costa Mesa Ca, and bought the Shelby Cobra GT 500 convertible, for $4,000 cash, right off the showroom floor.  It had 900 miles on it, because, according to the salesman, it used as a promotional car, driven by Carroll Shelby himself.  Bill had to have it, and pulled out of the parking lot and into his new life.

Mrs. Judge Kearney, Chuck, aka, BB1, his mother, Jean Williams.  Josephine answering the door at the Bernard Maybeck estate in Montecito California.


Wanting to show off his new sports car, Bill and Linda, (his soon to be second wife,) along with my future husband, Gene Dorney and I, attended my cousin Chuck Williams, aka, BB1's, 21 Birthday Bash, and received the shock of our lives when.....

The parking attendant rolled the Shelby on a joyride around the Montecito,'s curvy roads.  Luckily the roll bar saved his life, but the car was crashed.  My dad had the Shelby, in the shop for 6 months and than, gave it to me for my 24th Birthday.

In the mean time, a new image had to be created for Captain Bill of the Balboa Bay Club!  This ad appealed to my father's vanity, with it's long hood - screaming.....

                             I'm 48 and I have arrived!!!!!

Captain Bill and the Swiper, on the way to Catalina Islalnd.

My Father, Bill Williams and my grandmother, Evelyn Williams on Lido Isle, Newport Beach, January 1971, showing off the new Eldorado with it's........
                                "BILL, Vanity Plates."

My dad began collecting classic cars, after moving to Palm Springs - where he could buy an estate with several garages.  

Gerald Ford's, 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine, part of Bill Williams collection.

Bill Williams moved to Old Las Palmas in Palm Springs, in 1972 and bought Silent Film Star Marie Dressler's, two acre estate so he could store his car collection.  One of my fathers most fun classic cars was this 1961 Limo, once owned by President Gerald Ford.

Bill Williams, Casa de Guillermo was a showplace in the 1970's and was featured on the cover of the Palm Springs, official Map-Brochure.  It was a flamboyant location, used for movies, TV shows and fundraising.  

By 1980, after Bill married Gloria, the gates of Casa de Guillermo, were closed to the public and became strictly a family compound.

Besides Maybelline heir, Bill Williams, Hollywood celebrities and former Presidents including, Kirk Douglas and Bob Hope, former President Gerald Ford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Elvis Presley, made Palm Springs their home. 

Want to know the who's who, of Hollywood Stars, how owned Palm Springs Estates?   click here - http://www.palmspringscelebrityhomesforsale.com/

Bill may not have been a Movie Star, or even a celebrity, but he sure lived like one.  He bought Gerald Ford's, 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine in 1978, for it's history, luxurious interior, and the little holes on the hood, where he could place little American Flags, for special events. 

 It wasn't unusual for Bill and Gloria to cruise down Gerald Ford Drive, with their Dobermans in the back seat.   

Bill Williams, Father of the Bride, in 1998, waiting for his daughter, Billee and her bridesmaids, to to get in the car.

Guests arriving from the airport, for Billee's and Steve Killer's rehearsal dinner.

Chuck Williams aka, BB1 and Sharrie, on the right, yelling for Billee to hurry up, or she'll be late for her own wedding.

Chuck in the driver's seat, next to me, on the way to the reception in Newport Beach.

 Steve and Billee Killer on the way to their reception.

 Bill with his driver's hat on, picking up his cousins, at the Balboa Bay Club, in Newport Beach, and transporting them to Laguna Beach,  for Billee and Steve's rehearsal dinner.

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Bill Williams 1963 Lincoln Continental during the Rat Pack years.

Tom Lyle Williams nephew, Bill Williams, added a 1963 Lincoln Continental, to his collection in 1979.

This picture of my father, Bill Williams was taken at Casa de Guillermo, on his 66th Birthday.  He loved Frank Sinatra and carried the spirit, of The Rat Pack.

He once told me a story, about the time, he ran into Sinatra at the Palms Springs airport in the 1982.  Sinatra had just gotten off his private jet and was obviously celebrating something special.  My father just happened to have several cases of champagne in the trunk of his 1961 Limo and a few bottles on ice.  He walked up to Sinatra and asked if he'd like to pop a bottle of Champagne - and wound up giving him a case.  But not before having a toast and few riveting laughs with his all time idol.

Here is a picture of Gloria, my father's third wife, at Casa d Guillermo, next to his, 1963 Lincoln Continental, with the suicide doors and red interior.  I remember
my father calling me one day, so excited, he could hardly talk.  I had to keep saying, "slow down I can't understand you." 

He'd just purchased this Lincoln, for $5,000, in mint condition, and kept repeating, "it's the same car Kennedy drove in before he was killed - it's such a beauty I had to have it."

 He loved to drive the Lincoln, down Palm Canyon with the top down and Frank Sinatra blasting from the stereo, even into his 80's.  Sadly, the car was sold at the estate sale for $10,000 cash, when the Casa was sold in 2004.

1963 Lincoln Continental - Pres. Kennedy rode in Fort Worth. This is a news clip about a 1963 Lincoln Continenta​l President Kennedy rode in on the morning of November 22, 1963 - previous to taking off from Dallas to Fort Worth.

Needless to say, beautiful classic cars, were a big part of my father's life and that's why I'm so excited to have found his uncle, Tom Lyle Williams 1940 Packard Victoria. 

My father was a teenager, when he and his uncle, drove down Sunset Blvd, on their way to sign contracts, with Movie Stars, who would appear in Maybelline ads, in the 1930's and 40's. 


Chuck working on his Cobra.

 My cousin Chuck Williams, aka, BB1, carries the torch, for being the family car collector today.  We'll be working with Steve Snyder of VAULTCARS, (son of Bill Snyder, the Packard Victoria's owner,)  making a mini-documentary of the Packard's history and restoration.  So stay tuned this March for more details.

Love vintage cars???  Check out this website on Stars and their cars!!!  http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/lord-k-s-garage-100-star-ride?xg_s

Sharrie with her cousin Chuck Williams BB1, Toast their great uncle, Maybelline's Founder Tom Lyle Williams, 116th Birthday.

Happy 116th Birthday, Uncle Lyle!!!!

Year of the Dragon, Powerful 2012!! click here.

Tom Lyle Williams, of The Maybelline Company, was the original owner of this gorgeous 1940, Packard Victoria, with the Horse-Head, hood ornament.  Today it belongs to the Bill Snyder collection, in Southern California.  Chuck and Sharrie Williams, will be working with Bill's son, Steve Snyder of VAULTCARS, to produce a mini-documentary about Tom Lyle and the Packard.

Click on video to see Sharrie Williams with her cousin Chuck Williams, BB1, toast their great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams 116th Birthday, Jan 19, 2012, after several day's at The Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction.

Stay tuned for more Classic Car highlights this week.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!  Year of the Dragon!!!