or Vera West who designed the costumes for women in Dracula (1931), and for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) at Universal, going on to less monsterly movies with a killer dress for Ava Gardner in The Killers opposite Burt Lancaster
This dress sold for $400,000. Considering the $920,000 price minus the fees and taxes paid for the Debbie Reynolds dress, this iconic dress was a bargain. Although the dress is a bit faded from time, and it was purposefully dyed in muted whites, the photo below does not do the costum...
“The Talk of the Town” had some fun with a little-known aspect of a notorious gangster’s life; namely, the doll-filled house belonging toJack “Legs” Diamond: DOLL HOUSE…This house on Route 23 near Cairo, New York, once sheltered gangsterJack “Legs” Diamond, his wife,Alice, and...
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Well, there’s the price tag. They’re not cheap (though there is afabulous sheitel consignment businesshere in Baltimore, and I have friends who have purchased sheitels throughgemachs), and there’s not always a guarantee that spending $2K will lead to a good sheitel. ...