I think today should be...

... a "Say Something Hat" day...


Carol Channing (born 31st January 1921)


"La Tebaldi" (1st February 1922 – 19th December 2004)


Elaine Stritch (2nd February 1925 – 17th July 2014)


Ida Lupino (4th February 1918 – 3rd August 1995)


Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5th February 1946)


Zsa Zsa Gabor (6th February 1917 – 18th December 2016)


Dame Edith Evans (8th February 1888 - 14th October 1976)


Carmen Miranda (9th February 1909 – 5th August 1955)


Leontyne Price (born 10th February 1927)


Marie Lloyd (12th February 1870 – 7th October 1922)


Kim Novak (born 13th February 1933)


Stockard Channing (born 13th February 1944)


Gale Sondergaard (15th February 1899 – 14th August 1985)

...don't you?!

By way of a tribute to all "our kind of ladies" whose birthday celebrations we have missed in the tumult of moving house and being away in Spain. A thousand apologies.

Chica, Chica Boom Chic

"More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how I can give delicious hugs?"

"Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it."

"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."

"I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created a style appropriated to my type and my artistical genre."

"Knock one banana off my head and I will make of you de flat pancake!"

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, better known as Carmen Miranda (9th February 1909 – 5th August 1955)

PS In my head, that is how I enter every room...