Hollywood's Golden Age
The "Golden Age" of the glamour in Hollywood was the 1930s and 1940s, following the Great Depression and its aftermath.
Hollywood studios presented their female stars in designer gowns and exquisite jewelry, both on screen and in carefully orchestrated occasions for publicity. Joan Crawford is quoted to have said, "I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford, the movie star.
Everybody who is anybody in Hollywood!
You can't tell the stars without a program!
In the field of cultural studies, glamour, or glamor, is the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates, an impression which intensifies reality. Usually, a person, event, location, technology, or product such as a piece of clothing can be glamorous or add glamour. "Glamour" originally referred to a magic spell, an illusion said to be cast by witches.
Virginia Postrel says that for glamour to be successful it nearly always requires sprezzatura—an appearance of effortlessness, and to appear distant—transcending the everyday, to be slightly mysterious and somewhat idealized, but not to the extent it is no longer possible to identify with the person. Glamorous things are neither opaque, hiding all, nor transparent showing everything, but translucent, favorably showing things.
The early Hollywood specialized in Hollywood glamour where they systematically glamorized their actors and actresses.
Glamour can be confused with a style, which is adherence to a particular school of fashion, or intrinsic beauty; whereas glamour can be external and deliberate.
The Board Members arrive early to set up the tables, arrange the display table, and get ready to receive members and guests!
"We are ready to go!"
The displays
highlighted "Hollywood Glamour"
Rhett Butler/Clark Gable/Gone With The Wind
As Mae says, "Come up and see me sometime!
Little fur coats and dark glasses are the uniform of the day!
Iris was a glamour girl in the 1940s! She still is today!
Guess Who? - "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
Vito Corleone Marlon Brando/The Godfather
Every thing is ready now!
Some of the name tags are placed on the tables
Thanks to Jim, Irene, and Vicky for the fabulous centerpieces!
Paul & Mary visit the celebs!
Guess Who? - "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Dorothy Gale/Judy Garland/ The Wizard of Oz
"Hi there big boy!!"
Look out Clark, Yolie is on the prowl!
Vicky and her sister, Yolanda!
The presidents meet the stars!
Last minute details are handled.
Guess Who? - "Here's looking at you, kid."
Rick Blaine/Humphrey Bogart/Casablanca
New arrivals are greeted.
You are looking pretty dapper there young men!
Come on in, the water is fine!
Donna visits members and guests!
Guess Who? - "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Norma Desmond/Gloria Swanson/Sunset Boulevard
The band is warming up!
Guest and members are still arriving.
Mary visit the stars again, making sure they behave!
Sometimes we dance between servings!
Irene Johnson joined us tonight (she was a thirty year member of Toppers) and she lives in the same building as Irene Kosmetatos.
The band played tunes from the glamorous movies of the 1930s-1950s
Nothing beats the 1940s music!
Just a short time before the entrees arrive!
Guess Who ? - "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Margo Channing/Bette Davis/All About Eve
