James Whale didn’t care what people in Hollywood thought of him. Whale was openly gay in 1930s Hollywood, at time when gay actors and actresses had to hide their sexual orientation at a risk of jeopardizing their careers. He was an innovative director. Universal Pictures owed its stellar success in the 1930s much in part …
Irene Gibbons was an Oscar-nominated costume designer in Hollywood for thirty years. She took over from Adrian at MGM, and went on to establish her own company, Irene, Inc. She was known only as “Irene” in her screen credits. Doris Day wrote in her 1975 autobiography that she got to know Irene quite well. One …
The challenge word this week on illustrationfriday.com is “vacant”. “Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.” Louis XIV
